Re: U sets in "The Matrix" ??

[ROY HOWARTH <rhowarth@ihug.com.au>]

For the record, the cars used in the filming were three "retained" cars 
CF5017, TF6013, ETB6029 and one other motor-car CF5025, which had a 
double-door cut into one side (which totally stuffed it as a preservation 
item, given it was one of the few U-boat cars remaining with lift-up 
windows). 

The three retained cars (for the SRA Heritage fleet) were returned to 
Carriage Works after the filming, whilst 5025 was later sold.

Roy H

"Peter Ruxton" <rucko@bigpond.com> wrote:
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>Peter Ware wrote in message <370D22B2.31FB22A0@ozemail.com.au>...
>>The new film "The Matrix" shot in Sydney last year has a scene at an
>>underground railway station where several trains resembling the old
>>interurban "U sets" are seen.
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>>The station itself is dark, dirty and has an architecture that resembles
>>the typical underground station seen in other US movies. The three
>>trains, two moving through at high speed and one stationary at the
>>platform, are only glimpsed briefly. The two moving trains are shown as
>>front end shots approaching - the lights shown are unlike any I have
>>seen on CityRail trains - as well as side shots of a single car moving
>>past. In the brief side views the metallic sides looked very much like
>>those on the U sets. In the one stationary car scene, the seating looked
>>like that on the U sets with front facing seats but the door seemed to
>>be automatic - the stationary car was quite possibly just a manufactured
>>mock-up.
>>
>>Watch for it if you see the movie. The movie itself was, in my opinion,
>>very good and one of the better ones that I have seen this year.
>>
>>Peter Ware
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>This was done underneath the old wheat Silos at Rozelle by 3801 I think
>about 12 months ago.
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>"U" CRS was used.
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>P. Ruxton
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