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Supertrain Ride

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Күн бұрын

NBC's Supertrain is here come aboard for a ride. What a great idea to make a show like "The love boat" but on a super luxury gigantic high-speed train crossing the continent at 200 mph! The star of the show would be of course THE SUPERTRAIN, the regular cast and popular guest stars.
Incredible huge sets were built that had cost about 6 million dollars (in 1979 that was a lot of money...) Everything was done to make it look real and Big. Great disco themes and music composed by Bob Cobert. But the show was a failure.
Too much on the container and about no content. Silly stories with too much improbabilities. The look of the show changed at each episodes with 3 different opening themes in just 10 episodes! Was it Drama? Was it suspense? Was it a disaster movie? Was it a comedy show? Was it a slapstick comedy with recorded cheers? All this happen when a show is rushed into production without clear guidelines on the format and the background of the main theme.
Good stories, good writing and good technical consultants would have saved this SUPERTRAIN from crashing. How can you possibly believe that the government and the American people would allow an atomic-powered train to cross the America at 200mph without any single safety system on board? Would you like to have a Tchernobyl on rail? That's insane!
Anyway, i did this video to celebrate THE SUPERTRAIN. Because i love trains and this one is sure one of a kind.
I used many of the themes including the recycled theme from "CHAIN REACTION". In the first part you'll see supertrain's departure from NY followed by different shots of the models. (note: on one of the night shots, you'll see only 5 cars. This was probably filmed after the crash that destroyed half the train, but that's another story... ) Then you'll see the end of the inaugural trip from the pilot "Express to terror" OK I re-edited it but it's close to the original (meaning the original is as silly...) I would have loved a shot of the swimming pool during the emergency stop!!!!
please: ASK NBC TO RELEASE SUPERTRAIN ON DVD NOW!
Thanks for watching!

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@spartanx5806 3 жыл бұрын

love the disco and pure 79 atmosphere...

@nadesico81 7 жыл бұрын

The part where the old man billionaire red lines the train to no doubt kill the two people on top of the train was priceless. Not to mention the sets were so small you were looking up everyone noses when they shot every scene. Oh and the fact it had a disco that seemed as large as the whole train was priceless. It's amusing 70's retro futurism at it's finest.

@mikeobrien901 2 жыл бұрын

Crazy it almost put NBC out of business! Like 2 mill an episode to make

@Youngstown529 Жыл бұрын

The engineer looked to be high on mushrooms.

@skeena59 11 жыл бұрын

The disco soundtrack is what really makes it! Oh yeah, that and the acting,...

@angelaf3005 6 жыл бұрын

I love it.

@phuturephunk 3 жыл бұрын

There's something too surreal about this. I just can't even put it into words.

@Wurlyscope 3 жыл бұрын

It was the DISCO 70's, everything was fun! Surreal is the right word.

@Trainlover4472 7 жыл бұрын

It's like an Amtrak superliner set had a threesome with a cruise ship and a delorean and this came out XD but I still love this show

@mikeobrien901 3 жыл бұрын

As some one who works as a conductor... i near peed my pants laughing at this.

@puddycat2325 3 жыл бұрын

I think there’s a retro beauty to it. (Though, I’m a sucker for the 80s style design)

@chrispontani6059 2 жыл бұрын

I love how the train varied in size from clip to clip.

@ChristopherFortin 2 жыл бұрын

An excellent documentary!

@yixnorb5971 5 жыл бұрын

4:56 magically transforms back to standard gauge track.

@Wurlyscope 4 жыл бұрын

I did some editing to make it look wider do...

@jasonpoole6768 3 жыл бұрын

As ridiculous as the TV show was, and it was absurd, the general concept behind a super-broad gauge passenger train is intriguing. It would be very stable, plus add a lot of room inside the cars for amenities, like the disco floor and swimming pool. LOL

@mightymartianca 2 жыл бұрын

You say that now, but when it hits an iceberg and all the disco dancers are lost, you'll see the cost of your hubris!

@martinhsl68hw 8 ай бұрын

I'm worried about the broad gauge when it goes around corners

@alcd6333 8 жыл бұрын

Wait a minute: he proposes this idea to the board of directors and in just 22 months, they are able to construct both the train and an entirely new transcontinental rail system?! The sets and special effects look good though - for that time period.

@xtremepyrotech 7 жыл бұрын

Take a look at 3:50 when its passing an eastbound freight, too funny as you can see the difference in the scale size

@nadesico81 7 жыл бұрын

Dude it was the 70's they could do anything if you call it SUPER!

@Wurlyscope 6 жыл бұрын

We dont built things that quickly these days lol

@davidurban6813 5 жыл бұрын

@@xtremepyrotech yeah I see your point. Super train H.O. freight train N scale?

@xtremepyrotech 5 жыл бұрын

@@davidurban6813 it was the Love Boat on Rails. And in the pilot episode they throw the train into emergency and lock up the wheels. Well we know that at 120 mph + this would have caused one hell of a derailment.

@colormedubious4747 6 жыл бұрын

How awesome it would be to stand among that crowd on the rural platform, cheering the train as it speeds past, blowing live steam directly in your face from hopefully-not-the-hot-loop of a nuclear power plant. Sign me up!

@wnychevy09 3 жыл бұрын

It is simply amazing what you could do with miniaturization

@stevensolway1054 5 жыл бұрын

Happy 40th Anniversary, 1979 to 2019, from the founder and president of Supertrain Fan Club, here in gb&w, USA, plus real life historic connection to C&NW RR 400 City of Green Bay Bi-level that started in 1956.

@ThePainTrain765 8 жыл бұрын

3:53 I find it funny that there's a steam era wooden caboose mere feet away from the super atomic future train.

@jayo1212 7 жыл бұрын

I bet it's part of a Lionel set one of the crewmembers had!

@badkittynomilktonight3334 3 жыл бұрын

It was all the model train store had in stock.

@TheCloakedTiger Жыл бұрын

Kinda fitting. Like a view of the past and then the future. :)

@rlm6213 11 жыл бұрын

Thanks for posting. I remember this show from my childhood; I was one of the viewing audience of all 250, I guess. A silly show that damn near bankrupted NBC at the time (along with the boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics which cost NBC millions in lost advertising revenue). Fun times from my childhood. Thanks again.

@vgames1543 2 жыл бұрын

The disco Snowpiercer is not real, it cannot hurt you. Disco Snowpiercer:

@moonspots01 8 жыл бұрын

I bet that wheel has one hell of a flat spot on it!

@LakeHowellDigitalVideo 5 жыл бұрын

Now everytime I go for groceries, I lean over to my girlfriend and say, "T.C., Redline this thing!"

@cityhawk 4 жыл бұрын

I think they put so much into Supertrain that they forgot something trivial...like a script.

@stevensolway1054 4 жыл бұрын

Scale models of Supertrain were built by Railroad Supply Corporation from Burbank, CA, that still builds live steam scale models for backyard outdoor miniature railroaders and also Hollywood movies for train wrecks in 1/8th scale for 7&1/2"inch guage track, but S.T. has 20' foot gauge in scale of 30" inches for the large outdoor set pieces to use natural light from the sun, and trick perspective when running near the mountain ranges, and this is the model that ran off the end of the loading elevated track, and wrecked the actual dummy engine unit and the 1st car with transition wedge to front plus 3 more coaches, but the small indoor studio model is 1/16th scale at 3/4" inches, but spfx could not find enough live steamers, so used slightly larger 1" scale trains from Los Angeles Live Steamers Club in Griffith Park, so S.T. 1/16 mini departs N.Y. G C T overhead viaduct and passes 1" sc., 4&3/4" gauge 4-6-2 plus wooden caboose actually cast aluminum, by Little Engines Co. In Lomita, CA.

@Wurlyscope 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for these interesting details.

@kennethsouthard6042 5 жыл бұрын

The music actually sounds similar to the Love Boat. At least ABC was smart enough to use a real cruise ship vs. create their own mock-up of one on a sound stage.

@erifkind 7 жыл бұрын

The disco music is amazing. That is all.

@Wurlyscope 7 жыл бұрын

In the pilot episode during a scene at the On Board discotheque, we can hear a Disco song that closely resenble 'I Feel Love' from Donna Summer.

@yixnorb5971 5 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a mashup between easy listening music and pop

@antoniowashington6148 2 жыл бұрын

That disco music was used by the chain reaction game show hosted by Bill Cullen.

@PlasmaCoolantLeak Жыл бұрын

Ol' Fred Silverman nearly derailed NBC with this turkey.

@SandyMcInnesMagicMemories 9 жыл бұрын

I loved this show as a kid! Thanks so much for uploading this. I loved it, and it brought back great memories watching it with my grandparents. Supertrain was so cool, ha ha!

@mht5875 11 ай бұрын

The theme song is the best part of the series

@keonjenkins1852 10 жыл бұрын

"This is Chain Reaction when one word leads to another and the right word can lead to $10,000."

@cityhawk 4 жыл бұрын

Keon Jenkins I think it would have helped for Supertrain.

@wwetnabamafan194 3 жыл бұрын

The music was from a composer named Bob Colbert, who also did the theme to another NBC game show, "Blockbusters"

@TheCloakedTiger Жыл бұрын

Kinda reminds me of BART a little. Only it’s a fatter double deck version… Still pretty neat train!

@mattlawson2669 10 жыл бұрын

The large model they used to establish Supertrain traveling through various parts of the country was destroyed when it ran off the tracks.

@freakstate 6 жыл бұрын

Matt Lawson they've just found the other one! Imgur post today.

@metallidome 6 жыл бұрын

...As a train lover I was obsessed with this show (really just the train & and the music) when I was 9 years old. So much so that I actually created floor plans of what I thought the would look like. Almost 40 years later I think those plans still exist. I even contacted NBC at one point to see what became of the model used in the scenes. They never returned my correspondence.

@Wurlyscope 6 жыл бұрын

you can have a lot of info on supertrain on this website nbc_supertrain.tripod.com

@metallidome 6 жыл бұрын

Wow. Is that your page? That is great stuff. I was actually thinking of putting my pencil drawn plans into a CAD format using AutoCad.

@Wurlyscope 6 жыл бұрын

minigiantess no it’s not my page. I just found it on the web few years ago.

@stevensolway1054 4 жыл бұрын

4-8-8-4 Big Boy 4014/from The Union Pacific RR is Real super train, built in 1941 by ALCO of Schenectady New York from steel from Pittsburgh, and iron ore from Duluth Minnesota, 1,200,000 pounds (lbs-U.S.) equals= 600 tons (USA), driven by 300 psig of pure, raw, steam power from coal.

@Wurlyscope 4 жыл бұрын

Yes that is a very impressive and big engine. There are many videos of it on youtube.

@geert574 8 ай бұрын

Ok man enjoy your play room

@kennethsouthard6042 5 жыл бұрын

It looks like the California legislature must have watched this before committing the State to the Bullet Train.

@jamesklatt 7 жыл бұрын

And putting it up against Eight is Enough (ABC) and The Incredible Hulk (CBS) really helped it's chances.

@mcleodclan Жыл бұрын

The Prelude to Snowpiercer, both ridiculously stupid concepts. I love it!!!❤😂

@Wurlyscope Жыл бұрын

Yes that’s the prerogative of Sci-fi to give life to fantasies.

@darbanim3435 2 жыл бұрын

When I was a little this train was so epic....

@brianarbenz7206 3 жыл бұрын

After Supertrain, Super Tuesday and Supersize It, that once glorious prefix has lost its greatness.

@Youngstown529 Жыл бұрын

This looks a lot more fun than that stupid Disney Star Wars hotel.

@Takada_Masaki_K Жыл бұрын

こういう鉄道をテーマにした物語が好きだ。

@arthurworkman4399 5 жыл бұрын

3:12 Just this shot alone looks like a realistic train. How can this be just a model? Damn special effects even back then were awe inspiring and amazing. The said this $250,000 dollar model almost bankrupted NBC considering how much they spend on TV shows today - this show is super El-cheap-O - makes today's shows look extremely tame by comparison. They spend super duper multi-millions now. And that's just only with CGI.

@nkt1 Жыл бұрын

They're using a technique called forced perspective for that shot. The model train is close to the camera, and the platform is behind and below the model, quite far in the distance.

@stevensolway1054 2 жыл бұрын

When SUPERTRAIN was filmed in 1978 for the premiere movie they pushed a full size mock up of the cab and nose into the L.A.U.P.T. Did anybody get photos? Or are there any publicity photos, or behind the scenes? Send me a text ok? Even after 42 years we all still have a lot of questions. Merry Christmas 2021 and Happy New Year 2022 A.D. ALSO... now that AMTRAK has had its 50th anniversary since 1971, let us all work together to rebuild the once Great American Passenger Train System, with New Trains. And New Routes. All aboard. HIGHBALL !!-!

@Wurlyscope 2 жыл бұрын

that would be very interesting to see.

@davidwesley2525 9 ай бұрын

@@Wurlyscopehave Donald Trump & Bill Gates Pay the Bill. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

@GodfatherXXI 2 жыл бұрын

This almost destroyed NBC. Good.

@eileencoffey6657 3 жыл бұрын

Wooden ties?? The viaduct look like the California high speed rail project 🤣🤣

@Wurlyscope 3 жыл бұрын

yes one tree per tie!

@paulnguyen8910 4 жыл бұрын

Today's Supertrain has to have pantograph from one end, from overhead wires.

@Wurlyscope 6 жыл бұрын

They were not ready to lauch this series. Someone pusched it on the air and caused it's derailement.

@pnmawvr777railfanarchived8 7 жыл бұрын

0:35 Is that Mr. Noodle driving the SuperTrain ?

@mht5875 11 ай бұрын

Anthony Palmer, close resemblance

@kennethsouthard6042 Ай бұрын

In real life even back in 1978 literally takes one guy to move a train, two if you count the conductor. Back in the 1800s. I think it took four. I've lost count of how many people it takes to operate this drain.

@HailAnts 3 жыл бұрын

Barely two years before this there was an actual movie called _The Big Bus_ about a huge, two-story, nuclear powered, ah, bus. But instead of a drama, it was a screwball comedy similar to _Airplane!_ Can’t believe NBC thought this would work..

@Wurlyscope 3 жыл бұрын

Yes it's an hilarious movie. They used a real custom built Prevost bus for all the exterior shots. Strange how the production designers of Supertrain seems to have missed it. A regular size 2 levels luxury train would have made a better show. Anyway i love the miniatures models they built. Too bad the larger model derailed during a press presentation.

@HailAnts 3 жыл бұрын

@@Wurlyscope - I keep reading about that, how the first model crashed and had to be rebuilt costing the network a lot of money. Wish there was footage of that someplace!

@idovbnc 8 жыл бұрын

0:56 soundtrack was later used with CHiPs (and probably every other show during that era).

@2005dave 3 жыл бұрын

I think it was cool that Dan Curtis and Bob Cobert were working together again - in the 60’s Cobert did the music for Dark Shadows. Cobert was already an established composer by then, and his creepy cues were a 180° from his jaunty game show themes. Here he conquers disco and of course two of those cues were repurposed into game show themes - Chain Reaction (heard here) and Your Number’s Up.

@stevensolway1054 3 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas 2020, and Happy New Year 2021. Did you know the Supertrain interior car sets are still being used!! Especially during the 1980's, the sets were in TV shows like "Moonlighting" on ABC with Cybil Shepherd and Bruce Willis during the Murder Mystery Excursion with Miss Dapesto the secretary. And you can tell by the extra wide dining room, plus sleeping car side aisle when 2 people can walk side by side.. Also used in Hardcastle and McCormack starring Brian Keith as the Judge. Then Sheriff Lobo starting Claude Akins as Sheriff during beauty pageant carrying girls on train to the competition. Plus several more. Take care of one another during Covid 19, please wear your mask, GOD Bless America+++!!! Amen!

@andgate2000 10 жыл бұрын

I remember the super train model being for sale on the back page of a train modellers magazine about 1980.

@cityhawk 4 жыл бұрын

andgate2000 Probably part of the proceeds went to save NBC.

@stevensolway1054 Жыл бұрын

Recently in 2020 was SNOWPIERCER, about another nuclear powered mega train.

@Wurlyscope Жыл бұрын

Yes. While the train allegory is interesting, everybody knows tracks are sensitive to temperature changes. Therefore this train should have derailed a long time ago.

@toby070 6 жыл бұрын

Although I do admit, the night-time scenes are the best looking of the model shots. 2:33, 3:46.

@chris1pugsley 11 жыл бұрын

Please! Download the entire episode. I was a kid when I saw Supertrain and I loved it.

@Wurlyscope 8 жыл бұрын

chris1pugsley You will find almost all the episodes on youtube

@VenturaCapitalist 5 жыл бұрын

Is that Steve Lawrence - the bad guy on top of the train??

@Wurlyscope 5 жыл бұрын

yes that's him

@capsizebrian 5 жыл бұрын

This is terrific. That full size set was amazing and the model work and forced perspective shots really good too. So one of Bob Colbert's themes was reused in somethings else? Chain Reaction? Not heard of it. Cobert's music was always good would love to see that released too someday. Thank you for posteing

@truckrobo147 9 ай бұрын

If it makes things even more terrific, the supertrain model itself actually survived after all these years!

@mottledbrain 11 жыл бұрын

Living in 'The Great White North' I had never even heard of the show until I purchased a copy of Model Railroader with an ad selling the Supertrain model for a mere $25,000 (I think). It would have been great having a successful TV show about a train (or about trains) rather than boats, planes ... or people shacking up for that matter.

@jamesparson Жыл бұрын

Apparently it is a single track from New York to Los Angeles. Not a single siding or passing track anywhere.

@mcleodclan Жыл бұрын

Lol well there’s no need as after all there’s only one Supertrain No1!!!!

@dr.roberts4508 Жыл бұрын

The Spin off was called Super limo

@riverhuntingdon6659 8 жыл бұрын

Thank heavens the GM Aerotrain never really took off, we might've seen these things ! Never did see this in the UK back then, but it surely screams 70's at you.

@nickforbes-warren6602 7 жыл бұрын

The pilot episode with the redlining scene was shown on ITV a few times under the UK title EXPRESS TO TERROR.

@burr1aj Жыл бұрын

It only made it 10-12 weeks in the US, too. NBC was struggling BIG time and this show and its budget nearly bankrupted the company.

@bbo40 3 жыл бұрын

'CHIPs' should of had a cross-over episode with this....it would have been a hit!

@Wurlyscope 3 жыл бұрын

That would have been a double-disco hit! lol

@kennethsouthard6042 Ай бұрын

It would be funny to dig up some of Carson's old monologues where he made fun of this thing. The NBC brass had no choice but to suck it up because his show was one of the only things making money for NBC at the time.

@mattmatt7305 Жыл бұрын

So unrealistic - a futuristic train service that works…. in America!

@colinsmith6340 5 жыл бұрын

So, The Big Bus, but on a train.

@seleneruble5677 4 жыл бұрын

I was 12 years old I watch the show 53 years old now I can say now all MF hit the floor LOL

@JBofBrisbane 11 жыл бұрын

22 months to secure the right of way and build an ultra-broad gauge railroad line across the mainland USA, not to mention the nuclear-powered train to run on it - so credible. And while they were at it, why not give it a K5LA or similar chime horn sound effect, instead of the single, low-note "PAAAAARP" like an F7A?

@lenblack1462 10 ай бұрын

True 1970's insanity. Almost wrecked the network.

@chrisbow1776 11 жыл бұрын

never heard of this show in the UK, but i love 70s cheese like the big bus. i need to watch supertrain lol. love to find it on dvd, but i bet it not available is it.

@Wurlyscope 8 жыл бұрын

chris bow It was like the big buss except in this they were serious! hahaha

@pyrodiscoflash6115 2 жыл бұрын

Where's the Bartender For that Crisp Super Train Cocktail to Adventure

@KiddBloo86 Жыл бұрын

3:07 it's chain reaction. No wait... It's supertrain

@haweater1555 Жыл бұрын

1:46 They really kludged together a lot of stuff to make the silly hi-tech sets. Check out the original Commodore PET computer with cassette drive.

@Wurlyscope Жыл бұрын

Yes the only real tech of the time used was this Commodore PET and sadly, only used as a decoration.

@haweater1555 Жыл бұрын

@@Wurlyscope Supposedly nuclear powered train, so does it really need a dozen people at least to oversee operation?

@Wurlyscope Жыл бұрын

@@haweater1555 the only relevant personnel is the one with the PET. All others are just watching blinking lights. They forgot the computer was there to control everything. Would you have confidence in an all manually controlled nuclear reactor? lol

@lazymansload520 3 жыл бұрын

0:07 guy in the lower left is visibly shaking his head.

@VigilanteAgumon 10 жыл бұрын

So that's where Snowpiercer came from.

@bendover9411 7 жыл бұрын

Cool ass model! 5:11, he was talking on a "Merlin" phone!

@gregrhodes5755 4 жыл бұрын

Do not know what a Merlin phone is but the silver phone on the wall of the bar car and the red phone in the motormans cab on the locomotive is a Contempra phone made by Northern Electric of Canada. The box with the red light that locomotive's phone is sitting on is a prop for the show.

@toddcharry 11 жыл бұрын

LOL..one of the 250 that watched it. I love trains, but I can't recall this show at all. I do recall the Love Boat, I hated that show.

@patrickp6146 8 жыл бұрын

DeLorean meets Vista Cruiser

@dstopard 2 жыл бұрын

Basically the breitspurbahnen but american

@Pisca-kk5cs 4 жыл бұрын

I like the FLIR system at 1:48!

@Wurlyscope 4 жыл бұрын

FLIR system?

@Pisca-kk5cs 4 жыл бұрын

Wurly2304s_Aka_Jean_or_John yea.. Forward Looking Infrared system

@keisven1 9 ай бұрын

This is a fun clip and the music is great. 😃5:48 The owner never knew what happiness means until the train is speeding. 🤣 This is also like an ordinary day at work for me. Great music, people drinking, people having sex, people carrying guns, people shouting and screaming, people riding on the outside, train speeding, people stumbles around, anxious looks in peoples faces, broken windows, people activate the emergency brake, people on the floor. What do I do for a living? I'm a tram driver. 😃🤣

@Wurlyscope 9 ай бұрын

Really funny 😂🤣

@Wurlyscope 9 ай бұрын

Really funny 😂🤣

@felix25ize 3 жыл бұрын

Nazis had a similar project, due to Hitler's megalomania. Not atomic propelled, only steam, luxurious as an ocean liner, and transporting only members of the master's race; but also unrealizable, because too heavy, the ground would not have beared such a weight and the ground under the giant railway would have collapsed ...

@michaelnolan6054 3 жыл бұрын

That soundtrack can be heard on VHS porn of the era.

@geert574 4 жыл бұрын

0:32 where did he come from, was he driving on the tracks? 😆

@chris1pugsley 10 жыл бұрын

If you have the entire episode please upload it.

@VinhPhucTrieu Ай бұрын

Just a breitspurbahn

@Wurlyscope Ай бұрын

@@VinhPhucTrieu the Americans didn’t just got Von Braun…

@ryannewsome2981 4 ай бұрын

Which came first. This TV show or the movie The Big Bus???

@Wurlyscope 4 ай бұрын

The Big Bus was made in 1976. Supertrain in 1979.

@Wurlyscope 4 ай бұрын

The spoof was made before the serious version… 😂

@agrady7216 3 жыл бұрын

Is the Supertrain faster the Acela?

@florentinomichaeljr.deloss1713 3 ай бұрын

Super wide gauge track

@Wurlyscope 2 ай бұрын

All those big trees cut to make the ties...

@georgesenda1952 4 жыл бұрын

Is it me or do we see steam coming out of the sides of the engine cab ?

@Wurlyscope 4 жыл бұрын

Yep it's a steam locomotive with a nuclear reactor providing heat. Since we see steam that mean it's not a closed circuit so in an event of a nuclear leak, this steam would probably contaminate all the passengers and the tracks as well. Not a great design but fun to watch.

@user-ip4ps7mn5z 5 жыл бұрын

Вот так же я на своей восьмёрочке с друзьями езжу)

@ThePiquedPigeon 4 жыл бұрын

It's sad in a sense that this series was a failure, and one that almost finished off an already limping NBC with its cost. Maybe the concept did not stick with viewers. Maybe most people do not find trains as glamorous as this one is meant to be. Maybe some of this train's quirks were also unconvincing: nuclear power was starting to raise more than a doubt with the risks it implies (and then Three Mile Island happened...), and if this so-called "Super" train goes coast-to-coast in 36 hours, it would average a top speed of 80 mph/129 kph, less than any high-speed train worth of this name (though, to be fair: this train is very big, a "land cruise ship" of sort, and correspondingly heavy, and with many power-hungry amenities, so, like a "real" cruise ship would do, most of its engine power is probably meant to satisfy or overcome all these features, rather than for pure speed). But this series has its merits still. First, the overall design of the train is fantastic, with its '70s Zeerust, wedge shape, interior design, and spaceship-like driving cab. Like something out of Star Wars. Also, the model effects, for all the NBC money they've burned (literally, one model train caught fire), were really nice for the time! The forced perspective at 3:10 is very realistic looking, and so are most of the other sequences in this video. Best of all, the soundtrack! How can you not DIG this "seventy-licious" disco soundtrack!! The last track especially, from 5:15, is absolutely FIRE! *_REDLINE THIS THING!!_*

@brianbogansky6348 7 жыл бұрын

as we transverse the usa, let's play chain reaction with your host geoff edwards

@Wurlyscope 7 жыл бұрын

brian bogansky, Yes they recycled the supertrain theme for the chain reaction game show. I used the Chain Reaction theme on this video do.

@farmerdave7965 5 жыл бұрын

How come the crew all look like Ron Burgundy ?

@ALEXIP1003 10 жыл бұрын

Ontario Supernorthlander

@theamused8705 10 ай бұрын

Super-wide train...

@JBofBrisbane 11 жыл бұрын

Great modelwork - other than that, it was The Love Boat on rails with no laugh track, and no recognisable special guests. And think about this - in the event of a reactor containment failure, where does all that radioactive junk go first? All over the train, of course.

@nickforbes-warren6602 7 жыл бұрын

Then radiation suits would drop out of the ceilings above the seats . . . oh wait that was Cyclops.

@penguinmaster7 7 жыл бұрын

who knew alonzo hawk was on supertrain? *terrible reference*

@Trainlover4472 7 жыл бұрын

Goggles Tigerkhan I get it

@LakeHowellDigitalVideo 5 жыл бұрын

T.C. Redline this thing!

@toby070 8 жыл бұрын

3:10 I love this moment, it is an classic effect that anyone can easily do, but the only reason I'm laughing is... well... can anyone find what is wrong at this moment? Other than that, the show that features a nuclear Drunkly-Built-Channel-Tunnel-Train-with-a-swimming-pool (and-is-totally-not-a-model) is for me the biggest example of a total waste of money.

@mhgs13 8 жыл бұрын

Yes, The train pulls up to the station and there is no crew in the cab...lol

@toby070 8 жыл бұрын

LOL XD I can't believe I missed that! In actuality I was talking about the shadows

@ThePiquedPigeon 4 жыл бұрын

Actually, if you look close at 3:20, there seem to be a person on the right-hand side of the controls, only it is small and as dark-blue as the train's interior, so it's not very visible.

@dgwaters 10 жыл бұрын

You don't by any chance have the full movie? I know someone did upload the movie in like 15 ten minute segments, but I guess they took it off KZfaq.

@Wurlyscope 8 жыл бұрын

dan waters I have the full movie on VHS tape

@menendezgilbert 4 жыл бұрын

some of the tv shows of the 70's were so cheesy

@yixnorb5971 5 жыл бұрын

It wasn't a disaster movie,, it was a movie disaster.

@samuelruggieri2117 7 жыл бұрын

An European TGV, Japanese Shinkansen, or Chinese Bullet train can speed by this turkey without passengers flying all over the place. No wonder why the show didn't last.