"RAIL 66"
Todd Stiles and Buzz Murdock put their Corvette on a flat car and find places to disembark the train for off the rail adventures.
"Layout of Dreams"
......."if you built it they will come"
Fazby:
You're just jealous because the voices only talk to me...
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
"North By Northwestern Pacific" - Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint struggle against spies in the Eel River Canyon. As usual, Hollywood screws it up and has them climbing Mt. Rushmore, which is in South Dakota and many miles east of where the action is taking place.
"Wabash Cannonball Run" - An ensemble cast including Burt Reynolds, Dom DeLuise, Farrah Fawcett, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., et al., make a mockery of speed limits on the old Wabash Railroad.
"Indiana Jones And The Last Train To Clarksville" - Harrison Ford and the Monkees in a musical salute to the Nashville, Chatanooga & St. Louis Railroad during the golden age of steam.
"Rebel Without A Ticket" - James Dean is thrown off a train in the middle of the desert and has to use his wits to find his way home.
"Dances With Gandies" - Kevin Costner mixes it up with trackworkers down on the old Atlanta, Birmingham & Coast.
Andre
Fazby wrote: PsycHO - a model railroader finally snaps.
PsycHO - a model railroader finally snaps.
I love it !!
Empire under construction !
The early bird catches the worm.
But, the second mouse gets the cheese!
Phoebe Vet wrote: concretelackey wrote: Cheech and Chong- UP IN THE SMOKE STACKThe A/B TEAM- opps, thats a TV show.... I'm sorry. I don't want to see the phrase "Up in smoke" even loosely associated with model trains......
concretelackey wrote: Cheech and Chong- UP IN THE SMOKE STACKThe A/B TEAM- opps, thats a TV show....
Cheech and Chong- UP IN THE SMOKE STACK
The A/B TEAM- opps, thats a TV show....
I'm sorry. I don't want to see the phrase "Up in smoke" even loosely associated with model trains......
How about Cheech and Chong's "The Corsican Locos" - two diesel locos seperated at the factory trying to find one another.
or
Cheech and Chongs "Next Loco" so much fun the first time they hopped a train they decided to do it again.
Cheech and Chong in "Nice Loco's" The story of two enterprising young men who make an amazing amount of money selling ice cream on a train.
"Monty Python and the Holy Rail" You write the script, but there has to be a large foot coming down on a layout at some point. The Holy Handgrenade of AntiNoch is used by those who don't like Euorpean model vendors.
"HO Time for Sergeants" - Andy Griffith helps his DI built a layout. After the remote lifting of the toilet lids, controlling turnouts is easy.
Romance:
Sleeper in Seattle, in which Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks trade humorous barbs about who gets to sleep in the top bunk.
Have fun with your trains
"All Quiet on the Norfolk and Western Front" (1930) - fiery patriotism is quickly turned to horror and misery by the harsh realities of another railroad merger gone awry.
"An American Railroader in Paris" (1951) - the story of a young American railroad engineer who lives above a sidewalk cafe in Paris and becomes involved and the hijinks between two French Foreign Legion women.
Ryan BoudreauxThe Piedmont Division Modeling The Southern Railway, Norfolk & Western & Norfolk Southern in HO during the merger eraCajun Chef Ryan
andrechapelon wrote:"The Empire Builder Strikes Back" Luke Trackwalker, section foreman for the Northern Pacific, battles the evil Great Northern CEO Darth Hill who has ordered the sabotage of the "North Coast Limited". Luke finds out that Darth Hill is his father.
"The Empire Builder Strikes Back" Luke Trackwalker, section foreman for the Northern Pacific, battles the evil Great Northern CEO Darth Hill who has ordered the sabotage of the "North Coast Limited". Luke finds out that Darth Hill is his father.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"The Great Locomotive Chaser" - Fess Parker motorcades the General during the Andrews raid and makes a Pentrex video of the action.
"Tweetsie" - Dustin Hoffman in drag as the engineer on the Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina.
CHEECH AND CHONG- NICE SIDINGS
Midnight Railroader wrote: From IMDB:The Silver Streak (1934):This movie really echoes the spirit of it's time. Everything then was progress & technology. The plot is the worst part of the film. It is terribly predictable & hackneyed. The film is also way short; 72 minutes for the version I have (barely 5 reels). The scenes at Hoover Dam could easily have been expanded to develop atmosphere & the brother/friend's character. The dam scenes are very interesting & show a human side to the massive project. Rail fans such as myself seek out this film (getting it is not easy) for the footage of the famous Pioneer Zephyr. This train is the forerunner of the French GTV & the Japanese Super Trains among many others. It was a technological marvel of it's time. The train has survived & is on display (magnificently restored) at The Chicago Museum of Science & Industry in a specially built vault below street level. There is an excellent use of montage early in the film as the father sees the history of railroading in his mind's eye. It is very well integrated into the story & not as 'In Your Face' as most montages are. The acting style has that curiously stiff feel of many of the early sound films. I think it has more to do with the director's uncertainty in the new technology than with the cast's talent. None of the cast were ever big time but they are attractive & reasonably well suited for their parts. I was pleasantly surprised to find it watchable. I had thought I would have to fast forward to the train footage that I bought the film to get.
From IMDB:The Silver Streak (1934):
This movie really echoes the spirit of it's time. Everything then was progress & technology. The plot is the worst part of the film. It is terribly predictable & hackneyed. The film is also way short; 72 minutes for the version I have (barely 5 reels). The scenes at Hoover Dam could easily have been expanded to develop atmosphere & the brother/friend's character. The dam scenes are very interesting & show a human side to the massive project. Rail fans such as myself seek out this film (getting it is not easy) for the footage of the famous Pioneer Zephyr. This train is the forerunner of the French GTV & the Japanese Super Trains among many others. It was a technological marvel of it's time. The train has survived & is on display (magnificently restored) at The Chicago Museum of Science & Industry in a specially built vault below street level. There is an excellent use of montage early in the film as the father sees the history of railroading in his mind's eye. It is very well integrated into the story & not as 'In Your Face' as most montages are. The acting style has that curiously stiff feel of many of the early sound films. I think it has more to do with the director's uncertainty in the new technology than with the cast's talent. None of the cast were ever big time but they are attractive & reasonably well suited for their parts. I was pleasantly surprised to find it watchable. I had thought I would have to fast forward to the train footage that I bought the film to get.
Wow. You must be as old as I am. Nobody measures the length of movies in reels anymore.
They still come on reels, but the projectionist splices them together and puts them on a big platter. Heck, they don't even use carbon arc projectors any more. But I am still unable to ignore the cue marks in upper right the corner.
Bergie wrote: Heartland Division CBQ wrote:Time out. Prewar means before WWII. No more please.OK, I'm confused too. Being a child of the 70s, I thought you were referring to the Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor Silver Streak. Were you actually referring to something from the 40s?A better explanation would have avoided this. Bergie
Heartland Division CBQ wrote:Time out. Prewar means before WWII. No more please.
Time out. Prewar means before WWII. No more please.
OK, I'm confused too. Being a child of the 70s, I thought you were referring to the Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor Silver Streak. Were you actually referring to something from the 40s?
A better explanation would have avoided this.
Bergie
There are 2 Silver Streak movies. One from 1934 and one from 1976. My original reference was to the 1976 film.
How about "All the Dispatcher's Men" featuring a source for incoming traffic, Yard Throat!
Bergie wrote: OK, I'm confused too. Being a child of the 70s, I thought you were referring to the Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor Silver Streak. Were you actually referring to something from the 40s?A better explanation would have avoided this. Bergie
Apparently, there was a version released in 1934 featuring the Pioneer Zephyr. See this link:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0027000/
I have never seen it, so I don't know how closely the 1976 version follows the original, but I guess the footage of the PZ is pretty good.
Tom
Oh yes, I recall the Gene Wilder film, but the Pioneer Zephyr was featured in the first film.
Pioneer Zephyr was donated to Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago in the 1960's.
Therefore, it's not the Gene Wilder movie.
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
EVERYWHERE LOST; WE HUSTLE OUR CABOOSE FOR YOU
Some old Classic Warner Brothers train films;
ALL THIS AND HO TOO: Bette Davis becomes a governess to Charles Boyer's children and helps them build an enormous HO layout in the wine cellar of Boyer's Paris mansion.
THE GREAT LINE: Bette Davis and Mary Astor build a transcontinental Z scale layout on top of Astor's 9-foot Steinway grand piano.
'FRISCO' JENNY: Ruth Chatterton and her--um--"Associates" build a pre-Code O-scale SLSF model railroad to connect their various Bordellos on the Barbary Coast.
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!
I made no attempt to separate just from unjust. No political statement was intended.
Have you ever noticed how people love to "choose up sides"?
Phoebe Vet wrote: (objectionable statement removed by bergie). Perhaps you should specify pre-which war.
(objectionable statement removed by bergie). Perhaps you should specify pre-which war.
You're right, there have been too many wars to count:
Scratchbuilders vs. Kitbashers
O Scale vs. HO scale
HO vs. N
Digitrax vs. NCE
The Hobby is Dying vs. The Hobby is Not Dying
The Hobby was Better Then vs. The Hobby is Better Now
John Allen/Malcolm Furlow/George Selios/Tony Koester is Awesome vs. No He's Not
Kadees vs. Horn-Hook
You name it, there's been a war fought over it. Now, which war did you mean again?