cisco1 wrote: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!
Ditto. (Still no more sign...)
Allow me to add 2 James Bond movies:
Octopussy - circus train
Goldeneye - the armored train
There are other Bond movies with trains, but none as good as the above 2
Spy Who Loved Me
Live and Let Die
From Russia With Love
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The Woody Guthrie biography, Bound for Glory, had some pretty good railroad scenes.
I too liked The Train, and Silver Streak.
HarryHotspur wrote:The Great Train Robbery
Edison or Connery?
Tom
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Mystery Science Theater 3000 riffed a short film titled "Last Clear Chance" which talks about safety at the railroad crossing, among other things.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Naix-f6KSIg
For movie, I really liked Silverstreak also.
Indiana Jones: The Last Crusade had a great train chase. Interestingly, the chase begins in a desert area. The following scenes during the chase, the train is going through a forest area. At the end of the sequence the train is back in a desert area, and a shot from the last car of the train reveals a long stretch of flat straight track with no trees in sight!
For train crashes, the end of SilverStreak and Back to the Future Part III is hard to beat.
How about train quotes in movies?
The Blues Brothers
Scene in a tiny one room apartment that shakes every time the Chicago L train passes byJake: How often does the train go by?Elwood: So often you won't even notice.
Back to the Future Part IIIIn the cab of a steam locomotive, Dr. Emmit Brown has a gun on the engineer.Engineer: Is this a hold up?(pause)Doc Brown: It's a science experiament.
Here's a scary thought. What if Samuel L Jackson decides to do "Snakes on a Train"?
Medina1128 wrote: O_Kamoto wrote:"Atomic train" Please tell me you did NOT say "Atomic Train".. LOL
O_Kamoto wrote:"Atomic train"
Please tell me you did NOT say "Atomic Train".. LOL
I tried to watch Atomic Train. Really, I did! But my brain threatened to walk out on me and never come back if I did!
And, as Woody Allen once said, "My brain is my second favorite organ"!
-George
"And the sons of Pullman porters and the sons of engineers ride their father's magic carpet made of steel..."
Under Siege II.. because the acting never upstaged the train!
Chris
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MisterBeasley wrote: Again?OK, Emperor of the North, with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine.
Again?
OK, Emperor of the North, with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine.
I totally agree - Lee Marvin's parting words at the end of the movie were classic.
Another one I should mention is an adventure film from 1969 called DARK OF THE SUN starring Rod Taylor and Jim Brown, about mercenaries caught up in the Congolese rebellions of the 1950's. It's basically a rather brutal film, but it does have some exciting railroad sequences using a train as the mercenaries go behind enemy lines to rescue refugees threatened by Congolese rebels. The movie was filmed in Jamaica, standing in for the then Belgian Congo, and features a rather handsome Baldwin 4-8-0 and some interesting railroad equipment. Some very tense action aboard the train, but be warned--this film is not for the kiddies, it's got a lot of rather graphic violence in it. But the train scenes are really exciting.
My favorites are The Train and Hurricane Express. I confess I haven't seen all the movies listed here so I'll have to see if I can find some of these.
Enjoy
Paul
I ran across this webpage about where and how Ring of Fire was filmed while researching NW logging railroad bridges.
www.brian894x4.com/RingofFire.html
Interesting site and good pictures.
Almost forgot Runaway! from 1973, which is also up on YouTube.
Kevin
http://chatanuga.org/RailPage.html
http://chatanuga.org/WLMR.html
The Train and Von Ryan's Express!
SaltRiverRy wrote:Casablanca?One of the great movies of all time, but a train movie? Just because of the station scenes in Paris?
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.
Great Western Rwy fan wrote:"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!
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
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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.
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!
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
Casablanca
North by Northwest
Young Frankenstein