- Preliminary project budgets
- Candidate host railroads and rail equipment
- Stunts and special effects
- Script reviews
- Expert planning ensures safety, on-time/on-budget shoot days
- Production crew safety training program development
- Railroad location scouting
- Rail equipment scouting (leases and purchases)
- Host railroad assessments
- Final project budgets
- Rail operations design and schedules
- Federal/state rail safety agency liaison & compliance
Getting set to “go to camera”
- Stunt and special effects engineering/planning
- Railroad operations design
- Art/Construction department coordination
- Inbound equipment escort
- Production and host railroad safety training
- Track inspections & repair
- Locomotive and car (MP&E) inspections & repairs
- Railroad operations management
- Provide expert Movie Train crews for stunts and special effects –
- Location and Movie Train safety and security
- On-set railroad safety agency compliance liaison
- Location restoration (including scrap removal)
- Leased equipment outbound escorting
- Location restoration (including scrap removal)
- Leased equipment outbound escorting