Atomic Train Disaster Movie

["David Bennetts" <davibenn@pcug.org.au>]

Have just been fossicking around the search engines finding out a bit more
about this disaster of a disaster series.  Originally the drums on the
flatcar were supposed to have been nuclear waste, but the scripts were
re-edited to reduce this to just plain ordinary hazardous waste.  Denver
wasn't too happy about the movie being shot elsewhere - it was cheaper to do
it in Canada, so that's where it was shot.

The movie was scheduled to be televised in Denver when the Columbine High
School shootings occurred - so it was pulled at the last minute, it would
have been too catatrophic having reality mixed with fiction showing all of
Denver being nuked.

The movie has now been released in the US on DVD, it's been slightly edited
down from 4 hours to about an hour and a half - still an hour and a half too
long IMHO.

Regards

David Bennetts