Another Film Role For Union Station and Route 66

Walking to work this morning I was greeted by film trucks up and down Clinton between old 66, i.e. Adams and Jackson. What ever is being made today must be a big, big, production. I remember last year when Doohma 2 a Bollywood action flick was being filmed here. There weren't half as many trucks, and no reporters where roaming around either. 

Panavision Employee looking up Jackson in the shadow of Union Station

I don't know when the trucks arrived but I have to assume they arrived in the middle of the night. An assumption that I will hold fast to since a large and elaborate catering operation was making breakfast for these guys on a grill trailer this morning, right in the middle of Clinton. I also have no idea what is being filmed either although most of us suspect Transformers 4. 

I got a little excited when I spotted a crowd of photographers on the next door  parking garage roof this morning. I waited with them from the comfort of my air conditioned office but no limo or anything came, and eventually they all left. 

Union Station as you can tell is no stranger to Hollywood. Last year the final fight scene in Man of Steel was filmed here. In 1950 the movie Union Station was set here and although the station used in the movie is actually LA Union Station, most of the other scenes such as the chase at the stockyards, and final tunnel scenes where filmed on location here. Other recent films of note filmed here include Public Enemy's, and the Untouchables. But, it's estimated that as many as 50 films and television shows have been filmed, in, on, or outside Union Station most of them in the past 40 years. 

Either way its good to see that the old station, a little bit of a movie star. Guess that connection to the descendent's of the Super Chief are paying off.