tgindy wrote: How about some free-lancing? There's the 1976 E-8 in 1976's - "Silver Streak" - with Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, and Patrick McGoohan. The whole movie centers on passenger train who-dun-its.
How about some free-lancing? There's the 1976 E-8 in 1976's - "Silver Streak" - with Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, and Patrick McGoohan. The whole movie centers on passenger train who-dun-its.
If memory serves me correctly I thought they were F units from CP rail. Weren't they repainted for AMrail. Definitely CP rail units though.
csxguy wrote:In that cheesy 90s movie Atomic Train, the train looked like it was pulled by a BN loco.
This movie was filmed using BC Rail trackage and Locomotives. This was filmed on the line in between Vancouver and Kamloops, British Columbia. There was a part where they showed Avalanche alley which is very distinctive if you have ever seen it in person. I don't remember if they were on the CN side or the CP side of the canyon.
Also Quantum Leap had several episodes that involved trains.
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Georgia Observer wrote: The "I Love Lucy" show you were referring to is episode #1050/132 which originally aired October 31, 1955 entitled "The Great Train Robbery." The Ricardos and the Mertzes left Los Angeles on The City of Los Angles.
The "I Love Lucy" show you were referring to is episode #1050/132 which originally aired October 31, 1955 entitled "The Great Train Robbery." The Ricardos and the Mertzes left Los Angeles on The City of Los Angles.
ranchero wrote:i recall seeing an "I love Lucy" episode where they travel to LA using union pacific
http://imdb.com/title/tt0075223/
How about some prototyping? There's the 1974 steamer - "Murder On the Orient Express" - with Albert Finney as Hercule Poirot - circa 1935.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0071877/
How about free-lanced prototyping? Then there's Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, and James Mason in Alfred Hitchcock's 1959 - "North by Northwest" - where I always wondered which midwest prototype was borrowed for filming.
http://imdb.com/title/tt0053125/
Conemaugh Road & Traction circa 1956
CSX--"Cheesy" isn't the word for that film. It's supposed to take place in Colorado, just outside of Denver, and the train is photographed for the most part, running along either an ocean inlet or a very big lake in British Columbia. And it's also supposed to be slowed down at a 'pass' before it reaches Denver. Well, the main line into Denver would be the ex-Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel line, and it doesn't run along any ocean inlets that I can remember, nor is there a 'pass' before Denver (the 'pass' is under the Rockies through the Moffat Tunnel). When the film came on originally, I just sat there giggling and munching on Snickers bars. Whatta HOOT! It seems that Hollywood--or TV producers--are still under the impression that a mountain range is a mountain range, film it where it's cheapest.
Sorry, the timber-thick ranges of the Canadian Rockies are NOT Colorado! Whole different Geology there, folks.
The train was cool, however. And I have to admit that I'm still not sure if they wrecked an actual train or just some very big models.
Tom
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steamsteve wrote:twhite, thanks for the info. now I will have to watch the movie again to see what you are talking about. Do you have any idea if the Super Train shows can be bought? Steve
Steve--
It's a series of rather quick shots of the model locomotive(s) as the two sections of the train are running, right before the wreck. The ROCK ISLAND shield on the tender is pretty unmistakable (as is the Southern Pacific caboose that gets rammed at the beginning of the wreck sequence).
I don't know if SUPERTRAIN is commercially available, but you might check the internet. I know that there are several film distributors that list available TV shows on DVD. I think if you google up IMDB.COM, you might get some help there.
Marlon
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Steamsteve--
The train wreck in GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH was done with large-scale models, of course, however deMille, the director, also had some full-scale rail cars bashed up for the aftermath scene. Interesting note--did you notice that the markings on the model locomotive used in the wreck scene was ROCK ISLAND, and the locomotive was a 4-6-4? I don't remember CRI&P ever owning a Hudson, LOL! But the shots of loading and unloading the circus train were really well done--especially a scene of a GG-1 pulling the train near the beginning of the film.
From what I understand, a lot of the background scenes for SUPERTRAIN were filmed on SP's Cascade Line in northern California and Oregon.
Does anyone remember in the late 70's the show Super Train. I always wanted to know the background on that show.
Also the movie The Greatest Show on Earth is on of my favorites. I hate the train wreck but would love to modle thee trains.
Creepy Canada also features locomotives in some stories. The locomotives are difficult to identify but the most recent one I saw featured a Climax locomotive which was used for all of the train's outside shots.
NOTE: The new season of Creepy Canada is way scarier. I'm still shaking. Watch at your own risk...
TA462 wrote:American Hot Rod regularly shows some Union Pacific trains passing by the shop.
Anyone catch the episode where Roy and a bunch of other people mooned a passing Amtrak train? I'm not sure if it's NS or Conrail Shared Assets, but the current shop for American Chopper is right next to a freight line.
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Modeling the NYC/NYNH&H in HO and CPRail/D&H in N
Don't forget the opening of the Rock Hudson/Elizabeth Taylor movie "Giant" opens with a long tracking shop of a C&O steam-powered passenger train. Unlike most of the amateau movies we have to buy on DVD (thanks that at least they tried!!), the black steam engine is properly lighted and a lot of detail shows. After that opening, I lost interest in the movie.
Also, for fans of really old movies, take a look at the Busby Burkely dance number "Shuffle Off To Buffalo" in the 1933 "42nd Street." Busby really turns that Pullman inside out--literally--on a sound stage. All fantasy, of course, but lots of fun.
The train robbery scene at the beginning of "White Heat" starring Jimmy Cagney was filmed at the Southern Pacific tunnel in Chatsworth, California. See if you can find the stunt goof in that sequence.
Georgia Observer
joesg wrote:I have a movie addition for this list , White Christmas, filmed in 1954 Starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera Ellen. While escaping from a Sheriff with a bad bill for back rent. They board a train leaving southern Florida, Via the Santa Fe lightweights, through The desert, complete with cactus. Before ending up in Vermont, on some old heavy weight cars. I don't remember the markings on the cars.Also The movie, It happened to Jane, Now on DVD. I first saw it in the late fifties It has a lot of shots of NH equipment and facilities and really beautiful shots of an 2-8-2 both inside and out.
I have a movie addition for this list , White Christmas, filmed in 1954 Starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera Ellen. While escaping from a Sheriff with a bad bill for back rent. They board a train leaving southern Florida, Via the Santa Fe lightweights, through The desert, complete with cactus. Before ending up in Vermont, on some old heavy weight cars. I don't remember the markings on the cars.
Also The movie, It happened to Jane, Now on DVD. I first saw it in the late fifties It has a lot of shots of NH equipment and facilities and really beautiful shots of an 2-8-2 both inside and out.
CPRail modeler wrote:i recall that in The Outsiders, a BN locomotive was used for that train/car collision.there was also The Kids who saved summer which showed a WP F-unit early in the movieThese were both movies.GWR fan, those pics are cool. saw that part of the movie too. I think the guy in the movie was being chased by the GP30.
i recall that in The Outsiders, a BN locomotive was used for that train/car collision.
there was also The Kids who saved summer which showed a WP F-unit early in the movie
These were both movies.
GWR fan, those pics are cool. saw that part of the movie too. I think the guy in the movie was being chased by the GP30.
joesg wrote: I have a movie addition for this list , White Christmas, filmed in 1954 Starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera Ellen. While escaping from a Sheriff with a bad bill for back rent. They board a train leaving southern Florida, Via the Santa Fe lightweights, through The desert, complete with cactus. Before ending up in Vermont, on some old heavy weight cars. I don't remember the markings on the cars.
Started off with the Santa Fe units in Warbonnet paint, becoming SP Black Widows a few scenes later...
In a later Andy Griffith Show (in color), Barney arrives back in Mayberry on a Union Pacific. Dont recall them running that far east As far as model trains, I remember an I Love Lucy Christmas episode where little Ricky has a Lionel Santa Fe passenger set running on the living room floor. The movie Holiday Affair is centered around a train set, with the 1990s remake having Lionel Orange & Blue boxes very much in view.
In school we had to read the Westing Game.
In the book, one of the main characters fathers worked for the Milwaukee Road for 30 years.
That REALLY woke me up that morning!
Has anyone seen the John Wayne classic "Rio Lobo?"
The movie starts out at the time of the Civil War with a bunch of Confederate raiders hijacking gold from a federal train. The plan is quite imaginative!
Keith