SOPRANOS and TOY TRAINS!

[laz 57]

Let's hope we get more train footage on THE SOPRANOS and other shows?
laz57

[dwiemer]

Andrew and the rest here. Just a little footnote, the layout in "The Clockers" was also built by the guys at The Train Station, the same ones who did the layout for the Sopranos and even the Christmas Layout for Bloomingdales in NYC. I think if you go to the web site, they still have photos of these and more layouts.
www.TheTrain-Station.com

Dennis

[Anonymous]

Does anyone remember that Classic Toy Trains ran an article about the Spike Lee Joint movie "The Clockers". That was a tough movie. Spike featured Lionel Trains on an unusual Desert layout.

Andrew F.

[Anonymous]

Will anyone at LIONEL mention this appearance in The Inside Track newsletter?

They mentioned the Garfield the Cat movie as having Lionel trains, but they will most likely not mention the HBO series The Sopranos.

It reminds of the time that Showtime or HBO once had a free viewing and they aired the documentary of the reunion of "Neil Young and Crazy Horse". Neil was wearing his LIONEL TRAINS T-Shirt and spouting obcenities at the band for messing up their performance. That was perfectly surreal, the operator of Lionel displaying backstage behavior contrary to the public image of LIONEL.

Andrew F.

[Anonymous]

New York Subways are in almost too many movies to count!

It would be easier to count Lionel trains on TV and Movies.

Andrew F.

[Anonymous]

The CBS series Early Edition was filmed in Chicago. There were always real CTA trains and real METRA trains in almost every single episode of Early Edition.

Andrew F.

[Anonymous]

Many Excellent Motion Pictures had trains and railroads in them:

Groundhog's Day.
The Pittsburgh Weatherman, Phil drives on the tracks while evading the police and a Burlington Northern SD40-2 Diesel-Electric Locomotive.

Back to the Future Part III
Doc Brown and Marty McFly take over a Steam Locomotive to propell the DeLorean Back to the Future.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit
The Red Line Trolley System is being closed down by the owner of Cloverleaf, the nasty Judge Doom, portrayed by Christopher Lloyd.

A River Runs Through It.
The Brothers run across a Trestle as a Northern Pacific freight train rushes out of a tunnel.

Dennis the Menace
In the opening scene there is a freight trains that brings an evil, dirty vagrant to town, portrayed by Cristopher Lloyd. It was actually a G Gauge Toy Train!

Andrew F.

[Anonymous]

Chicago Hope had several episodes where Mandy Patinkin was operating Lionel Trains in the Office of his Doctor charachter. It was his idea.

The Ellen DeGeneres Show on ABC had an episode where Ellen confronts her father in front of his Lionel Train Layout.

I will never forget the two absolutely black comedy movies "The Addams Family" and "Nothing But Trouble" that both had Lionel Trains.

The Family Channel remake of the "The Addams Family" had Lionel Trains. Specifically several of the Santa Fe Steam Sets.

Andrew F.

[FJ and G]

Laz,

I gotta start watchin tv again. I thought for a moment that the sopranos were some hot chic singers. But my coworkers said it was some type of mafia show. And to imagine toy trains mixed in!? Well I guess ole blue eyes, aka chairman of the board, dabled in toy trains as well; I gotta get with it, man!

[Anonymous]

The USA Network aired an episode of The Dead Zone that starts with Johnny Smith holding a Lionel 1960's era Set and Locomotive. Johnny rescues an illegal immigrant's baby. Through the Show, when Johnny holds the baby, he has flashes of the future where they are running the train layout together. At the end he finds the baby's father and gives him the O Gauge Caboose.

There are episode guides for The Dead Zone that can tell everyone the exact name and airdate.

Andrew F.

[jimhaleyscomet]

I second the idea that CTT should do a list and story on trains in movies and TV shows. I purchase off the newstand and that one would be a must buy! I did a list with help from fellow forumites a while ago so it can be a start.

http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=-1&TOPIC_ID=54432&REPLY_ID=606266#606266

Train Movies

A Century of Lionel Trains
Bound for Glory
Breakheart Pass
Casey Jones TV show
Danger Lights
Disaster on the Coastliner TV
Emperor of the North
Exciting 100 mph Race to Chicago
Fahrenheit 451
Flame Over India
Fours a Crowd
Holiday Affair
It Happened to Jane
Love those Trains
Midnight Run Deniro
Narrow Margin
North by Northwest
Pacific 231
Rail Away
Rio Grande 1950's
Runaway Train
Station Agent
Switch Back
The Chartreuse Caboose
The Christmas Story
The Denver and Rio Grande
The General Buster Keaton
The Great Locomotive Chase
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Iron Horse
The Lady Vanishes
The Molly Maguires 1968
The Polar Express
The Silver Streak 1934 Version
The Silver Streak Pryor
The Train
Toccata for Toy Trains
Tough Guys
U.S.2.:D.T.
Under Siege 2: Dark Territory
Union Depot
Von Ryan's Express
Ya Can't Win Em All

Jim H
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movies with real trains??
holy cow, i could name 100 others...

Around the World in 80 days
Bad Day at Black Rock (SP Daylight)
Cat Baloo
The Lady Killers
Some Like it Hot

Sullivan's Travels
The Greatest Show on Earth (great train wreck)
White Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
Days of Heaven

Dr. Zhivago
The Great Escape
The Cassendra Crossing
Inherit the Wind
The Bridge on the River Kwai

Young Frankenstein
A Hard Day's Night
The Grey Fox
My Little Chickadee
Next Stop Wonderland

Risky Business (the best sort of train ride)
Festival Express (trains and dr*gs and rock and roll)
Mad Max, Beyone Thunderdome (railbus?)
Groundhog Day (don't drive on the tracks!)
Blazing Saddles (handcar)


...well i probably could name 75 more, but here's a bigger challenge. find a movie set in the 30's - 50's that doesn't have a train in it.

cheers...gary

[laz 57]

QUOTE: Originally posted by overall

Maybe CTT will do a story on the Soprano's layout?

George

Or maybe trains in movies and TV shows?
laz57

[overall]

Maybe CTT will do a story on the Soprano's layout?

George

[Anonymous]

This is great, maybe this will help attract more modelers.

[richardj1]

I'm an S guy, and I especially enjoyed Meadow's dancing abilities....I thought they trains
were okay too.....hey, a reality check...any national high exposure to interest another
generation in this hobby we love so dearly!

[Anonymous]

It would be nice if they put anther signal on the rightside of the layout. Just my thoughts

[poppyl]

Assuming that T survives his gunshot from Junior, he should have plenty of time to visit and play with trains.

Did I read the Trainstation website correctly that they are going to auction the layout?

Poppyl

[DCmontana]

Any offers you can't refuse???

[Jumijo]

That would be fine by me! I can't stand that character.

Jim

[laz 57]

Width a pair of cement boots.
laz57

[macdannyk1]

Janice is gonna be sleepin' wit' da fishes if she threatens ta throw the trains out again....

[darianj]

Just finished watching it....pretty nice scene.

[dwiemer]

Laz,
I got a message from Doug and he says they hope to have the trains in future episodes, but the way the movie business goes, they see how it plays with the audience. Perhaps if we could give them (the Sopranos show people/HBO) some good words, maybe we will see some more of it.
As for pictures etc, if you go to the main page, they put up a direct link to the photos and information. www.TheTrain-Station.com.
Dennis

[Jumijo]

If youz guyz have Comcast cable, you can on-demand the episode from last night and rewatch the train segments (and Meadow's naughty dance [;)][:P]).

Jim

[Anonymous]

Details spotted on the Soprano's layout:.....

NS logos with the horses head decapitated.

Sleeping With The Fishes Concrete Shoe Co.

# 6-99999 exploding lasagna car.

#45X automated whacked gateman ( comes out of his shack and falls down)

# 20-3999 automatic body dumping car ( used in conjunction with Hellgate bridge)

St. Valentines Day figures ( lined up against a wall)

Scenic plot set of 6 witness protection houses.

Badda Bing Home for Wayward Girls ( with real smoking girls)


Bruce Webster

[Jumijo]

Me too, LAZ!

[laz 57]

CHEECH,
Cool pics thanks for sharing.
About time the hobbie gets some air time.

JIM, the I guess I am a BIG DORK.
[;)]

laz57

[cheech]

the "trainstation" www.train-station.com in New Jersey put out an email to those who bid at their auctions a couple days before the show. It has about 8 pictures you can link to in order to view a pretty nice laylout they built...

i have the link....hope it works http://www.train-station.com/cgi-local/auction.cgi?action=newbid&item=1000

what to do with the link now is still a mystery to me.

[Jumijo]

Loved the layout. Had a Hellgate bridge. The episode was full of product placement. Cingular phones, Lionel trains, and Nesquick (camera focused on one of the milk cars). Good to see Lionel in such a prominant show. I wi***hey didn't make the guy look like such a weeney though. And what was he doing, pouring smoke fluid on the layout? Cleaning track? Glueing something down? I couldn't tell what that bottle was. Lousy episode after being away for 2 years. If it weren't for Meadow's little dance number for Finn, I'd have given it a thumbs down.

VH1 did a show recently called I Love Toys. Lionel trains were number 26 all time. Everyone had fond memories of them, but almost everyone made fun of guys with layouts in their basements. On tv, if you like toy trains, you are considered a dork.

Jim