<p>The 55-year-old star plays the role of engineer Jesse Knowlton in the film based on a true incident which happened in Ohio state 9 years ago, reported Daily Mirror online.<br />And it was the real-life Knowlton who taught the Academy Award winning actor how to drive a train.<br /><br />"Jesse helped teach me how to drive a train. It was exciting and liberating to have all that power at your control. I spent a couple of days with him and he is a great guy," the superstar said.<br /><br />However, the actor did not blindly "imitate" the real-life hero when it came to the action film.<br />"I really wasn't trying to imitate him in any way. But we talked for a long time and we were able to use some of the details from his life in the film," Washington said.<br /><br />But the actor admitted that some sequences were "jazzed up" to make the movie more entertaining.<br /><br />"There was a runaway train that was a really dangerous situation. But we jazzed it up a little," he said. <br /></p>
<p>The 55-year-old star plays the role of engineer Jesse Knowlton in the film based on a true incident which happened in Ohio state 9 years ago, reported Daily Mirror online.<br />And it was the real-life Knowlton who taught the Academy Award winning actor how to drive a train.<br /><br />"Jesse helped teach me how to drive a train. It was exciting and liberating to have all that power at your control. I spent a couple of days with him and he is a great guy," the superstar said.<br /><br />However, the actor did not blindly "imitate" the real-life hero when it came to the action film.<br />"I really wasn't trying to imitate him in any way. But we talked for a long time and we were able to use some of the details from his life in the film," Washington said.<br /><br />But the actor admitted that some sequences were "jazzed up" to make the movie more entertaining.<br /><br />"There was a runaway train that was a really dangerous situation. But we jazzed it up a little," he said. <br /></p>