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.
"Pre-war" means pre-WWII and has meant that since the war ended, just as "ante-Bellum refers to pre-Civil War. Please refrain from political comment.
Andre
[Objectionable statement remove by Bergie.] Perhaps you should specify pre-which war.
Dave
Lackawanna Route of the Phoebe Snow
The old pre-war movie, "Silver Streak", really did feature the Pioneer Zephyr with changed lettering for the film.
Suggested new film...."Breakfast at Elliots".
GARRY
HEARTLAND DIVISION, CB&Q RR
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A feature movie might be "Scatchbuilder on the Roof". An older mr who scratchbuilds everything for his live steam line sees his 4 daughters marry guys with 4x8 Plywood Pacifics running Bachmann and Tyco trains in circles.
Another might be "My Fair Modeler" where 2 grumpy old NMRA Master Modelers decide they can lead a teenage newbie into winning the NMRA National scratchbuilt locomotive contest in less than one year. Does the experience cause the newbie to want to become one of them?
Desperate Trainwives?
How about a fat, grumpy old mechanic who always seems to be able to figure out what's wrong with an engine - Round House.
andrechapelon wrote: Then there's the ever popular "History Of The Hobby, Part 1" where Mel Brooks skewers the "official" history of model railroading.
Then there's the ever popular "History Of The Hobby, Part 1" where Mel Brooks skewers the "official" history of model railroading.
I like the scene where Mel Brooks looks down from his control tower in the middle of yard, using binoculars to watch the ladies with low-cut gowns. "It's good to be the Dispatcher."
It takes an iron man to play with a toy iron horse.
andrechapelon wrote: Then there's the ever popular "History Of The Hobby, Part 1" where Mel Brooks skewers the "official" history of model railroading. My favorite scene is where Torquemada tortures old time modelers into buying ready-to-run products.Andre
Then there's the ever popular "History Of The Hobby, Part 1" where Mel Brooks skewers the "official" history of model railroading. My favorite scene is where Torquemada tortures old time modelers into buying ready-to-run products.
How about a little romantic film? Something to do with railroaders coupling up?
You've Got Mail Train. Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan meet while stuck in the rider coach of Southern Pacific train #71, the Coast Mail.
[quote user="Heartland Division CB&Q"]How about a little romantic film? Something to do with railroaders coupling up?
Well what do you call uncoupling and recoupling or switching out cars in the yard?
Is that like "separations", "divorces"?
The K4Kid
"The Honeytrainers"
Our engineer ( former bus driver) Ralph Kramden keeps running off on sidings and and getting into trouble and blames it all on his fireman Ed Norton.
"Kramden, this aint no bus hollers Norton!"Meanwhile Kramdens and Nortons "Raccon Lodge " members are all having a merry time in the diner car while enroute to the Miami train station."My bus smokes more than this thing does!" Kramden exclaims to Norton
"No wonder I can't see down there in the sewer when you're around!" says Norton."By the way Ralph, this thing doesn't have a sewer, but sometimes it smells funny underneaththe train exclaims Norton.
TheK4Kid
The High (bridge) and the Flighty
John Wayne and Robert Stack lose a driver on their DCC 0-4-0 and attempt to nurse their crippled loco and combine car full of armchair modelers over Art Hill's canyon bridge. Gary
CASA TRAINA,
Set in Morocco during world war two.
The German Gestapo tries to figure out why Rick Blaine( Humphrey Bogart gets to show off his model railroading interests) is building a train layout in his nightclub-bar "Ricks Place"
They notice it always slows down or stops as it nears Chech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo's table, maybe it's cargo is secret messages in one of the cars or special papers allowing Laszlo and his wife Illsa to leave Casa Traina on the midnight express? Inspector Renault becomes fascinated with the train and wants to always be the engineer at the controls.
Sam keeps playing "Chattanooga Choo Choo after Rick tells him to "Play it again Sam!"
Renault keeps threatening to shut down Ricks Place if Rick doesn't let him play with the train more often, and he knows it's driving the German Gestapo Major Strasser nuts! Laszlo's wife can't decide if she loves the train layout or Rick better."Here's looking at you kid."
The Thomas The Tank Engine Affair - Steve McQueen fends off advances from Clarabelle and Annie while foiling the evil plans of Sir Topham Hatt.
Train! - Leslie Nielsen is forced by circumstances to take control of a runaway train on the New York to London route. The diesels all have chuff sounds.
Brokeback Mountain Railroad - Two cowboys build a switching layout in their chuck wagon.
True Pit - Mister Beasley, played by John Wayne, finds an old wooden deck turntable and sinks it into a pit to make it more prototypical. (Did you know that Jay Silverheels was in the original "True Grit?")
reklein wrote:Don't forget Railroad Warrior, starring Mel Gibson, in a tale of Ruin and revenge in the RR passenger business.Highlights include wonderful mano a mano battle scene in a 360o roundhouse.
Not to mention Mad Max Beyond Steam Dome wherein it is discovered that methane made from fermenting pig excrement can be used to fire a steam locomotive.
Andre,
You have got a classic range of movies there. I can see you have been training your brain and are not afraid to 'layout' your ideas on the small screen.
regards
Bob
http://southcoastrail.blogspot.com/
The Line in Winter: Modeller decides to brave the winter and starts a new outdoors layout in December.
I like that. I was trying to figure out how do something with "The Lion In Winter", but nothing came of it.
Of course, in "The Line In Winter", Katherine Hepburn stars as the modeler's long suffering wife Eleanor of Aquitaine, doesn't she?
Naturally we can't forget....
Silver Streak. Gene Wilder and Jill Clayburgh become frustrated trying to get a Tyco C-430 to make one complete lap around their 4x8 loop. Villain Patrick McGoohan (who sold it to them on eBay) snickers in the background.
A Streetcar Named Desire. Marlon Brando takes up traction modeling. In Z scale.
The Thornburghs. Epic tale of love, lust and scratchbuilding in brass with simple hand tools sprawls across the screen in living color.
Blazing Saddletankers. Model Railroader staffers build large shelf type layout powered solely by old Varney Docksides.
A Fistful Of Dollars. A film exposing the high cost of model railroading. Includes hidden camera footage of the inside of Precision Craft Models opulent corporate headquarters.
For A Few Dollars More. Atlas raises its prices during the filming of "A Fistful Of Dollars".
High Plains Scratchbuilder. Clint Eastwood as a model railroader hired to teach the citizens of a town how to build railroad items out of cheap and readily available materials when the hobby industry threatens to bankrupt them.
And a few more:
The Railway Children : Obsessed model railroader takes time out to have three children
The Taking of Pelham 1,2,3: Three carriages stolen in 1974 are found at a model swap meeting and returned to the layout.
Board Three: An African modeller starts his third layout and realises model railroading is just a big game.
We have a Federal politician in Australia by the name of Warren Truss. Would he have starred in:
Bridge over the River Why? Warren Truss builds a bridge over the River Why to get to the other side.
Oops. Almost forgot
Kalmbach To The Future. Editor Neil Besougloff travels back in time to 1955 and finds out the truth about the "golden age" of the hobby. Decides to keep Model Railroader as is.
Andre.
There could be some interesting story lines there.
Blue Flamer.
Kalmbach Classic Movies
The Maltese F-7. Phil Walthers decides to move manufacturing from China to the island of Malta. Movie chronicles what happens when he tries.
Some Like It H.O. Dave Vollmer disguises self as Tony Curtis and switches scales to prevent being killed by irate hobby "historian".
Fahrenheit 831. Ray Bradbury tale wherein self appointed hobby historian fights to prove that hobby is dying.
Charlie Wilson's Layout. Texas Congressman convinces CIA to provide layout building help to Afghan mujadahin. Soviet Union survives. Hobby of model railroading dies.
The Best Layouts Of Our Lives. Veteran layout builders struggle to re-orient their lives after completing their layouts.
The Da Vinci Decoder. Model railroader Robert Langdon discovers that Leonardo Da Vinci invented DCC.
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream Layout. Hilariously funny story of man who hires professional layout builder to build a layout for him. Stars Cary Grant and Myrna Loy
The Layouts Of Iwo Jima. John Wayne leads Marines to victory during WWII and builds portable layouts during lulls in battle.
Prototypically Blonde. Elle Girder graduates from Harvard Law, builds exact HO scale replica of LA Union Passenger Terminal.