MOVIES OR TV SHOWS WITH TRAINS IN THEM.

WILD WILD WEST

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.

       
       

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)

• Risky Business (1983)
• The Godfather (1972)
• The Station Agent (2003)
• The Fugitive (1993)
• Arthur (1981)

The sopranos blue comet where they filmed at TrainLand!

 

http://youtu.be/dOFQkxC6lJI

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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

TV Shows...
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Hogan's Heroes (German trains)

"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.

The Bridge On The River Kwai

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SFMmJMNRv-Q

 

regards, rob

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

And then there's Trading Places with Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.

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?