Alec Baldwin
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I'm mad at myself because I didn't.
We had only been on the tracks for five, maybe 10 minutes, and that's when they yelled that there was a train coming.
I heard and I saw the train, and we just immediately started running.
Greg Allman's memoir began with a scene on a bridge, but it never mentioned railroad tracks.
That was an addition by Randall Miller in the screenplay that he wrote, and in this clip, you hear him read aloud.
Scene 14, exterior train track.
His hospital bed is in the middle of a train track.
He sees a bridge ahead, a train trestle.
Sarah Jones was an assistant camera operator.
They were just a few minutes into shooting the scene on the trestle,
when they spotted a freight train barreling down the track at an estimated 57 miles per hour.
They yelled that there was a train coming.
And there was a sort of a pause.
I saw the light of that train.
It was like the train was right there.
So you had seconds to figure out what you were going to do.
Video captures the scream of the fast approaching train's horn as Randall Miller and other crew members frantically try to yank the hospital bed off the tracks.
Sarah Jones was trying to get the expensive camera equipment off the track.