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About two weeks ago I was unable to sleep due to a sore neck and shoulder.  About 4:00 AM I got out of bed and sat in my recliner chair.  I turned on my TV and caught the beginning of "The Adventures of Annie Oakley", a 1950 western series.  WOW!! the story was centered around the narrow gauge SP Owens valley branch.  There were lots of scenes of ten wheeler no. 9 under steam running light and pulling trains.  Scenes were shot in Laws, Owenyo and Keeler.  Sure the story was hokey and Annie was even hokier but I was totally entranced with all the train scenes.  BTW it was shown on MEtv, channel 17 here in Roswell GA.      ODD-D

texastrain posted:

Watching FXM Retro and a movie from 1965 called "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home" with Shirley McLane, Peter Ustinov, Harry Morgan, and other greats is on.  It is about a U2 pilot who lands in a middle eastern country, and the sheik, Peter Ustinov, has trains, of all scales, running everywhere through his palace, throughout the movie.  It is a fun B movie from that time, and a lot of trains and girls in bikinis.  A lot of good looking action, with trains....... A really fun movie for a Saturday of relaxing while working on engines, despite the distractions.  Still, worth watching to catch the interesting model train action, and some ideas for layouts around the house.......

Jesse

I saw that movie as a kid the local t.v. station would air it.Now those where trains that smoked and sounded like trains.I know its a movie but its a fun movie.

The Great Train Robbery (1978)

In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.

Writers:

Michael Crichton (screenplay by), Michael Crichton (based on his novel)
 

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"I wanted the money."
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"The Great Train Robbery" is based on a novel by Michael Crichton. It features the efforts of a band of three to rob gold kept in elaborate safes on a train leaving England to support the Crimean War. The film's costumes, elaborate sets and a score from Jerry Goldsmith are impeccable at creating a sense of Victorian England.

Sean Connery is charming as Edward Pierce, who leads the robbers. Donald Sutherland has a memorable role as Robert Agar, a top-rate thief and accomplice to Pierce. Lesley-Anne Down plays Miriam, Pierce's enchanting female companion who has no scruples about using her womanly charms.

The film follows the elaborate and interesting lengths that the gang must go to before they can even board the train. The elements of a great caper film are there: split-second decisions, tension and improvisations when plans go awry. The film also benefits from a lot of well-placed humor. "The Great Train Robbery" proves to remain interesting throughout the build up to and during the robbery.

 
Great action train movie with great actors
Charlie
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In "What Ever Happened To Baby Jane... before killing him Jane hands drunken Ed a doll of herself and leaves the room. Ed sees the wheelchair and mischievously gets in with the doll on his lap and wraps a blanket over thier heads "like an Indian squaw" and goes for a drunken ride down the hall "Here comes the Super Chief"  

("fr-Ed's dead Baby... fr-ED's dead"  

Going off on a tangent, slightly - "The Band Wagon" is on now on on TCM -  when Tony Hunter arrived on the 20th Century Limited at Grand Central, he was talking with a porter. For some reason, this time I notice that the porter's voice is familiar. Sure enough, the actor was a porter six years later on the 20th Century Limited in "North by Northwest." Think "A message from the lady in car 3901."

The actor, Ernest Anderson, was also a club car steward in "The Palm Beach Story," a porter in "Lady on a Train," a dining car waiter in "Without Reservations," and a red cap at Albuquerque in an episode of "Cannon." Among his many other roles.

David

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Watching "Sweet November," from 1968. Pier/terminal operations in background, below Brooklyn Heights. Looks like area of Pier 15, at roughly Montague Street - several sets of tracks curve to lead to car float. Several cars on the tracks. Other tracks parallel to the waterfront have box cars on them, for loading to/from ships, I assume. A couple New York Central in green, a couple ATSF.

David

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When I was a boy, I really liked it when, in "The Day the Earth Stood Still," the boy character, Bobby, whipped out his train set platform from under his bed to show Klaatu, who then picked up part of it to explain there were ships in his world that had an arrangement similar to our trains.

I believe I am remembering that correctly, from decades ago.

Anyolways, I loved that movie, especially the spaceship and the robot , Gort. Klaatu was pretty cool, too.

FrankM

P.S. "Klaatu barada nikto."

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Moonson posted:

When I was a boy, I really liked it when, in "The Day the Earth Stood Still," the boy character, Bobby, whipped out his train set platform from under his bed to show Klaatu, who then picked up part of it to explain there were ships in his world that had an arrangement similar to our trains.

I believe I am remembering that correctly, from decades ago.

Anyolways, I loved that movie, especially the spaceship and the robot , Gort. Klaatu was pretty cool, too.

FrankM

P.S. "Klaatu barada nikto."

Hi Frank M, 

"The Day the Earth Stood Still" is a classic movie. The kid with the train set is the actor Billy Gray who got his fame from the TV series "Father Knows Best" as the oldest son of Robert Young and Jane Wyatt. There was a new remake version of the sci fi "The day the Earth Stood Still" in 2008 too.

In case anyone has not seen the first Avengers movie, there are 3 NS dash 9s that make an apperance in the beginning of the movie but the logos were photoshopped since the scene took place in Russia but filmed in Cleveland. Also in the Dark Knight Rises, a CSX Dash 9 is seen halfway through the movie with the logo cut out when entering the scene. 

J Daddy:

    That scene was filmed in "Old Tucson," an outdoor movie set where hundreds of movies, TV shows and commercials have been shot. Think "Rio Bravo" (John Wayne), "Tombstone" (Kurt Russell), "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (Clint Eastwood), etc. That steam engine is on display there and is probably still available for movie scenes. "Old Tucson" is located near Tucson, Arizona and is open to the public (when not shooting).

John

Just watched "This property is condemned" with Robert Redford and Natalie Wood. Depression era, railroad town and Redford arrives to fire everyone and shut down the shops. Lots of scenes around the tracks, equipment and a couple of shots of steam engines. I believe it was shot on the L&N from some of the engines and passenger equipment shown. Based on a Tennessee Williams short story so its not very upbeat. Came across this movie when looking to see if the girl who played Scout in Mocking Bird was in any others. She plays the younger sister  who winds up living by herself in the abandoned railroad hotel her mother ran.

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texastrain posted:

Watching FXM Retro and a movie from 1965 called "John Goldfarb, Please Come Home" with Shirley McLane, Peter Ustinov, Harry Morgan, and other greats is on.  It is about a U2 pilot who lands in a middle eastern country, and the sheik, Peter Ustinov, has trains, of all scales, running everywhere through his palace, throughout the movie.  It is a fun B movie from that time, and a lot of trains and girls in bikinis.  A lot of good looking action, with trains....... A really fun movie for a Saturday of relaxing while working on engines, despite the distractions.  Still, worth watching to catch the interesting model train action, and some ideas for layouts around the house.......

Jesse

I remember that movie and it was the only reason I watched it.Big 2 rail o scale trains.

seaboardm2 posted:

Does any body recall a tv show about lawers firm.One of the lawers has some thing of a break down.He fill his office with lionel trains.Older guys might recall I LOVE LUCY SHOW.Were lucy wanting new stuff.She had a lionel santa fe super chief train going through the apartment.Then you have bugsbunny in a boxing match.At the end we see a railroad track in the ring.With bugs tied to the tracks.A huge steam locomotive comes real closse up on bugs.Then the film breaks bugs come out and tells up it broke.But we see a pair of cutter behind his back.

What is a "lawers?"  Sounds like a show I'd like to add to my list. Thanks. 

I seem to remember a train on the Today Show (NBC) from way back. I think Hugh Downs was on that show back then. If I am remembering right, a steam powered Lionel train hauled a bowl of Kellogg's Corn Flakes on a flat car around a layout. Kellogg's was a sponsor back then. It would stop under a water tank that would fill the bowl with milk. Does anybody else remember this? I was maybe 5 years old at the time but I had my first Lionel by then, so I recognized it.

Don't know whether it has been mentioned earlier in this post, but I recently watched the James Bond film Skyfall.  

The initial and quite long sequence takes place on top of a moving train in Istanbul as 007 and the bad guy duke it out.

The shots are amazing and it's interesting to see some non-US trains for a change of pace.

And speaking of pace, I havent finished the entire video yet, so there could be more scenes of interest.

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