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A ride above the rest. Ride the luxury Rails - Wilford Industries Global Express
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— Wilford Industries
Wilford Industries[1] is a large railroad and industry company responsible for designing, building, maintaining and operating multiple trains, including Snowpiercer and Big Alice.
Wilford Industries is known to have built bridges in Serbia.[2] Wilford owned several high-rises in New York City, which Terence would clean.[3] Wilford was among Chicago's most powerful and had parties on his trains that would go on for days.[2]
Melanie Cavill was contracted by Mr. Wilford to design a Luxury Liner, the Wilford Industries Global Express. The company first developed and constructed a Prototype Engine named Big Alice, Melanie Cavill then built the Eternal Engine for the Global Express. Both Engines used Perpetual Motion Technology and would cruise a 318,000km long track, stretched across the globe. Many major cities were included in this railway track, including Moscow, Berlin, Paris, Jerusalem, Bangkok, Singapore, Sydney, Bejing, Anchorage and Panama City.[1] built the Bering Strait Bridge,[2][4] the Himalaya Roundabout (nicknamed the Corkscrew),[5] the Mongols (stretch of track. undulating, efficient terrain),[6] the Oceania Loop,[7]Ottoman Spur,[8] and the Rocky Mountain Test Track.
Eventually, Mr. Wilford realized that climate change is unavoidable, through the CW-7 chemical agent, and he undertook steps to refit his Luxury Liner into an Ark.[1] The Wilford Industries Global Express became Snowpiercer, while Mr. Wilford sold tickets to finance this refit. Ultimately, his goal was not to save humanity but to live his lavish life as long as he could and was eventually taken out of the equation by Melanie Cavill at Snowpiercer's Departure.
People honor Mr. Wilford and Wilford Industries by hand movement over their chest in the shape of a "W".[10][14]
The motto of Wilford Industries is "Work. Honor. Order."[15]
Originally, the motto was "Unity. Industry. Victory." It changed into "Work. Honor Order." sometime between the manufacturing of Big Alice and the manufacturing of Snowpiercer.[16]
Wilford Industries had hangars for automated vehicles such as, maintenance vehicles, plows and Track Scalers. One of them was built on the Rocky Mountain Test Track[8]
You know what I was, in the Old Time, before I was a janitor? A janitor. Cleaned a high-rise building, I get on this train and you know what I see? The train is just a high-rise laying on it's side.
You can just make out the "old" slogan under the 'W' in the far left on the murals - which were fun to make, and it was AMAZING to see them printed out 15' long on set...as I've said before, we concept artist/illustrators don't often see our work directly on screen, and it's always fun when it happens!