PopPop51 said:
Along U.S. 129 North of Tapoco, NC is the Cheoah dam, which Harrison Ford "jumped" from in "The Fugitive". But you probably don't want to take your trailer or Class A up that road.
The same movie's bus-vs-train wreck scene was filmed just outside Dillsboro NC. The locomotives and bus wreckage were still there in 2017.
How about that, there are google images of the train and bus but i dont see the plane images. Did they leave the plane in the water?
When i drove a cement mixer many years ago we had a call for a bunch of concrete up at the movie studios in Albuquerque. So we all took the back road up to the top of the hill and at the top is this long straight road for about 2 miles or so until you get to the outdoor concert area and the movie studios road. There was an old gas station up there for many years that was out of business but the building was still there.
When i drove my truck up there they had the old service station all decked out with burn marks and tons of wrecked cars all over the road that i had to weave in and out of as well as electrical cable all over the road. It was really cool looking but at the time i did not know what they were shooting.
That scene is the scene in The terminator Salvation, this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT7eYRmSKoY
and the gas station scene was this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bOFoxMp64w
There was a rumor at the time that they had also built a tropical forest area out in the middle of the desert for something. I stopped the truck one day and i could see the palm trees way off in the distance but i dont remember what movie it was for. Could have been the same one i dont know.
Now somewhere in all my really old backup files i actually have a short video i made on my cell phone looking through the windshield of my mixer truck at all the cars and power lines all over the place and the gas station as i returned to the plant after dropping my load.
kinda cool...