Medina1128Lbeach, I don't remember the show, but it sounds interesting. MABruce, as far as an actor taking on a role, in which the main character could promote model railroading and NOT be a psycho, maybe Michael Gross (Family Ties) would be interested. I understand that he is SO into trains, that he and his wife recently sold their own short line RR. I have seen many video productions that Mr. Gross has appeared in, and I've always been impressed.
Actually, been done. There was one episode of "Family Ties" where Michael Gross' character runs a small N scale layout in his bedroom. I forgot how it tied into the plot of that episode, and they never showed the layout again, but it stood out for me. Of course, we all know he is One Of Us.
trainman6446in last seasons CSI, they had the minuriture killer. he was a model railroader. now we are killers?
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The movie you're thinking about is called John Goldfarb, Please Come Home. It starred Shirley McClain, Richard Crenna and Peter Ustinov.
.....and this thread isn't as old as the movie, but close. Most of these people (in the movie and on this forum) aren't around anymore. The last post before yours was 7 years ago......
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R. T. POTEET wrote: steemtrayn wrote: Mannix? I thought it was Cannon.It was neither Mannix nor Cannon; it was a Banacek episode and it involved a super-secret sports car design being moved in a boxcar complete with roofwalk. This boxcar carrying the sports car got "dutch dropped" onto a siding. Nobody ever bothered to explain why the train brakes didn't apply when the glad hands separated.
steemtrayn wrote: Mannix? I thought it was Cannon.
Mannix? I thought it was Cannon.
It was neither Mannix nor Cannon; it was a Banacek episode and it involved a super-secret sports car design being moved in a boxcar complete with roofwalk. This boxcar carrying the sports car got "dutch dropped" onto a siding. Nobody ever bothered to explain why the train brakes didn't apply when the glad hands separated.
Give than man a cigar! I think that was it.
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I always though "Runaway" was Citizen Kane compared to the Uber-pooper "Atomic Train" ...
One other good made-for-TV movie was "Disaster on the Coastliner" which was alot of fun, clips can be found on YouTube.
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Once upon a time, the "Supertrain" model used in the short-lived NBC TV series was offered for sale, with track, in MR.
Any idea where that ended up?
andrechapelon wrote: trainfan1221 wrote:Wilford Brimley was in a movie concerning trains, darned if I remember the title.."End Of The Line"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092967/Another eminently forgettable flick.
trainfan1221 wrote:Wilford Brimley was in a movie concerning trains, darned if I remember the title..
"End Of The Line"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092967/
Another eminently forgettable flick.
Yes, but as was pointed out 'way back in this thread, there's a nice little scene where the Brimley character helps the President of the railroad get his HO scale layout running better by pointing out (and fixing) a car's out-of-gauge wheelset.
The layout itself was not shown in close-up, so we didn't get to see much of it, but it had the "feel" of an acutal layout, unliked most of the toys shown in films.
If it really was an NBC Mystery Movie of the Week, it wasn't either one. Could be Columbo (Peter Falk), McMillan (Rock Hudson) and Wife (Susan St. James, whose father owned Testor's by the way), or McCloud (Dennis Weaver) if it was the first season. If later, could have been one the NBC Wednesday Mystery Movies with Banacek (George Peppard), Cool Million (James Farentino) or Madigan (Richard Widmark). There were others too.
Guilford Guy wrote: I've seen that twilight zone episode... The man and woman couldn't remember anything the previous nice, and went around, and could hear children laughing... but the Trees could be pushed over and what not. They then get on a train, and go on a nice oval, and open the blinds to see they are back in Centralville. They then get off and run around screaming, before a big shadow comes from above and they run all over the set. The last line in the episode is "Honey, be nice to those, Daddy brought them all the way from Earth"
I've seen that twilight zone episode... The man and woman couldn't remember anything the previous nice, and went around, and could hear children laughing... but the Trees could be pushed over and what not. They then get on a train, and go on a nice oval, and open the blinds to see they are back in Centralville. They then get off and run around screaming, before a big shadow comes from above and they run all over the set. The last line in the episode is "Honey, be nice to those, Daddy brought them all the way from Earth"
For the record though, it was a little girl, not a boy.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
Model trains and the operators are generally shown in a way to make the hobby look wasted along with the people involved. But wait, that is almost the normal for any of their shows so that is OK!!
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I saw a Lionel O scale PRR S2 turn over and burn the layout on one program. Now that is real?
Guilford Guy wrote: Also in Silver Streak, when they send the F7's into Chicago's Union Station, I believe they use models...
Also in Silver Streak, when they send the F7's into Chicago's Union Station, I believe they use models...
Those were fiberglass and steel shells, mounted on a Jeep chassis! Beleive it or not! Watch it and you'll see it only the body shells, no trucks!
randybc2003 wrote: One Network's "Mystery Movie of the Week" - a cyclic series featured among other a Sophisticated PI who only took High - Value Insurance Cases. had an episode where super-secret govt. shipment was stolen ot of the middle of a train. When he had the solution - and told them where to find the shipment, he invited the Company & Gov't brass toa meeting where he demonstrated the event with a model train. With the help of a young female insurance investigator everyone else had put down - she provided insights to him and the model train. As near as I can recal it involved cutting the train in 2 places, rigging the brake lines, a drag cable, and and a flying switch.
One Network's "Mystery Movie of the Week" - a cyclic series featured among other a Sophisticated PI who only took High - Value Insurance Cases. had an episode where super-secret govt. shipment was stolen ot of the middle of a train. When he had the solution - and told them where to find the shipment, he invited the Company & Gov't brass toa meeting where he demonstrated the event with a model train. With the help of a young female insurance investigator everyone else had put down - she provided insights to him and the model train. As near as I can recal it involved cutting the train in 2 places, rigging the brake lines, a drag cable, and and a flying switch.
I remeber that one! That was an episode of "Mannix" I beleive, the model was a Lionel set I remember. The idea was that the theaves hid on the train, while enroute, I dont recall them rigging the air hoses, cut holes and bolted 2 winchs to the back of the car infront of the object of theft, which was an uber-milage auto prototype wrapped in a tarp on a flatcar (duh theres security), one low, one high, the low ones wire was connected to the flat the high to the car behind. At the appointed time (a long lonely straight section of track I assume) they broke the rear cars off and let it out as far as they would go, then broke the flat out and let if go back to the halfway point, then as the train went past the appointed siding, other waiting theaves throw the switch as the first part of the train goes past, then throw it back once the flat goes off on the spur, I dont remember how the cable to the flat was severed, but it was, then the upper winch which was powered pulled the rest of the train together (must have been one heckova powerfull wench) where it was coupled back and all the gear was removed. All this was done at night time BTW. So the train arrives sans secret car.
Absolutly ludicrous, but entertaining to watch it work on a Lionel train whizzing around a big loop of track, I can just see the suits in the studio justifying this insane plotline, "Well, it worked on the toy train, didnt it?"
steemtrayn wrote: andrechapelon wrote: trainfan1221 wrote:Wilford Brimley was in a movie concerning trains, darned if I remember the title.."End Of The Line"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092967/Another eminently forgettable flick.As eminently forgettable and bad as "Runaway" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070615/Five car ski train, two GP-30's. Brake line freezes up and train can't be stopped. Apparently no one associated with the flick ever heard of dynamic brakes (both engines were D&RGW locos). They could have held that train to 25 mph all the way down grade. OTOH, there wouldn't have been a movie then.And apparently, no one ever heard of a running brake test either. AndreAnd the brake system has only one gauge. Also, a crew member goes back to the train by crawling AROUND the cab instead of simply opening the door and walking THROUGH it.
andrechapelon wrote: trainfan1221 wrote:Wilford Brimley was in a movie concerning trains, darned if I remember the title.."End Of The Line"http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092967/Another eminently forgettable flick.As eminently forgettable and bad as "Runaway" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070615/Five car ski train, two GP-30's. Brake line freezes up and train can't be stopped. Apparently no one associated with the flick ever heard of dynamic brakes (both engines were D&RGW locos). They could have held that train to 25 mph all the way down grade. OTOH, there wouldn't have been a movie then.And apparently, no one ever heard of a running brake test either. Andre
As eminently forgettable and bad as "Runaway" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070615/
Five car ski train, two GP-30's. Brake line freezes up and train can't be stopped. Apparently no one associated with the flick ever heard of dynamic brakes (both engines were D&RGW locos). They could have held that train to 25 mph all the way down grade. OTOH, there wouldn't have been a movie then.
And apparently, no one ever heard of a running brake test either.
Andre
And the brake system has only one gauge. Also, a crew member goes back to the train by crawling AROUND the cab instead of simply opening the door and walking THROUGH it.
Maybe the keys were locked in the glove box...
trainman6446 wrote:in last seasons CSI, they had the minuriture killer. he was a model railroader. now we are killers?
The model railroader was the killer's step father. The miniatures depicting the crime scene were in 1:12 scale while the layout was all HO. Grissom matches the castings from one of the crime scene props to a mold in the workshop of their primary suspect. So why is an HO guy molding and casting larger scale items?
BTW-the killer is still out there!
The Trailer Park Boys...a couple of episode include a G? scale loco that was supposedly stolen from Patric Swayze, LOL!
Rails & Ties with Kevin Bacon. He plays an engineer who has a model railroad at home.
The oatmeal guy is Wilford Brimley, but I can't recall what the movie was called...
Nope. His foster (or adopted) daughter was (I disremember the exact relationship).
Funny how people fixate on irrelevancies and jump to unwarranted conclusions.
In Young Frankenstein, there is a scene early on of a Maerklin 2-6-0 and a few cars.
I'm sure I'm missing one so I'll get back to you on that later...
Oh... and there was a movie with a man who had a huge collection of O scale trains, which brought his dinner in etc...