The top mistakes in Cassandra Crossing http://www.moviemistakes.com/film245 en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:55:02 +0000 10276 When the train take off from Nürnberg, the locomotive is on "backwards". A few seconds later is it rotated 180 degrees. 1490 When they are attempting to lower things onto the moving train with a helicopter, it conveniently changes from overhead-powered electric to diesel. Immediately afterwards, it changes back. 19052 The train consists of nine cars - six RIC cars of the Swiss Federal Railways (two 1st class with nine compartments each, two 2nd class with eleven compartments each, one 2nd class with twelve compartments, and one dining car between the classes), an MU sleeping car belonging to the CIWL (International Dining And Sleeping Car Company) between the two first class coaches, and at each end one older Swiss baggage car. The first class has 108 seats, the second class has 204 seats, and the sleeping car has 36 berths; so the train has space for 348 passengers - or 400, adding the 52 restaurant places. I wonder where they put 1,000 people on this train. 116653 The Cassandra Crossing bridge is mentioned to be located in Poland, and you can see power lines indicating that the route is electrified. Earlier, the route is said to be closed in 1948. Polish Railways started electrifying its routes in 1960s and it is very unlikely someone would electrify that route without rebuilding the bridge (considered collapse-prone) and of course without any plans to use that route again. 11163 It would be impossible to rescue the dog by helicopter from a moving electric train because the poles along the side of the track holding up the wires would get in the way.