Both Trains and Railfan and Railroad had extensive stories on the making of "Tough Guys". A full size mockup was made of the 4449 and it was buried in sand up to the walkways.
When the 4449 was heading down to make the movie, we were able to pace it at 60 mph between San Jose and Morgan Hill.
“Danger Lights” is one of the best movies with real railroad locations and action.
I caught “Murder in the Private Car” on TCM last week. Lots of 1930’s Southern Pacific fun!
My favorite though is “It Happened to Jane” with Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, and the last surviving New Haven Steam Locomotive!
Jon 
This scene on the locomotive from "La Bete humaine"(1938) is great:
Note at 2:00 the use of a water scoop.
And there is more in the remainder of the movie (also on YouTube) which is about an French steam locomotive engineer.
Regards
Fred
This crops up:
Rusty
Tough Guys is one of my favorites with one of my favorite actors, Kirk Douglass. There are many I like, and many I don't, including the horrible one with Wilford Brimley where they steal a loco.
However, in recent years my favorite movie with lots of real train action (which I saw because of my son but glad I did) was Paddington 2 which featured the Tornado. Train station scene starts at about 3:25. While there is much CGI, the trains are real along with most of the train action.
How could anyone overlook "Broadway Limited?"
Absolutely dreadful movie with a number of fine scenes of PRR equipment.
sncf231e posted:This scene on the locomotive from "La Bete humaine"(1938) is great:
Note at 2:00 the use of a water scoop.
And there is more in the remainder of the movie (also on YouTube) which is about an French steam locomotive engineer.
Regards
Fred
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Rusty Traque posted:This crops up:
Rusty
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1 - The Train
1- Von Ryans Express
3 - Silver Streak
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Rusty Traque posted:wjstix posted:As far as CGI, I'm pretty sure the scene in "Unstoppable" where the engine and cars have their wheels lift off the track on one side going around a tight curve wasn't 'real'....
Bingo.
The laws of physics and gravity wouldn't allow it. Swell melodrama, bad science.
Rusty
I agree, once the science goes wrong, the movie is a total loss.
I didn't see any mention of Switchback with Danny Glover and Dennis Quaid. Good train scenes in that one.
Another is Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Steven Seagal.
Those don't make my top 5, but they are worth noting.
For me it's Emperor of The North, The Train, Von Ryan's Express.
Dan Padova posted:sncf231e posted:This scene on the locomotive from "La Bete humaine"(1938) is great:
Note at 2:00 the use of a water scoop.
And there is more in the remainder of the movie (also on YouTube) which is about an French steam locomotive engineer.
Regards
Fred
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I am sorry; it does play from my location (Netherlands); I tried to find another copy, but there isn't.
Regards
Fred
Just saw a title for a train movie..."One More Train To Rob" with George Peppard. Never watched it so I can't comment.
Then there's "Money Train" with Wesley Snipes & Woody Harrelson.
And come to think of it, the movie "The Wild Wild West" with the most beautiful Selma Hayak.
Just watched The Day the Earth Stood Still again. In one scene the boy rolls a train layout out from under his bed with a Lionel set, runs it blows the whistle and etc. until Klaatu enters and offers to tell him about trains that run with out rails.
sncf231e posted:Dan Padova posted:sncf231e posted:This scene on the locomotive from "La Bete humaine"(1938) is great:
Note at 2:00 the use of a water scoop.
And there is more in the remainder of the movie (also on YouTube) which is about an French steam locomotive engineer.
Regards
Fred
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I am sorry; it does play from my location (Netherlands); I tried to find another copy, but there isn't.
Regards
Fred
I believe this is the scene you have pasted into your post. I'm not sure what is happening in the clip. A man is walking on the tracks. The fireman sees something. Then at the end of the clip, another man wearing a hat walks by a trackside shanty.
Lots of Good picks. There are many on my Train movie list:
The Great Locomotive Chase 1956- Fess Parker. Classic Disney Civil War
The Denver and Rio Grande- 1952-Edmund O’Brien. Battle among competing Railroads.
Narrow Margin 1952 -Charles McGraw or the remake 1990 with Gene Hackman. A good guy protects the witness.
Northwest Frontier -1959-Kenneth Moore & Lauren Bacall. Great stream locomotive runs thru high desert country of India followed by bad guys. This is a hidden gem of a movie.
Human Desire-1954- Glen Ford, Broderick Crawford, Gloria Grahame, Railroad guys battle over a woman.
Any of the Murder on the Orient Express. Agatha Christie mystery.
Happy Thanksgiving
Seacoast posted:Lots of Good picks. There are many on my Train movie list:
The Great Locomotive Chase 1956- Fess Parker. Classic Disney Civil War
The Denver and Rio Grande- 1952-Edmund O’Brien. Battle among competing Railroads.
Narrow Margin 1952 -Charles McGraw or the remake 1990 with Gene Hackman. A good guy protects the witness.
Northwest Frontier -1959-Kenneth Moore & Lauren Bacall. Great stream locomotive runs thru high desert country of India followed by bad guys. This is a hidden gem of a movie.
Human Desire-1954- Glen Ford, Broderick Crawford, Gloria Grahame, Railroad guys battle over a woman.
Any of the Murder on the Orient Express. Agatha Christie mystery.
Happy Thanksgiving
Dang! Looks like I need to do some more collecting. I keep thinking there's a movie set in a foreign country in perhaps the 1800's involving an escape by train starring Humphrey Bogart. I seen it some time ago but cannot remember the name.
In 1932 there was a movie called "The Hurricane Express" starring a very young John Wayne.
Dan Padova posted:sncf231e posted:Dan Padova posted:sncf231e posted:
I believe this is the scene you have pasted into your post.
No, it is not. As I said: I tried to find another copy, but there isn't.
Regards
Fred
Another overlooked movie, Dark of the Sun:
Mercenaries hired to retrieve a fortune in diamonds during revolution. The train will get wrecked (no models, no CGI) towards the end of the movie.
Rusty
"Emperor of the North" is my favorite railroad movie.
I just found this one about the Big Boy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8gnK9JaU7Y
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