Dan Padova posted:jimcap posted:The Seven Ups! 1973 with Roy Schneider.
In the final shootout, a Amtrak TurboTrain has a walk on.
There was also a scene, a shootout I believe, that took place beside the Amtrak main. At least one black GG1 passed by.
You are correct sir! It's at the beginning of the scene with the Turbotrain
seaboardm2 posted:jimcap posted:The Seven Ups! 1973 with Roy Schneider.
In the final shootout, a Amtrak TurboTrain has a walk on.
In that movie wasn,t roy in some kind of chase.But the car ran into the back of a tractortrailer?
Yes, Its was a 10min chase.
Scotie posted: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.
I had no idea what the movie was about. I'd see the title on late-night TV and think, "Meh" and not bother. Of course, Netflix doesn't have it, so I have no idea when I'll be able to see it. Thanks for the heads up, at least I know to look for it now!
One way to get many of these movies that Netflix doesn't have is through your local library. We have county wide interlibrary loan. We got to see Seven Ups through that system--and no charge.
Scotie posted:The Seven Ups does end with a shoot out in the Bronx near the tracks, besides the turbo train there is a black PC GG-1 among others.
The car chase (done by the folks that brought you the French Connection, a movie with a RR connection) does end with him driving under a box truck up on the Palisades.
Except that by the time of the wreck, they've somehow crossed back over the Hudson and are now heading north on the Taconic at the exit for Briarcliff Manor and Millwood.
David
Scotie posted:One way to get many of these movies that Netflix doesn't have is through your local library. We have county wide interlibrary loan. We got to see Seven Ups through that system--and no charge.
That’s exactly how we see a majority of new-release films. Vintage films to a lesser extent.
jimcap posted:seaboardm2 posted:jimcap posted:The Seven Ups! 1973 with Roy Schneider.
In the final shootout, a Amtrak TurboTrain has a walk on.
In that movie wasn,t roy in some kind of chase.But the car ran into the back of a tractortrailer?
Yes, Its was a 10min chase.
You could not do a chase like that any more.Those guys had guts and they where crazy.
There's actually a great Face Book page called -Toy Trains go to Hollywood- that is all about trains in movies.
good luck!
No trains but for fans of car chases try "The English Job"--includes extended chases including red, white and blue Minis jumping from building to building.
Are You Being Served is a Britcom on many PBS stations has a nice Hornby layout and trains on one of the episodes in the department stores toy department.
Also Terror On The Train, a 1950s British film starring Glenn Ford and many nice British train scenes.
Just finished an episode of Highway to Heaven. Season 4, With Love, The Clause. Last scene was a Lionel running under a Christmas Tree.
One of the above photos shows a GG-1 and says it was taken in the Bronx. That would mean it had to go over Hell Gate Bridge into NYNH&H territory, which I thought has/had different electrical characteristics. So I ask, would a GG-1 have gotten into the Bronx?
The Train I think its got Burt Lancaster. WWII in France lots of trains. Death Train is another one that's good.
don't forget SuperTrain...
...i know i'm still trying.
overlandflyer posted:don't forget SuperTrain...
...i know i'm still trying.
I think some of us would like to forget, "Super Train".....LOL
Casey Jones 1957-58. The same locomotive as Petticoat Junction
Had forgot about this one. "Columbo" episode "The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case," which was just on. Layout at the Sigma high-IQ society.
David
NKP Muncie posted:Had forgot about this one. "Columbo" episode "The Bye-Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case," which was just on. Layout at the Sigma high-IQ society.
David
Yes I recall and saw it last year or so on ME TV network.
West by Orphan Train. A 57 minute documentary about New York City orphan children taken west for adoption during a 75 year period ending 1929. Interesting piece of American history that I had not heard before. Contains numerous B/W photos of steam passenger trains and stations. Watched on Amazon Prime. When I searched there was also a reference to a 1979 fictional movie on the subject, which I have not seen.
It is possible to find love next door. Robert Redford and Jane Fonda star in Our Souls At Night, a Netflix Film. Now streaming on Netflix.
A model train set has an important role is this Netflix movie.
Gary
trainroomgary posted:Now playing on Netflix • “Our Souls At Night”
... A model train set has an important role is this Netflix movie.
Gary
And Robert Redford sitting in the middle of a floor layout no less! I feel right at home 
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In "On Dangerous Ground," from 1951, what appears to be the California Zephyr, in a brief appearance. Cab of the last locomotive, baggage/express car, three domes, four and a half other cars. Only there for a few seconds, including dissolves in and out. Assuming it wasn't models and backdrops, of course! IMDB says the movie was filmed in the area west of Denver which the train traversed.
David
"One of the above photos shows a GG-1 and says it was taken in the Bronx. That would mean it had to go over Hell Gate Bridge into NYNH&H territory, which I thought has/had different electrical characteristics. So I ask, would a GG-1 have gotten into the Bronx?"
GG-1's began running through to New Haven in the Penn Central Era.
Jon 
Not trying to hijack the thread but Kelunaboy, there are a couple of good books about the orphan trains which you could probably get through your library.
1. Orphan Trains - Stephen O'Connor - a complete history of the effort
2. We Rode the Orphan Trains - Andrea Warren - first person accounts of individuals who were shipped out west
Robert S. Butler posted:Not trying to hijack the thread but Kelunaboy, there are a couple of good books about the orphan trains which you could probably get through your library.
1. Orphan Trains - Stephen O'Connor - a complete history of the effort
2. We Rode the Orphan Trains - Andrea Warren - first person accounts of individuals who were shipped out west
Thanks- I would like to read more about this history and especially the personal accounts.
Well....Mrs Redjimmy Shanghaied the remote the other night, and we ended up watching the original version of "The Out of Towners"....and the NH was the RR in the movie. Either F units or E units were shown.
Dan Padova posted:overlandflyer posted:don't forget SuperTrain...
...i know i'm still trying.I think some of us would like to forget, "Super Train".....LOL
I remember watching this as a kid and marveling at the train itself.
But even then, as a little kid, I thought it was odd when the train left the "big city", you could see steam-era RR stuff, including a steam locomotive working in the yard!
See here for more: http://members.tripod.com/nbc_supertrain/id32.html
Dunno if this has been shown but Indiana Jones 5 had a brief moment with the Essex Valley Railroad. Not to also mention the Cumbres & Toltec with the previous movie.
Adding another to the list - just saw a couple days ago "Chandler," from 1971. Warren Oates stars as a former private eye. Early on, he goes to LA Union Station to wait for a character played by Leslie Caron to arrive. There's a shot of a passenger train, led by what I think are SP SDP45s 3205 and 3207, arriving. Perhaps was shot around the time of Amtrak's start - there's an Amtrak poster on the wall in a waiting area in the station.
Later in the movie, they're on the train from LA to Monterey, though the exterior shot of the train is a CB&Q. I think they stop in an Automatic Buffet car - at any rate, they put in coins and open a window to get food, and the attendant heats it up (EDIT - just watched scene again - attendant gives Caron a plate, and she puts food in what I assume is a microwave). When they arrive in Monterey, there's a couple smooth-sided SP passenger cars shown slowing - 2393 and 22?? - couldn't make that second number out.
David
The 1934 version of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" has a brief scene with model trains. One character says to the person running them, "You've got Pullmans and cattle trucks in (or maybe on) the same train."
David
Ken Burn's Country Music series shows some railroad footage throughout.
If I'm not mistaken, even some rare footage of C&NW RDC's.
Rusty
TheRWBYRailfan posted:Dunno if this has been shown but Indiana Jones 5 had a brief moment with the Essex Valley Railroad. Not to also mention the Cumbres & Toltec with the previous movie.
Take a good look at the folks on top of that boxcar. The second man standing to the right (with checkered shirt and hands on his ears) is George Lucas. Above the center of the same car (the black baseball cap) is Spielberg himself. Almost the entire cast of the opening of the film is sitting on the right side of the car.
That's the Chama-bound local behind 489, probably filled with people who had no idea what (or who) they were looking at!
The Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec puts out a great magazine and their summer edition had an excellent article which included this very shot. I was lucky enough o snag a copy when I was there this past June...
Stranger Things season 3 on Netflix, there is one episode where for a moment they show a postwar transformer (either Lionel or American Flyer) being used on a HO layout. They do use the transformer for a science experiment on magnets.
The Station Agent is on right now on HBOCM
Brendan
One of my favorites is the movie 1949 movie "A Holiday Affair" staring Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh..Pretty cool Christmas department store layout with the Lionel 726 and Lionel F3 3s doing the work dressed up as the Red Rocket Express!
"Tough Guys" from 1986 with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas was pretty good too.. The 4449 did well..
In the original Two and a Half Men Herb the doctor had HO trains.
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