The Train...is my all time favorite.
Speaking as a former railroad professional, Unstoppable is a great action comedy...it just has too many flaws for me to take it too seriously.
Mark H
Modeling in HO...Reading and Conrail together in an alternate history.
Denver and Rio Grande. Hands down.
jim
"The Taking of Pelham 123",
"White Heat"
The 1930s cartoon "Play Safe"
"Von Ryans Express"
The Train...Emperor of The North...The Great Locomotive Chase.
Take Care!
Frank
Snowpiercer?
No actually, "The Train" with Burt Lancaster.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Strictly for fun, check out "Ticket To Tomahawk" with Dan Dailey, co-starring R.G.S. 4-6-0 #20.
Tom
Emperorer of the North with Lee Marvin, Keith Karadeen and Ernest Borgnine. Greatest movie ever made for steam train lovers.
Emperor of the North
"Uhh...I didn’t know it was 'impossible' I just made it work...sorry"
Here are my top 3
Jim
I like the one where Denzel and New Captain Kirk are on the train because I know virtually every filming location they used in that whole movie.
My favorite train movie is the Cecil B DeMille epic, Union Pacific with Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck, hands down.
There's another great train western movie called Denver and Rio Grande. I forget who's in that one, but the Santa Fe are the bad guys. Who knew?!
Jim (with a nod to Mies Van Der Rohe)
My favorite train film is "The General " with Buster Keaton from 1926. Buster co-directed the film and did all his own stunts. This was all before cgi so they end up sending a real full size working steam engine off the end of a destroyed bridge. "The General " is listed 18th on the American Film Institute's 100 best films.
Derek
While not exactly a "favorite" there is a rather odd film called Track 29 with Gary Oldman, Theresa Russell and Christopher Lloyd that features quite a bit of model railroading in it. There's even a glimpse of MR magazine and a national train convention in it.
As far as one some of my favorites to watch are:
North by Northwest, 20th Century Limited
Danger Lights, lots of Milwaukee Road action
The Train with Burt Lancaster and the whacky
Silver Streak with that great CP FP-7 crashing into the Toronto station scene!
Those are some of the ones that come to mind... Ed
What are your favorite movies which feature trains or model trains?
My favorite movie is Breakheart Pass by Alistair MacLean. Set during the Gold Rush, most of the story takes place on a steam train traveling through the California mountains on the way to the coast. This is an action movie with the action taking place in the passenger cars, troop transport cars, the engine, tender, and even on the roof walks. It might not be totally accurate but it is a fun adventure.