Nice job so far pointing out some great “A” list movies and television shows that included trains. However, time for some low budget, “B” movies. Two come to mind. Both were low budget horror/terror flicks shot on location in the late 70s/early 80s in downtown NYC, mostly in the village. The first is “Brain Damage”, a comedic horror flick about a very unique talking monster named “Elmer”. In one scene, the protagonist, controlled by “Elmer”, kills his girlfriend on a subway train. Ironically, in a lapse typical of a low budget flick, they enter a silver R-62 subway train in Manhattan, but the interior is shot in an r-33 redbird riding on the Flushing line. The next flick is “The Driller Killer”, about an unsuccessful painter, driven mad by the stresses of life and the incessant noise of a punk rock band practicing in the apartment above him, who uses a drill to murder his victims. During one murderous romp, he enters the subway and drills a few homeless people on the platform while an R-32 subway train drives by.
"October Sky" from 1999 which is set in 1950's West Virginia has a train scene with a steam locomotive and the late O Winston Link as the engineer.
Just thought of another one.. "Risky Business" from 1983. There's a Metra commuter train in once scene and another scene where Tom Cruise is running his Lionel trains..
Searched thru to see if this has been posted before and it wasn't, so here goes.
In the James Bond move Goldfinger, there is the scene at the Kentucky horse farm where Auric Goldfinger is explaining his plans to break into Fort Knox to the assorted hoodlums. Very detailed model of the grounds is shown that has a rail line with spurs on one side of it. I would say that the model is OO 1:76 Scale (it is, afterall, a British movie)
Here is a YouTube clip of the scene
That was a great movie Kevin'... I saw it in 1964, at the Edmond Town Hall theater, in Newtown, CT. I was 12 years old'.... In those days you could stay for the second and third showing... which my friends and I did'...
Last weekend, Turner Classics showed "Human Desire," a film noir from the mid 50s. Starring Glen Ford, this flick is set in a railroad town and features lots of scenes of Ford at the controls of an Alco diesel. With Edgar Buchanan in the left seat! Also, some great shots of the local yard with switchers, a turntable operating and the usual operations.
On TCM right now (it started at 10a ET) is "Heck Bound" on Noir Alley, repeat from last night's showing. Near the end, in a chase scene on foot, are the shells of former Pacific Electric Red Cars stacked three high, awaiting scrapping. Well, it's not really "Heck," but the real word gets bleeped on the forum.
There is other train stuff, including a side-rod switcher, No. 39, but talking about some of it would be a spoiler.
David
A 1952 movie "Carson City" with Randolph Scott. About a railroad construction engineer whose plans to build a railroad line between Nevada's Carson City and Virginia City are met with hostility by the locals, who feel the trains will attract outlaws.
I think my favorite train movie is UNSTOPPABLE with Chris Pine and Denzel Washington. It basically SPEED (Keanu Reeves) on a train instead of a bus. I like it, in fact, I think I'll watch it again this week!
https://youtu.be/_s-8Yv5RebA From the movie 'People will talk" with Carrie Grant... Beep! Beep! Beep!
It's a little bit of irony When someone mentioned the show Different Strokes and they were returning a train that was broken. Once when I was at Allied Model Trains Gary Coleman was standing in front of me returning his N gauge trains that he didn't want and some of them were broken too
Dodge City, A 1939 movie starring Errol Flynn & Olivia de Havilland, in Technicolor no less. The movie takes place in 1866, just after the civil war. The opening scene shows a passenger train led by locomotive #18 rolling through the open plains when they catch up to a stagecoach pulled by 4 horses. A good natured race happens between the train & stagecoach. Real nice scene.
Here's my movie from Christmas of
1957 starring me and my sister. Sister and train set are still here.
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@johnstrains posted:Last weekend, Turner Classics showed "Human Desire," a film noir from the mid 50s. Starring Glen Ford, this flick is set in a railroad town and features lots of scenes of Ford at the controls of an Alco diesel. With Edgar Buchanan in the left seat! Also, some great shots of the local yard with switchers, a turntable operating and the usual operations.
Lets not forget Broderick Crawford and Gloria Grahame. A very good movie aside from the great railroad scenes. j
“Holiday Affair” with Robert Mitchum-lots of Lionel scenes
The Little Rascals “Railroadin” on YouTube one used to be able to see the show, now it’s only snippets with locations. Lots of ATSF Steam locos
“The Hunter” with Steve McQueen: early diesel Switcher at the beginning; Lionel Set about 20 minutes into it; lots of scenes on the Chicago El towards the end.
"Union Pacific" from 1939 is a good one 
"Heartbreak Pass", a disappointing grade B 1970s western with Richard Crenna and Charles Bronson, but it is in color and takes place primarily on a steam engine train, with great western scenery.
Om tonight's Young Sheldon Georgie moves into the garage, Missy moves into his old room and Sheldon moves his layout from the garage to his room. Scenes of him connecting track and placing accessories. Also him running the trains. The transformers a TW.
Readily identifiable also was the Plasticville Green Cottage House, 022 Switch, telephone poles, and Fleet of Modernism cars. I thought I had Sheldon's missing crossing sign but I see I'm missing it also from my 1950's plastic sign collection.
Last Train from Gun Hill 1959 directed by John Sturges. It stars Kirk Douglas, Anthony Quinn and Earl Holliman.
Expendables 3. The team attacks an armoured prison train to free one of their own. The freed prisoner Wesley Snipes, then uses the train to destroy the prison.
More shows that have not been mentioned....
Dad's Army (1968-1977) - A BBC sitcom about the British Home Guard during the Second World War. The characters in the show use trains in several episodes but in Season 6, there is an entire episode based around a train: The platoon will provide a guard of honor for George VI as he passes through Walmington-on-Sea. A mix-up stops another train in the station, though, blocking the King's route. (Season 6, Episode 3 and the Entire Series free on YouTube)
Allo Allo (1982-1992) - A BBC sitcom based in France during World War II. Rene Artois runs a small café where Resistance fighters, Gestapo men, German Army officers and escaped Allied POWs interact daily, ignorant of one another's true identity or presence, exasperating Rene. Trains are a common theme in the show (especially when blowing up trains bound for Berlin). In two episodes, Rene attempts to flee to Switzerland with one of his serving girls but there is a mix-up and his wife comes along. The majority of these two shows take place on the night train to Genève (Season 5, Episode 21 and Season 5, Episode 22 free on Dailymotion. Full Series included with Amazon Prime)
More Rockford Files (a year later from my previous Rockford post)
Season 6, Episode 9 from December 7, 1979 (The Big Cheese), the Los Angeles Union Station is featured throughout the episode, both inside and out of the main terminal.
Interesting thing that I noticed in the episode. When the mob characters were chasing Rockford in the terminal, he ran up to the platform area and ran across the tracks into a trucking terminal directly adjacent to the tracks. I thought that odd and figured that was actually filmed someplace else and made to look like for the not so observant viewer to believe that the two facilities were next door.
That leads me to ask the SoCal members of the OGR forum who are aware of that area from decades past. Did the area to the east of Union Station used to house a truck terminal? Google maps shows that that entire east section is now part of the overall Union Station complex but those buildings are all newer and modern architecture as opposed to the 1930s style that the original station had.
Just saw a commercial for a pain reduction product showing a woman and might be her son building and operating a HO layout. Nicely done display.
Don`t forget the 1979 great movie "The Warriors"
Do commercials count ???
The new Sonic 2 movie features a CSX YN2 AC4400CW (no logo, renumbered) in the film and final trailer getting sucked up and torn into pieces by Dr Robotnik (Jim Carrey). The scene was shot in BC, Canada. The train was computer animated due to the fact the scene takes place in Montana and that they could never use any Canadian railroad. Plus, the train floats in the air off the rails. Not sure why the filmmakers chose a familiar paint scheme from a company that does not run west of Chicago.
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Here is another radio show dealing with trains. In this case, a troop train! Story starts at 20:40
Bryce
Bryce
A pipe smoker and a Jean Shepherd fan! Another great tale from Jean.
I remember listening to him as a teen. One evening he said to put your radio on the window sill, turn up the volume and he put on a recording of a train and played it for over an hour.
Great days.
Jon 
@Scotie posted:Bryce
A pipe smoker and a Jean Shepherd fan! Another great tale from Jean.
I remember listening to him as a teen. One evening he said to put your radio on the window sill, turn up the volume and he put on a recording of a train and played it for over an hour.
Great days.
Scotie,
Excelsior to a fellow fathead! 
My old man introduced me to Shep when I was in middle school, and I haven't been the same since haha!
I think you will like this playlist, I post "new" shows every Wednesday: https://youtube.com/playlist?l...s05HxzCMZS7PGuM5Lj-P
Bryce
I was watching Shanghai Noon (2000) staring Jackie Chan and there was a pretty cool fight scene on a train (Link is to video of it on YouTube)
Bryce
In a thread, now closed, about favorite train movies, there was a discussion of "Denver & Rio Grande," with Brig. Gen. Jack D. Ripper (er, Sterling Hayden), Edmond O'Brien and Dean Jagger (who was in "Bad Day at Black Rock"). "Denver & Rio Grande" was on HDNET Movies earlier today (July 14), and will be on again July 18, July 24 and July 25.
David
If your a fan of B&O 25 William Mason, I did three movies with her.
The wild wild west, Gods and Generals , and the opening of Tuck everlasting.
Harold
"Risky Business" was on this weekend. I'd forgotten about some of the train things. Lana waiting for Metra at the Deerfield station. Joel running Lionel trains after his meeting with the Princeton admissions rep. One of the trains was led by an oddity - to me, anyway. Looked like a PRR diesel in Tuscan Red with gold stripes - but with a pantograph at each end of the unit.
EDIT: OK, went back and looked again. It's Lionel 6-8551, Little Joe engine:
http://train-station.com/Pages.../Library/6-8551.html
And, of course, the single CTA car moving past various underground and elevated stations, including Madison/Wells.
EDIT 2: I missed the reference earlier on this page to "Risky Business." Just saw it. Sorry.
David
Just watched one called “The Train”. It was not an American railroad but focused on the German railroad trying to steal artwork from France during WWII.
Some more movies with scenes that include trains.
Groundhog Day - scene where Bill Murray is playing chicken with the oncoming train.
Seabiscuit - scene where everyone is riding the train back to Howard's ranch.
Schindler's List - several scenes with the SS death camp trains.
The Transporter - the race around the train for the escape in the opening scene.
Under Siege 2
The Hunger Games
Catching Fire (Hunger Games 2)
Knight and Day
I don't know if it has been mentioned, but Westworld has had a few trains in them now. The first and second season was set in the park Westworld, where it was supposed to be the Old West. I am not sure as I haven't looked it up, but it looked as though they had Sierra #3 as the Old West engine. Well, season 3 no trains, but season 4 in episode 2 "Well Enough Alone" the end takes them on a train, but they cheated a bit. The train is computer generated as a Chicago Alton Railroad in the 1920's "Roaring 20's" theme park. The problem with it was the engine as it looked like Chicago and North Western E4 Hudson. What little screen time it had, it did look pretty good, I guess computer pixels make it nice and smooth.
On the old "Make Room For Daddy" TV series staring Danny Thomas his son Rusty had a small HO train layout in his bedroom. I never seen them run it but I remember seeing the cars on the track. Shows from the late 1950s .
