Since this is an old thread I'll mention an old TV show. Ellery Queen had an episode where the victim had a very large Lionel layout in a separate building. IIRC He was using it to invent a better transportation system.
Enjoy
Paul
moonrunner The movie you're thinking about is called John Goldfarb, Please Come Home. It starred Shirley McClain, Richard Crenna and Peter Ustinov.
The movie you're thinking about is called John Goldfarb, Please Come Home. It starred Shirley McClain, Richard Crenna and Peter Ustinov.
Alton Junction
Somebody's been archive diving.
But as long as the thread's been resurrected, I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the recent movie "Marvel's Ant-Man," where the climactic battle between the shrunken superhero and equally diminutive villain takes place atop a runaway Thomas the Tank Engine (which meets an amusing end I won't spoil here).
Bachmann Trains gets credit in the end crawl.
--Steven Otte, Model Railroader senior associate editorsotte@kalmbach.com
Here's that episode of Ellery Queen. Skip ahead to 6:55.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBCHK2bmVcY
Steve S
“… R. T. POTEET wrote:
steemtrayn wrote: Mannix? I thought it was Cannon.
It was neither Mannix nor Cannon; it was a Banacek episode and it involved a super-secret sports car design being moved in a boxcar complete with roofwalk. This boxcar carrying the sports car got "dutch dropped" onto a siding. Nobody ever bothered to explain why the train brakes didn't apply when the glad hands separated…”
FYI if anyone is still interested in this, HERE it is:
Banchek, “Project Phoenix” the model train sequence starting at 1:04:43
https://youtu.be/OqD_eKbkATQ
Sorry but the usual quote function (and everything else) stopped working for me a while back.
Have fun with your trains
Metro Red Line More recently, model railroads have been depicted in "The Sopranos" and "The Big Bang Theory."
More recently, model railroads have been depicted in "The Sopranos" and "The Big Bang Theory."
Ah yes, love Sheldon and his trains.
Modelling HO Scale with a focus on the West and Midwest USA
In Superman Returns Lex Lugor and his gang destroy a nice O guage layout with a piece of crystal.
In last weeks' "Falling Skies" episode, a HO layout, apparently under construction, was in the background in a scene taking place in what appeared to be a room in a barn.
1963 movie "Donovans Reef" with John Wayne and Lee Marvin. A scene towards the mid to end of the movie Lee Marvin is running a Lionel O-guage layout in a room of a saloon on a tropical island after WWII.
All the best.
Reinhard
Joe F
Marvels "Agents of Shield" (Season 2 IIRC) had an episode where a character had a multilevel garage layout built around a design of a long forgotten ancient alien city burried beneth Puerto Rico...of course the layout builder didn't know that it was based on the design of said ancient alien city he built it from subconscious memory....
...Anyways, it was neat and yes I do enjoy the TV show.
Happy modeling all!
Don.
"Ladies and gentlemen, I have some good news and some bad news. The bad news is that both engines have failed, and we will be stuck here for some time. The good news is that you decided to take the train and not fly."
Just a quick note about The Silver Streak scene of the engine crashing into 'Chicago' Union Station - I would be remiss as a loud & loyal Canadian if I didn't point out that the actual station being plowed into from the western approach (yes, Mr. Hitchcock, I get it!) is Toronto's Union Station...
alexstan Metro Red Line More recently, model railroads have been depicted in "The Sopranos" and "The Big Bang Theory." Ah yes, love Sheldon and his trains.
If only the writers put as much research into their train terminology as they do making sure their science dialogue is correct. "The Locomotive Manipulation" (season 7 episode 15) was agony to watch – for my wife, since I couldn't keep my mouth shut at the inaccuracies. "Alcoa FA-4" indeed. (Though to be fair, Amy said that, but Sheldon didn't correct her.) And Sheldon actually asked if a diesel had a link-and-pin coupler! Someone with as obsessive a mind as he has would know better.
Steven Otte alexstan Metro Red Line More recently, model railroads have been depicted in "The Sopranos" and "The Big Bang Theory." Ah yes, love Sheldon and his trains. If only the writers put as much research into their train terminology as they do making sure their science dialogue is correct. "The Locomotive Manipulation" (season 7 episode 15) was agony to watch – for my wife, since I couldn't keep my mouth shut at the inaccuracies. "Alcoa FA-4" indeed. (Though to be fair, Amy said that, but Sheldon didn't correct her.) And Sheldon actually asked if a diesel had a link-and-pin coupler! Someone with as obsessive a mind as he has would know better.
IRONROOSTER Since this is an old thread I'll mention an old TV show. Ellery Queen had an episode where the victim had a very large Lionel layout in a separate building. IIRC He was using it to invent a better transportation system. Enjoy Paul
In that episode of Ellery Queen, the model railroader was played by Ed McMahon, of Tonight Show, Budweiser, and Alpo dog food fame.
tin can Steven Otte alexstan Metro Red Line More recently, model railroads have been depicted in "The Sopranos" and "The Big Bang Theory." Ah yes, love Sheldon and his trains. If only the writers put as much research into their train terminology as they do making sure their science dialogue is correct. "The Locomotive Manipulation" (season 7 episode 15) was agony to watch – for my wife, since I couldn't keep my mouth shut at the inaccuracies. "Alcoa FA-4" indeed. (Though to be fair, Amy said that, but Sheldon didn't correct her.) And Sheldon actually asked if a diesel had a link-and-pin coupler! Someone with as obsessive a mind as he has would know better. Sheldon is obsessed with trains, he is always going to the model train store, yet he is apparently not a member of a club, nor does he openly work on any model railroad project. All of us have known someone in the hobby with the social skills of a Sheldon....
Sheldon is obsessed with trains, he is always going to the model train store, yet he is apparently not a member of a club, nor does he openly work on any model railroad project. All of us have known someone in the hobby with the social skills of a Sheldon....
I've wondered if Chuck Lorre & Co have approached MR or the NMRA about a guest shot on Big Bang. I wonder if Sheldon would get as hot and bothered about meeting Tony Koester as he does getting an IM from Stephen Hawking?
The latest one is an ad for NFL Sunday Ticket on DirectTV. The theme is you can be a cool guy watching all the NFL games in DirectTV or a wierd guy running model trains around a small layout in his basement.
George In Midcoast Maine, 'bout halfway up the Rockland branch
G Paine The latest one is an ad for NFL Sunday Ticket on DirectTV. The theme is you can be a cool guy watching all the NFL games in DirectTV or a wierd guy running model trains around a small layout in his basement.
Or, you can multitask and build something for your railroad while watching football.
The TV series was called "Super Train" and didn't last the whole season as best I recall. It was and attempt to capitalize on the success of "Love Boat".
I always liked the station manager of WKRP, later became the Maytag man. I think he was caught playing, ah operating, with his trains in a couple of episodes.
But the best, all time, film was Track 29, a Christopher LLoyd psycological drama about a doctor obsessed with his trains (aren't we all a little bit). My favorite line was to his wife, something like "keep away from my trains."
Don't forget about the TV show GUMBY the the stop animation layed track just ahead of the train as needed. :)
Don't forget early Thomas The Tank Engine episodes. They used large scale trains.
Also don't forget Last of the Summer Wine (a British comedy on public television). They had an episode where a Vicker is playing with his train set in the vickerage.
Home Alone had a large scale on the floor.
dragonriversteelWhat was that movie about two railroad workers, who stole a locomotive and rode it all the way to company headquarters {the oatmeal guy...can't think of his name }. Just to get their railroad opened back up. Anyway in the company headquarters, the boss had a great looking HO layout set up. Patrick Beaufort,SC Dragon River Steel Corp {DRSC}
End of the Line, staring Kevin Bacon and Wilford Brimley.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092967/
Very old Dragnet, 50's vintage....Joe and Frank on a case, interview a possible witness while he's operating his HO layout. They of course find the experience un-nerving.
Don't knock A Mighty Wind, my wife calls my layout Crabville.
Not to keep resurecting an old thread, but has anyone seen the new Direct TV ad with Eli Manning?...his alter ego has a train layout that he's operating. My wife clued me in on it and at first, I was offended...lol
Bob Berger, C.O.O. N-ovation & Northwestern R.R. My patio layout....SEE IT HERE
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