Have a look for yourselves. One scene in a train shop and a second showing a carpet layout at home.
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Not Lionel, but surely the barometer against which all movies with trains are measured.
How about the begining scene of Arthur with the large layout in Arthurs bedroom ?
article from TM Books website with various movies that feature Lionel Trains:
http://www.toytrainrevue.com/hollywd.htm
This movie, "Four's a Crowd" with Errol Flynn from 1938 was mentioned on another thread. I've never heard of it- but I read the IMDB description of it. Errol Flynn is a shady dealer trying to get a person's business account by rigging- a toy train race!
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Ah, here's a clip from the movie showing a vast plethora of Lionel!
there was this TV show... NOT lionel but Certainly a model was used!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUERtAe73NI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvF7dIVVKGQ&feature=related
I'm not sure if it Lionel but there is a passenger set in the movie "Holiday Affair" starring
Robert Mitchum. I think is was a 1949 release. It was a feel good movie set around Christmas time.
Originally Posted by prrhorseshoecurve:
A lot of Kusan in that one.
The movie Four's a Crowd was on TCM the other day. I watched it for the trains. It was great.
Mark
"People Will Talk"
Originally Posted by marker:
"People Will Talk"
Cary Grant is a great role model, and not just for a train nut.
I really liked the toy store scene in the beginning of "A Christmas Story". Lionel was well represented in the display.
If you count TV, Ellery Queen -- The Eccentric Engineer
Cary Grant is a great role model, and not just for a train nut.
I was fortunate enough to meet him once when I was a teenager, after a World Series game in 1964, at a party thrown by the father of a friend of mine.
He was very nice.
Check out The Black Scorpion attacking a Lionel Train at about the 56 second mark:
Originally Posted by Doc Davis:
Check out The Black Scorpion attacking a Lionel Train at about the 56 second mark:
The backwards tender in that was a nice touch.
Originally Posted by marker:
Cary Grant is a great role model, and not just for a train nut.
I was fortunate enough to meet him once when I was a teenager, after a World Series game in 1964, at a party thrown by the father of a friend of mine.
He was very nice.
"Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." He must have been wonderful.
As to the question of "How do we get more people interested in the Hobby?" My answer is "Show them 'People Will Talk'."
Originally Posted by ed h:
Surprised no one has mentioned "So you want a model railroad" short.
"a round of track for the boys" This one is great!!!
John
Originally Posted by AGHRMatt:
If you count TV, Ellery Queen -- The Eccentric Engineer
Ah, David Wayne, Arthur Godfrey, and David Hedison. Anyone catch the clue? Hedison said "Carol and I sent a message...", yet the message that came back said "You three...". How did he know they were picking someone else up? Unless...
Originally Posted by BnO_Hendo:
Ah, here's a clip from the movie showing a vast plethora of Lionel!
A 763 Hudson vs a 752 Streamliner! Nice layout.
John
Originally Posted by ed h:
Surprised no one has mentioned "So you want a model railroad" short.
Surprised You Tube does not have clip. I googled title but no hits.
Originally Posted by John23:
Originally Posted by ed h:
Surprised no one has mentioned "So you want a model railroad" short.
"a round of track for the boys" This one is great!!!
John
This was brought up during a recent discussion of unflattering portrayals of the hobby.
I have this episode on a tape which was put out by the TCA years ago. And it is funny. If someone is so thin skinned that he is offended by this little parody, too bad for you. I like it.
John
An exhaustive list of train movies,
both real and toy here ===> http://www.toytrains.info/trainmovies.asp
Catch the dinner scene in Nothing but Trouble. Pickle launching car.
No way to behave on a train. Action gets really interesting around the 1.00 mark.
Off topic, perhaps, but thieOctober issue of The Train Collectors Quarterly mentions a "Leave it to Beaver" episode featuring American Flyer trains. Have any of you seen this? Is it a very long scene?
In my experience the only beaver episode with toy trains involved a Lionel set the kids (or their parents) wanted to give away until they got it out and started using it again.
Pete
