In the beginning, showing a train at sunset, the train's cars switch from two-story to one-story, then back to two-story.
When Dagny gets in her car after leaving the roadside diner in Brandon, WY, the license plate is a red Colorado plate. When she arrives in Wyatt Junction, CO, the plate is a county 22 Wyoming plate.
The change of seasons in the Colorado scenes clearly do not match the dates shown in the film. The aspen trees are always shown at the beginning of their seasonal change, which happens in late September and into October. It would not be seen at other times.
In the opening minute of the movie describing the economic turmoil taking place in 2016, there is a quick image of an article from Trinzinca dated "Sunday, 18 June 2016". June 18, 2016 was a Saturday, not Sunday.
A little over 10 minutes in, the opening image of Philadelphia shows trains from Metra. But Metra is Chicago's commuter rail system, not Philadelphia's.
About 10 minutes into the film, planes can be seen flying over the train. Trains, and not planes are the affordable form of transportation, as planes require oil based fuel, a commodity too expensive for the times. Very wealth people could probably afford plane travel.
All articles in the Philadelphia Leader newspaper, except the one on Rearden Metal, have incorrect headlines, and their text segments contain multiple spelling and grammatical errors.
The first newspaper articles shown (with the headline "Gasoline Shortage Continues" featured prominently in the center) have numerous mistakes in all articles: spelling, grammatical, etc. The most glaring errors are: 1. In the far left article, "housing" is spelled "houseing," "6 ties" should be "6 times," "coaset" should be "coast," "puttin" should be "putting." 2 In the center article, "that fact" should be "the fact," "alot" should be "a lot." 3. In the far right story, "tuesday" should be capitalized, "stale mate" should be "stalemate," "y" is used as a word,
The newspaper articles shown are a constant source of errors in the film. At the halfway point, for example, the Daily Metro has the exact same first column as the first paper shown in the film.
The City of Los Angeles seal is prominently visible in glass doors of what is to a train station in Philadelphia.
Scene shows a NYC subway stop and then cuts to an image of the Chicago skyline. This kind of geographical mis-juxtaposition would be obvious to anyone who's traveled to these cities.