[Scan-DC] Movie set headed for Rossyln

[John Wilson]

   They picked a yukky weather day for filming in
Richmond....overcast....cloudy.    I wonder how much the Richmond city and CSX
were paid for the filming privilege.  If they block the 14th Street Bridge in
NOVA for filming they may cause angry motorists to riot.

RICHARD ROWLAND wrote:

>   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.
>
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