DSchmitt softail86mark Do TV shows count? Lots of TV shows with trains. Wild, Wild West did a lot. Including their own train from Railtown 1897 (modern name). Might have just been Jamestown back then. But they had at least three that I remember that used model trains. There could be more, I haven't finished the full DVD set yet. MC Railtown 1897 is a California State Historic Park located in Jamestown. It includes the Sierra Railway roundhouse and shops substantially unchanged from when they were built and preserved railway equipment.
softail86mark Do TV shows count? Lots of TV shows with trains. Wild, Wild West did a lot. Including their own train from Railtown 1897 (modern name). Might have just been Jamestown back then. But they had at least three that I remember that used model trains. There could be more, I haven't finished the full DVD set yet. MC
Do TV shows count?
Lots of TV shows with trains. Wild, Wild West did a lot. Including their own train from Railtown 1897 (modern name). Might have just been Jamestown back then. But they had at least three that I remember that used model trains. There could be more, I haven't finished the full DVD set yet.
MC
Railtown 1897 is a California State Historic Park located in Jamestown. It includes the Sierra Railway roundhouse and shops substantially unchanged from when they were built and preserved railway equipment.
Oh no, I know 1897 well. I was just lamenting the NAME by which they called themselves in the mid-60s. Was it a state park back then with the likes of Petticoat Junction and Wild Wild West? Or did they just go by Sierra Railway?
Just a side note, some friends and I toured Jamestown 1897 back before Back to the Future II came out and the tour lady told us that Back to the Future III had just finished filming the exploding locomotive scene. We questioned her on telling us "Three" but she assured us she knew what she was talking about. As we all now know, she was right.
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Does anyone remember the short lived TV series called Supertrain.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078697/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
It premiered on NBC in 1979 and was quickly canceled. Since it was on so briefly I don't remember much about it except the model they used looked like it ran on 6 ft gauge. I think they intended it to be a land version of the Love Boat. It didn't work.
I think there was also a series about a train that was a time machine but I remember even less about that. The model they used for the stock footage looked like it was headed by E or F units in Monon livery. I think it ran sometime in the 1980s but I'm not even sure about that.
viperj yes that is my number one favorite and then, what's the one with Kirk douglas and the southern pacific daylight , where they hold it up and slide into Mexico? And then runaway.
yes that is my number one favorite and then, what's the one with Kirk douglas and the southern pacific daylight , where they hold it up and slide into Mexico? And then runaway.
Tough Guys 1986 Kirk Douglas, Burt Lancaster, Charles Durning, Eli Wallach
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1021765-tough_guys/
''Tough Guy's'' 1986. Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas.
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Here's one:
In The Emperor Jones (1933), Paul Robeson plays a Pullman porter. I seem to recall some scenes with a PRR E6s 4-4-2 and some passenger cars at a major terminal.
Tom
OT Dean If you can find it (I did, on a disk with several other older Westerns), modelers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries will find "Whispering Smith," with Alan Ladd, of interest---as long as you don't expect the plot to follow the excellent novel Frank Spearman. Deano
If you can find it (I did, on a disk with several other older Westerns), modelers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries will find "Whispering Smith," with Alan Ladd, of interest---as long as you don't expect the plot to follow the excellent novel Frank Spearman.
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Deano:
I've got "Whispering Smith" on DVD, and agree with you, it's a good western, but not the Frank Spearman novel (at least not very close). I found out that the 1948 Alan Ladd movie is instead based upon a 1926 silent film. I was surprised to find that the novel has been filmed almost eight times, mainly silents. But Paramount really used their train collection (mainly old Virginia and Truckee locomotives and cars that had been purchased for the 1939 film "Union Pacific") well. The V&T collection was rented out to other studios during the 'forties and 'fifties and appeared in quite a few westerns. Most of the locomotives and rolling stock now reside at either the Nevada State Railroad Museum in Carson City, or the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento.
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If you can find it (I did, on a disk with several other older Westerns), modelers of the late 19th-early 20th centuries will find "Whispering Smith," with Alan Ladd, of interest---as long as you don't expect the plot to follow the excellent novel by Frank Spearman.
For a comedy with the best train wreck scene, consider The Wrong Box (British, 1966)
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Under Seige 2- Special effects of the train wreck, terrible. Whoever heard of a long bridge like that having a solid undercore. Looked like some girders were glued to a 2x2.
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Another movie that isn't primarily train related but still has some good train action in it is Broken Arrow (1996). All of the train scences were filmed on the CMR (Central Montana Railway) in central Montana.
OK, so not exactly my favorite train movie of all time, not even remotely close. But I like the old SciFi movies and there was a train crash in it (a model) and nobody has mentioned it (no surprise).
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zstripe Medina1128 The Great Train Chase, Fess Parker Just a slight correction to the title.....It was ''The Great Locomotive Chase'' by Walt Disney 1956.....two Loco's General & Texas, during the civil war. Saw it downtown Chgo in the same year. Nothing like seeing it on a gigantic screen. Take Care! Frank
Medina1128 The Great Train Chase, Fess Parker
Just a slight correction to the title.....It was ''The Great Locomotive Chase'' by Walt Disney 1956.....two Loco's General & Texas, during the civil war. Saw it downtown Chgo in the same year. Nothing like seeing it on a gigantic screen.
Thanks for the correction, Frank. I guess I should have Googled it before adding it. I was just using that cobweb ridden memory of mine.
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tin can James Garner played a conductor/brakeman on a TV movie with a railroad theme; movie was shot on the Texas State Railroad
The Long Summer of George Adams 1982 From New York Times:
"James Garner's longtime Rockford Files colleague directed this Saroyanesque 1982 TV movie. George Adams (Garner) is a railroad steam-engine handyman in Cushing, Oklahoma, circa 1952. Increasing reliance upon the diesel engine has rendered George's job obsolete; the only employment he can find is as a night watchman, which subjects him to ridicule from the community. George struggles to hold his home and family together, despite such roadblocks as a tattered relationship with his wife (JOAN HACKETT), a brief affair with the town temptress (Anjanette Comer), a fistic bout with the local business bigwig, and a nocturnal tussle with a gang of bank robbers. The Long Summer of George Adams was based on a novel by Weldon Hill. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi "
The railroad also appeared in Streets of Larado Mini-series where Garner played Captain Woodrow Call in 3 episodes, 1999
Texas State Railroad film site:
https://www.texasstaterr.com/film.php
Richard Dryfuss's character has a model railroad in "Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind," until he becomes obsessed with making scenery. "The Station Agent" begins with the protagonist working in a hobby shop; which closes after the owner's demise. He inherits an old train station, but not much train action. "Polar Express" has a train as part of its story arc. James Garner played a conductor/brakeman on a TV movie with a railroad theme; movie was shot on the Texas State Railroad, but I can't remember the name of it.
JWhite ACY One I haven't seen is "It Happened To Jane", from the mid 1950's. I don't think trains are the central focus, but the film includes footage of the last New Haven steam loco, a Mikado that was scrapped shortly after her movie role. Tom It's been a long time since I've seen it but actually the train is the central focus of the movie. Doris Day runs a lobster business and the local railroad causes her to lose a shipment and the railroad run by Ernie Kovacs doesn't compensate her. She sues and Kovacs refuses to pay and she seizes the train, I don't remember if the sheriff seized it for her or the court awarded it, and Doris and her lawyer/boyfriend Tony Randall end up running the train to ship her lobsters. The New Haven Mike is one of the uncreditied co-stars.
ACY One I haven't seen is "It Happened To Jane", from the mid 1950's. I don't think trains are the central focus, but the film includes footage of the last New Haven steam loco, a Mikado that was scrapped shortly after her movie role. Tom
One I haven't seen is "It Happened To Jane", from the mid 1950's. I don't think trains are the central focus, but the film includes footage of the last New Haven steam loco, a Mikado that was scrapped shortly after her movie role.
It's been a long time since I've seen it but actually the train is the central focus of the movie. Doris Day runs a lobster business and the local railroad causes her to lose a shipment and the railroad run by Ernie Kovacs doesn't compensate her. She sues and Kovacs refuses to pay and she seizes the train, I don't remember if the sheriff seized it for her or the court awarded it, and Doris and her lawyer/boyfriend Tony Randall end up running the train to ship her lobsters. The New Haven Mike is one of the uncreditied co-stars.
Boyfriend is Jack Lemmon. Movie used to show on AMC every now and then. In one of the info sessions after the movie, Robert Osborn stated that Lemmon actually learned to fire the locomotive; and insisted on firing for the movie, as he enjoyed it.
So no one has heard or seen of the movie i mentioned in my first post? I figured since of all the movies and shows listed here, that a movie with BOTH models and 1:1 scale would be well known. Especially since the movie is all about trains, not actors.
Come on folks, scratch them noggins one more time. Someone has to know about this movie. Saw it as a kid, but would like to see it now as an adult.
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ACY I didn't know the Mike had such a central role in It Happened to Jane. Doris Day --- 'nuff said! I didn't know about Ernie Kovacs in the movie. He was a natural to play a curmudgeon businessman. He had a rare talent that modern folks can't possibly know. This is probably one we should seek out.
I didn't know the Mike had such a central role in It Happened to Jane. Doris Day --- 'nuff said! I didn't know about Ernie Kovacs in the movie. He was a natural to play a curmudgeon businessman. He had a rare talent that modern folks can't possibly know. This is probably one we should seek out.
I've seen parts of this movie but never the whole thing. It runs occasionally on the cable movie channels. I'll have to keep an eye out for it and DVR it next time.
The film "Timberjack" is also available on Youtube - for free!
Sir Madog How about Timberjack? Co-starring is a three-truck Shay. The film includes some interesting footage on logging operation.
How about Timberjack?
Co-starring is a three-truck Shay. The film includes some interesting footage on logging operation.
Thank you Madog A classic that by the way can now be watched on Amazon.
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