Based on the true story of the CSX-8888 incident of May 2001, Unstoppable is an old-school action-adventure. The Oscar-nominated movie, which hit theaters in November 2010, chronicles railroad workers' attempt to stop an unmanned runaway train.

The movie Unstoppable (2010), starring Denzel Washington, is based on a real-life event known as the "Crazy Eights" incident, which occurred on May 15, 2001. A CSX Transportation freight train, led by locomotive #8888, was accidentally left unmanned and began rolling out of a rail yard in Walbridge, Ohio. Unlike the movie's dramatization, the train was only carrying two cars of hazardous molten phenol, not a massive chemical payload, and it reached speeds of about 47 mph rather than 70+ mph. The "runaway" lasted for approximately two hours and covered 66 miles through northwest Ohio. The situation was finally resolved when a trainmaster, Jon Hosfeld, chased the train in a second locomotive, coupled onto the rear, and used his own brakes to slow it down enough for another rail worker, Jess Knowlton, to run alongside and pull the engine's "fuel cutoff" lever. While the movie added explosions and a high-speed chase, the core engineering "miracle" of stopping a 47-car runaway remains a true story of quick thinking in the American Midwest.