Let's make and share our list of: TRAINS IN MOVIES.

[David_Telesha]

I never saw this thread before.

The NHRHTA put together a list of movies with NHRR or post NHRR, NH equipment or involvement in movies.

http://www.nhrhta.org/htdocs/nhrrfilms/films_index.html

[waltersrails]

gordy i also like the dumbo train even though not a real train but still. i love the csx movie i got evansille to chicago.

[vsmith]

Add a couple of old British flicks and a Frenchie!

Number 17-early Hitchcock with a great (for the era) train/bus chase

The Ladykillers-Coal trains are great way to get rid of those pesky bodies!

La Bete Humaine (sp) - 1930's, great train cab scenes, look carefully you'll see the same locations used for "The Train" 20 years later and still look the same!

[sleeper33]

HI ALL i CAN ONLY REMEMBER 1 THAT HASN,T BEEN NAMED YET AND THATS TRACKS
IT,S ABOUT A SOLDIER BRINGING HIS BUDDYS BODY HOME
CANT REMEMBER THE ACTORS NAME BUT PARTS OF THE FILM WIERD

[vsmith]

Excellent stuff here, I had forgotten about "Flame over India" have to look for it....

OK heres one I HIGHLY recommend for its train scene..

"Wrongfully Accused "

with Leslie Nielson and the BEST send up of the train wreck scene from " The Fugitive" (another great train scene) where the train not only wreck your bus and jumps the tracks but then starts chasing you through the woods! Hi-larious!

[AntonioFP45]

Wow! I didn't expect this thread to get this far!! Too cool.

Well, I may have mentioned this a long while back but this 1980s movie was pretty good,IMHO. Disaster on Coastliner. For Star Trek fans, William Shatner (a.k.a Captain Kirk) winds up being the hero in this one. (Ironically he plays a crook!). Plenty of scenes with Amtrak F40s and Amfleet cars. Realistic crash scene with large scale models.

For those into train horns, the F40s in the movie are using Nathan P5s (Amtrak would later re-equip them with the popular K5LA.)

[Anonymous]

6 pages and two of my favorites have not been mentioned.

"The Station Agent" When a disabled railfan's best dies he inherits an old railway station. It is a really great little independent movie only a few years old. Try it. Trust me.

"The Ghost and the Darkness" A true story of building the trans African railroad, and two pesky lions that keep eating the help.

By the way, thanks to this thread and a few like it I have "The Train" and "The General" coming from Netflix. The next time I get a choice "Emperor of the North" and "Bad Day at Black Rock"

[Anonymous]

My moms strict about what I watch. Oh Otis & Milo.

[Anonymous]

Not all of these are signifant But theres a train in all of these

1:Born to be wild (F-7)
2:Agent cody banks (F-7)
3:Batman Begins (monorail)
4:Raise your voice (F-40)
5:Tough guys( sp 4449)
6:The incredibles (Mixed F&E Unit)
7:Wallace & Gromit &the wrong trowsers (model)
8:Madagascar
9:Thomas(marklin)
10:Oakholoma (steam)
11:Homeward bound (GP-40)
12:The mummy (mikado)
13:Heidi (can't remember)
14:Harry potter ( 4-6-2 )
Lemee think up more.

[DavidJ611]

Although it's already mentioned numerous times, Sliver Streak (w/ Wilder and Pryor)has to be my all time fave.

QUOTE: Originally posted by 4884bigboy

QUOTE: Originally posted by codyr

October Sky has a 4-4-0 (at least thats how many wheels i counted)

It was actually a 2-8-2. (but how you can confuse a 4-4-0 with a 2-8-2 is beyond me[%-)][%-)])

Yes, Jonathon, you are right; it is a 2-8-2, and none other than SRR #4501, to be exact.
It was painted in utilitarian N&W black for the movie. BTW--Did you know that the legendary O. Winston Link http://www.linkmuseum.org cameo-ed as the engineer in the scene in which it is prominently featured? I love that movie!

Also, I my apologies if I overlooked any previous mention, but an animated likeness of N&W J611 appears in The Iron Giant. I recognized it immediately, but of course I'd have even recognized it blindfolded from the soundtrack which accurately features its unmistakable, hauntingly beautiful steamboat whistle. [^][^][^]

QUOTE: Originally posted by kbfcsme
Dont forget "White Christmas!!!!
Breif clips of SP and SF f-units. Funny. they were taking a train from NYC to Pine Tree Vermont. I guess thats Hollywood for ya!

"Snow... Snow... SnoOOW!"[{(-_-)}]
Yup, it's a good Christmas flick, but [#ditto] I have to roll my eyes every time I see that train they're riding from "Florida" to "Vermont" (Ahhh... Hollywood makebelieve--on a budget! [;)])

Ahhh... Some Like it Hot! ...What guy wouldn't want to share a Pullman w/ Marilyn Monroe. [:p][;)][:D][:-^]

-Dave

[twhite]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CubanRailways

QUOTE: Originally posted by ben10ben

Back to the Future Part III had a 10 wheeler as well as a switcher. The 10 wheeler ran off an uncompleted bridge pushing the Delorean, and the switcher destroyed the same car.

October Sky had an ex Southern Railway Mikado(2-8-2) re-lettered for N&W. In the scene where they are pulling up rails, O.W. Link is at the throttle of this engine.

Did they actually destroy the 10 wheeler, or was it a mock up? - hell of a waste if they let that happen to the real thing.

Regards,

Stephen.

Stephen: It was a mock-up. The full-scale locomotive used in the film is Sierra Railway's #5 (now owned by the California State Railroad Museum), an 1890 Rogers 4-6-0 that has been used in a great many films since the 1950's, most notably HIGH NOON and MAN OF THE WEST. No way would they wreck the original--in fact, the State Railway Museum just spent a small fortune re-fluing the boiler to keep it operable.
Tom [:p]

[bbrant]

I didn't have time to read all the posts so this movie may have already been mentioned.

End of the Line
It's about a company that plans on going from railroading to airline. Two guys, played by Wilford Brimley & Levon Helm, "borrow" a GP40 to travel to the company headquarters and convince them not to shut down the RR.

Lot of nice railroad scenes and even a few shots of a model railroad that the company president has in his office. Good movie overall.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by ben10ben

Back to the Future Part III had a 10 wheeler as well as a switcher. The 10 wheeler ran off an uncompleted bridge pushing the Delorean, and the switcher destroyed the same car.

October Sky had an ex Southern Railway Mikado(2-8-2) re-lettered for N&W. In the scene where they are pulling up rails, O.W. Link is at the throttle of this engine.

Did they actually destroy the 10 wheeler, or was it a mock up? - hell of a waste if they let that happen to the real thing.

Regards,

Stephen.

[Anonymous]

I watched Rosewood yesterday, they had a 4-4-0 I think, movie was about the racism that happened and the almost complete wiping out of a town in the 30's I think. All based on true facts. Good movie for those wanting to see just how insane some people were, and it had a train that was the hero of the rescue.

[Anonymous]

Yesterday my wife and I watched "Something to Sing About" with James Cagney, made in 1937. It's in black & white on DVD and the quality is pretty good. There's a nice scene of an ATSF passenger train arriving in Los Angeles, perhaps, being pulled by an E1A diesel.

[trainboyH16-44]

There was this one I saw yesterday.... I didn't watch anywhere near the whole thing, because it sucked...It is a translated ninja movie, and the part I saw was a scene where a freight train came crashing through the wall, and even though this was an oriental movie (Sorry, I forget which country ninjas are from) there was a close re-creation af an F-unit on the head and. My favorite line: "It's a 40 million ton freight train, there's no way for it to stop!"
Apparently, they've never heard of air brakes..
trainboy

[Anonymous]

This is a long shot, responding to a 2002 posting, but can I ascertain the correct identification of the 0-6-0T "Victoria"?

According to Huntley ("Railways on the Screen"), it was a Beyer Peacock formerly called "Empress of India". However a posting on this forum identifies it as built by Kerr Stuart in 1900 for FC Andaluces (later RENFE).

I'm puzzled as although Kerr Stuart built quite a few 0-6-0T locos for Spain, I can't find a record of any supplied to FC Andaluces (or its antecedants); likewise BP supplied locos to this company but not 0-6-0Ts. (I'm going by builder's lists, I've not found a full list for FC Andaluces).

Has anyone a definitive builder's number for this locomotive?

(I guess I ought to watch the DVD now!)

QUOTE: Originally posted by M636C

I should also comment on "Flame over India". In Australia, and in the UK, as far as I am aware, this movie was called "North West Frontier" (which may have meant more in the UK). The trains in this movie are particularly interesting. The "Last Train" from the fort was a genuine metre gauge Indian 4-4-0 and matching train. The 0-6-0 tank "Victoria", was a Spanish RENFE broad gauge locomotive, a 1900 Kerr Stuart formerly with the Andaluces railway. It was fitted with a dummy "ABC" ("meat-chopper") coupler on the front (a feature of the Indian metre gauge), but the screw couplers and buffers on the rest of the train show up in the movie. The best scene is where the Spanish Broad gauge train rolls slowly through the Indian metre gauge station past the metre gauge train on which all the passengers had been killed. Peter

[Anonymous]

Railrodder - Buster Keyton - Brilliant Candian Rail scenes!

'The Train' however is the dog-bxllxcks! - the crash scene was filmed using real loco's and could only be done once - the main camera was wrecked so they used the footage from a second one the director placed there 'just in case'! there was fear that the loco's boilers would explode, so the Film company had to pay a hell of a lot insurance and the street was courdened off and people removed from their homes!

'The Last Journey' was a good Brit film using the Great Western Railway - did the usual thing of supposidly filming one train, but every other shot the loco would have changed in number of size!

Regards,

Stephen.

[Anonymous]

Brief Encounter
Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard star in this 1945 romance.
Filmed at Carnforth Station, Lancashire in the UK during the the final months of WW2.
Air raids were still happening during this period and black outs at night were compulsory due to the frequent air raids.
The filming of night shots however required lighting, but Carnforth being far enough from the south and east coast of England (and with the help of radar) there was sufficient warning to extinguish all lights.

[trolleyboy]

A new one to add to this list is the new Ron Howard film Cinderellaman,which is do out next week.All the NYC shots were shot in Toronto and the streetcars in it are from the museum I belong to. Rob

[AntonioFP45]

QUOTE: Originally posted by bnsf6733

hey, has anbody added SPIDER MAN 2?

Interesting that you mentioned this.

That train WAS NOT a New York City subway train! I spotted that immedietly. Even though many of this movie's scenes take place in New York; that train, the El structure and station resembled Chicago's " El" system!

The giveaways?

[1] The passenger entrance / exit doors: New York IRT subway cars have 3 doors on each side, while the BMT and IND subway cars have 4 doors on each side. This train, just like Chicago's, had 2 sets of doors on each side!

[2] Front glass: NYC cars have only 2 windows on the motorman's end of the car. Chicago's have 3! The train in the movie had 3.

[3] Body length: New York's cars are longer (forgot the lengths). Chicago uses the shorties, which is very helpful on those hairpin curves.

As a railfan and modeler, I have fun spotting this kind of stuff! [:)][:p][:o)][:D]

Anyway, the movie was pretty good.[;)]

[Anonymous]

hey, has anbody added SPIDER MAN 2?

[j1love]

I don't know if this was mentioned before by name, but in "Force 10 from Navarone" had a pretty good scene in a Nazi railroad yard and a ride in a boxcar on the way to a dam

[Texas Zepher]

QUOTE: Originally posted by AntonioFP45
SUGGESTION: List movies with significant TRAIN scenes in them?
Give the title and brief "train scene" description. We can take notes. When any of these movies come on, we can be on the lookout! I'll write down your tips and keep them near my t.v.

So has anyone compiled a list of everything listed here? You know this research has been done before. There are web sites devoted to this topic. I also believe rec.railroad compiled and posted such a list in their FAQ. But doesn't mean a new one wasn't uncovered here.

http://pages.globetrotter.net/burridge/Rly_Movies.html
http://cencalrails.railfan.net/hollywoodrails.html
http://www.spikesys.com/Trains/rly_movs.html
http://www.bellaonline.com/ArticlesP/art7717.asp
http://www.davros.org/rail/movies.html

I think some of these have been copied from the others.

What are the rules to be included on the list? There is a train and train scenes in White Christmas, Station scene in "the trouble with Angles" with the Superchief leaving the station. Or the obviously modern train in the supposedly 1950's setting of "Radio Flyer", etc. What constitutes enough train exposure to be added to the list?

[pcc4199]

One I have seen brief scenes from, is a 1950s Russian semi-autobiography film, "Rails to Victory", or something similar. About a woman locomotive engineer on the frontlines. Lots of great train scenes
If anyone else is familiar with this film, is it availble on tape/DVD?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by RedLeader

... oops forgot about that scene with the odd looking armored train in James Bond's: Goldeneye

The loco in that was a British Rail Class 20 - with additional "armour" fitted! Cars were much-modified BR MK1 passenger cars, and the whole thing was filmed on the Nene Valley Railway at Peterborough - same private/museum line where they filmed the train sequences for "Octopussy".

[AntonioFP45]

Wasn't there a James Bond film in which towards the end of the they're onboard an American streamliner in the 60s. This is the one that had Geoffrey Holder in it as a bad guy and at the end of the movie was still alive......on the train!

For those of you not familiar, Carribean born actor Geoffrey Holder did the 7 UP commercials years back with the theme: "It's Crisp and Clean, No Caffeine! Never had it! Never will!" Many women used to go crazy over his very deep voice and long laugh. I think he's in his 60s now.

[RedLeader]

... oops forgot about that scene with the odd looking armored train in James Bond's: Goldeneye

[RedLeader]

Throw Mama From the Train, I love that movie!

What about Harry Potter and Thomas the Tank Engine (the movie).

There's a scene that takes place inside an amtrak in that movie with Edie Murphy and Dan Akroyd, where edie murphy is a bum that becames a millionare.

Almost every WWII movie have a train involved, specially if there is a concentration camp.

The Dirty Dozen II, a group of convicted criminals are sent to blow up a train were the fuhrer is traveling. (Not as good as the first one)

Syberia, not a movie, but kind of. This is the story of a gorgeous girl that searches for a misterious man missing since child, that's the hare of a toy company she's supposed to buy for a large corporation. The hole story evolves arround a handsome looking clockwork train, that travels through a fantastic eastern_europe_kind _of _looking world. This is an RPG, but is more like an "interactive movie".