Any movies with model trains in them? Other than the Adams family. Thats the only one I can think of.
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- Superman Returns: Lex Luthor (Kevin Spacey) had a multi-gauge layout.
- Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Richard Dreyfus' character had an H.O. layout under construction.
- Clockers: There was a drug dealer who used his profits to buy O gauge toy trains.
- End of the Line: (Movie about a rail line being shut down). The president of the company had an H.O. layout in his office. Ironically, the engineer and conductor who stole a locomotive and drove it to the corporate headquarters helped him fix a derailment problem on the layout. He then takes off with them and sells them the rail line for $1.00. Cute, but ain't gonna happen.
- Unstoppable: Oops. Those were real trains acting like models due to GGI special effects. Entertaining movie, but they took a few liberties.
Arthur (original), Throw Momma From a Train, A Christmas Story, Holliday Affair, Back to the Future III, The Black Scorpion. The last one has the distinction of a train set (complete with Lionel Lines on the sides of some of the equipment) playing the role of a "real train" with a "giant" stop motion scorpion.
Don't forget the great layout in 'Arthur'. 
Here are a couple of older movies:
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As, Chuck mentioned:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holiday_Affair
"Merry Little Christmas" all,
Ralph
We can expand this to include TV shows - Big Bang Theory 2 1/2 men, I Love Lucy Christmas Special, he show with Joe D.
The Day the earth Stood Still
Though it wasn't a movie, Dr Jeffery Geiger playing with his Lionel train on the floor of his office on the TV show, Chicago Hope. Mandy Patinkin actually had a great love of Lionel Trains.
On one episode, as best I can remember, Dr. Geiger offering a young patient a "special" Lionel GG1. Maybe someone can add the details of that episode.
Donovan's Reef.
Rusty
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A doctor's wife tires of his obsession with model trains, and spends her days wondering about the son she gave up for adoption at birth. While eating at a roadside cafe, she encounters a British hitchhiker, who turns out to be her son. They spend time together trying to find a bond. The son begins to hate the husband, and the wife begins worrying about the safety of her husband and his train set.
TV: Leave it to Beaver, The Millionaire.
In the first "Godfather" movie there was a scene shot at the former Polk's Hobby Shop, you can make out an O gauge train running on a display layout.
Also there was an HO layout in the latest "Lone Ranger" movie, interesting since it was also an electric train that was pretty elaborate in detail, including the layout. Don't think they had HO electric trains in 1869, let alone model or toy trains that would look like intricate brass or plastic models we have today. 
Tom Cruise & a ZW in Risky Business
Dudley Moore sleeping with his trains running in Arthur
If you are including TV, don't forget ALF.
Lionel Trains are used as part of the plot in "Holiday Affair" (1949) starring Robert Michum and Janet Leigh. Here is the IMDB entry.
OMG......
I cant believe no one has mentioned the Addams Family... both the movie and the TV show.
Where else can see lionel trains crash and blow up and not feel sad!
I guess I should have read the first post.... sorry
Another movie was, I think the name was Fours a crowd with Errol Flynn. Had a great train race on a huge outdoor type layout. Movie was from the late thirties...........Paul
Originally Posted by AGHRMatt:
- Unstoppable: Oops. Those were real trains acting like models due to GGI special effects. Entertaining movie, but they took a few liberties.
Watch the BR extra features......while events were 'out there' much of the train wrecks were real.....some came close to getting out of hand.
TV trains...Addams family and Capt Kangaroo.....local TV Engineer Bill show which I was on myself!
I had an uncle who scratch built a train set, making it look so realistic that when he needed money he put the set in the "For Sale" section of the news paper, a movie company bought it and used it for a WWII B&W movie.
The train is supposed to be a German freight train, which runs over a bridge and gets blown up!!!!!!
My uncle made realist looking model trains, cars, trucks, ships, boats and planes, that would be right up there with the foreign imports of today!!!!!
Before, he passed, he worked for NASA, on small intricate parts for the Space Program, down in Florida.
Ralph
Garfield
Meet the Robinsons: the line is kind of blurred in this movie, as the "model" is full-sized but remote control.
And speaking of scale 
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Aaron
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Don't forget the Sopranos Episode. THE BLUE COMET!!!
The Toy with Richard Prior and Jackie Gleason. Nice indoor LGB setup the kid crashes into one another.
I know, the elevated commuter train, in the original King Kong, is supposed to be real, but I believe it is worth mentioning.
I don't know what scale size the train was, but it was realistic in appearance.
Ralph
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Apjvf9YNzEM
Nothing But Trouble Dinner Scene.
Chevy Chase, Dan Akroid, Demi Moore
If i remember correctly there was an episode of Dexter with John Lithgow running a train. Sure it was a little creepy but still.......
Originally Posted by chuck:
Arthur (original), Throw Momma From a Train, A Christmas Story, Holliday Affair, Back to the Future III, The Black Scorpion. The last one has the distinction of a train set (complete with Lionel Lines on the sides of some of the equipment) playing the role of a "real train" with a "giant" stop motion scorpion.
The Black Scorpion trailer, one of my favorites 
(pause the vid at 0:59)
As pointed out by Penn-Pacific there is a still from the train scene above (at :59) showing the Lionel Lines tender that is actually backwards! If you stop the clip there you can see it...
"A Hobbo's Christmas",1987, starring Barnard Hughes and Gerald McRaney featuring BOTH trains and a model train layout.
2 1/2 Men had some train episodes also.But they showed an HO layout so that really doesn't count
King of Queens.. doug's father sets up his layout at a train meet and doug wrecks the 681. things catch fire
Silver Spoons for TV and The Santa Clause 1 & 2 (LGB) I believe.
The Station Agent starts out with Peter Dinklage working in a train shop. Lots of Lionel trains, and I think there was a layout, but it is a very short sequence.
Gee I never knew there were so many movies and TV shows with model Trains.Impresive!!!!!!
There, was an Ozzie and Harriet episode where Lionel trains are bought for Ricky, but Ozzie and I believe Don Defore run the trains, while a dejected Ricky looks on!
Ralph
Originally Posted by Big_Boy_4005:
The Station Agent starts out with Peter Dinklage working in a train shop. Lots of Lionel trains, and I think there was a layout, but it is a very short sequence.
There was one. It featured a Lionel MPC Union Pacific Berkshire and modern Lionel rolling stock. You could also see many postwar and modern Lionel on the shelves as well as MTH.
I never saw it, when it came out in the '50's, a B&W filmed Lionel commercial with Joe D'Magio. I first, saw it a few years ago.
Also, Johnny Cash Lionel, MPC commercials of the '70's.
Ralph
