favorite train movies top 3

1.  Silver Streak

2.  Unstoppable

3.  ?????

1.  The Train

2.  Danger Lights

3.  Silver Streak 

My top three train movies are:

1.The Train- Excellent Train Movie (Chris bet me to it! I had to look up the name because I didn't believe myself when I said "The Train" LOL!)

2. Von Ryan's Express.

3. Tied for Third- The Original Taking of Pelham 1-2-3  & Unstoppable.

1)  North by Northwest

2)  Von Ryan

3)  tie- original Pelham and The Train

1.  Murder on the Orient Express

2.  The Great Train Robbery

3.  Silver Streak

Yes, UNSTOPPABLE>>>>>>WOW
SILVER STREAK>>>>>>>>>>WOW
and back to UNSTOPPABLE!!!!!!!

The Train

North By Northwest

Dr. Zhivago

The Railway Children.

The Train.

Brief Encounter.

The Railway Children (original)-  YES!  Definitely in the top three.  Good call, Airedale!

Emperor of the North.  It's a great depiction of life & personalities.

Wow. Only one vote for Emperor of the North.

Undoubtedly the best train movie ever made.

PAIGETRAINS,

   Best 3 Western Train Movies ever!

Night Passage - Jimmy Stewart/ Audie Murphy & Elaine Stewart.

Break Hart Pass - Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson & Richard Krenna

Train Robbers - John Wayne, Ben Johnson & Ann Margret with numerous other big stars.

PCRR/Dave

1)People Will Talk, Cary Grant/Jeanne Crain

2)Night Passage- As PCRR /Dave mentioned 

3)(The original) The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3

Tom

Emperor of the north ...by far the best rr movie to date.... all others are a distant 2nd place compared to this gem.

My absolute least favorite....... silver streak

From Russia with Love and Breakheart Pass-  this is getting tougher.

Thanks for listings. I'm preparing the marquee lettering for the PALACE THEATRE model building, and a suggested title will be "put in lights" as text of what's now playing at the movie house: MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS.

Mike 

1)  "Danger Lights"

2)  "Other Men's Women"

3)  "Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day"

4)  "The Station Agent"

Risky Business.

The Adams Family

Lone Ranger

 Emperor of the North

 Silver Streak

 Von Ryan's Express

Al

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uW-DahcNQv8

Just have one, this video is the Theme Song............

Theme song from The Bridge on the River Kwai movie - Colonel Bogey March

Gary

The Train (of course)

Emperor of the North

The Narrow Margin (almost all scenes are on a train)

Scotie

Paigetrain;

My top three would be:

1. The Train
2. Tough Guys (though it is a bit hard to watch the Daylight demolished)
3. People Will Talk (beep... beep ... beep!!!)

And for honorable mention, I recently watched the entire series of Poirot mysteries that ran on PBS. A lot of them had scenes with some beautifully restored British steamers running though the countryside, but, surprisingly, Murder on thr Orient Express was somewhat disappointing (though the coach interiors were quite good).

I don't watch enough movies to choose three, so my top pick is Unstoppable, which I've watched three times, so that sort of counts.  :-)

Last night I watched Bull Dog Drummond's Peril from 1938 that had a hard to see night steam train-car case, contrasted with some very nice detailed interior train shots.  I think the trains were British; the action moves between England and Switzerland and can be hard to follow.

Tomlinson Run Railroad

The BIG Little Railroad

The original Taking of Pelham 1-2-3

GG1 cab rides:

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

 honorable mention.   Getting off on the Right Foot:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...R=1&feature=fvwp

1. The Train

2. Emperor of the North

3. Daylight Express (not a theatrical release, but one of the best rail fan videos)

Danger Lights

Broadway Limited

Von Ryan's Express

forgot to add Holiday Affair (the original) Robert Mitchum and Janel Leigh

Polar Express

The Great Locomotive Chase (Fess Parker!)

Mine would be ; murder on the trans siberian express, emperor of the north , the general. Looks like I got more to watch

The Train

Emperor of the North

Murder on the Orient Express /  It happened to Jane

The Titfield Thunderbolt

Mark

1. Emperor of the North - right out of the fiction pages of the old "Railroad" magazine.
   Lee Marvin and Ernest Borgnine were perfectly cast for their parts.
2. Danger Lights - another classic!
   Wait til you meet Dan Thorn...the ultimate Railroad Man
3. The Train

North by Northwest

La Roue (France, 1922)

Four's a Crowd (if allowing the category to include model trains)

Honorable mention to original of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. Opening music hooked me.

David

The General - Buster Keaton

The Great Locomotive Chase - Disney

The Station Agent

One more I think.  The subway sequences in French Connection are really great.  I've already changed the numberboards on my MTH R17s to match the cars on the Grand Central shuttle and my R42s to match the cars on that unforgettable el chase through Brooklyn.

My favorites are Emperor of the North, Night Passage and Breakheart Pass.  They just edge out Polar Express (which remains my favorite Christmas movie).

I also want to add Rocky Mountain Express as an honorable mention - although it is now available on Blu Ray, it is something special to see in IMAX.  Steam in the Rockies!

Andy

Top three only? Okay, in order:

• "Emperor of the North" (which I think is the 'Citizen Kane' of train movies)
• "The Great Locomotive Chase" (Disney)
• "The General" (Buster Keaton)

Mustang-

Yeah, I like The Great Locomotive Chase too!

The Grey Fox...Richard Farnsworth

Let's see...

• The Polar Express
• A Holiday Affair (Model trains count)
• Emperor of the North

CTSRapid posted:

Yeah, I like The Great Locomotive Chase too!

Remember when "Wide World of Disney" would play this on TV? You'd see it, what, every 3-5 years on TV? My parents knew that if this or "Emperor of the North" came on TV that we were to drop our plans that night if we had any. God love 'em, this wasn't a case of the kid mandating anything to the parents. Instead, it was a parental acknowledgement of how rare these movies ever came on TV in that pre-home-video era. I sure didn't get my way disproportionately growing up, but my parents always had an odd way of knowing what was truly important to me.

Growing up, though, my (living in the Deep South) family always got a little steamed at how all of Disney's civil war themed movies were pro-Union. In the South, most folks back then viewed the whole Andrews Raid right up there with Skorzeny's men dressing as GI's during the Battle of the Bulge in regard to it being a cowardly act.

Didn't stop anyone from appreciating how cool the movie was, though!

But now, I have all my top three RR movies (and most of the other good movies with trains) on DVD. I sure don't miss the days where years would go by between opportunities to see your favorite film.

Polar Express

Silver Streak

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid