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This is by no means a great movie and only contains 1 scene with an O-gauge train, which is promptly destroyed.

I watched it for only the 2nd time the other night, the 1st being way back in 1980 while in the Navy.

It is Steve McQueen's 'The Hunter', his last film, and probably his worst, although I found it enjoyable. In the film's beginning, he attempts to subdue a rather large fellow while a Lionel train steams around on the floor. I had completely forgotten about the train.

Here's a video of the fight. It doesn't include Steve walking through and kneeling.

https://youtu.be/9K6vQ9BryOI

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The Black Scorpion from 1957 features the Lionel Lines #1666 steam locomotive and a set of Southern Pacific passenger cars. The train is attacked, (naturally), and it flashes by in a couple of seconds so you would have to pause the disc to see. I was watching it on my MST3K collection. I thought it was kind of cool, Lionel Lines ran in Mexico!

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The Black Scorpion from 1957 features the Lionel Lines #1666 steam locomotive and a set of Southern Pacific passenger cars. The train is attacked, (naturally), and it flashes by in a couple of seconds so you would have to pause the disc to see. I was watching it on my MST3K collection. I thought it was kind of cool, Lionel Lines ran in Mexico!

One of my favorites! And thanks to YouTube - here's the scene!

Note that the tender got reversed just before the climactic meeting! How many times has that happened through the years!

Does "Thomas and The Magic railroad" count? The reason most of that movie's plot holes exist, for those of you who don't know, is because executive meddling deleted an entire second villain from the film and forced Britt allcroft to retool the whole story in just a few weeks. Go ahead and google PT Boomer. He would've been legendary. On another note, the scenes that take place on the magic railroad itself have a surreal, dreamlike, and yes, magical quality to them that I am determined to tease out how to replicate with my own special effects, I still think that the magic railroad was more beautiful as a tunnel of vines than it was as a generic grassland. Please don't laugh at me, my experience with TaTMR was, ...unique.

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