MOVIES OR TV SHOWS WITH TRAINS IN THEM.

WILD WILD WEST

Mandy Patankin series "Chicago Hope'

Danger Lights, 1930 starring Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arhtur, Hugh Herbert, and Frank Sheridan.  Terrific railroad scenes even a steam locomotive tug of war at a railroading company picnic.

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.

       
       

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

White Christmas - Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye

Stand By Me

"The Grey Fox" true story of stagecoach and train robber George Minor

Correcton...Bill Miner..."The Grey Fox" starring Richard Farnsworth.  Miner is credited with the term "Hands Up"

Transformers: Age of Extinction has some great views of classic steamers and diesels and what looks to be the Age of Steam Roundhouse.

 

--Greg

The Ghost Train; just watched it a couple of nights ago on Turner Movie Classics (TMC)

• Risky Business (1983)
• The Godfather (1972)
• The Station Agent (2003)
• The Fugitive (1993)
• Arthur (1981)

The sopranos blue comet where they filmed at TrainLand!

 

http://youtu.be/dOFQkxC6lJI

More movies with great train scenes:

 

BLINK

 

Witness

 

Tootsie

 

Fried Green Tomatoes

 

42

 

Broadway Limited (1930's)


Anatomy of a Murder

 

The Greatest Show on Earth

 

The Natural

 

Unstoppable

 

Runaway Train

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TV Shows...
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Hogan's Heroes (German trains)

"More powerful than a locomotive..." The introduction to (George Reeves) Superman - steam locomotive. That was my initiation to locomotives.

the untouchables 1960s tv show had a 2-part episode - had just enough scenes with railroading to be interesting.- alcatraz express was the title.-jim

Breakheart Pass. Great opening theme.

Von Ryan's Express

Emperor of the North. It's the Citizen Kane of train movies!

FOR A FEW MORE DOLLARS

 

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.

Movies:

The Great Locomotive Chase 1956

The Professionals 1966

The Denver & Rio Grande 1952

Fours A Crowd 1938

Great Train Robbery 1978

The Train 1964

From Russia with Love 1963

 

Didn't Captain Kangaroo run a Lionel train once in a while with Mr. Green jeans? I have a foggy memory of that. I should check the you tube....anyone?

Just saw WOLVERINE last week on HBO.

Good BULLET TRAIN fight.

The Bridge On The River Kwai

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFMmJMNRv-Q

 

regards, rob

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

THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

Charleton Heston,Jimmie Stewart

Has a great train wreck wild animals everywhere.

 

GG1GUYY

This is one of my favourite short railway films. 

 

Shunter Black's Night Off.  From 1941

 

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

Great scene in Big Jake a John Wayne movie made in 1969

or 1970.  The Duke is seen with his horse as the Box Car

Door is opened.  A great moment to remember a Grandfather

going after the bad guys who kidnapped his Grandson.

 

Only the Duke could pull this scene off.  Great movie.

 

Many thanks,

 

Billy C 

The Iron Horse (TV series) 1966 -1968 featured Dale Robertson.

Mmmm. Many great films already mentioned but here a few more:

 

The Polar Express

The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (either version)

Transiberian

Back to the Future Part 3

Emperor of the North Pole

Babylon AD

Bridge on the River Kwai

SOMETHING WILD 1957

And then there's Trading Places with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.

James Bond Octopussy- circus train scenes. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiqmdJqzB10

 

Mission Impossible [da new one]:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AysV4mGh4fc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cho039BrHpg

 

Money train:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJm22pdI57c

 

Broken Arrow:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efFb0IvoYPg

 

U.S. Marshals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQuPzENidyM

 

Snakes on a Train:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9mR2hLbPMg

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L..._films_set_on_trains

 

 

 

 

dont forget butch cassidy and the sundance kid...the poor box car didn't last long, did it?

 

The Atomic Train from 1999. A freight is hauling a nuclear bomb in a boxcar near Denver, Colorado. The train loses its brakes and is gaining speed. The bring in another set of engines to try and stop the train (like in Unstoppable) but fails. The train eventually derails and Denver is evacuated. A bomb squad is called in to try to defuse the bomb, but the tables turn for the worse. The bomb detonates, causing massive destruction for several miles.

The Punisher (2004) - Sylvia Saint gets ran over by a freight train near the end of the movie.

 

End of Days (1999) - Great subway train scene near the end of the movie.

Godfather part 2: Union Pacific diesel. 

 

The Lone Ranger (2013).  Much maligned but with some great train action.  Also see the making of The Lone Ranger.  Impressive.

Murder on the Orient Express

 

The beginning of beginning of The Cincinnati Kid has a great sequence supposedly in New Oleans yards, but I think the yard sequence was filmed in Los Angeles with a Warbonnet passing through.  The story took place in the 30's and diesels were out of place.

 

Here is a shot of Steve McQueen running across the yards.  Note they removed the Santa Fe logo, as if most wouldn't know. 

 

Sergio Leone's classic Once Upon A Time In The West..it's the best 

 

HARSH TIMES .

TRICKBABY

 

The train sequence with Sierra 2-8-0 No. 18 in the Marx Brothers' GO WEST

 

Walt Disney's THE GREAT LOCOMOTIVE CHASE, starring the elegant B&O 4-4-0, the WILLIAM MASON, as the GENERAL, and Virginia & Truckee No. 22, the INYO, as the TEXAS

 

Under Siege 2 with Steven Seagal

And a film with one of my favorite train sequences - Dillinger.  The GS Daylight passenger train is featured in it - roaring whistle, RPO car shoot out and all!  

Rusty mentions two classics - The Day the Earth Stood Still where there is also a shot of a Santa Fe Warbonnet passenger halted by the power outage and one of my favorites - Wallace and Grommet with the afore-mentioned 'bottomless box of track'.

 

If you haven't seen this one (First saw it with my two boys when they were young) it is very clever and entertaining with lots of little subtle touches of humor aimed at the parents. Great film!

With Bill on the "Fried Green Tomatoes @ the whistle stop café'"

The Lady Killers , Ealing Studios.

The Lone Ranger although most of the train scenes were filmed from the back of a truck.

James

Just to mention a Book with Toy Trains described in it 'The MASTER KEY: An Electrical Fairy Tale' By L. FRANK BAUM 1901....

CREEP

100 Rifles or was it Raquel Weich I remember?

I think the movie was called Dirty Harry and Crazy Larry. At the end of the movie the cops were chasing them around the orange groves trying to catch them. They sort of got away and were heading out of the groves ready to cross some tracks when A train comes and they hit it and the car blow's up. Choo Choo Kenny

I just saw a movie titled "PEOPLE WILL TALK" staring Cary Grant, made in 1951.  There is a super train scene that you must watch.  A floor layout with multiple cross-overs switches, three separate trains, all apparently individually controlled, and headed for disaster.  

 

Beep, Beep-Beep, Beep-Beep-Beep  

 

I don't know how to imbed the video, but here is the link:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iawx33OHVRU

 

Really folks, its a great watch, worth the time.  Take a look, and see what you think.

 

Bob Severin 

The Titfield Thunderbolt, a 1946 or so British movie.

 

Lots o fun and some good shots of tiny little English branch line trins.

 

See if you can spot the error in the passenger car with the yellow sides.

Leave it to Beaver - TV Show in the Fifties & Sixties

 

See Photo

 

Mrs. Cleaver tells the Beaver, he must give away his Lionel Trains, because he stopped playing with them.

 

 

There was also an earlier episode of Beaver with an American Flyer layout.

Highway Patrol had a few episodes with some train action.

In the tinplate world (the world in which I live in) had the most unlikely sighting of a Classic Model Corp #200 Bicentennial Special. It was in the cinematic classic Cannonball Run II... OK, maybe not quite classic, but still trains! And they are behind the great Frank Sinatra, who was quite the train lover himself. Makes you wonder who's idea it was to have trains in the office. The movie was from 1984, the train from 1975-76.

 

 

My favorite is the episode of Jim Hutton's Ellery Queen TV show,  The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer.  It not only features toy trains, but Lionel Toys trains, as the center of the adventure and the clue to the crime.  Very cool.   

Then there was Madame X, starring Lana Turner and John Forsythe. The trains in the movie were from the collection of George Sirus who, along with Art Varney, brought us the Varney-Sirus brand of AF and Ives reproductions in the early 1970's. Some of the best, and truest, repros ever made.

 

 

A TV  Show on CBS Television • The Big Ban Theory • See Cool Photo

 

Sheldon is the star of the show, he is playing with his HO Scale RailKing Trains.

Sorry guys, no O Gauge. Half of O.

 

Click Photo to enlarge. 

Pure Hollywood fluff...

Just wanted to add

 

I was watching a movie called, "THE RED BARON". It came out in 2009 it's a warner Bros/German production. It's a very well done film, some artistic license they avoid the dogfights that did in Werner Voss, Major Hawker, and the Red Baron himself. I thought it was tastefully done.

 

Anyway

 

There is a scene where The Red Baron is sitting outside with some his squadron and there appears to be a "standard gauge" 3-rail model train going around on the table. I think by 1914 this was possible. Check it out. The aircraft reproductions were really well done. We enjoyed the movie..

 

I recently watched an old Adam-12 episode in which officers Malloy and Reed chased a suspect through a railroad museum  with old railroad locomotives and rolling stock and an episode of Emergency in which Station 51 had to put out a set of freight cars that were on fire and the one fireman Chet Kelly operating a locomotive to pull the other cars away from the fire.

On the HBO Series "Dexter" the character known as "The Trinity Killer", played by John Lithgow runs an old Lionel layout on the floor of the bomb shelter where he keeps his victims. Lithgow's portrayal of a disturbed serial killer is so convincing and unsettling that it's probably bad for the hobby. Too bad he wasn't playing with Slot Cars.

 

Emile

The most bizarre model train movie yet...it was a real bomb

 

TRACK 29 - Gary Oldman and Christopher Lloyd

 

Storyline

Just last night - was watching the 'classic' "Giant Gila Monster" from the fifties.  An old coot is driving down the road hitting his bottle and decides to race the train(which will shortly be derailed due to the gila monster destroying the bridge).  The train starts out as a F3, next we see what appears to be a Geep, then it looks like a SW switcher, and then back to a F3, different road name.  After the crash, looks to be Lionel or Flyer passenger cars under the bridge.  An interesting use of stock train footage))

I like this train chase scene from the Spoof film "wrongfully accused" starring Leslie Nielson, great slapstick;

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"How to Marry a Millionaire" has Betty Grable's character taking the train from New York City to Maine. A few seconds of screen time are given to a short consist of Harriman cars pulled by a UP 4-6-2 scooting through the snow.

The 1990's movie, "The Fugitive" had some train scenes early on in the film

"The Last Passenger"

      I know this film was mentioned earlier, but I just saw the 1934 movie called The Silver Steak on Turner Classic Movies a few days ago. It has some great scenes of the Burlington Zephyr running cross country in (supposedly) 19 hours. The Zephyr is seen many times during the movie on eastern rails, out on the plains and finally in mountainous terrain. The plot was corny, but scenes of this famous "train set" were amazing to see!

 

John Knapp

Erie, not Eerie

This past weekends Dr.Who...

 

 

 

 

 

Jerry

I just watched  Silver Streak 1934 and safety is not a main concern whether its in the engine compartment or at the jobsite.

 

Nice prewar trains footage especially if your a zephyr fan or Burlington fan

 

Also TCM goes through periods where they show lots of train movies.

 

 

2 classic oldies:

The Palm Beach Story - Claudette Colbert rides with the Ale & Quail Hunt Club on their private car to Florida

Some Like it Hot - Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon and Marilyn Monroe as female band members on an overnight train to Miami

One from the not so well known file......"The Miracle of the Bells", 1944, staring Fred MacMurray.....this movie was shot at various locations in Wilkes-Barre, Glen Lyon, and Naticoke,PA......I seem to remember a set of PRR PAs (I might be wrong as it's been awhile) arriving at the local station. For me it was likely the best moment of this film as viewed on TCM channel some years back. I'm not sure those engines could have made it down the Glen Lyon branch but Naticok or W-B is a possibility.

 

Anyone have any info on this scene......   

North by Northwest

Union Depot

Suddenly

Pal Joey

The Broadway Limited

Holiday Affair

The Quiet Man

Donovan's Reef

Mr Blandings builds his dream house

The Bishops Wife (watch for tinplate caboose in the middle of the train) in the opening sequence

Send me no Flowers

Tough Guys

Force 10 from Navarone

Strangers on a train 2 versions

Berlin Express

Wild Boys of the Road

Sullivans travels

Twentieth Century

Pelham 1-2-3

Pelham 1-2-3

 

 

If you don't mind a foreign film

It's a recent Russian film called "The Edge"

A former front line SGT in the Soviet Army during WW2 is sent to Siberia as his reward. 

Stalin usually incarcerated or killed off those troops of his that spent a lot of time in contact with German or American troops.

 

This Sargent is in Siberia finds an abandoned Steamer on a small island just off one of the lakes restores it fires it up and with a German woman who was one of many captives after the war makes a run for the Mongolian border and eventually makes it!!

 

This is NOT fiction it's a true story. He marries the woman and they eventually had 6 children. For a Russian film it is really well done and worth your time watching it. And yes it's in colour. AND the Russian main character is really a good actor, believeable and does a great job in the film. I watched it on U-Tube

TODAYS TIME!!!  RAILROAD ALASKA & **** ON WHEELS!

I just watched a BIZARRE train movie, so I thought I would add it to this list.  Its called Snowpiercer.

 

 

There were a few other movies that I didn't see on the list:

 

Tombstone.  (Especially the scene where Wyatt tells Ike Clanton to tell the rest of the cowboys that he's coming for them -- as a train backs up out of the station).

 

 

3:10 to Yuma. (Self explanatory).

 

The Lady Vanishes. (There are two movie versions. One from 1938 and one from 1979.  The BBC recently remade it into a TV movie ).

 

 

Don't forget that 1980's TV show on NBC called super train.
Also the great american hero had a train scene in one of its episodes on the SDA&E
Die hard III with the subway derailment under the federal reserve bank by wall street.
The movie "Seven ups"
The movie "The French Connection"
The movie "Blue Thunder" end scenes
Mission impossible II
The movie "US Marshals"
The movie "predator II"
James bond - Octopussy, From Russia with Love

Clockers, a mid 90's movie, about drug dealers.

 

Richie

Some I don't think have been mentioned:

Back to the Future 3

The Sting

Continental Divide (John Belushi in one of his less pure comedic roles)

Atlas Shrugged (don't think the movies had a big following)

2 episodes of the original Twilight Zone:

1: the episdoe where the drunk department store santa wants to be the real santa.  There is a Lionel layout in the opening department store scene and later when he's giving out gifts, a boy says he wants a train engine, santa asks steam or electric?, the boy says it doesn't matter, so santa hands him what looks like a brown lionel engine box

2: a couple wakes up alone in a deserted town where everything turns out to be fake, they keep hearing a child laugh.  they get on a train which takes them to the same town, in the end it's revealed some giant alien has abducted them and brought them home for his alien child's toy train set (i guess lionel is sold in space)

Also I recall an episode of either "are you afraid of the dark" or "goosebumps" where the kid loves trains and meets a mysterious old railroad man who gives him an o gauge passenger car (think it was a lionel madison car).  when he runs it on his layout the kid finds himself in the car on a train that is doomed to crash.  he finds out the old man is the ghost of the conductor from this old train and he pulls the emergency brake to stop the train.  it happens again, but the brake has been cut, so his brother saves the day by throwing the switch on an old stretech of track where the train had crashed years ago.  I think that's what happened, i'll have to see if i can find it on youtube.

Boxcar Bertha--An orphaned farm girl (Barbara Hershey finds romance and adventure fighting the railroad with union organizer Big Bill Shelley (David Carradine). Martin Scorsese directs this explosive story of America in the 1930s. Based on "Sister of the Road" by Boxcar Bertha Thompson as told to Ben L. Reitman.

 

and another vote for The Station Agent, great footage of NJTransit and it opens in a hobby shop, what more could you want.

Scotie

Gentlemen,

   The train movies go on and on, my 2 favorite Western train movies are John Wayne's The Train Robbers with Ben Johnson, Ann Margret, Rod Taylor, Bobby Vinton, Larry Gatlin & Ricardo Montalban and Break Heart Pass with Richard Crenna, Ben Johnson & Starring Charlie Bronson, in both of these westerns you get to see some great old trains.  Both good western movies.

PCRR/Dave

 

The short lived TV show Revolution had a Steam Engine in a couple episodes.

310 to Yuma

 

Yes, all good movie scenes, and a lot of the Western ones were of the Sierra Railroad, too, am I right?

The movies give me ideas that may or may not bear fruit, like f'rinstance;

- A vignette showing the place-the-body scene or the observation car scene from "Double Indemnity" (Fred McMurray)

- The circus train from the last Indiana Jones movie (The Crystal Skull?)

 

I dont think I noticed this!  Guess I'll have to go watch it again to see!

How about the TV show "That Girl" with Marlo Thomas. Some real neat rail footage in the opening scenes. Does anybody know where that was filmed at?

I have to second an earlier post about the opening music to Breakheart Pass, especially when it was originally released: the screen was black and the chugging started to fade in, the United Artists logo started forming (the one at the time was the blue gradual one for the Transamerica logo), chugging getting louder and then BAM! the reddish toned shot of the smokebox door with the big 9 on it!  What's cool is how the chugging formed the rhythmic basis for the theme!

 

A couple movies I like and I don't see them listed on first glance are British movies: The Titfield Thunderbolt and one that I saw that was part silent, part sound called Flying Scotsman, featuring a very young Ray Milland!

Ironically, the steam locomotive is cold and not running right now, they piped steam through places you wouldn't see it on a real running locomotive, then actually powered the train from a diesel which was disguised as a car right behind the tender (that blue thing in front of the yellow boxcars). They also filmed scenes on the Texas State RR for another episode with a running locomotive, and one scene I caught on youtube showed a running light on a tender, which is impossible from the premise of the show where all electircal fields have permanently been disabled and no electric lights are possible on Earth. I read it was a simple error on the part of the editing bunch for the show and the engine crew simply forgot to the turn the tender backing light off.

Frankly, I found the show's premise so idiotic that I couldn't bear to watch it.

Maybe why it was short lived!

Highway Patrol with Broderick Crawford, currently running early in the morning on THIS TV often shows footage of the Southern Pacific Daylight. One episode is about a scheme to rob a Federal Reserve shipment, by throwing a switch from a Southern Pacific depot and derailing the Daylight.

Buster Keaton in "The General."  my all time favorite.

 

 

Thomas and the Magic Railway.

 

"Day the Earth Stood Still"  "..train with no tracks?"

Adams Family

 

 

 

"Our Hospitality"  Buster Keaton again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGfShmBnMTs

 

The funniest train sequence you've ever seen!