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Gotta put in a good word for End of the Line here. The plot does drag some and the humor is a little too Disneyfied, but it's actually not a bad way to spend 90 minutes. Decent premise about laid off railroad workers in Arkansas. It's on budget-line DVD now so check the $5 bins. My all time favorites are: Runaway Train, Emperor of the North, The Train, Matewan, and Danger Lights. I just bought Danger Lights on DVD and the first ten minutes are incredible, footage of real steam railroading in 1930 that could almost be a documentary. Watch it for the raw, authentic railroading scenes not the melodrama. Filmed on the Milwaukee Road. I know Runaway Train gets mixed reviews from railfans but I think it's one of the best. Love the winter railroading scenes in Alaska. The Train gets my vote for best WWII movie ever. Matewan is about coal mining and miners trying to form a union, not primarily about trains, but it's one of the best. Two I haven't seen mentioned: Flashback, 1990 starring Kiefer Sutherland and Dennis Hopper. It's a comedy about an aging hippie and an FBI agent, and large parts of it take place on a fictional passenger railroad in California and Oregon. The soundtrack tends toward 1960s-70s rock songs about trains, but the humor probably isn't for everyone. Also, The Train Killer, a Hungarian movie from 1982 which you might be able to find on budget-line DVD (I actually bought mine for $3 in a truck stop.) It's set in Hungary and Austria just before WWII and is about efforts to catch a terrorist who is derailing trains. Neither of them are great cinematic achievements, but they're worth seeing.
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