I cannot decide between "White Christmas" and "Emperor of the North". These are the only (2) DVD's I own.
Donald
The Wild Bunch!
And finally, how could we forget the "Marx" Brothers in "Go West" .... pouring liquor down the smokestack to speed up that old woodburner and the popcorn in the firebox. Groucho leaning out a window of the house that's impaled on that engine saying "there's a lovely fire in the living room". Harpo sharpening an axe on one of the wheels as they're speeding along.
Steve24944 posted:The Railroad portion of "How the West Was Won" was pretty good.
Steve
Which reminds me "Once Upon A Time In The West". My top western movie.
balidas posted:Steve24944 posted:The Railroad portion of "How the West Was Won" was pretty good.
Steve
Which reminds me "Once Upon A Time In The West". My top western movie.
Wasn't that a Spaghetti Western filmed in Spain ?
Steve24944 posted:balidas posted:Steve24944 posted:The Railroad portion of "How the West Was Won" was pretty good.
Steve
Which reminds me "Once Upon A Time In The West". My top western movie.
Wasn't that a Spaghetti Western filmed in Spain ?
A Sergio Leone Spaghetti Western yes. The opening scene was shot in Spain while the rest of the movie was shot in other parts of Spain as well as Rome & the US.
The opening scene set I want to replicate when I build my layout.
Claudia Cardinale, Charles Bronson, Peter Fonda, Jason Robards.... how can you go wrong?
Does the 1948 CNJ Promotional "The BIG little Railroad" count? 
As far as CGI, I'm pretty sure the scene in "Unstoppable" where the engine and cars have their wheels lift off the track on one side going around a tight curve wasn't 'real'....
wjstix posted:As far as CGI, I'm pretty sure the scene in "Unstoppable" where the engine and cars have their wheels lift off the track on one side going around a tight curve wasn't 'real'....
Bingo.
The laws of physics and gravity wouldn't allow it. Swell melodrama, bad science.
Rusty
What movie had a Southern Pacific (I think) run the border into Mexico at the end? It was a pretty good scene.
balidas posted:There is also the great train wreck in the movie "The Greatest Show On Earth" starring the venerable James Stewart & Charlton Heston.
Yes . The clip doesn't show the engineer whistling out the flag ________ __ __ __ and the rear brakeman heading out to protect the rear of the train just before the tail end collision. Great movie.
My vote goes to The Train tied with Von Ryans Express with the Emperor of the North a close second.
Breakheart Pass another great one with Charles Bronson. I will also agree with previous posts, The Train and Von Ryan's Express are also favorites.
GVDobler posted:What movie had a Southern Pacific (I think) run the border into Mexico at the end? It was a pretty good scene.
That would have been the movie "Tough Guys", staring SP 4449, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallic (sp), Charles Durning, and a host of others, like Doyle McCormack and the rest of us on the 4449 crew (behind the scenes anyway). For what it's worth, this movie is now finally, after being done in 1986, available on BluRay DVD, through Amazon.
My favorites are Emperor of the North, Von Ryan's Express, and the Train. All three classics. My favorite Christmas movie with a train is White Christmas with Bing Crosby. I think in White Christmas they show footage of a Santa Fe with palm trees. I guess in the movie Santa Fe was in Florida but it is okay with me. In my basement Santa Fe runs right next to the Monon, the N&W, the Katy, etc. All good fun. We grew up listening to Bing Crosby and White Christmas Album and it is still our favorite Christmas music. Brings back memories of Christmas from my youth.
Dean
Hot Water posted:That would have been the movie "Tough Guys", staring SP 4449, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Eli Wallic (sp), Charles Durning, and a host of others, like Doyle McCormack and the rest of us on the 4449 crew (behind the scenes anyway). For what it's worth, this movie is now finally, after being done in 1986, available on BluRay DVD, through Amazon.
I've read a handful of hobby press articles on the making of that movie. Do you have any particular stories you'd care to share?
Here's another vote for "Emperor of the North".
For those concerned about a film without 'real' locomotives and/or trains...the equipment used to make "Emperor of the North" is about a real as it gets.
Pardon me if I miss your Thanksgiving dinner, I'll be riding the '19' to Portland.
Another wreck scene, this one from "The Train," featuring actual engines and rolling stock (no models or CGI). Can only imagine what would be involved if a producer tried to stage something like this today.
The Natural, has a locomotive in the early scenes starting at 6:50 into the film. I cannot determine if it is a Mikado or a Northern. The number plate on the front of the loco is visible briefly, but again I cannot make it out.
How can we forget Buster Keaton in 'The General" . Years later he did this film called "The Railrodder".
Both Trains and Railfan and Railroad had extensive stories on the making of "Tough Guys". A full size mockup was made of the 4449 and it was buried in sand up to the walkways.
When the 4449 was heading down to make the movie, we were able to pace it at 60 mph between San Jose and Morgan Hill.
“Danger Lights” is one of the best movies with real railroad locations and action.
I caught “Murder in the Private Car” on TCM last week. Lots of 1930’s Southern Pacific fun!
My favorite though is “It Happened to Jane” with Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, and the last surviving New Haven Steam Locomotive!
Jon 
This scene on the locomotive from "La Bete humaine"(1938) is great:
Note at 2:00 the use of a water scoop.
And there is more in the remainder of the movie (also on YouTube) which is about an French steam locomotive engineer.
Regards
Fred
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Rusty
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Tough Guys is one of my favorites with one of my favorite actors, Kirk Douglass. There are many I like, and many I don't, including the horrible one with Wilford Brimley where they steal a loco.
However, in recent years my favorite movie with lots of real train action (which I saw because of my son but glad I did) was Paddington 2 which featured the Tornado. Train station scene starts at about 3:25. While there is much CGI, the trains are real along with most of the train action.
How could anyone overlook "Broadway Limited?"
Absolutely dreadful movie with a number of fine scenes of PRR equipment.
sncf231e posted:This scene on the locomotive from "La Bete humaine"(1938) is great:
Note at 2:00 the use of a water scoop.
And there is more in the remainder of the movie (also on YouTube) which is about an French steam locomotive engineer.
Regards
Fred
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Rusty Traque posted:This crops up:
Rusty
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Rusty Traque posted:wjstix posted:As far as CGI, I'm pretty sure the scene in "Unstoppable" where the engine and cars have their wheels lift off the track on one side going around a tight curve wasn't 'real'....
Bingo.
The laws of physics and gravity wouldn't allow it. Swell melodrama, bad science.
Rusty
I agree, once the science goes wrong, the movie is a total loss.
I didn't see any mention of Switchback with Danny Glover and Dennis Quaid. Good train scenes in that one.
Another is Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, Steven Seagal.
Those don't make my top 5, but they are worth noting.
For me it's Emperor of The North, The Train, Von Ryan's Express.
Dan Padova posted:sncf231e posted:This scene on the locomotive from "La Bete humaine"(1938) is great:
Note at 2:00 the use of a water scoop.
And there is more in the remainder of the movie (also on YouTube) which is about an French steam locomotive engineer.
Regards
Fred
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I am sorry; it does play from my location (Netherlands); I tried to find another copy, but there isn't.
Regards
Fred
Just saw a title for a train movie..."One More Train To Rob" with George Peppard. Never watched it so I can't comment.
Then there's "Money Train" with Wesley Snipes & Woody Harrelson.
And come to think of it, the movie "The Wild Wild West" with the most beautiful Selma Hayak.
Just watched The Day the Earth Stood Still again. In one scene the boy rolls a train layout out from under his bed with a Lionel set, runs it blows the whistle and etc. until Klaatu enters and offers to tell him about trains that run with out rails.
sncf231e posted:Dan Padova posted:sncf231e posted:This scene on the locomotive from "La Bete humaine"(1938) is great:
Note at 2:00 the use of a water scoop.
And there is more in the remainder of the movie (also on YouTube) which is about an French steam locomotive engineer.
Regards
Fred
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I am sorry; it does play from my location (Netherlands); I tried to find another copy, but there isn't.
Regards
Fred
I believe this is the scene you have pasted into your post. I'm not sure what is happening in the clip. A man is walking on the tracks. The fireman sees something. Then at the end of the clip, another man wearing a hat walks by a trackside shanty.
Lots of Good picks. There are many on my Train movie list:
The Great Locomotive Chase 1956- Fess Parker. Classic Disney Civil War
The Denver and Rio Grande- 1952-Edmund O’Brien. Battle among competing Railroads.
Narrow Margin 1952 -Charles McGraw or the remake 1990 with Gene Hackman. A good guy protects the witness.
Northwest Frontier -1959-Kenneth Moore & Lauren Bacall. Great stream locomotive runs thru high desert country of India followed by bad guys. This is a hidden gem of a movie.
Human Desire-1954- Glen Ford, Broderick Crawford, Gloria Grahame, Railroad guys battle over a woman.
Any of the Murder on the Orient Express. Agatha Christie mystery.
Happy Thanksgiving
Seacoast posted:Lots of Good picks. There are many on my Train movie list:
The Great Locomotive Chase 1956- Fess Parker. Classic Disney Civil War
The Denver and Rio Grande- 1952-Edmund O’Brien. Battle among competing Railroads.
Narrow Margin 1952 -Charles McGraw or the remake 1990 with Gene Hackman. A good guy protects the witness.
Northwest Frontier -1959-Kenneth Moore & Lauren Bacall. Great stream locomotive runs thru high desert country of India followed by bad guys. This is a hidden gem of a movie.
Human Desire-1954- Glen Ford, Broderick Crawford, Gloria Grahame, Railroad guys battle over a woman.
Any of the Murder on the Orient Express. Agatha Christie mystery.
Happy Thanksgiving
Dang! Looks like I need to do some more collecting. I keep thinking there's a movie set in a foreign country in perhaps the 1800's involving an escape by train starring Humphrey Bogart. I seen it some time ago but cannot remember the name.
In 1932 there was a movie called "The Hurricane Express" starring a very young John Wayne.
Dan Padova posted:sncf231e posted:Dan Padova posted:sncf231e posted:
I believe this is the scene you have pasted into your post.
No, it is not. As I said: I tried to find another copy, but there isn't.
Regards
Fred
Another overlooked movie, Dark of the Sun:
Mercenaries hired to retrieve a fortune in diamonds during revolution. The train will get wrecked (no models, no CGI) towards the end of the movie.
Rusty
"Emperor of the North" is my favorite railroad movie.
I just found this one about the Big Boy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8gnK9JaU7Y
