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Is the train hijack scene based on an actual event in Civil War history?


I've always loved that train hijack scene, even though the movie - much like the train car - goes down hill from that point. Anybody know if the train scene is based on an actual historical event??

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No.

"It ain't dying I'm talking about, it's LIVING!"
Captain Augustus McCrae

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