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The 1973 made-for-TV movie about the runaway ski train was called "Runaway!" A little net research yielded the following...D&RGW GP30 #3011, along with D&RGW GP35 #3032, were painted as "Sierra Pacific" (black with orange lettering) for use in the film. D&RGW GP40 3081 was also painted as "Sierra Pacific" (silver with red lettering). If I recall, it was the new silver GP40 that caught up to, and braked, the runaway right before it plowed into the terminal. I spent many hours trying to recreate this scenario as a kid on my crude HO layout....tremendous fun. "Avalanche Express," which I have not seen, was Robert Shaw's last film. In it, he played a Soviet defector. Lee Marvin played an American agent determined to get him safely delivered across the Milan to Rotterdam railway. But the Soviets will do anything to stop him--including start an avalanche. ...sounds exciting. I remember the made-for-TV movie, "Disaster on the Coastliner." The two things that stand out in my memory are how calm and cool the track crew was, working right up to the last second and holding the rails in place with crowbars as the passenger train flew by, and the realsim of the F40PH models used in the crash sequence (I recall TV Guide did a little piece of these models with some photos). The George Clooney/Nicole Kidman flich "Peacemaker" has some pretty cool Russian rail footage at the beginning. All in all, very few decent movies really centered on trains. Maybe one of these days.
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