Favorite Train Movies

[WGL]

 We started watching "Cry Danger" (1951, with Dick Powell & ravishing redhead Rhonda Fleming) tonight.  The credits appear over the arrival of a SP Daylight passenger train in L.A.

[WGL]

 "Young Tom Edison" (1940) has some good footage of a 4-4-0 "American" Civil War era passenger train.

[Yampa Bob]

A couple nights ago I saw another western movie with a train, the writing on the tender?  Rio Grande Denver. 

[jsmvmd]

Glad this is resurrected.

Tom Selleck as "Monte Walsh" is a good western.  He is the best of the modern cowboys, IMO.

This movie has a 10 wheeler and a fairly brief episode of some wheel slip, and what happens when the smoke stack is ripped off !

Anyone seen it ?

[panniertankboy8751]

What about "A Train Of Events"? It was filmed on the LMS line in England. It also has a bloody good crash scene. They hade to use model trains for that part though

note these are not in order. it is not all of the clips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUw-p8gTe3M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqVUzjI7Nx4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02V77-OmVW0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10lnyGQKYgg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pna-Te8OlMg&feature=related

[jettrainfan]

What about "A Train Of Events"? It was filmed on the LMS line in England. It also has a bloody good crash scene. They hade to use model trains for that part though

note these are not in order. it is not all of the clips.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUw-p8gTe3M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqVUzjI7Nx4&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02V77-OmVW0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10lnyGQKYgg&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pna-Te8OlMg&feature=related

Looks like a great movie! I watched all the parts and was amazed!

[panniertankboy8751]

Cryin shame you can't find it nowa days.... even on ebay

Heres another one it's quite funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD0ZnNQ6GSo&NR=1
at the end all i here in my head is "Fail, Fail, EPIC FAIL"

[jettrainfan]

Cryin shame you can't find it nowa days.... even on ebay

Heres another one it's quite funny.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vD0ZnNQ6GSo&NR=1
at the end all i here in my head is "Fail, Fail, EPIC FAIL"

Lol! Their was a chicken in the firebox! I remember  my grandpa telling me on MSTS to keep the speed at 3 M.P.H. or A. or gonna break a coupler or B. They will go flying down the line. Well apparently, someone was not fast enough/too fast. The switcher was too slow and the engine went too fast= OH NO!!!! Extra parts and that's it. 

[WGL]

Tonight, we were watching "Stand Up & Fight" (1939) with Robert Taylor & Wallace Beery.  It is set in 1844 & features an early locomotive with open passenger cars.  Nobody needs to smoke, because the engine gives them plenty of it.  On a hill, the locomotive loses power & goes backward.  The passengers must get out & push!

[Doneldon]

No one has yet mentioned a movie in which the train was practically part of the cast: High Noon.  We are aware of the approach of the train throughout the film and the tension reaches a very high level when we hear its whistle and it arrives at the station.  Outstanding western and an Oscar turn for Gary Cooper.

[jettrainfan]

I know one full of trains

THOMAS AND THE MAGIC RAILROAD!

Does that count? 

[Johnson Bar Jeff]

Last night I discovered some good train sequences in a movie I hadn't expected to find them in: Young Tom Edison, from 1940, starring Mickey Rooney as the inventor of the light bulb as a boy.

I recognized V&TRR #19, the "Dayton," as a locomotive used in the film, and also one of the V&T's distinctive J.G. Brill passenger coaches. The other cars used in the passenger train were probably also V&T rolling stock, but the Brill car was easily recognizable by its unique roof line.

[TimR]

Not a movie, but my favorite TV show with a train in it....The Wild, Wild West. 

[Balrog21]

Unstoppable...a little far fetched but based on the real event in Pennsylvania...a little, ok alot outlandish but there is some great shots of modern trains, yards, turntable in this one...and better yet..has some SD40-2's!   

[Johnson Bar Jeff]

No one has yet mentioned a movie in which the train was practically part of the cast: High Noon.  We are aware of the approach of the train throughout the film and the tension reaches a very high level when we hear its whistle and it arrives at the station.  Outstanding western and an Oscar turn for Gary Cooper.

And that train was good ol' reliable Sierra #3. 

(And High Noon is truly a classic film.)