The original Tony Kaye-directed video for “Runaway Train” famously featured real-life footage of missing children in the hopes that it might lead to their discovery.

Moreover, while the runaway train in Unstoppable claims a victim in the form of a railroad engineer, no one was killed or seriously injured during the real-life incident.

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And there’s something about the absolute, simple villainy of the train that’s very appealing: We don’t want runaway trains in real life, but we like to watch them on screen. (“Unstoppable ...

The real-life incident that inspired the film? In May 2001, a CSX Transportation locomotive chugged across 66 miles’ worth of northwest Ohio, with no one at the controls.

A runaway freight train in northern India traveled nearly 45 miles without a driver on Sunday, reaching speeds of up to 46 miles per hour, before it was brought to a stop, according to railway ...

BRAINTREE - New video shows a runaway Red Line train rolling by the Braintree station without stopping. The MBTA released footage Tuesday of the July 25th incident.

By Aishwarya S. Iyer and Manveena Suri, CNN New Delhi (CNN) — A runaway freight train in northern India traveled nearly 45 miles without a driver on Sunday, reaching speeds of up to 46 miles per ...