The small town of Brewster, Ohio, about 15 miles southwest of Canton, has captured Hollywood’s attention. The Wheeling and Lake Erie Railroad’s abandoned tower, the scene for director Tony Scott’s production of Unstoppable, was stripped for use in filming Aug. 29-Sept. 4. 

Brewster residents saw Denzel Washington (most recently seen in The Taking of Pelham 123) and Chris Pine (Star Trek), Rosario Dawson (Men in Black II) and Kevin Dunn (Transformers). In Unstoppable, Washington plays a seasoned engineer who hops on an empty, runaway train with a young conductor, Chris Pine, to stop the train before its toxic cargo can reach a large city. Dawson is Connie, a dispatcher, and Dunn portrays her boss. 

Twenty-eight men and one woman from the Cleveland area were cast as railroad workers for a scene that establishes the runaway-train premise at the start of the movie. Filming ended in Brewster on Friday, Sept. 4. The rumor is that the film crew will be there until mid-December, but some sources say this notion is off-track and that it's actually hurtling toward a rail yard in Bradford, Penn., and then on to Bellaire, Ohio, in November. Stay tuned to this station.