
Still there
Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, just outside Dillsboro, Jackson County, North Carolina
The wreck at Dillsboro
The bus-and-train wreck was filmed on the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad just outside its Dillsboro depot. The wreckage is still visible from the excursion trains.
It cost $1 million and was shot in a single take, using a real train whose locomotive had its engine removed. Test runs used a boxcar and a log car.
The train weighed 250,000 pounds and was derailed at 45 miles an hour.
The state tourism board suggests parking on Haywood Road near the Jackson County Green Energy Park and looking down the slope.
Park on Haywood Road near the Jackson County Green Energy Park and look down the slope, or see it from the train. The pin marks the park road, not the wreck itself; stay off the line.

























