Steam & Excursion > CVSR Featured in Tom Hanks Movie

 The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad’s Brecksville station is featured in the recently-released movie A Man Called Otto.
The Tom Hanks film from Sony Pictures Entertainment was released earlier this month and has done well with Midwest older moviegoers.
As reported by The Plain Dealer, the movie tells the story of a Baby Boomer grump played by Hanks, who no longer sees purpose in his life following the loss of his wife.

Most of the movie was filmed in Pittsburgh, but the CVSR is featured in a scene in which Hanks’ son, Truman, playing a younger Otto, boards a train at the Brecksville station.
“Having a Tom Hanks movie filmed in our cars at our railroad and in the [Cuyahoga Valley] national park has been huge for us,” CVSR President Joe Mazur told The Plain Dealer.

The cast also includes former Shaker Heights state legislator and Cuyahoga County Commissioner Peter Lawson Jones, who plays a stroke victim named Reuben.
Mazur said five Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad cars were used during the one-day shoot, with Truman’s scene involving him leaving the station and riding Car 15 car southbound toward Akron.

“Truman was very friendly,” Mazur said. “He took pictures with the volunteers and staff. They were overjoyed by how warm everyone was because it doesn’t always have to be that way.”
The scene was filmed last May 3.  “The folks who really are train buffs loved the fact that a [CVSR] car was in “Otto,’” Mazur said. “There will be people who will want to get on the car just to check it out.” from the akronrrblog 

That group has the three Silver Fleet passenger cars - Silver Rapids, Silver Lariat and Silver Solarium that ran out of the west coast for many years and I hope they were shown in the movie.

I've seen the movie and there weren't any domes.
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Good  movie. Where  were  the  electric  trains  shot?  Philly  area?

cutboy1958 Wrote:
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> Good  movie. Where  were  the  electric
>  trains  shot?  Philly  area?

I’ve been wondering that as well. Could it be Cleveland RTA’s Red Line?

Tom Coughlin
Stow, MA

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I think this may have been the movie that also has a scene shot at Toledo Union Station.

The electric commuter trains were all digital and the station platform was built just for the scene in question.

Attempts to use the RTA station originally scouted were delayed by construction, so the production had to make its own.

Likewise, the film was shot at Toledo's Central Union Terminal and at the Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad.