Train-related videos

[Rene Schweitzer]

Do you have any train-themed videos (either movies, how-tos, or just beauty shots)? Any notable ones you'd like to share?

[Anonymous]

I have only a few movies with trains in them.

I TiVo everything that's train related. I have wishlists for LOCOMOTIVE*, RAILROAD*, and TRAIN and I have season passes for the repeating train shows on RFD and HDnet. I really enjoy the grand-scale series now showing on RFD.

I watch anything that looks good but I dont save any of the shows after I watch them.

Bill

[bman36]

Hey there,
I only have a whopping one. The Georgetown Loop...and it's borrowed! Lots of my own footage though. Cheaper that way for sure. Later eh...Brian.

[kstrong]

Gererally speaking, no, with the exception of three or four on the East Broad Top RR, and a few that were gifts. And even then, I think I've watched them once, twice at the most. Most railroad videos lack "story," and that's the key thing that gets me to watch a program. "Eye-candy" railfan videos are great to have playing in the background at a train meeting, but they're deadly to actually have to sit down and watch for an extended period of time.

Later,

K

[Train 284]

I have a 3 shelved cabinet filled with all kinds of train videos I have collected over the past few years.

[Marty Cozad]

After getting on thi sinternet thingy, i started trading some folks, a video of their GRR for one of mine. Plus after a friend pasted away his wify gave me his years of collection of 1:1 tapes etc. Kinda winter time bed time watching.

[ttrigg]

6 commercial videos of trains, mostly european, and 13 hours worth of the Cumbres & Toltec, 9 hours of Silverton, another 8 hours of the remains of several abandoned equipment and rails through out Colorado mining communities.

Used the tapes as "reference material" while "landscaping" my old N scale layouts.

[tangerine-jack]

Just checking........hmmmm let me see, "Green Berets" uh, no trains, "Lost Battalion" ummm, no trains, "Good, The Bad and The Ugly, yes! There's a guy geting thrown off a train! 96 episodes of Dr. Who, mmmm, no. Every "Star Trek" in collector's edition, no again.............35 episodes of "The 3 Stooges", uh yup, there's a train or two!

I think I'm getting the idea that I like to build, model and look at trains, but not watch them on the TV. Not one train specific video or DVD.

Oh yeah, I voted "no".



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[grandpopswalt]

I voted yes. I have about a dozen commercial videos and hours of personal video taken by me during railfan visits. I enjoy revisiting these places via the videos. They are also a valuable research resource when modeling.

Walt

[Capt Bob Johnson]

Best button on that idiot box says "OFF"

[Anonymous]

"225,000 mile Proving Ground" is one of my favorites. But I do have some TREK!

[Anonymous]

I stopped watching the 'time wasting box' about 3 or 4 years ago.I still like the occasional history or wildlife programme.(you never know,I might be stranded in the Antartic with half a safety pin and an irate polar bear called Colin.(Apologies to all people called Colin))
I do borrow some train videos from my Dad sometimes.The children and I will watch them once (much to the dismay of my wife)but that's about it.
I do think it important to photograph or video progress in the garden.It's a great laugh in years to come.

[Tom The Brat]

I pretty much ignore the tv. I watch Red Green, Nova and Mystery, but otherwise, I have better things to do with my time.

[grandpopswalt]

Let's see, given the current list of TV offerings ....... things like Deperate houswives, some sort of Survivor or another, an army of talking heads endlessly repeating what the other guy just said and so on and so forth, I'll take my RR videos any day.

Walt

[TheS.P.caboose]

Yes, I have a big collection.

[Chompers]

i have the biggest Thomas The Tankengine (SP) collection ever.... now that i have a two year old brother it's growing again[:D] [:-,] [:-,] [:-,]

[van buren s l]

Torby
Any one who watches Red Green can't be all bad. I've been thinking that a model of Possum Lodge would enhance any layout. If you model an earlier era you could subsitute a white delivery truck for the van and decorate it with tar tape, which was used as the general purpose fix-it-all in pre-duct tape times.
Bob

[chuckger]

Hi,
I voted yes have about 49 bought most at an auction, got 41 tapes for $33 in a box lot.
chuckger

[John Busby]

Hi Rene
Mostly AUS and UK productions a couple of them are on model trains
there is one US DVD in the collection.
regards John

[Anonymous]

A few Rio Grande ones on the narrow guage. There is one that I find fascinating on the Farmington branch where the consist is on a passing loop. The loco and caboose approach, the caboose is uncoupled on the move, the engine accelerates, slows at the switch, a guy jumps off and as the train passes the switch he throws it for the cabosse to roll up to the back of the train. The loco backs onto the front of the train and off they go.
Wonderful, and it's made to look easy.
Cheers,
Kim
[tup]

[vsmith]

A couple Foamer video's, found at the used DVD rack.
Cumbres & Toltec RR
Grand Canyon RR
Geared Triple Header

Train themed Movies? a few there too.
The General-Buster Keaton (the BEST train movie of ALL time)
Our Hospitality-Buster Keaton
The Train-Burt Lancaster (second best train movie of all time)
Number 17- Hitchcock
La Bete Humane-French Avant Gard
Galaxy Express 999-Anime
The Great Locomotive Chase, nice Trains but Disney school of acting
Maybe a couple others, havent been thru the collection in a while.

Plus too many others like The Good Bad and the Ugly, with train scenes in them to mention.

I'm missing a few others that I intend to add to the collection like Silver Streak and Von Ryans Express.

[Anonymous]

i have lots.

[markn]

I have checked a few out from our library but was not terribly impressed enough to spend my own $39.95 for several so -so run bys. For modelling or just lingering over the photos, I'd rather buy a book or magazine.