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IVE ALWAYS LIKED TO SEE TV SHOWS OR MOVIES WITH MODEL TRAINS OR REAL TRAINS IN THEM.FEEL FREE TO INTERJECT WITH YOUR FINDINGS.

 

1.CLOCKERS

2.THE ADAMS FAMILY

3.THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW

4.MONEYTRAIN

5.THE WARRIORS

6.THE EMPORIOR OF THE NORTH

7.DEATHWISH

8.KING OF NEWYORK

9.THE INCIDENT

10.DREAMS DONT DIE 

11.WILDSTYLE

12.SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER

13.CARLITOS WAY

14.BADBOYS

15.STREETS OF FIRE

16.COOLEY HIGH

17.SPIDERMAN

18.MIGHTY JOE YOUNG

19.KINGKONG

 

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TOUGH GUYS.  4449 reasons to watch it.

 

I LOVE LUCY.  One show where a Lionel ATSF runs in the living room.

 

THE TRAIN.  Train full of French are Germany stole being taken back by French underground.

 

ROCKY.  Runs through a Conrail yard, with train.

 

ANNE K.  Cannot spell last name.  Heavy Russian drama.  Suiside by train at end.

 

KELLY'S HEROES.  Oddball's tank takes out a German railroad junction.  Not overhead cat in the yard!

 

BATMAN.  Monorail, but that is a train.

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The Incredibles -  Mr. Incredible (Bob Parr) exercises in a railroad yard to get back in shape.

 

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence - Opens with a train

 

Cowboy - Scenes in a cattle yard and livestock train

 

Terror Train - 'nuff said.

 

The Day The Earth Stood Still - New Haven engineer looking at a pantograph when Klatuu (or Gort) cuts all the power in the world.

 

Human Desires - Murder drama taking place around the "Central National" railroad.  Lot's of stock footage of various railroads and close ups of repainted Rock Island FA.

 

North by Northwest - New York Central footage

 

Silver Streak (1934) - Terrible railroading, swell melodrama

 

Silver Streak (1976) - Murder and intrigue on AmRoad

 

The Long Summer of George Adams - Railroad worker faces life's challenges.  Shot on the Texas State Railroad

 

Disaster on the Coastliner - 'nuff said

 

Superman (1978) - Young Clark Kent races a train and Supes prevents the derailment of an Amtrak train

 

Casey Jones - Syndicated 50's TV series

 

Ticket to Tomahawk - How to get a train from point A to point B when the tracks aren't ready yet.  RGS #20 and very good prop replica stars.

 

The National Dream - Canadian series about building the Canadian Pacific Railway.

 

Union Pacific - C.B. DeMill epic about building the transcontinental railroad

 

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. - Premier episode has prison train hold-up and involves alien artifact found during railroad construction

 

Dark of the Sun - Mercenaries use a train in the Congo to recover uncut diamonds 

 

Supertrain - Mercifully short 1979 NBC TV series

 

Time Express - CBS's answer to Supertrain.  Vincent Price takes passengers back in time to relive part a of their life.

 

Galaxy Express 999 - Japanese anime with spaceships built like trains

 

There's more, but that's all I can think of right now...

 

Rusty

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American Graffiti(You heard the train but never saw it), Godzilla, High Noon, A League Of Their Own, Cassandra Crossing, White Lighting, In The Heat Of The Night, Strangers On A Train, Striking Distance, The Taking Of Pelham 123, Though None Go With Me, October Sky, The Legend of Zorro, Under Siege Dark Territory, Switchback, Terror On A Train (Glenn Ford), The Movie The Untouchables, Wyatt Earp, 3:10 to Yuma,  and Coal Miners Daughter.

Here's a few more:

 

Runaway Train - Escaped convicts jump on runaway locomotives in the wilds of Alaska

 

End of the Line - Employees commandeer a locomotive to go to Chicago to try to prevent their section of the line from being shut down.

 

The Brave Engineer - Disney's animated version of Casey Jones

 

Dumbo - Disney, with Casey Jr. and his circus train

 

The Great Locomotive Chase - Disney's retelling of the story

 

The General - Buster Keaton's version of the Great Locomotive Chase

 

How the West was Won - Cinerama epic.  Transcontinental railroad building before intermission and a train robbery with wreck near the end

 

This is Cinerama - Segment shot on the WP with the California Zephyr

 

Tall Tale - Disney.  A young boy joins forces with the Legends of the West to fight off evil land barons and their railroad

 

It Happened to Jane -  Debbie Reynolds impounds a train as damages for a carload of live lobsters dying.  Shot on the New Haven.

 

Rusty

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Couple more:

 

Lawrence of Arabia - Lawrence blows up a train

 

Dr. Zhivago - Doc and family are placed on a refugee train.  Doc stumbles upon armored Bolshevik train

 

Wallace and Grommit: The Wrong Trousers - Wallace has a model train running through his house.  Grommit chases thieving penguin on model train using the bottomless box of track.

 

Northwest Passage (a.k.a. Flame over India) - The British rescue a young price by train as rebels give chase

 

Cassandra Crossing - Passengers exposed to a deadly virus are sealed inside a train and sent to their eventual doom

 

Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - Evildoers plot the demise of the Pacific Electric line in favor superhighways and rapidly prepared food

 

Rusty

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