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Silver Streak Movie
Posted by CMStPnP on Friday, November 11, 2022 4:44 AM

The whole movie is free now and on YouTube.   Most of these Scenes were filmed on CP in Alberta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv_wl30h6eU

 

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Posted by samfp1943 on Friday, November 11, 2022 7:27 AM

CMStPnP

The whole movie is free now and on YouTube.   Most of these Scenes were filmed on CP in Alberta.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv_wl30h6eU

 

     One of "THOSE" Movies!.... Yeah  Smile, Wink & Grin  

        Keeps poppin up on the  laate nite "movies"  ..... Thumbs Up

   A 1970's 'remake' of a previous 'one'['30s or so?]..... A draw to 'rail-fans' with a somewhat techincal, but somewhat of a  sense of humor, IMHO.....

Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, with a checkquered cast of characters, get together; a sort of Alfred Hitchcock meets Inspector Cleauseauesque cross-country, train ride  Geeked  

Lots of gags, some meldrama, and the best line of the movie [IMHO] delivered by Scatman Crouthers, standing in the open door of whats remains of the'train' as it heads into the station

  "...HELLLLOOO CHICAGO!....."    Smile, Wink & Grin

All one needs is that bag of popcorn!!!!!!!!!!!!!    LaughLaughLaugh

 

 


 

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Posted by chutton01 on Friday, November 11, 2022 11:00 AM

The 'Tube has been more generous with "free with ads" feature movies over the past 3 years or so. I recall it seemed to start with a release of James Bond films (all films pre 2000 were "Free with Ads", the Bond films afterward (Die Another Die and later) were "Buy or Rent".  
I've tried to take advantage of the "free with ads" ones whenever I can (presuming its a movie I'd like to watch - e.g. Ground Hog Day, War Games, Glengarry Ross, Sum of All Fears, Splash, etc. - and a few months back I did watch Silver Streak - OTOH, for example I noped right out of Robocop 3 after about 5 minutes (the original Robocop, on the other hand, was a fun rewatch). Sometimes the "Free with Ads" films revert back to "Buy or Rent", so be aware of that.  "Unstoppable" has been floating around for a bit, probably should get around to watching that soon...

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Posted by tree68 on Friday, November 11, 2022 1:01 PM

samfp1943
  "...HELLLLOOO CHICAGO!....." 

"It almost looks like it's smiling..."

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Posted by rdamon on Friday, November 11, 2022 3:03 PM

tree68

 

 
samfp1943
  "...HELLLLOOO CHICAGO!....." 

 

"It almost looks like it's smiling..."

 

"Dang* Hippies!" @1:44:47  

 

Link to movie:

https://youtu.be/lN7JFS4T-I4

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Posted by wjstix on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 10:14 AM

samfp1943
  A 1970's 'remake' of a previous 'one'['30s or so?]..... A draw to 'rail-fans' with a somewhat techincal, but somewhat of a  sense of humor, IMHO.....

Except for the title, I don't think the 1930s "Silver Streak" has anything in common with the Wilder-Pryor one from the 70s. The old B&W movie is about a guy trying to get his idea for a new streamlined diesel train (played by the Burlington's new Zephyr) built and accepted by railroads. In the key scene, the railroad owner's son is injured working on Hoover Dam, and he has to be rushed to a hospital in (IIRC) Chicago. Only the Silver Streak can run without stopping all the way, so it's used as a last resort by the railroad to try to save the owner's son.

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Posted by 54light15 on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 10:45 AM

There's a Silver Streak movie from the 30s with the Zephyr? Sounds awesome- I love that thing! 

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Posted by rixflix on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 1:29 PM

"Silver Streak" is the 70's movie. "The Silver Streak" is the 30's movie.

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Posted by Erik_Mag on Wednesday, November 16, 2022 10:23 PM

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In the key scene, the railroad owner's son is injured working on Hoover Dam, and he has to be rushed to a hospital in (IIRC) Chicago. Only the Silver Streak can run without stopping all the way, so it's used as a last resort by the railroad to try to save the owner's son.

Sounds like the plot for the latter half of "Danger Lights", where the protagonist has to be rushed to a hospital in Chicago from Miles City (though Miles City is not mentioned in the film). The ludicrous part of the dash is showing the train racing westward through Lombard. N.B. Danger Lights was filmed in 1930.

IIRC, the "iron lung" was also showcased in "The Silver Streak".

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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, November 17, 2022 6:44 AM

54light15
There's a Silver Streak movie from the 30s with the Zephyr?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTbay8TZhM

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Posted by chutton01 on Thursday, November 17, 2022 8:41 AM

Since I last posted, I have watched 'Runaway Train' (escaped prisoners on a freight train in Alaska - the power consist includes a Chekhov's F-unit) and 'Unstoppable' (with the train 2 wheeling (well, I guess 12 wheeling) on the curved trestle thru Staton with nothing derailing...that was based on a true story, eh?

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Posted by Convicted One on Thursday, November 17, 2022 9:15 AM

chutton01
that was based on a true story, eh?

The CSX run-away in Ohio several years back. Obviously "spruced up for the box office" a bit.

Since I was already familiar with the real world events the movie was based upon, I enjoyed watching it, despite the departures from reality. 

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Posted by wjstix on Thursday, November 17, 2022 9:39 AM

Overmod

  

54light15
There's a Silver Streak movie from the 30s with the Zephyr?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTbay8TZhM

 

Although I have this movie on DVD (or videocassette?) it's been a long time since I watched it. I forgot it gave the train a credit: "Burlington Zephyr as 'The Silver Streak'"!! 

I believe some of the hurried race to Chicago at the end was actual footage of the famous Denver-Chicago 'nonstop' trip the Zephyr made in 1934.

Also, a key supporting role is played by Arthur Lake, who some of us older folks will recall as Dagwood in the "Blondie" series of movies.

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Posted by tdmidget on Thursday, November 17, 2022 9:44 AM

Well, you did get Chicago and the Hoover dam right, but the rest, no.

wjstix
 
samfp1943
  A 1970's 'remake' of a previous 'one'['30s or so?]..... A draw to 'rail-fans' with a somewhat techincal, but somewhat of a  sense of humor, IMHO.....

 

Except for the title, I don't think the 1930s "Silver Streak" has anything in common with the Wilder-Pryor one from the 70s. The old B&W movie is about a guy trying to get his idea for a new streamlined diesel train (played by the Burlington's new Zephyr) built and accepted by railroads. In the key scene, the railroad owner's son is injured working on Hoover Dam, and he has to be rushed to a hospital in (IIRC) Chicago. Only the Silver Streak can run without stopping all the way, so it's used as a last resort by the railroad to try to save the owner's son.

 

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, November 17, 2022 9:53 AM

Overmod
 
54light15
There's a Silver Streak movie from the 30s with the Zephyr? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LTbay8TZhM

2000 miles in 19 hours???????

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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, November 17, 2022 9:54 AM

As Bugs said: "nyaaaaaaaah... could be"

There ought to be a trope for this, 'gotta get the serum to Nome'.

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Posted by 54light15 on Thursday, November 17, 2022 10:28 AM

After the Dawn-To-Dusk run, the Zephyr made a tour around the US. My father grew up in Towanda, PA and the entire school went to the station to see and tour it. That must have been something! 

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, November 17, 2022 11:18 AM

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Posted by wjstix on Thursday, November 17, 2022 1:54 PM

2000 mi. in 19 hrs would be 105 MPH. It's fast but plausible. Track was in better shape back then; a lot of Amtrak trains take longer to make their run than their steam era counterparts did.

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Posted by BaltACD on Thursday, November 17, 2022 2:16 PM

wjstix
2000 mi. in 19 hrs would be 105 MPH. It's fast but plausible. Track was in better shape back then; a lot of Amtrak trains take longer to make their run than their steam era counterparts did.

I don't think the real Zephyr had the fuel capacity to run 2K miles non-stop; as well as the HOS law was in effect at the time limiting the engineer and engineer pilot to 16 working hours.  But why let reality interrupt a good story.

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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, November 17, 2022 6:04 PM

BaltACD

Hey, I liked the train in Streamline Express -- it was everything that Supertrain should have been but turned out not to be.  Sure, the plot is nonsense and some of the assumptions screenwriter-wacky, but the underlying premise was good.  And I have to wonder if it shaped any of the Breitspurbahn planning...

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Posted by 54light15 on Thursday, November 17, 2022 6:25 PM

Maybe it was inspired by Popeye?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1iZRX0RUEU 

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Posted by Overmod on Thursday, November 17, 2022 10:40 PM
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Posted by CMStPnP on Sunday, November 20, 2022 2:35 PM

Did you notice the sleeping car in the movie "Elgin Manor" is still in service on the VIA Rail Canadian?     Also in the dining car scene did you see what they were eating for lunch?     A mound of cottage cheese, a slice of meat loaf and it looked like orange slices but could have been carrots.    I wonder if those were actually on the CP Rail menu.    I can't imagine eating cottage cheese with meat loaf......eck!!!

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Posted by Overmod on Sunday, November 20, 2022 8:51 PM

How do you know it was cottage cheese and not mashed potatoes?

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Posted by rixflix on Monday, November 21, 2022 6:56 AM

Meatloaf and mashed potatoes = comfort food, especially at the roadside diner and on the Reading's Philly-NYC trains. Just add peas as the veggie, carefully placed in a line on the mashed potatoes preloaded on your knife. Did that etiquette come from The Stooges or Laurel and Hardy?

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Posted by tree68 on Monday, November 21, 2022 7:12 AM

If my plate arrived with cottage cheese, it would leave with cottage cheese.

Mashed 'taters' would be a different story.  When I was young, if we had mashed potatoes but no gravy, it was butter for a topping.  We were a meat and potatoes family.  

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Posted by wjstix on Monday, November 21, 2022 11:08 AM

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 wjstix

2000 mi. in 19 hrs would be 105 MPH. It's fast but plausible. Track was in better shape back then; a lot of Amtrak trains take longer to make their run than their steam era counterparts did.

I don't think the real Zephyr had the fuel capacity to run 2K miles non-stop; as well as the HOS law was in effect at the time limiting the engineer and engineer pilot to 16 working hours.  But why let reality interrupt a good story.

 

 
Well I agree reality didn't have too much to do with the story in general. Hoover Dam to Chicago would be about 1775 mi.; the real Zephyr's Denver to Chicago nonstop run was just over 1000 mi., so is stretching things a bit.
 
IIRC the "Silver Streak" was driven all the way by the hero, who was something like the head of the railroad's engineering department, so there wasn't a standard crew. Not sure with someone in management running the train if the 16 hour rule would apply? More importantly, since the race to Chicago was to save the life of the son of the president of the railroad, I suspect the president wouldn't mind paying a fine for violating the work rules if it meant saving his son's life. 
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Posted by BaltACD on Monday, November 21, 2022 11:15 AM

wjstix
 
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 wjstix

2000 mi. in 19 hrs would be 105 MPH. It's fast but plausible. Track was in better shape back then; a lot of Amtrak trains take longer to make their run than their steam era counterparts did. 

I don't think the real Zephyr had the fuel capacity to run 2K miles non-stop; as well as the HOS law was in effect at the time limiting the engineer and engineer pilot to 16 working hours.  But why let reality interrupt a good story. 

Well I agree reality didn't have too much to do with the story in general. Hoover Dam to Chicago would be about 1775 mi.; the real Zephyr's Denver to Chicago nonstop run was just over 1000 mi., so is stretching things a bit.
 
IIRC the "Silver Streak" was driven all the way by the hero, who was something like the head of the railroad's engineering department, so there wasn't a standard crew. Not sure with someone in management running the train if the 16 hour rule would apply? More importantly, since the race to Chicago was to save the life of the son of the president of the railroad, I suspect the president wouldn't mind paying a fine for violating the work rules if it meant saving his son's life. 

In the present day, the only Senior Railroad Official that maintained their 'Engineer's Card' was Cindy Sanborn while she was with CSX.  Of course once she moved on to UP and then NS I doubt that she did.  Saw a article recently that she was retiring from NS.

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Posted by adkrr64 on Monday, November 21, 2022 11:36 AM

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In the present day, the only Senior Railroad Official that maintained their 'Engineer's Card' was Cindy Sanborn while she was with CSX.  Of course once she moved on to UP and then NS I doubt that she did.  Saw a article recently that she was retiring from NS.

Interesting. So how often would Ms. Sanborn need to run a train to keep her engineer card? Seems like it would have to be enough times to have a check ride and an unannounced test as a minimum. I wonder what the average conductor thought when paired up with someone like that.

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