David from Dearborn posted:The Station Agent (2003)
This beautiful little movie starts with the main character "Fin" working as a train store repairman, then living in an an old abandoned train station and at least one scene of real train watching. I would highly recommend it!
Good film. Saw it quite a few years ago. Some quirky characters.
Pingman posted:This week-end, I watched most of the "In the Heat of the Night" with Rod Steiger and Sidney Poitier, again, though it's been decades since the last time.
In the closing seen, as Poitier is leaving Sparta, and Steiger is seeing him off, Poitier is boarding a beautiful GM&O coach, in striking maroon and red with gold stripes livery, pulled by an equally beautiful E-7. The movie closes with the train departing and the camera pans out from altitude.
Ah, yes. Saw that a couple months ago, with Lee Grant speaking afterwards. Tyne Daly and, I think, Brenda Vaccaro were in attendance. People cheered when Lee Grant's name came up in the credits - and when Poitier's did. I was tempted to cheer when the GM&O E unit appeared. Fun fact - set in Sparta, Miss., but filmed mainly in Sparta, Ill.
David
jimcap posted:Dan Padova posted:Another movie came to mind just now. I'm going back about sixty years. On TV I was watching a movie where a guy is running from the police or a gangster, not sure. Anyway, he gets his foot caught in a switch track just as the points are closing. An F unit is fat approaching. Of course we don't see the blood & guts. But in those days we had imaginations.
Maybe someone can name the movie. I sure can't at the moment.
I think it was Sullivan's Travels 1941. A bum robs Sullivan , and run across the rail yard and get hit by the train. Every one thinks it was Sullivan.
Jim, that's not the film I was thinking of. As a matter of fact, I watched Sullivan's Travels only a few weeks ago on TCM. Sullivan's Travels was a light comedy. The film I'm trying to recall is anything but comedic.
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly (train has Confed spy tied to cowcatcher-Tuco jumps off to escape)
Some Like It Hot (classic B&W - interior shots)
Back to the Future III
People Will Talk
Dan Padova posted:jimcap posted:Dan Padova posted:Another movie came to mind just now. I'm going back about sixty years. On TV I was watching a movie where a guy is running from the police or a gangster, not sure. Anyway, he gets his foot caught in a switch track just as the points are closing. An F unit is fat approaching. Of course we don't see the blood & guts. But in those days we had imaginations.
Maybe someone can name the movie. I sure can't at the moment.
I think it was Sullivan's Travels 1941. A bum robs Sullivan , and run across the rail yard and get hit by the train. Every one thinks it was Sullivan.
Jim, that's not the film I was thinking of. As a matter of fact, I watched Sullivan's Travels only a few weeks ago on TCM. Sullivan's Travels was a light comedy. The film I'm trying to recall is anything but comedic.
You are correct, I watch it again, The bum doesn't get his foot caught in the switch, he just get run down by a fast moving train.
I would call it a comedy/drama as it does get dark at times.
jimcap posted:Dan Padova posted:jimcap posted:Dan Padova posted:Another movie came to mind just now. I'm going back about sixty years. On TV I was watching a movie where a guy is running from the police or a gangster, not sure. Anyway, he gets his foot caught in a switch track just as the points are closing. An F unit is fat approaching. Of course we don't see the blood & guts. But in those days we had imaginations.
Maybe someone can name the movie. I sure can't at the moment.
I think it was Sullivan's Travels 1941. A bum robs Sullivan , and run across the rail yard and get hit by the train. Every one thinks it was Sullivan.
Jim, that's not the film I was thinking of. As a matter of fact, I watched Sullivan's Travels only a few weeks ago on TCM. Sullivan's Travels was a light comedy. The film I'm trying to recall is anything but comedic.
You are correct, I watch it again, The bum doesn't get his foot caught in the switch, he just get run down by a fast moving train.
I would call it a comedy/drama as it does get dark at times.
Wow, my memory is shorter than I thought.....LOL I didn't recall that scene from Sullivan's Travels.
Breakhart Pass with Charles Bronson, made in the early 70's.
Pretty good movie.
Dan Padova posted:jimcap posted:Dan Padova posted:jimcap posted:Dan Padova posted:Another movie came to mind just now. I'm going back about sixty years. On TV I was watching a movie where a guy is running from the police or a gangster, not sure. Anyway, he gets his foot caught in a switch track just as the points are closing. An F unit is fat approaching. Of course we don't see the blood & guts. But in those days we had imaginations.
Maybe someone can name the movie. I sure can't at the moment.
I think it was Sullivan's Travels 1941. A bum robs Sullivan , and run across the rail yard and get hit by the train. Every one thinks it was Sullivan.
Jim, that's not the film I was thinking of. As a matter of fact, I watched Sullivan's Travels only a few weeks ago on TCM. Sullivan's Travels was a light comedy. The film I'm trying to recall is anything but comedic.
You are correct, I watch it again, The bum doesn't get his foot caught in the switch, he just get run down by a fast moving train.
I would call it a comedy/drama as it does get dark at times.
Wow, my memory is shorter than I thought.....LOL I didn't recall that scene from Sullivan's Travels.
Thats okay your mind might have been on other things in the film.
Quarter Gauger 48 posted:Amfleet25124 posted:Kevin, you sure know your NYC trains'. I also check the geography in films. I recently watched a movie that was to take place in Colorado, but was actually Norway. Another was Louisiana, but actually Canada. And the list goes on'.... Must be our generation, or LEOs just like to know where they are at all times'.... 🙄
KOOLjock1 posted:Amfleet,
I lived down the block from Mystic Pizza when they were shooting the movie. Knowing the geography of the area makes watching much harder.
Jon
Ted, on the F/G train line, I know that station from riding the trains in my teen years and trainspotting. The "Coming to America" scene I had to do some internet hunting to find out the station name.
Jon, yes, it does make watching a movie harder.
Speaking of bad geography, OGR members from the Chicagoland area might find this interesting. Returning to my earlier post about the Bob Newhart Show and his commute on the El home, apparently in the opening sequence he was walking all over the downtown erratically and taking trains that didn't match where he lived in Edgewater in the north part of Chicago. Couple of interesting articles on this:
https://www.dnainfo.com/chicag...-way-out-of-his-way/
https://www.chicagotribune.com...-20170808-story.html
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Used Cars (1980) with Kurt Russell and Jack Warden, which I'm watching the DVD right now. Near the end of the movie, one of the characters racing back to the car lot has to ramp jump over a freight train.
Watched The World, The Flesh and The Devil staring Harry Belafonte. He survives a coal mine cave in and emerges into a post apocalyptic world. About a half hour in he's got an apartment with a Lionel J and train running through several rooms over the bed, bureau, ironing board and etc. Several minutes of the train running.
Last night's (3/22) episode of "The Rookie" on ABC. Cops radio in they are near an Amtrak yard, then there is a chase, including shots of a turntable. Perhaps Redondo Junction? There were what appeared to be locomotives in the background of some shots.
David
There is a 2015 Cate Blanchett movie "Carol" that starts with train sounds at the beginning, and the 1st Lionel train sequence starts at 00:8:30. I think the Lionel stuff comes up again, but I fell asleep and haven't seen the whole thing yet.
It can be viewed on any device for free with ads HERE on Tubi... as a side note, Tubi has just been purchased by Fox.
And last night's episode of "The Rookie" had a big scene in the Amtrak Yard (California). I was really impressed when I came back into the room just in time to see they shot on and under the engine turntable.
Two 2018 episodes of The Simpsons has trains. In one, Rev. Lovejoy has a layout in his garage. In another, Moe uses a train of flatcars to deliver beer mugs. Later in a fit of rage, he destroys them with a baseball bat and axe. That reminded me of a resteraunt in Newark NJ called the Hamburger Express in the late 50's or early 60's that used a Lionel train to deliver hamburger plates to you at the counter. No bats or axes were used.
A recent Twilight zone episode had a couple trapped in the train layout of a little girl.
CSXJOE posted:Two 2018 episodes of The Simpsons has trains. In one, Rev. Lovejoy has a layout in his garage.
The good Reverend and his trains have been featured in earlier episodes. Here's one:
And Otto:
Rusty
When I was a kid in the 60's there was a commercial that ran during the Captain Kangaroo show where a Lionel O Gauge train pulled a flatcar with a bowl of Rice Krispies around the track. The train would pull the bowl under a water tower where the spout would drop and it poured milk over the cereal. Captain Kangaroo would then put his ear down next to the bowl to hear the "snap-crackle-pop". I remember wanting that train so bad I couldn't stand it.
Anybody else remember that ?
Don't know if this was mentioned before, but in Bad Boys II, one of the many shootout scenes involved a chase and fight on the Miami MetroMover, the elevated people mover system in Downtown Miami. I frequent one of those stations (Riverwalk on the Brickell Line) quite a bit
G-Man24 posted:When I was a kid in the 60's there was a commercial that ran during the Captain Kangaroo show where a Lionel O Gauge train pulled a flatcar with a bowl of Rice Krispies around the track. The train would pull the bowl under a water tower where the spout would drop and it poured milk over the cereal. Captain Kangaroo would then put his ear down next to the bowl to hear the "snap-crackle-pop". I remember wanting that train so bad I couldn't stand it.
Anybody else remember that ?
Yes I remember seeing the Lionel MPC cereal train in the 1970’s. I looked and could not find any pictures of it. The cereal would pour out of a coal chute or it was a water tower. Memory lane.
Seacoast posted:Yes I remember seeing the Lionel MPC cereal train in the 1970’s. I looked and could not find any pictures of it. The cereal would pour out if a coal chute or it was a water tower. Memory lane.
You're right the cereal was also poured into the bowl using one of the rail accessories but I couldn't remember exactly how.
Just a brief shot - five or six seconds - in "Washington Story," from around 1954, to establish movement of a U.S. representative from the District of Columbia to his home state of Massachusetts. Except that it's some sort of NYC electric motor leading a train southbound along the Hudson. My guess is a T Motor - number is 27-something, maybe 271.
The shot is probably at a station - there's fencing between tracks, and a pedestrian bridge in the background, though that is beyond the end of the fencing - maybe it's private access to the riverfront.
There are other brief train scenes - boarding car to leave for Washington, and then in a compartment.
David
Shanghai Express 1932 with Marlene Dietrich
Beggars Of Life 1928
Union Station 1950
The Hunter 1980 Steve McQueen
The old western Tales of Wells Fargo has a lot of great scenes with steamers in it. They used a couple different intros over the years, one shows Jim Hardy (Dale Robertson) racing his horse along the tracks to keep up with a train while tossing a mail bag into an open window . Robertson was an accomplished rider in real life and he did the stunt himself but every time I see it I'm amazed they took that chance.
Right now on the Simpson's, Rev. Lovejoy is running his trains.
Van Ryan’s express. Starring frank Sinatra
"Edge of the City," from 1957, which just started on TCM - forgot that early on there are scenes on the West Side of Manhattan, around freight yards.
Add: just watched a bit of the opening again. As before, saw NYC switcher in the foreground - but this time, noticed another switcher on what is now the High Line in the background.
David
"The Cassandra Crossing" (1976) starring Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen and Ava Gardner is my all time favorite.
You can watch it on Amazon Prime.
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"Runaway Train" (1985) starring Eric Roberts, Jon Voight and Rebecca De Mornay is also excellent and can be watched on Amazon Prime.
Just started watching "The Humbling," with Pacino and Gerwig from 2014. Early on they assemble three-rail track and run a steam loco - no smoke - with a tender and a flatcar with searchlight.
Later on as he's talking by video conference to psychiatrist, I think there's a train photograph (edit - maybe a book) behind him (the background image is out of focus). Maybe a couple steam locomotives and some telegraph lines in the image.
David
In case I missed it, did anyone mention Burke's Law, an episode called The Death of Cassandra Cass? It had an N gauge layout.
Lou N
Hadn't seen this one in a while - "Running Scared," from 1986. Very few trains, but a car chase on the Chicago "L" tracks. Well done. Some background on the filming here:
https://www.chicagotribune.com...602190904-story.html
David
It Happened One Night. cab forward at a crossing with a flagman and bos riding on the train. also has whistles in the night in one scene. The Train. There is a movie with Densel Washington in it based on a not so dramatic incident that happened in Ohio, I think.
Emperor of the North
@rkenney posted:People Will Talk
I saw this movie with my parents at a drive in theater in the early 50s about 52. I had received a Lionel set a year earlier and though I loved it, and played with it constantly, I had no idea of all that could be done with it. Then I saw this scene in "People Will Talk" and I was mesmerized. My love and enthusiasm for the trains eventually got my father hooked and he bought some two rail O scale trains. I was attracted to the two rail trains but they were more expensive and I could not trade the other kids in the neighborhood out of their two rail trains since all they had were either Lionel or Flyer. That was the greatest Lionel ad of all time. I wonder what happened to all those trains when the filming was over ? j
"Thirty Day Princess," from 1934, must be one of the earliest film appearances of UP's M-10000. It appears in a montage of news coverage of a princess traveling around the country. Also an early Cary Grant film.
David
I checked to see if these two movies have been mentioned before and they haven't, so here goes...
From the world of overdosing on Netflix, watch these two movies the last two nights.
The Jackal (1997) with Bruce Willis and Richard Gere. Movie is set in D.C. and the climax takes place underground in the Washington Metro. Only thing is the subway scenes were shot in Montreal, because I recognized the rubber tired trainsets that are used in Montreal, plus the D.C. Metro's station design motif is very unique and none of the stations in the movie looked like those in D.C.
Unknown (2011) with Liam Neeson. As part of his escape from the hospital in Berlin, he is riding on the U-Bahn.
@JohnActon posted:I saw this movie with my parents at a drive in theater in the early 50s about 52. I had received a Lionel set a year earlier and though I loved it, and played with it constantly, I had no idea of all that could be done with it. Then I saw this scene in "People Will Talk" and I was mesmerized. My love and enthusiasm for the trains eventually got my father hooked and he bought some two rail O scale trains. I was attracted to the two rail trains but they were more expensive and I could not trade the other kids in the neighborhood out of their two rail trains since all they had were either Lionel or Flyer. That was the greatest Lionel ad of all time. I wonder what happened to all those trains when the filming was over ? j
Oh, that clip leaves out the discussion about who was at fault for the pile-up.
https://www.carygrant.net/wavs/people/pwtbeeplong.wav
Only the sound, but you'll get the idea.
David
SUPER 8. J. J. ABRAMS. 2011 FILM
Watched again last night. Fun film, jr high kids making a film( hence the title) one. Scene they are at a local train station filming and a secret military train goes by , violently explodes and crashes all over the place for a couple of minutes. Train is carrying an Alien thats been in captivity for many years.
Fun movie sort of like " GOONIES"
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