Priscilla Pointer (Lady on Train) is the former mother-in-law of the director and executive producer Steven Spielberg. He was married to her daughter Amy Irving from 1985 to 1989.
Although Roberts Blossom played the 84-year-old Opa Globe in this episode, he was only 61 years old at the time in real life.
The Highball Express crashed in 1910.
Clyde "Opa" Globe was born in 1901.
Brian Globe was born in 1976.