Goofs

The exact same footage of a steam engine powered work train being passed is used in two different parts of the movie.

At breakfast time, Vera asks Jeff, "Eggs, Jeff?", and he replies "No, just coffee, Vera. I had breakfast on the train." Yet when he sits down at the table she serves him a full breakfast.

In the opening scene, the train, as seen from a high shot, is being pulled by a Baltimore and Ohio locomotive manufactured by Electro Motive. The locomotive Jeff Warren climbs down from is an ALCO- manufactured locomotive lettered for Central National Railroad. While such a change of locomotives is certainly possible, the same engineer would never be operating it for two different railroads.

In the opening scene, as the train pulls slowly into the station, there are two wide shots with two shots from inside the cab (one to each side of the locomotive) between them. The shot of Alec Simmons shows a boxcar on a near track out the left window, while the wide shots show empty tracks and passenger cars on the fourth tracks over. On the right side, beyond Jeff Warren, a town is seen going by fast, while the station going by slowly should be seen.

The exact same footage of the conductor in the vestibule of the passenger car is used twice in different parts of the movie.

When Jeff Warren is shown operating the throttle, three quick shots show the throttle in widely different positions with the middle footage being a shot of a trainman-operated throttle. In reality, no throttle would ever be moved between positions that quickly, as it would make for a violent ride, if it did not pull the cars apart at their couplings.

Near the beginning, when the engineer is running the locomotive, it shows the brake shoes being applied to stop the train. However, it then shows the brake cylinders with the piston rods retracting, which would be releasing the brakes.

When ever Jeff is operating the engine and sticks his head out of the engine, nothing (such as his hair, his shirt collar, etc.) ever blows in the wind, indicating that these scene were actually filmed in a studio set and NOT from a running train engine.

The closing sequence shows the famous "Trenton Makes, The World Takes" bridge over the Delaware River and the NJ State Capitol out the side window of the locomotive over Jeff Warren's shoulder, meaning the train is headed south on the four-track Pennsylvania Railroad Northeast Corridor. The scene cuts to the front window, and the train is on a single-line track in farmland passing a track gang. After Glenn waves to the workers, the scene cuts back to a forward view of a three-track railroad passing an opposing steam train that was not visible in the previous shot.

Vicki retrieves the box with the stolen wallet and medallion from the air vent, looking for the letter she thinks Carl might have hidden there that would implicate her in the murder. She puts her fingerprints on these items. Previously, only Carl's prints would have been on them, implicating only him in the murder. Now, both their fingerprints were on these items, evidence that would potentially implicate both of them.