Doesn't this train run for decades in incredible cold? The tracks would have to suffer a lot of wear and tear, and the train itself would as well. My father worked on the railroad, and he had to work on broken rails.
I guess you could go with the assumption that it's in the future, and everything is built to a higher standard than what we have today. Maybe. :)
I guess that's the idea...maybe there's an automated repair for the track?
To me it's kind of like Children of Men: you just buy the premise and enjoy the sci-fi world that grows under the theorized conditions. It's not as good as Children of Men, and I think CoM did a better job of making its world believable, but yeah. I had a similar thought when first watching Snowpiercer. Something like, "Is this really the most efficient way of dealing with perma-cold? I guess so..."
Snowpiercer is a very imaginative and fun movie, though; I did really like it.
Yeah, one of many plot holes.
Another was, where did little TImmy suddenly get his custom-made parka?
Why didn't the madman-fighter (white guy) die with two swords in him, but the Korean guy (Nam?) could snap his neck?
Why blow up the train and kill everyone, possibly even yourself, rather than take the offered Leadership and stop it someplace where everyone would have a chance at building something... even if they stay in the train for a year or more and let the engine warm it?
In a world (remember that announcer?) where all life has died out, and polar bears may be coming back, how does a lone one get all the way inland to an Austrian mountain range, where there are no fish not only there, but along the way to fuel his long climb?
Who taught Andy and Timmy how to run the train & how do they eat, sleep and poop when trapped in those work stations? I repeat the latter question for the prisoners locked in drawers?
Who maintains the track?
How was this the first avalanche to threaten the train in all these (18?) years?