IVE ALWAYS LIKED TO SEE TV SHOWS OR MOVIES WITH MODEL TRAINS OR REAL TRAINS IN THEM.FEEL FREE TO INTERJECT WITH YOUR FINDINGS.
1.CLOCKERS
2.THE ADAMS FAMILY
3.THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW
4.MONEYTRAIN
5.THE WARRIORS
6.THE EMPORIOR OF THE NORTH
7.DEATHWISH
8.KING OF NEWYORK
9.THE INCIDENT
10.DREAMS DONT DIE
11.WILDSTYLE
12.SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER
13.CARLITOS WAY
14.BADBOYS
15.STREETS OF FIRE
16.COOLEY HIGH
17.SPIDERMAN
18.MIGHTY JOE YOUNG
19.KINGKONG
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Mandy Patankin series "Chicago Hope'
Danger Lights, 1930 starring Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arhtur, Hugh Herbert, and Frank Sheridan. Terrific railroad scenes even a steam locomotive tug of war at a railroading company picnic.
TOUGH GUYS. 4449 reasons to watch it.
I LOVE LUCY. One show where a Lionel ATSF runs in the living room.
THE TRAIN. Train full of French are Germany stole being taken back by French underground.
ROCKY. Runs through a Conrail yard, with train.
ANNE K. Cannot spell last name. Heavy Russian drama. Suiside by train at end.
KELLY'S HEROES. Oddball's tank takes out a German railroad junction. Not overhead cat in the yard!
BATMAN. Monorail, but that is a train.
Danger Lights, 1930 starring Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arhtur, Hugh Herbert, and Frank Sheridan. Terrific railroad scenes even a steam locomotive tug of war at a railroading company picnic.
The Incredibles - Mr. Incredible (Bob Parr) exercises in a railroad yard to get back in shape.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence - Opens with a train
Cowboy - Scenes in a cattle yard and livestock train
Terror Train - 'nuff said.
The Day The Earth Stood Still - New Haven engineer looking at a pantograph when Klatuu (or Gort) cuts all the power in the world.
Human Desires - Murder drama taking place around the "Central National" railroad. Lot's of stock footage of various railroads and close ups of repainted Rock Island FA.
North by Northwest - New York Central footage
Silver Streak (1934) - Terrible railroading, swell melodrama
Silver Streak (1976) - Murder and intrigue on AmRoad
The Long Summer of George Adams - Railroad worker faces life's challenges. Shot on the Texas State Railroad
Disaster on the Coastliner - 'nuff said
Superman (1978) - Young Clark Kent races a train and Supes prevents the derailment of an Amtrak train
Casey Jones - Syndicated 50's TV series
Ticket to Tomahawk - How to get a train from point A to point B when the tracks aren't ready yet. RGS #20 and very good prop replica stars.
The National Dream - Canadian series about building the Canadian Pacific Railway.
Union Pacific - C.B. DeMill epic about building the transcontinental railroad
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. - Premier episode has prison train hold-up and involves alien artifact found during railroad construction
Dark of the Sun - Mercenaries use a train in the Congo to recover uncut diamonds
Supertrain - Mercifully short 1979 NBC TV series
Time Express - CBS's answer to Supertrain. Vincent Price takes passengers back in time to relive part a of their life.
Galaxy Express 999 - Japanese anime with spaceships built like trains
There's more, but that's all I can think of right now...
Rusty
White Christmas - Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye
Stand By Me
"The Grey Fox" true story of stagecoach and train robber George Minor
Correcton...Bill Miner..."The Grey Fox" starring Richard Farnsworth. Miner is credited with the term "Hands Up"
Transformers: Age of Extinction has some great views of classic steamers and diesels and what looks to be the Age of Steam Roundhouse.
--Greg
The Ghost Train; just watched it a couple of nights ago on Turner Movie Classics (TMC)
More movies with great train scenes:
BLINK
Witness
Tootsie
Fried Green Tomatoes
42
Broadway Limited (1930's)
Anatomy of a Murder
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Natural
Unstoppable
Runaway Train
"More powerful than a locomotive..." The introduction to (George Reeves) Superman - steam locomotive. That was my initiation to locomotives.
the untouchables 1960s tv show had a 2-part episode - had just enough scenes with railroading to be interesting.- alcatraz express was the title.-jim
Breakheart Pass. Great opening theme.
Von Ryan's Express
Emperor of the North. It's the Citizen Kane of train movies!
FOR A FEW MORE DOLLARS
American Graffiti(You heard the train but never saw it), Godzilla, High Noon, A League Of Their Own, Cassandra Crossing, White Lighting, In The Heat Of The Night, Strangers On A Train, Striking Distance, The Taking Of Pelham 123, Though None Go With Me, October Sky, The Legend of Zorro, Under Siege Dark Territory, Switchback, Terror On A Train (Glenn Ford), The Movie The Untouchables, Wyatt Earp, 3:10 to Yuma, and Coal Miners Daughter.
Movies:
The Great Locomotive Chase 1956
The Professionals 1966
The Denver & Rio Grande 1952
Fours A Crowd 1938
Great Train Robbery 1978
The Train 1964
From Russia with Love 1963
Didn't Captain Kangaroo run a Lionel train once in a while with Mr. Green jeans? I have a foggy memory of that. I should check the you tube....anyone?
Just saw WOLVERINE last week on HBO.
Good BULLET TRAIN fight.
Here's a few more:
Runaway Train - Escaped convicts jump on runaway locomotives in the wilds of Alaska
End of the Line - Employees commandeer a locomotive to go to Chicago to try to prevent their section of the line from being shut down.
The Brave Engineer - Disney's animated version of Casey Jones
Dumbo - Disney, with Casey Jr. and his circus train
The Great Locomotive Chase - Disney's retelling of the story
The General - Buster Keaton's version of the Great Locomotive Chase
How the West was Won - Cinerama epic. Transcontinental railroad building before intermission and a train robbery with wreck near the end
This is Cinerama - Segment shot on the WP with the California Zephyr
Tall Tale - Disney. A young boy joins forces with the Legends of the West to fight off evil land barons and their railroad
It Happened to Jane - Debbie Reynolds impounds a train as damages for a carload of live lobsters dying. Shot on the New Haven.
Rusty
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
Charleton Heston,Jimmie Stewart
Has a great train wreck wild animals everywhere.
GG1GUYY
This is one of my favourite short railway films. 
Shunter Black's Night Off. From 1941
Couple more:
Lawrence of Arabia - Lawrence blows up a train
Dr. Zhivago - Doc and family are placed on a refugee train. Doc stumbles upon armored Bolshevik train
Wallace and Grommit: The Wrong Trousers - Wallace has a model train running through his house. Grommit chases thieving penguin on model train using the bottomless box of track.
Northwest Passage (a.k.a. Flame over India) - The British rescue a young price by train as rebels give chase
Cassandra Crossing - Passengers exposed to a deadly virus are sealed inside a train and sent to their eventual doom
Who Framed Roger Rabbit? - Evildoers plot the demise of the Pacific Electric line in favor superhighways and rapidly prepared food
Rusty
Great scene in Big Jake a John Wayne movie made in 1969
or 1970. The Duke is seen with his horse as the Box Car
Door is opened. A great moment to remember a Grandfather
going after the bad guys who kidnapped his Grandson.
Only the Duke could pull this scene off. Great movie.
Many thanks,
Billy C
The Iron Horse (TV series) 1966 -1968 featured Dale Robertson.
Mmmm. Many great films already mentioned but here a few more:
The Polar Express
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (either version)
Transiberian
Back to the Future Part 3
Emperor of the North Pole
Babylon AD
Bridge on the River Kwai
SOMETHING WILD 1957
James Bond Octopussy- circus train scenes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiqmdJqzB10
Mission Impossible [da new one]:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AysV4mGh4fc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cho039BrHpg
Money train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJm22pdI57c
Broken Arrow:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efFb0IvoYPg
U.S. Marshals:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQuPzENidyM
Snakes on a Train:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9mR2hLbPMg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L..._films_set_on_trains
dont forget butch cassidy and the sundance kid...the poor box car didn't last long, did it?
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