Another movie that isn't primarily train related but still has some good train action in it is Broken Arrow (1996). All of the train scences were filmed on the CMR (Central Montana Railway) in central Montana.
Likes
#1 Emperor of the North. Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, and Keith Carradine.
#2 The Train. Burt Lancaster
#3 The General. Buster Keaton
Non likes
Runaway Train
Silver Streak either version
Unstopable
Under Seige 2- Special effects of the train wreck, terrible. Whoever heard of a long bridge like that having a solid undercore. Looked like some girders were glued to a 2x2.
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For a comedy with the best train wreck scene, consider The Wrong Box (British, 1966)
Tom
If you can find it (I did, on a disk with several other older Westerns), modelers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries will find "Whispering Smith," with Alan Ladd, of interest---as long as you don't expect the plot to follow the excellent novel by Frank Spearman.
Deano
OT Dean If you can find it (I did, on a disk with several other older Westerns), modelers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries will find "Whispering Smith," with Alan Ladd, of interest---as long as you don't expect the plot to follow the excellent novel Frank Spearman. Deano
If you can find it (I did, on a disk with several other older Westerns), modelers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries will find "Whispering Smith," with Alan Ladd, of interest---as long as you don't expect the plot to follow the excellent novel Frank Spearman.
Deano:
I've got "Whispering Smith" on DVD, and agree with you, it's a good western, but not the Frank Spearman novel (at least not very close). I found out that the 1948 Alan Ladd movie is instead based upon a 1926 silent film. I was surprised to find that the novel has been filmed almost eight times, mainly silents. But Paramount really used their train collection (mainly old Virginia and Truckee locomotives and cars that had been purchased for the 1939 film "Union Pacific") well. The V&T collection was rented out to other studios during the 'forties and 'fifties and appeared in quite a few westerns. Most of the locomotives and rolling stock now reside at either the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City, or the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.
Tom View my layout photos! http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm310/TWhite-014/Rio%20Grande%20Yuba%20River%20Sub One can NEVER have too many Articulateds!
Here's one:
In The Emperor Jones (1933), Paul Robeson plays a Pullman porter. I seem to recall some scenes with a PRR E6s 4-4-2 and some passenger cars at a major terminal.
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yes that is my number one favorite and then, what's the one with Kirk douglas and the southern pacific daylight , where they hold it up and slide into Mexico? And then runaway.
viperj yes that is my number one favorite and then, what's the one with Kirk douglas and the southern pacific daylight , where they hold it up and slide into Mexico? And then runaway.
''Tough Guy's'' 1986. Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas.
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Frank
Tough Guys 1986 Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning, Eli Wallach
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021765-tough_guys/
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Do TV shows count?
Lots of TV shows with trains. Wild, Wild West did a lot. Including their own train from Railtown 1897 (modern name). Might have just been Jamestown back then. But they had at least three that I remember that used model trains. There could be more, I haven't finished the full DVD set yet.
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Does anyone remember the short lived TV series called Supertrain.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078697/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
It premiered on NBC in 1979 and was quickly canceled. Since it was on so briefly I don't remember much about it except the model they used looked like it ran on 6 ft gauge. I think they intended it to be a land version of the Love Boat. It didn't work.
I think there was also a series about a train that was a time machine but I remember even less about that. The model they used for the stock footage looked like it was headed by E or F units in Monon livery. I think it ran sometime in the 1980s but I'm not even sure about that.
softail86mark Do TV shows count? Lots of TV shows with trains. Wild, Wild West did a lot. Including their own train from Railtown 1897 (modern name). Might have just been Jamestown back then. But they had at least three that I remember that used model trains. There could be more, I haven't finished the full DVD set yet. MC
Railtown 1897 is a California State Historic Park located in Jamestown. It includes the Sierra Railway roundhouse and shops substantially unchanged from when they were built and preserved railway equipment.
DSchmitt softail86mark Do TV shows count? Lots of TV shows with trains. Wild, Wild West did a lot. Including their own train from Railtown 1897 (modern name). Might have just been Jamestown back then. But they had at least three that I remember that used model trains. There could be more, I haven't finished the full DVD set yet. MC Railtown 1897 is a California State Historic Park located in Jamestown. It includes the Sierra Railway roundhouse and shops substantially unchanged from when they were built and preserved railway equipment.
Oh no, I know 1897 well. I was just lamenting the NAME by which they called themselves in the mid-60s. Was it a state park back then with the likes of Petticoat Junction and Wild Wild West? Or did they just go by Sierra Railway?
Just a side note, some friends and I toured Jamestown 1897 back before Back to the Future II came out and the tour lady told us that Back to the Future III had just finished filming the exploding locomotive scene. We questioned her on telling us "Three" but she assured us she knew what she was talking about. As we all now know, she was right.
Mark