Favorite train movie...

[Anonymous]

I guess I'd have to say that my favorite train movie is Emperor Of The North with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine. Otherwise, there really aren't a lot of movies out there that involve trains that I can think of off hand except for maybe Silverstreak and Polar Express...

[Anonymous]

Under Seigewith Steven Siegel when the two trains collide into each other on the bridge. that was kinda hot

BTW no one really cares about this [:D]

[Anonymous]

Atomic Train...

[Anonymous]

Again, my favorite is Emporer of the North, but I hadn't seen The Polar Express when I last answered this topic. I still go with E. of the N. but Polar Express was VERY, VERY good! Especially in 3D, which needs to be great to impress me in the first place! Tom Hanks did an excellant job on this one.

[CBQ_Guy]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainluver1

I guess I'd have to say that my favorite train movie is Emperor Of The North with Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine.

Same here! [#ditto]

[Anonymous]

Well, let's see. There's "The Train Robbers" with John Wayne, "Rio Lobo" with John Wayne, "Red River" with, yup, you guessed it, John Wayne...

All of these movies feature trains at some point, but the train is not the focus of the movie, for the most part. I'd have to say that my favorite movie in which the train was the primary focus was "Tough Guys" featuring Burt Lancaster and his sidekick as train robbers, but I can't recall the name of the co-star. It was a pretty good movie though, and featured an SP GS4 Daylight (#4449). I haven't seen all those others previously mentioned, nor have I mentioned all I've seen. These are just a few I remember.

-Joe

[Anonymous]

Thanks jdavid93225 (Joe). I couldn't think of the title of the movie at the time, but Tough Guys...
No, I don't believe there has ever been a movie with actors and a plot that focuses just on the train itself.
I've never seen atomic train. I'm going to have to check that one out.
I also forgot about Run Away Train (if that's the right title) about the two convicts that escape from an Alaskan prison and highjack a train that they end up running off a cliff.
Come on guys, help me out here...

Trainluver1

[Virginian]

"Denver and Rio Grande" with Edmund O'Brien.
"Overland Pacific"
"Murder on the Orient Express"
"The Bridge on the River Kwai"
"Whispering Smith"
"Stand by Me"
And my Favorite -
"The Great Locomotive Chase"

[Anonymous]

Can't believe nobody's mentioned "The General" yet - Buster Keaton silent film with plenty of early 4-4-0 steamers in the Civil War era, stunts are impressive considering Keaton had to do all his own (including using one real railroad tie to bounce another off the line). One of my favourite films as a kid!

[Pruitt]

QUOTE: Originally posted by trainluver1


No, I don't believe there has ever been a movie with actors and a plot that focuses just on the train itself.

Yes, there has been:

"The Train" with Burt Lancaster.

Outstanding film about a German Officer's attempts to remove priceless artwork from France near the end of WWII. Based on a true story, if I'm not mistaken.

[Anonymous]

Aha! The Monthly Question again. And again....and again...and again.

[randybc2003]

HERE WE GO AGAIN!!! [:D]
See:
http://www.trains.com/community/forum/topic.asp?page=3&TOPIC_ID=17420

Of particular favor on my part:
Flame Over India
Dynamite & Gold
Breakheart Pass
The Great Locomotive Chase

My personal movie library has copies of each. Also, not that THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE is Walt Disney's version of THE CHASE OF THE GENERAL. I'll admit, Buster Keyton wasn't Fess Parker.

[trolleyboy]

I'm partial to Buster Keatan's the rail rodder,something about going accross canada in a track speader is well just funny[:p][:p][:p]

[krump]

Torque - has a motorcycle / train stunt. Kinda different from the reg'l speed chases, crash + burn shot'emups. Motorcycles and gangs, with a train.

[grayfox1119]

I would have to say; Von Ryan's Express ( Frank Sinatra, The Great Locomotive Chase, Breakheart Pass, The Train, Runaway Train, The General, and we just saw The Polar Express ( great video job !!)

[Anonymous]

The Polar Express hands down!

[Anonymous]

My favorite train movies are
Runaway Train
Silver Streak, love those Budd cars
Von Ryan Express

[PennsyHoosier]

I can always watch Silver Streak again, even though I've seen it so many times.

I love Polar Express, too.

[CFournier]

Von Ryan express and Polar Express hands down.

[SilverSpike]

Murder on the Orient Express!

It has lots of interior scenes of dining cars, sleeper cars, lounge cars, and baggage cars. Oh, and the murder mystery is fun too!

- Ryan

[Anonymous]

Well I guess seeing that I've only seen 1 train movie (that I can remember), The Polar Express gets my vote. Enjoyed that movie very much. Everything was great, the sounds, the graphics, the story, the whole bit. Tom Hanks which is one of my favorite actors did a great job, too bad it didnt do all that great in the theaters. Also enjoyed the story in Trains about the locomotive they took ideas and info from to make the movie's version.

Steve

[Anonymous]

Polar Express and End of the line.

[Don Gibson]

HAND'S DOWN BEST.

'The General'.

Buster Keaton's version of the Great Locomotive Chase' aka 'Anderson's Raider's. Disney and Fess Parker stick pretty much to re-enacting the 1850's event, where as Keaton's is pure Fantasy. No trick photography or 'double's used on Keaton's film.

The surviving engine the 'General' is housed and on view near Kennesaw Mountain, GA in what used to be known as 'Big Shanty. Worth the trip - as is the film. A Classic.

[joseph2]

I always liked Blazing Saddles which begins as a railroad construction movie.Do any of you remember the TV series about Casey Jones from the early 1960's ?

[twhite]

Hey, we're back to this, right?
Okay, here I go
THE GENERAL
UNION PACIFIC
DENVER AND RIO GRANDE
WHISPERING SMITH
THE TRAIN
NIGHT PASSAGE
TICKET TO TOMAHAWK
NORTHWEST FRONTIER aka: FLAME OVER INDIA
VON RYAN'S EXPRESS
GOOD GUYS AND THE BAD GUYS
NUMBER SEVENTEEN
THE IRON HORSE
And a whole bunch of Westerns that used (and sometimes mis-used) trains.
Tom

[GN-Rick]

Well, I happen to like Emperor of the North, especially for its great Northwest
(north central Oregon) scenery. Although the FRA must have a conniption fit
over those booby trapped safety appliances. Another good one that nobody
has mentioned is the Marx Brother's "Go West". This one features a really cute
2-8-0 and its old time wooden train although the locomotive, at one point,
metamophs into a 2-truck Heisler! Not the Marx's best film, but it is funny,
with some interesting railroad scenes.

[MudHen_462]

Emperor of theNorth.... NO CONTEST !

[MisterBeasley]

Does anyone remember The Taking of Pelham 123? A bunch of bad guys hijack a New York City subway train.

But my vote still goes to Emperor of the North. I even saw a bit of it on cable a few weeks back.

[wjstix]

The local kids TV when I was growing up in Mpls/St.Paul was "Lunch with Casey" featuring Roger Awsumb as Casey Jones and Lynn Dwyer as "Roundhouse Rodney".

For movies I'll vote for "Danger Lights", one of the first sound movies shot on location (on the Milwaukee Road electrified lines in Montana). Unfortunately it's hard to see it all, some 'genius' decided that railfans would like to see the trains in the movie so offered a version with about 1/3 of the movie cut out so it was just showing the trains, unfortunately since then that's been about the only version of it on VHS or DVD available. Without the missing scenes the movie makes no sense.

BTW that 60's short with Keaton going on a speeder across Canada was pretty dang funny !!

[cwclark]

I don't remember the name of the movie (I think the name was THE TYCOON) ...but it starred John Wayne as a railroad civil engineer and he went to test the new bridge he just put in.... the bridge was almost complete except for a span in the middle that was thrown together... he drove the train out on the bridge to see if it would hold up during the flood of the river the bridge was built across..the bridge held up but the makeshift section fell along with the train engine into the brink...anyway..it was a good train movie...Chuck