When two trains collide in her small western town, a brave young woman takes charge ? and in the process meets a man who could change her life forever.

Hi dpg

The collision occurs due to a faulty switching between the Empire Builder and a freight train coming from the opposite direction which derails as they are crossing, somewhere between Rocky Mountains and Chicago.

Jean-Marie

If the setting is in the modern day American West, it would be more probable for a train to be derailed than for a collision of 2 trains to occur. (And the train would be far more likely to be hauling coal or oil than passengers. There are only 4 east-west passenger rail routes left in service west of the Mississippi River and passenger volume is small.)

Thank you very much Valentin.

This is a good premise for a next story.

This script is already written, re-re-re-rewritten, contest winner and re-re-re-rewritten, but not yet sold or optionned. The title and the logline are the current ones and I don't like them very much.

The title (An Indian Summer Tale) seems a little flat, and the logline don't tell exactly what producers and executives want to know, I think.

Maybe they match together and with a good poster they would be a good hook for the audience, but this is not enough for now.