haolerider said:
Unfortunately, most wouldn't know the difference. To them, a train is a train.
I don't know if that is necessarily "unfortunate" that most people wouldn't know the difference. If everybody knew every inaccurate detail about stuff they saw on TV/movies, the entertainment industry would be nit-picked out of existence.
When I was in Toronto a few months ago for the PCC streetcar charter, the street behind the hotel was being converted into "New York" (complete with a couple of buses painted in the MTA scheme) for a movie shoot. When they see the movie (I don't know what it was they were filming), most folks wouldn't know they were looking at Toronto and not New York.
A friend of mine that lives in Vancouver was telling me of a movie he saw in the theaters recently (again, I don't know which movie). There was a scene where the characters were supposedly walking through a Boston neighborhood, when my friend said "Hey, there's the Homer Cafe. That's right down the street from me!" Folks that weren't from Vancouver would (probably) never know they were looking at a place on the opposite side of the continent than where the scene purportedly took place.
Anyone who is an expert (and anyone that considers him/herself an expert) in a certain area could probably find tons of flaws in movies where the subject of their expertise happens to come up.
However, since I don't have a telescreen, I really don't know much about the scene in question, and couldn't comment on how well the scene (Surfliner notwithstanding) is convincing in making the viewer believe the supposed location.