[Scan-DC] Movie set headed for Rossyln

[RICHARD ROWLAND]

  I am not sure this sent the first time..........

Caught some  radio communications on 160.320 and 160.230 around 10:30a.m.
this
morning (Wednesday) mentioning Coney Island and  trucks on the tracks with a
helicopter
sitting on the ground. Passing thru South Richmond I caught a movie in the
making.
The filmmakers were coordinating with CSX as a train waited to come into
Richmond
from  Fulton. The train got the signal to move, the helicopter flew back and
forth overhead,
dipping so low at times that you could see it below the underside of the
trestle and over the
canal along Main Street in the vicinity of the Holocaust Museum. The train
was a consist of
loaded coal cars, I never noted the lead engines, however,  there were two
pushers
CSX 7353 & 7732. At 12 noon the movie crew and extras broke for lunch. Most
all of
Main Street was blocked off for the movie extras in cars, trucks and
semi-trailers.
Movie set communications indicated they may coordinate with another train in
the aftrenoon.

Movie set communications were on the following frequencies:
467.8125 d627
467.8875 d265
467.9125 d223
469.5125 d261
469.5625 d223

The helicopter was N450CC, an Aerospatiale AS350-B2 registered and owned by
Vision Air LLC, Costa Mesa, California.

Richard Rowland
RichRowl at worldnet.att.net



BY DANIEL NEMAN
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITEROct 5, 2005



"Mission: Impossible 3" is filming in town today, but only a little bit of
it.
Tom Cruise is not involved in the local scenes, and neither is Ving Rhames,
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Keri Russell or any of the other actors.
A scene showing a car driving fast under a railway trestle is being shot on
Dock Street around 15th Street. Some of the action, including a car swerving
around a corner, is being covered from the air by a camera mounted on a
helicopter.
According to publicist Amanda Brand, if the crew has the time it also hopes
to shoot a scene at Stuart Circle on Monument Avenue as part of the same
fast-driving scene.
The crew is in Richmond for one day only, and is moving on to Northern
Virginia tomorrow to film in Rosslyn and on the 14th Street Bridge.
Yesterday's filming was at the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel.