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Money Train

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Memorable Movie Quotes

Grace Santiago: [staggers towards platform women; pretending to be drunk] Hey! Hey! That's my man! Get your hands off my man! Are you bitches crazy?

Trivia

Most of the subway scenes were filmed on a 4000-foot-long set built to resemble a typical four-track New York subway trunk line. It included three stations, all of which were built as local stops with the platforms on the outside of the outer tracks. Included were I-beams between each track, spaced five feet apart just as they are in New York. The ceiling, however, was much higher than on any actual New York subway line.

In the opening scene where Wesley Snipes hits one of the Money Train cops, there is a Die Hard 2 poster on the wall. Die Hard 2 was also written by 'Richardson, Doug' .

The Wall Street station scenes were filmed at the Union Square station on the IRT Lexington Ave. line. The 33rd Street station is the real one, on the same line. All scenes filmed on the subway set featured retired carbon steel R-30 subway cars, painted red. Scenes filmed on the actual New York subway featured stainless steel R-62 cars.

Goofs

Glock handguns do not have safeties or hammers.

Many instances where a line is shown with the wrong number of tracks, or station platforms are on the wrong side. For example, Wall Street (Lexington Avenue line) has outside platforms, not a center platform; Bowling Green station has no express track that would allow one southbound train to run through while another is at the platform.

A few bullets from handguns don't carry enough momentum to stop a a running man instantly and throw him backwards.

The fight with the arsonist occurs in the tunnel near 5th Avenue station on the N line; the only other trains on this route are R trains. The train that ends the fight appears first as an S train to Times Square (which belongs 17 blocks away, on 42nd Street), then in the next shot it is an N train to Ditmars Blvd (which is right).

Charlie climbs down onto to track level and lies on the track in front of the money train, all in plain view of its driver, as if he knows what's going to happen next -- the driver just stops the train right on top of him and says nothing about it to anyone.

At the time of the theft/hijacking, all the guards go to the token booth and none of them stays near the train to guard the money already on board, even though the train door is wide open to the platform. If one guard had stayed, Charlie would not have been able to break in unnoticed through the train floor.

When we see John about to twist the motorcycle through the pillars before jumping onto the track, there are only 2 more pillars to the end of the station. After the camera angle changes, he is much farther from the end wall and passes at least 15 more pillars within the station.

Trip arms on the New York subway are painted yellow, not striped orange and white. Their shape is also not as depicted, and they are designed not to snap off when struck by a train.

The dispatcher doesn't think of clearing the track in front of the money train until it has run 6 miles from 110th Street to Grand Street, and it isn't making any stops for all that time, but it doesn't catch up with another train until after crossing to Brooklyn. (It does change from the local to the express track for some reason.)

The dispatcher, watching his monitor as the money train collides with a regular B train for the first time, immediately says "Oh my God." The monitor would not show information precise enough to identify that the trains had actually collided.

Although nobody is changing the power settings on either train (the B train's driver is maintaining full speed and nobody is at the controls of the money train), for no reason the money train surges forward to collide forcefully with the B train six separate times, artificially creating the need for a device to stop the repeated collisions. Also, they occur at varying time intervals, artificially allowing time for the solution to be carried out.

It is impossible to "bleed the brakes" or otherwise dump out compressed air on any NYC subway car and force a runaway condition. When air pressure is lost on a subway car, it actually engages the brakes. This is a common fail-safe in rapid transit and railroad systems.

The real money trains (officially known as "Revenue Collection Trains" of which there are several dozen cars in service, not two) are usually older, grungy, decrepit retired passenger cars with bars on the windows. They are painted yellow with black warning stripes in the front. They are staffed by NYC Transit Authority, a majority of which appear to be middle aged, overweight, and female, oddly enough, and armed with nothing more than .38 revolvers. They are nothing like the automatic weapon-wielding SWAT team cops depicted in the movie.

In a collision between a train car and columns, the columns would tear the train car apart. This has occurred numerous times in the past decade, most infamously in the Union Square wreck in '91, in which columns installed nearly 90 years earlier tore in half a runaway 6 year old train car.

The ticket booth windows in the New York subways are bullet-proof, so John would not be able to shoot out the window in order to save the clerk. Likewise Grace would not be able to shoot at "Torch" from inside the booth.

When John jumps his motorcycle in front of the Money Train, he lands on plywood sheets that are placed between the rails to act as a smooth landing zone for the motorcycle.

Box Office Info In USA

Budget $68,000,000

Gross $35,324,232

Filming Locations