What's your #1 favorite train movie ?

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Loathar said:
WOW! That's hangin your age out there for everybody to know!

I don't care; your age is your age and there not much you can do about it. Anyway, to save everyone from doing the arithmetic, I turned 56 this July. I have vague memories of watching steam locomotives go by.

Frank Zappa? Remember this? "Suzie? Suzie Creamcheese? We were wondering...what's got into you!?" from the Freak Out album.

[doctorwayne]

QUOTE: Originally posted by loathar

QUOTE: Originally posted by KG1960

The train scenes in Dr. Zhivago. I saw it when it was first released to the theaters. I was only a teenager then and my interest in model RR's was waning, but the movie for some reason rekindled my interest.

WOW! That's hangin your age out there for everybody to know![:D]

Just for the record, I first saw "The General " on television ( and not a tiny little round one either!), but in many ways, I wi***hat I could've seen it in a theatre when it was first released. I do remember steam in the early '50's. As a child, I lived near the TH&B station in Hamilton, Ontario: I still remember running outside to see one of the new diesels pass, not realizing at the time that much more than a single locomotive was passing.
They say that with age comes wisdom, but at 58, I'm still waiting.

[loathar]

QUOTE: Originally posted by KG1960

QUOTE: Loathar said:
WOW! That's hangin your age out there for everybody to know!

I don't care; your age is your age and there not much you can do about it. Anyway, to save everyone from doing the arithmetic, I turned 56 this July. I have vague memories of watching steam locomotives go by.

Frank Zappa? Remember this? "Suzie? Suzie Creamcheese? We were wondering...what's got into you!?" from the Freak Out album.

Sweat,(cream cheese) I meant no offence, I'm bordering on bi-focals at age 41 myself .I can still see well enough to not eat the yellow snow though.[8D]

[Rotorranch]

Petticoat Junction.

What I would have given to be in that water tower at the start of the show! [}:)]

Rotor

[TrainFreak409]

Number one all time favorite...

THE TRAIN!

Duh.[^]

[Rotorranch]

I watched "Train Quest" yesterday, ( Hallmark Channel, Comcast Video on Demand ). It's about an evil hobby store owner, ( we've all known one of those! [;)] ) who shrinks the boy that works for the store, and his girlfriend, and places them on his layout, to release one of the figures from the layout. Kinda goofy, but was a fun show to watch!

Rotor

[wjstix]

Lot of great movies - Emperor of the North, etc. - but I'll take Danger Lights. Too bad it's hard to find - the video (I forget if it was Video Rails or ??) that's out there of it
is a "railfan edit" where someone took out all the scenes that don't have trains in it, so the story makes no sense.

BTW Buster Keaton loved trains, was a model railroader. He did a short movie for the Canadian gov't in the sixties where he takes a Fairmont speeder across Canada, was pretty good.

[Train 284]

That would be "The Train" and "Emporor of the North".

[Anonymous]

Two of my favorites are "Von Ryan's Express" and "Runaway Train"

Bob DeWoody

[Anonymous]

i like end of the line interesting

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: BTW Buster Keaton loved trains, was a model railroader. He did a short movie for the Canadian gov't in the sixties where he takes a Fairmont speeder across Canada, was pretty good.

I've got that one on tape! it's called the Railroder. Pretty amazing footage taken from across Canada and you wouldn't believe what can be stuffed into to storage locker on one of those speeders!

Three of my favorites, beside that preceeding, are:

1) Von Ryan's Express
2) Journey of Natty Gaan
3) The grey Fox, A story of Bill Miner, one of the last train robbers. Filmed in the Interior of British Columbia.