Alec Baldwin

On the morning of the shoot, a representative of the railroad once again refused to grant the film permission to shoot on its tracks.

Randy knew that I wasn't going to go if we didn't have permission.

How do you know that?

Because he told me.

He told you what?

That he was going to go down and going to film by the trestle, whether they had permission from CSX or not.

But in fact, the Midnight Rider production had no way of knowing when a train might be coming.

You don't shoot on a railroad track unless you absolutely are positive that you have permission to be there and you know that a train isn't gonna come by.

CSX would later tell investigators that it was their busiest track.

And they had probably 27, 30 trains that passed through on that track a day, per day.

There is no freight train schedule I can rely on to make sure there'll be no train on my train.

It's a day-to-day thing, and the variance can be great.

So you're going to help me stay safe while I shoot a scene that involves a train.

How are you going to do that?

You need a railroad employee.

And just like with the use of guns on a set, there are also very strict guidelines when filming near railroad tracks.

Attorney Jeff Harris filed a lawsuit on behalf of Sarah Jones' parents.

And I think they said, well, you know, we don't have actual permission, but ultimately we're just going to try to steal the shot.

If so, it would apparently not be the first time Randall Miller had stolen a shot.

He would say, we're trying to make a movie here, as if that outweighed the needs or the safety of other people.