Kozzie wrote:I reckon the movie: "Murder on the Orient Express" based on the Agatha Christie murder mystery novel of the same name was excellent. I'm not an Orient Express expert but it sure looked authentic! Great "atmosphere" - a train trapped deep in snow drifts in central Europe with high drama inside! Albert Finney did a great job as the detective Hercule Poirot! Dave
Loved that one, too! Some of the best shots of a moving train that I've ever seen on the silver screen. I'll agree with you about Albert Finney but the star of that all star cast, to me, had to have been Lauren Bacall-I'd pay to watch a film of her crossing the street. Always thought she was a class act.
Another Late Show find from years back-Flame Over India. I don't know how accurate the scenes were but it was all on or around a train, steam, no less! I was happy with that.
Someone mentioned finding Danger Lights...has anyone ever run across a Lon Cheney film Thunder Below? Some of the scenes were shot in my neck of the woods and there is a simulated destruction of a bridge (now a trail) just south of town. I've always been curious if a copy ever survived...
Let me add one to the dog list-Cassandra Crossing. A European express train is filled with people infected with a deadly virus that will sweep across the world if they are allowed off the train. So the train is deliberately routed over an abandoned bridge that will collapse-and does, dropping all the infected people out of the train onto the river...brilliant way to quarantine.
WP 3020 wrote: I kind of remember in a $6,000,000 Man show there was a forest fire and and he couldn't outrun the fire. ( strange for a man who could pull a hellicopter down and not have his feet come off the ground ) He and some woman found an old logging loco ( I think it was a Shay? ) and managed to fire it and get enough steam to run it through the fire.
I kind of remember in a $6,000,000 Man show there was a forest fire and and he couldn't outrun the fire. ( strange for a man who could pull a hellicopter down and not have his feet come off the ground ) He and some woman found an old logging loco ( I think it was a Shay? ) and managed to fire it and get enough steam to run it through the fire.
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The original "Silver Streak" from the 1930s is good, as is the "Phantom Express" from the same era. I have a VHS tape of "Danger Lights" and the story is hokey, but the railroading is great.
Big mistake: In "Groundhog Day", there are modern stack carriers rolling by on a train even though it is set in the 1960s.
Tharmeni wrote: Big mistake: In "Groundhog Day", there are modern stack carriers rolling by on a train even though it is set in the 1960s.
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Tharmeni wrote: The original "Silver Streak" from the 1930s is good, as is the "Phantom Express" from the same era. I have a VHS tape of "Danger Lights" and the story is hokey, but the railroading is great. Big mistake: In "Groundhog Day", there are modern stack carriers rolling by on a train even though it is set in the 1960s.
The stuff used in Groundhog Day is not that modern at all. The railroad part of the movie was filmed at the Illinois Railroad Musuem, using their equipment. It you look hard you can see the trolley wire in one of the shots.
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Groundhog's Day was shot entirely in Illinois. It was a movie contemporary to the time it was shot in the 1990's. The Television Van had a satellite communications! The locomotive appeared to be a BN SD40-2. Yes, there were auto carriers in that train.
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Andrew Falconer wrote: Groundhog's Day was shot entirely in Illinois. It was a movie contemporary to the time it was shot in the 1990's. The Television Van had a satellite communications! The locomotive appeared to be a BN SD40-2. Yes, there were auto carriers in that train. Andrew
The locomotive was an ex BN SD24, and there where no auto carriers in the train. I think you might be thinking of the Thrall all door box car that was in the train. The majority of the film was shot just up the road from IRM in Woodstock.
zugmann wrote: erikthered wrote: I liked Silver Streak. Realistic? Nope... not in the least. Jill Clayburgh was enough to make any man jump between passenger cars! Erik Hell-O Chicago! Gotta drink to that!--from Silver Streak
erikthered wrote: I liked Silver Streak. Realistic? Nope... not in the least. Jill Clayburgh was enough to make any man jump between passenger cars! Erik
I liked Silver Streak. Realistic? Nope... not in the least. Jill Clayburgh was enough to make any man jump between passenger cars!
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METRO wrote: Also the other crazy NBC train moment was when an earthquake chased down the Amtrak Empire Builder in the movie 10.5, which was also the least realistic earthquake movie of all time. Cheers! ~METRO
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"Disaster on the Coastliner"..THERE was an acadamy award winner Just how many FL9s run up and down the west coast's third rail line? Made for TV movie cinematography at its finest!
"Silver Streak" and "Union Pacific" top my list.
acelachaser wrote: "Disaster on the Coastliner"..THERE was an acadamy award winner Just how many FL9s run up and down the west coast's third rail line? Made for TV movie cinematography at its finest! "Silver Streak" and "Union Pacific" top my list.
vsmith wrote: acelachaser wrote: "Disaster on the Coastliner"..THERE was an acadamy award winner Just how many FL9s run up and down the west coast's third rail line? Made for TV movie cinematography at its finest! "Silver Streak" and "Union Pacific" top my list. I dont think so...."Disaster" featured Amtrak F-40s, I beleive they used the same trainset to film both trains on the collision course (old technic, film it from left side only for one train and from the right side only for the other, all you do is change the numbers on each side) but they were most definetly F40s. I remember cause I saw the behind the scenes of the climactic crash...
I remember that..and yes for the most part they shot the same train, but although the trains were Amfleet/F40 powered, there's at least 1 or 2 scenes that show an FL9 hauling Heritage fleet cars up the Connecticut ShoreLine. Looks like file/stock footage that doesn't even fit the format of the movie...typical of lower budgeted made for tv movies since the budget went to the cast and the f/x gang was last on the totem pole.
Silver Streak..(the Gene Wilder one)..why wreck a good F unit when you can drive a plastic shell over a pickup truck into styrofoam blocks painted to look like a station? And besides.."AmRoad" ? can you say "too cheap to pay for licensing"? Still a funny flick though.
If you are just talking about classic scenes in a movie I think In The Heat Of The Night should be included. Some great scenes of the GM&O and the Mopac.
Gluefinger wrote: GP-9_Man11786 wrote:My favorites are Silver Streek and Von Ryan's Express. I agree that Atomic Train was an Atomic Bomb. As for Runaway Train, what's with the GP-7s on AAR Trucks instead of Blomberg Trucks? I believe it was filmed on the Alaska RR, which used these trucks for their own reasons (cost, ability to weather, etc.) Old trucks from their retired locomotives could be attached to early EMD locomotives if requested by the railroad.
GP-9_Man11786 wrote:My favorites are Silver Streek and Von Ryan's Express. I agree that Atomic Train was an Atomic Bomb. As for Runaway Train, what's with the GP-7s on AAR Trucks instead of Blomberg Trucks?
I think they were ex Army engines, and that is why they had switcher trucks instead of Blombergs.
"Duel" is one of our favorite movies, and again this is kinda nitpicky about the details, but at one point after the SP train goes by and The Truck proceeds across the crossing, The Truck Driver gives a friendly blast of the air horn, and the train gives a friendly blast back...from the cab of the locomotive which should now be about a mile down the tracks! And this will show how much of a geek I am, but we watched the DVD a couple months ago and something I had never noticed before, and probably would never have noticed without the freeze-frame pause is they ran some of the train footage film backwards. Thought I was seeing things, but sure enough a cificaP nrehtuoS hopper went by.
On the topic of great directors first efforts, Martin Scorcese's first effort was "Boxcar Bertha" which could qualify as a train movie. I just saw this the first time about a month ago...anyone else nominate this under the "bad" portrayals?
spokyone wrote:I can not remember the movie, but in California, the first lady was on a train and a madman hijacked a train and jammed the radio and the signals so he could have a head on crash. The MOW guys caught on and built a high speed crossover in the nick of time. It was not realistic but had good drama.
That was Disaster On The Coastliner...I put in a few earlier posts about footage of an FL9 in Connecticut showing up in that one.
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