article_snippet.sent: Battered, rusted and covered in overgrown weeds, this unremarkable looking bus and train were used to film one of the most memorable Hollywood action scenes of the past 25 years.
article_snippet.sent: The scene, which was filmed using a real train hitting a real bus, cost an eye-watering $1.5million to shoot while The remains of the vehicles the vehicles were left on location where they have since become a popular tourist attraction.
article_snippet.sent: The trains were bought specifically for the memorable action scene at $22,000 per carriage.
article_snippet.sent: The crew used pusher trains to make it go faster for a bigger impact.
article_snippet.sent: The crew spent two months on location in the Great Smokey Mountains in North Carolina to carefully plan the impact, which lasted a heart-stopping 60 seconds.
article_snippet.sent: The short action sequence cost an eye-watering $1.5million to shoot as The short action sequence used only minimal CGI .
article_snippet.sent: the oncoming train is now covered in grass and weeds after sitting abandoned for more than two decades .
article_snippet.sent: According to Director Andrew Davis, what you see in the sequence is 95 per cent real footage.
article_snippet.sent: Kimble leaps out of the way of the oncoming train.