Favorite train movie

[Anonymous]

you have a favorite train movie?

Silver streak

and a frew more 

[MisterBeasley]

Again?

OK, Emperor of the North, with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine.

[jecorbett]

Von Ryan's Express!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

The Train, The Silver Streak (1934), The Great Locomotive Chase (Disney), The Casandra Crossing, Runaway Train.

[Driline]

"Thomas the Tank Engines Japanese Vacation"

[trainfan1221]

I'm with you on Cassandra Crossing.  My other favorite is probably Disaster on the Coastliner.  Not too believable but fun anyway.

[Boomer Red]

Disaster on the Coastliner? I think I may have seen that one a long time ago but I can't quite remember. I'll have to say my is The National Dream, although Runaway Train is pretty fun to watch too!

[Pathfinder]

Disaster on the Coastliner? I think I may have seen that one a long time ago but I can't quite remember. I'll have to say my is The National Dream, although Runaway Train is pretty fun to watch too!

I wish CBC would bring The National Dream out on DVD.  That I would buy in a heart beat. 

The Grey Fox is also a good train movie, one I also wish was on DVD. 

[wobblinwheel]

The POLAR EXPRESS, the most realistic train movie I ever saw!...........right?

[trainfan1221]

Disaster on the Coastliner? I think I may have seen that one a long time ago but I can't quite remember. I'll have to say my is The National Dream, although Runaway Train is pretty fun to watch too!

It was a made for TV movie, starred William Shatner and used Amtrak equipment.  Haven't seen it in years.

[outdoorsfellar]

Don't forget " Switchback "  featuring Dennis Quaid & Danny Glover.

[chatanuga]

Disaster on the Coastliner? I think I may have seen that one a long time ago but I can't quite remember. I'll have to say my is The National Dream, although Runaway Train is pretty fun to watch too!

Disaster on the Coastliner is up on YouTube.  Other favorites of mine (in no order) are Silver Streak, The Train, and Runaway Train.

Kevin

[MAbruce]

"Thomas the Tank Engines Japanese Vacation"

While I liked that one, it couldn't really top "Thomas and the Roundhouse of Doom".

[lvanhen]

Emporer of the North, Silver Streak, Breakheart Pass, and Switchback.  I love ALL the Thomas flicks, and we can't forget The General with Buster Keaton!!  (or was it the Great Locomotive Chase?) 

OMG, I almost forgot Union Pacific and that one about the Harvey Girls with Judy Garland about 20 years old!!

[jeffrey-wimberly]

The one with Buster Keaton was 'The General'.

[lvanhen]

Thanks Jeffrey - must be getting senile - or is it more senile!!

[Tracklayer]

If it's got a train in it, it's my favorite movie...

Tracklayer

[Guilford Guy]

The Color of a Brisk & Leaping Day... Its surprisingly really similar to what actually happened ot the Yosemite Valley Railroad. There are great scenes of Steam, Inspection Cars, Armstrong Turntables, a couple of the backshop, as well as wood interurbans, and Electric Freight Motors.

[HarryHotspur]

Casablanca

North by Northwest 

Young Frankenstein 

[Great Western Rwy fan]

"Stand By Me" is pretty good when the boy's are caught on the bridge, And I really liked "The Train" That has some pretty cool military {WWII} scenes in it, Including a German armored Locomotive. And maybe someone could help Me out on this one, A movie about a town surrounded by a forest fire, and they use a train to evacuate, what's the name of that one?

[SaltRiverRy]

Casablanca?

One of the great movies of all time, but a train movie? Just because of the station scenes in Paris?

I don't recall Sam singing "City of New Orleans."

Rick and the Inspector weren't standing outside of Union Station at the end of the flick, either.

LOL

 

 

[cisco1]

How about "Danger Lights"?  Great scenes of wreck train, big hooks at work, roundhouse interior and even a dynamometer car! Best of all, some beautiful shots of steam locomotives in action!

[lvanhen]

We can't for get Young Frankenstein!!!   The Transylvania Station song/parody is only second to "great knockers"!!

[twhite]

Oboy, here we go again, right?

Okay, I'll bite:

UNION PACIFIC--silly plot, great 19th-century trains, courtesy of the Virginia and Truckee RR.  Two SPECTACULAR trains wrecks (miniatures, of course). 

WHISPERING SMITH--same V&T equipment as in "Union Pacific", only this time in Technicolor.  Nifty western 'detective story' plot set in 1890's Wyoming.

DANGER LIGHTS--best RR drama ever filmed, IMO.  Plot gets a little hackneyed at times, but for 1930, it features terrific authentic RR scenes filmed on the Milwaukee around Deer Lodge, Montana. 

DENVER AND RIO GRANDE: Colorful western about the Colorado Railroad wars of the 1880's, with the Silverton Branch posing as the Royal Gorge.  Noisy and colorful, with some neat narrow gauge RR equipment. 

THE TRAIN:  Superb WWII actioner set in France about sneaking French Art into Germany after the fall of Paris.  Train has to be stopped without wrecking it.  Doesn't keep the film from staging several of the most spectacular collisions ever filmed--with REAL trains.  A whopper of a good movie!

A TICKET TO TOMAHAWK:  Funny, exciting western comedy about a train that has to travel 50 miles between two Colorado frontier towns to keep its contract.  Only problem--no track!  Lots of fun, and a really BEAUTIFUL narrow gauge 4-6-0 as the star (ex Rio Grande Southern #20, gussied up in the best paint scheme I've ever seen for a movie, as the "Emma Sweeny.") 

And two classic silents:

THE GENERAL: Probably the funniest and most spectacular Civil War movie ever made, based on the great train chase incident.  Buster Keaton saves his train--and the South--from a Union invasion.  He uses trains as stunt-men, and the film is just stunning.

THE IRON HORSE:  The great director John Ford's 1925 take on the building of the Transcontinental railroad has some of the most exciting and spectacular scenes of railroad building ever photographed--using authentic 1860's trains.  Exciting and often eye-popping (especially for a silent), the film is just flat-out TERRIFIC! 

Tom

[Guilford Guy]

IF anyone wants to watch danger lights, its availble on Internet Archives.
Danger Lights

[Geared Steam]

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DANGER LIGHTS--best RR drama ever filmed, IMO.  Plot gets a little hackneyed at times, but for 1930, it features terrific authentic RR scenes filmed on the Milwaukee around Deer Lodge, Montana. 

Great movie, you will see shots in Miles City, Deer Lodge, 16 Mile Canyon (avalanche) Lombard, Eagles Nest Tunnel.  The acting is.........ok  

[joseph2]

"Blazing Saddles" a movie about a railroad land grab. The movie about the train saving a town from a forest fire may have been based on a real incident in Wisconsin over a 100 years ago.   Joe

[twhite]

"Stand By Me" is pretty good when the boy's are caught on the bridge, And I really liked "The Train" That has some pretty cool military {WWII} scenes in it, Including a German armored Locomotive. And maybe someone could help Me out on this one, A movie about a town surrounded by a forest fire, and they use a train to evacuate, what's the name of that one?

 

It's called "RING OF FIRE" and came out about 1960 or so from MGM.  Starred David Janssen as a forest ranger kidnapped by three desperadoes, one of who accidentally sets a forest fire.  They have to evacuate a mountain town in Washington by train, and the train gets trapped on a burning trestle.  Kinda neat, but it's hard to find.  I know, I've looked, LOL!

Tom  

 

[HarryHotspur]

Casablanca?

One of the great movies of all time, but a train movie? Just because of the station scenes in Paris?

Sure. It was a great scene. 

[Medina1128]

The Train and Von Ryan's Express!