I have 3 picks; one little known
"Human Desire" 1954 with Glenn Ford, Gloria Graham and Broderick Crawford. A Korean War vet returns home to his job on the railroad and runs into problems, also: Edgar Buchanan. Good flick with lots of train action. Little known today but still a great movie!
"The Denver and Rio Grande" 1952, Edmond O'Brian, Paul Fix, Sterling Hayden and Dean Jager. Great action !
"The Train" 1964 Burt Lancaster. Classic!
Garfield (The feature film from 2004) Jon Arbuckle has a very nice Lionel O gauge layout. Later the villain dognaps Odie and is going to take him to New York on a passenger train. Garfield uses his knowledge of Jon's train set to reroute the train Odie is on back to the station.
You would have thought Lionel would have made a Garfield train set or at least a boxcar as a tie in but nope. Nothing.
Boxcar Bertha has some good footage of steam on the Reader RR in Arkansas.
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
The new Logan movie has a scene with a train but it's computerized as the units have a Union Pacific color, but have no cabs. Also in Logan, they have a scene with a freeway with Semi Trucks that have no cabs and run by a computer.
North by Northwest...
watched an episode of Star Trek Voyager last week with my daughter. Ed Begley Jr was a stoner from the '60s that got ahold of 24th century tech, and became a millionaire. In his office on his desk was a Lionel Standard Gauge set.
From Wikipedia, this is just a list for movies and TV shows that use Sierra No. 3 -- most famously cast as the Hooterville Cannonball in "Petticoat Junction."
Here's the link for the full article:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_No._3
Here's the list:
Movie appearances
Lobby card for 1920 Tom Mix movie The Terror shows Sierra No. 3 in the fourth panel.
Gary Cooper, seen here in High Noon, appeared in four movies with Sierra No. 3.
Clint Eastwood, who appeared in two movies and a TV series with Sierra No. 3, wrote a letter supporting fundraising for the renovation of the locomotive.
Sierra No. 3 has appeared in many movies.[2][5][6][7][8][11][12]
According to Railtown 1897, these include the following:
The Terror, 1920, starring Tom Mix
The Virginian, 1929, starring Gary Cooper and Walter Huston. This was the first talkie filmed on location rather than on a studio sound stage.
The Texan, 1930, starring Gary Cooper and Fay Wray
Sierra Passage, 1950, starring Wayne Morris and Lola Albright
Wyoming Mail, 1950, starring Stephen McNally, Howard Da Silva and Ed Begley
High Noon, 1952, starring Gary Cooper, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role. The film won three additional Academy Awards.
The Cimarron Kid, 1952, starring Audie Murphy and James Best
Kansas Pacific, 1953, starring Sterling Hayden and Eve Miller
The Moonlighter, 1953, starring Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Ward Bond
Apache, 1954, starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Peters and Charles Bronson
Rage at Dawn, 1955, starring Randolph Scott and Forrest Tucker
The Return of Jack Slade, 1955, starring John Ericson, Neville Brand and Angie Dickinson
Texas Lady, 1955, starring Claudette Colbert and Barry Sullivan
The Big Land, 1957, starring Alan Ladd, Virginia Mayo and Edmund O'Brien
Terror in a Texas Town, 1958, written under another name by blacklisted screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, and starring Sterling Hayden and Sebastian Cabot
Man of the West, 1958, starring Gary Cooper, Julie London and Lee J. Cobb
Face of a Fugitive, 1959, starring Fred MacMurray, Dorothy Green and James Coburn
The Outrage, 1964, a remake of Rashomon as a western, starring Edward G. Robinson, Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom and William Shatner
The Rare Breed, 1966, starring James Stewart, Maureen O'Hara and Brian Keith
The Great Race, 1966, starring Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Natalie Wood
The Perils of Pauline, 1967, starring Pat Boone and Terry-Thomas
Finian's Rainbow, 1968, starring Fred Astaire and Petula Clark
A Man Called Gannon, 1968, starring Tony Franciosa and Michael Sarrazin
The Great Bank Robbery, 1969, starring Zero Mostel and Kim Novak
Joe Hill, 1971, a biopic about the IWW activist Joe Hill, starring Thommy Berggren. The film won the Jury Prize at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival.
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, 1972, starring Cliff Robertson and Robert Duvall
Oklahoma Crude, 1973, starring George C. Scott and Faye Dunaway
Nickleodeon, 1976, starring Ryan O'Neal, Burt Reynolds and Tatum O'Neal
Bound for Glory, 1976, a biopic of Woody Guthrie, starring David Carradine and Randy Quaid. This was the first major film to use the Steadicam, and Haskell Wexler won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for the film, and the film also won another Academy Award.
The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again, 1979, starring Tim Conway and Don Knotts
The Long Riders, 1980, starring teams of brothers including James Keach and Stacy Keach, David Carradine and Keith Carradine, and Dennis Quaid and Randy Quaid
Pale Rider, 1985, directed by Clint Eastwood, and starring Eastwood and Richard Dysart
Blood Red, 1986, starring Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper and Julia Roberts in her movie debut
Back to the Future Part III, 1990, starring Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd and Mary Steenburgen
Unforgiven, 1992, directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Eastwood and Gene Hackman and winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, Academy Award for Best Director and two other Academy Awards
Bad Girls, 1994, starring Drew Barrymore, Andie MacDowell, Madeleine Stowe and Mary Stuart Masterson
TV appearances Edit
Sierra No. 3 has also appeared in many television shows.[2][5][6][7][8][11][12] According to Railtown 1897, these include the following:
The Lone Ranger, 1956, starring Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels.
Tales of Wells Fargo, 1957, starring Dale Robertson and William Demarest
Casey Jones, 1958, starring Alan Hale, Jr..
Rawhide, 1959-1966, starring Clint Eastwood and Eric Fleming.
Overland Trail, 1960, starring William Bendix and Doug McClure.
Lassie, 1961–1962, starring Jon Provost, June Lockhart and Hugh Reilly.
Death Valley Days, 1962–1965, starring Ronald Reagan.
The Raiders, 1963 TV movie, starring Brian Keith and Robert Culp.
Petticoat Junction, 1963–1970, starring Bea Benaderet, Edgar Buchanan and Linda Kaye Henning. Sierra No. 3 pulled the Hooterville Cannonball passenger train.
The Wild Wild West, 1964, starring Robert Conrad and Ross Martin.
The Big Valley, 1964–1966, starring Barbara Stanwyck.
The Legend of Jesse James, 1965–1966, starring Christopher Jones and Allen Case.
Scalplock, 1966 TV movie, starring Dale Robertson and Diana Hyland.
Iron Horse, 1966-1968, starring Dale Robertson & Gary Owens.
Cimarron Strip, 1967, starring Stuart Whitman and Jill Townsend.
Dundee and the Culhane, 1967, starring John Mills.
The Man from U.N.C.L.E., 1967, starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum.
Ballad of the Iron Horse, 1967 documentary by John H. Secondari.
Gunsmoke, 1971, starring James Arness, Amanda Blake and Milburn Stone.
Bonanza, 1972, starring Lorne Greene and Michael Landon.
The Great Man's Whiskers, 1972 TV movie, starring Dean Jones, Ann Sothern and Dennis Weaver, telling the story of why Abraham Lincoln grew his beard.
Inventing of America, 1975 documentary by James Burke and Raymond Burr.
Little House on the Prairie, 1975–1983, starring Michael Landon, Karen Grassle and Melissa Gilbert.
Law of the Land, 1976 TV movie starring James Davis and Don Johnson.
A Woman Called Moses, a 1978 biopic miniseries about Harriet Tubman, starring Cicely Tyson.
Lacy and the Mississippi Queen, 1978 TV movie, starring Kathleen Lloyd and Debra Feuer.
Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid, 1978 TV movie, starring Suzanne Pleshette.
The Night Rider, 1979 TV movie, starring David Selby, Pernell Roberts and Kim Cattrall.
The Last Ride of the Dalton Gang, 1979 TV movie, starring Randy Quaid, Cliff Potts and Larry Wilcox
Belle Starr, 1980 TV movie, starring Elizabeth Montgomery and Cliff Potts.
East of Eden, 1980 TV miniseries based on John Steinbeck's novel, starring Bruce Boxleitner, Lloyd Bridges, Warren Oates and Anne Baxter.
Father Murphy, 1981, starring Merlin Olsen, Katherine Cannon and Moses Gunn.
The A-Team, 1984, starring George Peppard and Mr. T.
Bonanza: The Next Generation, 1988 TV movie, starring Michael Landon, Jr. and John Ireland.
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., 1993, starring Bruce Campbell.
Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman, 1993, Season 5 Episode 1 "Runaway Train" reuses footage shot for Brisco County Jr.
October Sky had O. Winston Link driving a loco looked like 4501
The Invisable Man,1933. Claude Raines kills the guy in the switchtower and throws a switch sending the train off the cliff. Every railroad had a siding that went off a cliff in those days.
I like the ending of the remake of the Italian Job lately. Great footage of various UP diesels and the interior of the High-Level cars.
Godzilla: Resurgence
Limited one week run in US theatres and only in Japanese but some pretty funny scenes involving trains.
Just won the Japanese version of the Academy Awards for Best Picture.
-Greg
Greg Houser posted:Godzilla: Resurgence
Limited one week run in US theatres and only in Japanese but some pretty funny scenes involving trains.
Just won the Japanese version of the Academy Awards for Best Picture.
-Greg
Greg, that's hilarious I still watch the Godzilla movies must be 50 Godzilla movies over 60 years. Are you talking the new 2016 Shin Godzilla?
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 recall watching that movie with my eyes wide.Wacthing those big two rail o trains smoke pull long trains.I recall one derailed and broke and the sheik being sad."Said choo choo broken and no good."The butler said"It made out of gold!"One of my favorites is the greatest show on earth.People who love the ACL rr.If you pay attention you will see a ACL caboose.And there is the train wreck.Witch has a mountain type steam locomotive at the head.It crashed in to the bad of the first section train.I recall a interview with charlie hesston.They had a passenger that was rigged to roll over.With movie camera filming on the inside of the car.This movie had a all star cast.Odd thing is years later after I had switched from h.o. to o.While running a long fast freight the coupler came open.By the time I noticed I cut the power.But the locomotive had to much forward motion.Yep WHAM!!right in to the caboose.Walking over to clean it up.I started thinking of the greatest show on earth.
Rusty Traque posted:Be careful what you wish for...
A music video made from scenes from "The Galaxy Railways." Betch'cha the VLBB can't do this stuff:
Don't blame me, I'm only the messenger...
Rusty
I find it funny that man makes it to space.Using the one thing that is not really made for space travel.
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.
If the trains don't have to be real, I recently stumbled upon "Dinosaur Train" animated videos through a library app. No, it was not the Lionel version, but it did make me think of it. The train interiors were sort of 19th century-ish.
The idea is that it's got dinosaurs AND trains, and so what's not to like? It's for kids and they try to work science into the story. But they seemed to mix good science with some really misleading visuals, and hence, bad science. I lasted through one and a half 30 min. episodes ... I think it was a PBS show or something.
Tomlinson Run Railroad
As for Lawrence of Arabia, I worked in Saudi Arabia years ago and have a piece of meter gauge rail that he blew up in 1917.
"Terror Train", a 1980 slasher flick with Jamie Lee Curtis, where a party on a train is interrupted by the killer.
"The Warriors" in 1979. Half the movie was spent in the NYC subway.
The AMC TV series "Hell on Wheels" had the building of the railroad as the backdrop of everything else going on in the show.
"The Wrong Trousers". Wallace and Gromit adventure on how they take in a penguin who steals mechanical pants to perform a jewel heist. A model railroad is used for the chase.
"Train to Busan" A Korean film about an invasion of zombies on the Seoul to Busan line.
Another one, on TCM last weekend: "Roadblock," from 1951. There's an oval of what looks like S-gauge track, with a wig-wag at a crossing, a Lionel ZW transformer, and what appears to be a Reading Lines 4-4-2 heading up a passenger train. This is at a post office/general store. Proprietor says, "You know, when it comes to toy trains, men are just like little boys." The character she says that about has fed info to people who are about to hold up a money shipment on a train.
David
I am surprised rhat I couldn't find a mention of "Ironhorse" staring Dale Robertson.
Jan
Railroad Tigers. Jackie Chan leads a group of Chinese resistance fighters blow up a bridge to prevent the Japanese from using the railroad for resupply.
Rusty
During the closing scene of an episode of the Drew Carey Show, Drew surprises his friends with a point to point model train beer delivery. As the engine enters the the kitchen from his living room, it crashes and the beer bottles fall. Lewis, a bottle previously in hand, realizes in horror "That could have been MY beer". 
ahh, someone already mentioned "Tough Guys", great movie imo.
TCM showed the noir film 'The Roadblock'. Not a train film but while on the lamb the star stops at a store for supplies and there is a large display train layout. He runs the train for a few moments. Odd thing was the Lionel ZW and accessories but the train was AF S scale.
Just watched an episode of "Endeavor" on PBS called "Passenger". Lots of British trains trains and stations involved in the murder mystery. It even had a character with an attic layout.
Last night I just watched the animated Pixar classic "Cars" (the first one) and was pleased to see "Trev Diesel", Engine A113. It's a brief scene. The enginer number is an allusion to a California Institute of the Arts classroom number. Excerpt from wikipedia:
"In the first film, it is the number on Trev Diesel, the freight train that Lightning McQueen outruns while he is first on his way to Radiator Springs. Trev Diesel was also made as a carrying case for the die-cast line and has A113 on it.[16] "
Tomlinson Run Railroad
AMCDave posted:TCM showed the noir film 'The Roadblock'. Not a train film but while on the lamb the star stops at a store for supplies and there is a large display train layout. He runs the train for a few moments. Odd thing was the Lionel ZW and accessories but the train was AF S scale.
Not a bad little movie. I liked the way the train whistle blew without human intervention.
I forgot to mention in my earlier post about "Roadblock" that there was also stock footage (I'm guessing) of an SP 4-8-4 passing semaphores (there's a mast on the right with two blades, obscured by the locomotive). Before the scene at the post office/general store.
Edit: removed the image, which was a grab from the movie.
David
Wild wild west had many trains scenes.
Another was an obscure mystery film where the entire film was shot on a night train from Denver to San Francisco. called Sleepers West that has many interior and exterior shots of a train. Saw it on demand on FX network.
There was also a film about a dining car manager on the New Haven line Trying to retire a porter. I don't remember the name or date but it was in black and white.
One of my favorites is White Christmas, where the train from Florida to Vermont is magically routed through the western desert...
Jeff C
"The General" one of the best railroad films ever made, all real shots, no models and Buster did it all. Watch the trailer. Don
I just watched this last night on Netflix: The Midnight Meat Train starring Bradley Cooper.
For you horror fans it's a must watch.
-Greg
Just looked through this old thread and didn't see:
King Kong (NYC elevated train)
Top Secret (comedy starring Val Kilmer from the makers of Airplane)
Welcome Back, Kotter (subway in opening sequence)
Pee Wee's Big Adventure (hobo scene: Jimmy Crack Corn and I don't care!)
My fav is "Emperor of the North" 1973 w/ Lee Marvin & Ernest Borgnine. Depression era hobo story, all steam trains. Very entertaining.
I think these films have been stated separately above in some of the 236 replies, but movies and TV shows with New York subway trains include:
Welcome Back, Kotter (opening credits, filmed less than two blocks from my original home)
Seinfeld (several episodes, most notably the one titled “The Subway”)
On the Town
Midnight Cowboy
The French Connection
Saturday Night Fever
The Warriors
Ghost
Die Hard with a Vengeance
Money Train
Spider-Man 2
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 and 2009 versions)
Inside Llweyn Davis
And these are only the ones I have seen, often multiple times. For obvious reasons. Love those subway trains!
In the 2012 film version of Rock of Ages, there is a Union Pacific passenger car as the restaurant for Carney's Express Limited. It is based off the real Carney's Express Limited restaurant in Hollywood, California.
Jim R. posted:I think these films have been stated separately above in some of the 236 replies, but movies and TV shows with New York subway trains include:
Spider-Man 2
Except Spidey 2 was filmed on the CTA.
Rusty
Don't know if it was mentioned...the opening and closing of BAD DAY AT BLACKROCK..A&B SP black widow F units...and daylight train
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