TomlinsonrunRR, the Donald Duck/chipmunk cartoon was the best!!!!
Three is tough. Here's a short list:
Holiday Affair
The Lady Vanishes (Hitchcock)
From Russia with Love
North by Northwest (Hitchcock)
The Great Locomotive Chase
Throw Momma from the Train
The Sting
Double Indemnity (that one sequence)
Strangers on a Train (Hitchcock)
White Christmas
Terror by Night
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Train
This is my favorite train movie: https://archive.org/details/sundownlimited. A 1924 silent Our Gang short.
pennytrains posted:This is my favorite train movie: https://archive.org/details/sundownlimited. A 1924 silent Our Gang short.
Never saw this one before - it's great!
I've always wanted to model THAT train! 
I enjoyed the Our Gang as well. Thanks, Pennytrains.
It's a bit of a stark contrast, but the following 1942 Superman cartoon does share with the silent film considerable attention to detail with regard to trains and their workings. I think the Billion Dollar Limited locomotive is a J-class? Feel free to correct me.
Fleischer 1942 Superman Cartoon billion_dollar_limited
I now have the Superman theme stuck in my head. Spoiler alert: Lois Lane fires a tommy gun while riding in the cab. You go, girl!
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TomlinsonRunRR posted:Update: For some reason I can't edit my previous post, and this one doesn't have any edit controls. Here's an even better silent movie for my #3:
1915 Wild Engine: A runaway engine, a motorcycle, a drawbridge, and some truly incredible railroad footage: https://archive.org/details/19...ildEngineHelenHolmes
What more could you need?
Tomlinson Run Railroad
That's not just a motorcycle, that's and Indian motorcycle and the heroine steals it and rides it...in 1915! Scandalous! Awesome little movie!
Berth Marks, Laurel and Hardy
The General, Buster Keaton.
The Railrodder, Buster Keaton
Animations , Play safe! , Max Fleischer , "Porkies Railroad" and Foghorn Leghorn with the toy train gags.
Train scenes from The Marx Brothers Go West, plus the crowded cabin scene in their Night at the Opera, and train scenes in the more serious DrZhivago are all worth mention.
1) Unstoppable - not the most realistic movie out there, but it's still a superbly crafted film with fantastic effects, phenomenal pacing, sharp sound design, an incredible soundtrack, and great performances by Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. Not to mention the last film Tony Scott directed before his suicide...
2) The Station Agent - by far the best movie Peter Dinklage has been in, and carries the movie on his shoulders. Very slice of life and that's just fine, and I loved all the characters.
3) The Train - an instant John Frankenheimer classic, what else is there to say? Very realistic, has awesome crashes, and solid performance by the great Burt Lancaster.
Emperor of the North
The polar express
Thomas and the magic RR
That's off the top of my head .
TomlinsonRunRR: I'd say the "Billion Dollar Limited" is akin to the Pennsy's torpedoes.
Adriatic: "Play Safe" is a great film! I love the 3-D look of using the cutouts and that Marx train rolling through that scary landscape is fantastic! Look up a film called "Safe Roads", it features a standard gauge train wreck!
Becky
Lots of favorites already mentioned. Two more including trains:
Kelly's Heroes
Blazing Saddles
It Happened to Jane......The Train......North by Northwest......in that order !
Runnin' That New River Train
Listen For The Whistle
Polar Express
Comment 1: Two movies, "Breakheart Pass" and "The Cassandra Crossing" never make a single mention of the fact that the locomotive has an engineer!
Comment 2: I have always wondered, when Superman stops something in mid air, what does he use for leverage?
Kent Loudon posted:Comment 1: Two movies, "Breakheart Pass" and "The Cassandra Crossing" never make a single mention of the fact that the locomotive has an engineer!
Comment 2: I have always wondered, when Superman stops something in mid air, what does he use for leverage?
Kent,
For comment 1, I'll have to go back and look, but I'm sure Breakheart Pass not only mentions an engineer, he appears in several scenes. Isn't he the one who tells Deacon not to use the one woodpile because it's "wet"?
Kent Loudon posted:I have always wondered, when Superman stops something in mid air, what does he use for leverage?
Things like that sort of depended on the writer and not usually addressed in depth without necessity. A difference in gravitational pulls effects from his homeworld suggests he "swims" through the air, so the air it's self would provide leverage..???. Manipulating solar energy for leverage another "theory"???.. I'm sure there are tons of ongoing threads arguing daily about it on some "fanboy" site, lol.
The train scenes in the opening of Superman were always great fun.
Kent Loudon posted:Comment 1: Two movies, "Breakheart Pass" and "The Cassandra Crossing" never make a single mention of the fact that the locomotive has an engineer!
Comment 2: I have always wondered, when Superman stops something in mid air, what does he use for leverage?
Never seen either of the two movies in comment 1
Comment 2 is simple: he uses the anti-gravity field that comes equipped with every Superman along with xray vision, non-combustible propulsion, super strength, etc
Any idea what year Mr. "S" stopped being "more powerful than a locomotive", and became more powerful than a "mighty rocket"? It was during the live TV series.
He went to a style consultant who said he needed to have a more modern image and to stop changing his clothes in an alley or a phone booth! 
Add a new super power - ability to morph is clothes "on the fly".
Not a train movie, but lots of trains, the station, etc., in "Indiscretion of an American Wife," from the early '50s, set in and filmed at Rome's Termini station. Just over an hour. Was on TCM earlier this month, just watched it on DVR.
David
"The Greatest Show on Earth!"
The plot and subplots in this movie can get rather tedious, but who doesn't enjoy the logistics of moving a circus by train. Pretty good train wreck action, too.
Cheers!
Alan
Audie Murphy teaching his own boys about O Gauge Trains, as he did for our Boys Club, Christmas 1953 in Swissvale, Pa on the Washington Theater Stage. Audie Murphy remains the most decorated Soldier in American history. His Grave is opposite the Unknown Soldiers Grave sight, and is one of the most visited in Arlington Cemetery.
Ken,
Got to agree with your for #1. Break Heart Pass - Charlie Bronson, Richard Crenna and Ben Johnson. For an adventure train movie it's hard to beat. Bronson's family were Pa coal miners, as a boy he was so poor that Charlie shared his sox with his brothers. He became one of the richest movie starts who ever lived, passing in 2003 from Alz, Bronson said if it was not for the US Military he would have probably been poor all his life. However my # 2 is Night Passage with Jimmy Stewart and Audie Murphy, along with my Mom's good friend, who happened to be Jimmy Stewarts Beautiful wife Elaine, in her last movie role. #3 The Train Robbers - John Wayne & Ann Margret with Ben Johnson and others - Boil it!
PCRR/Dave
"And then I realized I was holding the Bravest man who ever lived in my Arms" - General Jimmy Stewart.
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Yet another vote for " Emperor of the North"
Danger Lights
The Train
Unstoppable
Sorry, just had to list four!
Ed
The General
Emperor of the North
The Great Locomotive Chase
Hmm, three?
Tough Guys
Barnum & Bailey (no one mentioned this? Lotsa Circus train scenes, even a wreck!
Hmm toss up now, Great Locomotive Chase or The General.
there's a number of others I like, including Stand by Me (filmed on the McCloud, of course I have to like it!) Breakheart Pass, Polar Express, The Train. Ahh, more keep coming to mind.
Emperor of the North
The Train
Von Ryan's Express
MNCW posted:He went to a style consultant who said he needed to have a more modern image and to stop changing his clothes in an alley or a phone booth!
It is hard to change in a phone booth if there are no more phone booths.
Like them all. Can't do just three..........
2001 A Space Odyssey
Blade Runner
The Hunt for Red October
Larry
1. "Danger Lights".
2. NY Central's publicity film "Flight of the Century".
3. Our Gang's "Railroadin".
"Bombay Mail (Universal Pictures, 1934). The film's release, based on a book by Lawrence G. Blochman (who also wrote the screenplay) actually predates the publication of Agatha Christie's "Murder on the Orient Express." The film takes place almost entirely on-board the train. The governor of Bengal is murdered, and CID inspector Dyke must solve the crime as the train makes its way toward Bombay.
Sherlock Holmes "Terror by Night" (Universal, 1946). Holmes (Basil Rathbone) must thwart a diamond robbery on a train en route from London to Edinburgh. One of the better Universal Holmes' films.
I was watching the movie "Pride of the Marines" the other day. There were shots of Penn Station,then a view of the venerable GG1 with a string of Pennsy varnish. In black and white,the GG1 had to be tuscan. There just aren't many movie clips showing the venerable GG1.
Norm
I just stumbled on this NY Times review of the movie Snowpiercer. Apparently, it's one of those distopian films but where everyone in the world is living in a train that circles the globe.
From the review it sounds very interesting, well acted, and directed. Has anyone seen it?
Tomlinson Run Railroad
TomlinsonRunRR posted:I just stumbled on this NY Times review of the movie Snowpiercer. Apparently, it's one of those distopian films but where everyone in the world is living in a train that circles the globe.
From the review it sounds very interesting, well acted, and directed. Has anyone seen it?
Tomlinson Run Railroad
It's dreadful.
Mill City posted:TomlinsonRunRR posted:I just stumbled on this NY Times review of the movie Snowpiercer. Apparently, it's one of those distopian films but where everyone in the world is living in a train that circles the globe.
From the review it sounds very interesting, well acted, and directed. Has anyone seen it?
Tomlinson Run Railroad
It's dreadful.
Truly. Critics loved it for some reason, but it's one the worst concepts, screenplays and acting jobs by some of the principal actors I've ever seen.
It's really, really, really bad.
Mill City posted:TomlinsonRunRR posted:I just stumbled on this NY Times review of the movie Snowpiercer. Apparently, it's one of those distopian films but where everyone in the world is living in a train that circles the globe.
From the review it sounds very interesting, well acted, and directed. Has anyone seen it?
Tomlinson Run Railroad
It's dreadful.
That's too bad, Mill City/Jon. The Wikipedia article had all the stars raving about working with the director (as did the Times review). I just ordered Vol. 1 of the graphic novel in English. Let's hope it's better ...
TRRR
TomlinsonRunRR posted:Mill City posted:TomlinsonRunRR posted:I just stumbled on this NY Times review of the movie Snowpiercer. Apparently, it's one of those distopian films but where everyone in the world is living in a train that circles the globe.
From the review it sounds very interesting, well acted, and directed. Has anyone seen it?
Tomlinson Run Railroad
It's dreadful.
That's too bad, Mill City/Jon. The Wikipedia article had all the stars raving about working with the director (as did the Times review). I just ordered Vol. 1 of the graphic novel in English. Let's hope it's better ...
TRRR
Snowpiercer, I agree is a strange one, but I enjoyed it.
