MOVIES OR TV SHOWS WITH TRAINS IN THEM.

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

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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.

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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