Texas Chief wrote: Tracklayer wrote: In the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still, Bobby (the kid in the movie) has a train layout on a sheet of plywood under his bed, and when Klattu (the alien) knocks on Bobby's bed room door and asks to barrow a flashlight and sees it, he tells him to remind him tomorrow to tell him about the trains where he comes from that don't need tracks... I sure hope they do a modern remake of that movie and don't screw it up!.TracklayerI sure hope they DON'T do a modern remake. Every remake I've ever seen has been a dismal failure, and this would be one also. This movie is one of the best Si-Fi movies ever filmed. They also show a great still shot of the Santa Fe Chief.DickTexas Chief
Tracklayer wrote: In the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still, Bobby (the kid in the movie) has a train layout on a sheet of plywood under his bed, and when Klattu (the alien) knocks on Bobby's bed room door and asks to barrow a flashlight and sees it, he tells him to remind him tomorrow to tell him about the trains where he comes from that don't need tracks... I sure hope they do a modern remake of that movie and don't screw it up!.Tracklayer
In the movie The Day The Earth Stood Still, Bobby (the kid in the movie) has a train layout on a sheet of plywood under his bed, and when Klattu (the alien) knocks on Bobby's bed room door and asks to barrow a flashlight and sees it, he tells him to remind him tomorrow to tell him about the trains where he comes from that don't need tracks...
I sure hope they do a modern remake of that movie and don't screw it up!.
Tracklayer
I sure hope they DON'T do a modern remake. Every remake I've ever seen has been a dismal failure, and this would be one also. This movie is one of the best Si-Fi movies ever filmed. They also show a great still shot of the Santa Fe Chief.
Dick
Texas Chief
I'm sorry Texas Chief (actually I'm really not), but you know how Hollywood is now a days. And just in case you're a sci fi fan that might be interested in knowing, I heard a rumor that they're working on doing remakes of Forbidden Planet and Creature From The Black Lagoon... Oh well. What can you do.
jerryl wrote: There is another British Mystery series where the murderer has a layout, can't remember the name. You are right... We do'nt look very good. Jerry
There is another British Mystery series where the murderer has a layout, can't remember the name. You are right... We do'nt look very good. Jerry
That movie was "Obsession" (or "The Hidden Room" in the US release) from 1949, starring Robert Newton as a Doctor/Killer. Interestingly this was his last movie before the role he'll always be remembered for, Long John Silver in "Treasure Island"(1950)). Anyway, Newton's character is based on Dr.Crippen, a real UK murderer. The Dr. in the movie has a pretty extensive OO layout in his house; early on the investigating inspector tries to get under his skin by suggesting that the tender of a certain engine is wrong, hoping to see what kind of temper he has.
Cheese wrote: CPRail modeler wrote: I forgot to mention that there was an O scale layout in Stuart Little. It looked well detailed too.BTW the Hornby model makes more sense because i think its a British model. Actually,The layout in Stuart Little was a large scale layout with LGB equipment. I saw a Santa Fe F7 A and B pulling a few, maybe 2 or 3, cars, and maybe a caboose. A still shot overlooking the layout in a Stuart Little book I had (Called "Stuarts Photo Album" or something like that) show some more cars sitting on the layout and if I recall, and LGB Mogul, or maybe it was just the tender.Cheese
CPRail modeler wrote: I forgot to mention that there was an O scale layout in Stuart Little. It looked well detailed too.BTW the Hornby model makes more sense because i think its a British model.
I forgot to mention that there was an O scale layout in Stuart Little. It looked well detailed too.
BTW the Hornby model makes more sense because i think its a British model.
Actually,
The layout in Stuart Little was a large scale layout with LGB equipment. I saw a Santa Fe F7 A and B pulling a few, maybe 2 or 3, cars, and maybe a caboose.
A still shot overlooking the layout in a Stuart Little book I had (Called "Stuarts Photo Album" or something like that) show some more cars sitting on the layout and if I recall, and LGB Mogul, or maybe it was just the tender.
Cheese
OH. Corrected again. But I thought the size was right. The thing that made me think it was O scale Lionel was the F-units, Mainly because Lionel was a major builder of O scale F-units, mainly the F3.
O well...
I found a a movie on cable the other night called : "The Station Agent", about a dwarf who inherits a decrepit train depot. The first part of the movie takes place in a train shop that seems to deal primarilyin Lionel. Watch for it, it's a great movie.
I forgot about the movie "Arthur" with Dudley Moore (rest his soul) as a rich, silly boozer... He had a layout right behind the head of his bed that was apparently also his alarm clock. If I ever win the lottery I'm gonna do that!...
In the movie "Money train" a guy had a model of the train on his office desk, and Woody Harrelson's character snatched it when he left the office.
Steven Spielberg's "Close encounters": Richard Dreyfuss' character had a layout in his living room, but sadly it was destroyed as he began to model Devil's Tower on it, full scale...
Here in Norway there was an English television series not long ago; "Kingdom", where the main character (a lawyer) had a nice layout (I guess 00 scale) in the attic, and operated it in several episodes.
Svein
TheK4Kid wrote: I can't recall the name of the movie, but it might have been made in the 50's or 60's but I think Cary Grant was in it but not sure, and they had these "O" scale trains (I think they were Lionel) running all over the one floor level of this big house, and they had made "tunnel cutouts" in the baseboard and walls for the trains to go from one room to the other.I remember seeing the movie, but it's been years ago. Anyone recall this movie????? TheK4Kid
I can't recall the name of the movie, but it might have been made in the 50's or 60's but I think Cary Grant was in it but not sure, and they had these "O" scale trains (I think they were Lionel) running all over the one floor level of this big house, and they had made "tunnel cutouts" in the baseboard and walls for the trains to go from one room to the other.
I remember seeing the movie, but it's been years ago.
Anyone recall this movie?????
TheK4Kid
It was calle "People Will Talk". http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043915/
Andre
initagain wrote: For you postwar Lionel fans, remember a comedy show in the early 60's (I think), called The Addams Family: Gomez (played by John Astin) was always crashing Lionel trains into one another on what I vaguely remember as a pretty sizeable layout. I remember him using a ZW to control the trains.
For you postwar Lionel fans, remember a comedy show in the early 60's (I think), called The Addams Family: Gomez (played by John Astin) was always crashing Lionel trains into one another on what I vaguely remember as a pretty sizeable layout. I remember him using a ZW to control the trains.
Those iconic scenes were also translated over into the Addams Family movies produced in the 90's, starring Raul Julia and Angelica Huston. I remember reading a magazine article about the problems of adapting the train sets for the movie. Though I don't remember whether the article appeared in a hobby magazine or in one of the movie special effects journals. At any rate the jist of the article what that when they went to film the scenes where Gomez was blowing up his railroad, they found the Lionel locomotives and rolling stock were too well constructed for their purposes. The special effects team would blow them up with squib charges and smash them together in head-end collisions, but the equipment would come out the other side with only a few scratches and/or burn marks on the paint. In the end they wound up scratch building their own equipment using cardboard, thin sytrene, and even sheets of lead. All so they could get their shots of appropriately crushed and mangled rolling stock.
I have figured out what is wrong with my brain! On the left side nothing works right, and on the right side there is nothing left!
Cox 47 wrote:Thanks for all the posts...I just thought of another Rev. Lovejoy in the Simpsons has a layout in his basement don't know how I forgot that one as the Simpson's is one of my favorites.
loathar wrote: Uhmmm....Addams Family?
Uhmmm....Addams Family?
Being able to run locos head-on into each other can mean only one thing -- Gomez had DCC way before any of the rest of us!
"Tish, that's French!"
Craig
DMW
Dallas Model Works wrote:Being able to run locos head-on into each other can mean only one thing -- Gomez had DCC way before any of the rest of us!
All model railroaders should experience running Lionel trains.
When I was a kid in the '80's, there was a TV show called "Our House" that we used to watch all the time. It was about a divorced (or widowed?) mother and her kids who moved in with grandpa (her dad or his, I don't remember). The grandpa was played by Wilford Brimley, and he had a layout in a small shed next to the house. I don't remember too much about the show, and don't remember what the layout looked like if I ever saw it.
I do remember one episode where he came home and went straight to the "train room," and one of the other characters on the show remarked that he must really be in a bad mood because he went straight to playing with his trains before even coming in the house.
The mother on the show was played by Deidre Hall, and if I recall correctly, Shannon Doherty played the oldest girl, back in the pre-90210 days.
Anybody else remember this show?
Dan Stokes
My other car is a tunnel motor
How about Alf. Willie had a O scale layout in the garage/shed that Alf's spacecraft landed on. One of the early episodes shows Alf running the train while Willie tries to fix the spacecraft.
Anyone ever see the movie with Gary Coleman where he plays a shoeshine boy who lives in a locker at Union Station. He has the ability to pick the winning horse while shining shoes. Social services wants to move him out of the station and he ends up with his own refurbished caboose to live in.
Gandy Dancer wrote: Dallas Model Works wrote:Being able to run locos head-on into each other can mean only one thing -- Gomez had DCC way before any of the rest of us! Hardly. You give DCC entirely too much credit. Lionel & American flyer trains running on AC can easily do head on collisions.All model railroaders should experience running Lionel trains.
Really? Did those old Lionel trains have built-in sound? Gomez' locos had sound...
On The Simpsons, Reverend Lovejoy is a model train enthusiest(sp?) and the movie "Garfield" it looks like Jon has a "O" scale running in the one room. Hope this helps!!!
Dick. It's confirmed!... They are in fact doing a remake of The Day The Earth Stood Still. It's set to be released by Fox Studios May of 2008. I just hope and pray they do a good job of it.
How about model railroads in music videos?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oGneWngmos
Dave
Just be glad you don't have to press "2" for English.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ_ALEdDUB8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hqFS1GZL4s
http://s73.photobucket.com/user/steemtrayn/media/MovingcoalontheDCM.mp4.html?sort=3&o=27
How about The Lone Ranger, Wild Bill Hickok, Gene Autrey, Roy Rogers, The Cisco Kid, Have Gun- Will Travel, Gunsmoke, The Wild Wild West ( this one's really appropriate-it was based on two government agents who used an old-time passenger car as their mobile base of operations.) These ought to get the brain cells cooking.
Dallas Model Works wrote: Did those old Lionel trains have built-in sound? Gomez' locos had sound...
Did those old Lionel trains have built-in sound? Gomez' locos had sound...
Either that, or the television show of Gomez' loco had sound dubbed by the sound effects editor. Television is not always "real."
jktrains wrote: Anyone ever see the movie with Gary Coleman where he plays a shoeshine boy who lives in a locker at Union Station. He has the ability to pick the winning horse while shining shoes. Social services wants to move him out of the station and he ends up with his own refurbished caboose to live in.
I don't think that was a movie. Isn't that a reality show about his real life these days?
Marlon
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leighant wrote: Dallas Model Works wrote: Did those old Lionel trains have built-in sound? Gomez' locos had sound...Either that, or the television show of Gomez' loco had sound dubbed by the sound effects editor. Television is not always "real."
Erm...did you see the smiley face at the end of my post? Sometimes posts aren't always "real" either.