Originally Posted by RJL:
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
Not a movie but a TV show. Captain Kangaroo.
Originally Posted by paul 2:
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
I 2nd " Four a crowd " great outdoor layout with a 700E racing a M10000 Streamliner.
The layout trains are featured several times in the movie featuring a race between the two.. The millionaire who owns the layout Al's has a control tower that he operates the trains from.
Originally Posted by Seacoast:
Originally Posted by paul 2:
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
I 2nd " Fours a crowd " great outdoor layout with a 700E racing a M10000 Streamliner. The layout trains are featured several times in the movie featuring a race between the two. The millionaire who owns the layout has a control tower that he operates the trains from.
Model trains made appearances on "Diff'rent Strokes" which co-starred the late Gary Coleman, a well known railroad enthusiast. In fact, one episode titled "Small Claims Court" featured the family trying to resolve a situation involving a defective locomotive which Mr. Coleman's character had just purchased. I believe the model in the episode was an MPC NW2.
Bob
The movie Beatleguise with Micheal Keaton has a great model town used at the beginning. Later the characters shrink and move though a very unreal but now full size model town. Fun. I've thought about what shrinking down to model size would be like.
There was a layout in two episodes of Columbo, Bye Bye Sky High IQ Murder Case and in the much later Murder, Smoke, and Shadows (directors club house). Man from Uncle Episode had Napoleon Solo trying to control a run away N gauge train set with a vail of nerve gas as a tank car.
A Might Wind has a great scene with Eugene Levy popping up inside an elaborate HO layout.
Ellery Queen: Season 1, Episode 14 The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer. Ed McMahon has an extensive Lionel layout in his outbuilding - with a spur to the main house for delivering messages.
Full Episode HERE.
CSI did a multi story arc around "the miniature killer". A scale modeler/railroader (not the serial killer) was featured prominently near the end of the arc.
There's a brief scene of model trains running at a department store before Chevy Chase goes lingerie shopping in Christmas Vacation.
>Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind.
>Superman Returns.
>So You Want to Build a Model Railroad (from the 50s)
>People Will Talk
The Dukes of Hazzard tv show....Boss Hogg used a model train for one of his haywire schemes.
Tom and Jerry....Tom ties Jerry to the tracks of a model train layout.
How about the trolley from Mr. Rogers? My favorite part of the show.
There was also a lionel train (I think) in one of the Banaczek (George Peppard) episodes when a real train turned up missing, and he used the model to illustrate what happened to the real train, and they show an aerial view of horseshoe curve, if memory serves.
I forgot, Stuart Little also had an O gauge layout.
Lots of trains running all over the palace in John Goldfarb, Please Come Home!
Originally Posted by ADCX Rob:
Ellery Queen: Season 1, Episode 14 The Adventure of the Eccentric Engineer. Ed McMahon has an extensive Lionel layout in his outbuilding - with a spur to the main house for delivering messages.
Full Episode HERE.
Was trying to think of that Ellery Queen. Anyone mention "Risky Business"?
Oh yeah, in the episode Grandma's Dead of That 70's Show, Red Forman plays with his old Lionel tinplate train, a 262 steam engine with a whistling tender, a 700 series passenger car, 600 series freight cars, 124 Lionel city station, and Lionel Trains Inc. versions of the 133 and 157 stations.
I recall one episode (I forget which one) of Poirot had a British tinplate O gauge train.
Towards the end of this year's bust, "The Lone Ranger", The kid was playing with a small Toy train while in the passenger car.
The Smurfs. Lionel display in FAO.
My favourite though as rusty mentioned is Donovan's Reef
Holiday Affair ( 1949 )
Robert Mitchum Janet Leigh
Technically TV ...
Thank you for the Ozzie and Harriet T.V. filmed Lionel trains, episode Rob,
Ralph
Originally Posted by LVfan:
Holiday Affair ( 1949 )
Robert Mitchum Janet Leigh
You beat me to it, LVfan. I was beginning to wonder if anyone around here had ever watched a movie over twenty years old!
Holiday Affair -- toy trains and the luscious Janet Leigh! Unbeatable combination.
Dennis the Menace had an episode where they were racing soap box cars and Dennis' dad won a bet with another dad on who's car was fastest. Dennis had the reward of getting a Lionel set while his friend who won the race only had a little HO set as a prize. Scene is at 23:55
Years ago in a made for TV movie about Al Capone (stay with me on this)
there was a scene in Al's house in Chicago with his Son playing with some
beautiful Lionel Standard Gauge Trains.
The layout was well done. I believe the Son was running the Lionel Bankers
Set. Who ever directed this scene had a love and understanding of Lionel
Standard Gauge Trains.
Many thanks,
Billy C
Bill,
Off of the subject of model trains!
How is Providence lately?
I last saw Providence back in May of 1965, when I was in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S. Lake Champlain CVS-39, Home Ported at Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, R.I.
Take care,
Ralph
Originally Posted by RJL:
Bill,
Off of the subject of model trains!
How is Providence lately?
I last saw Providence back in May of 1965, when I was in the U.S. Navy aboard the U.S.S. Lake Champlain CVS-39, Home Ported at Naval Air Station, Quonset Point, R.I.
Take care,
Ralph
I am off the subject. Ralph send me an email in my profile. I have stories about "Champ" CVS-39 from my Dad.
George
Great topic and responses. I believe that if trains play a major part of a hit movie or tv show we big resurgence in the popularity of this hobby. Maybe the Kardashians will will buy a train set.
The "Twilight Zone" where the real town turned out to be a layout. "Stopover in a Quiet Town."
Someone posted this this summer The World, The Devil, The Flesh. Great shot of first class PW trains on SUPER O
Originally Posted by Big John Henry:
Someone posted this this summer The World, The Devil, The Flesh. Great shot of first class PW trains on SUPER O
Classic!
American Flyer transformer in the 'Dennis the Menace' episode. 
From a few years ago, Kevin Bacon drives a train that kills a woman whose son forms a father/son relationship with him. Bacon tries to engage the boy into
working on his HO layout, so the model trains are a tangential part of the
story. Odd but moving by the end.
Rails & Ties (2007)
-Mark
RJL, I will just say my native City & State is still going strong. To
stay on Topic I know many of my friends in the NETCA who have
passed on, would agree with the fine comments above regarding
toy trains in movies. I remember having coffee at the Franklyn, Mass
School NETCA Meets back in the day, after a great deal on a train item, talking
about this very subject.
Many thanks,
Billy C
Originally Posted by paul 2:
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
I just watched that. Great layout.
Originally Posted by overlandflyer:
from the movie "A Mighty Wind", a great scene with Jim Piddock and Eugene Levy running trains (HO) through "Crabbe Town".
"Thank God for the model trains, you know? If they didn't have the model trains they wouldn't have gotten the idea for the big trains."
One of the Gumby videos that my children had. One of the "Blockheads" punches a Lionel scout engine and derails it when the Blockheads are up to nogood causing mischief.
Sorry for bringing this thread back up, but I just saw the premiere episode for season 3 of Sherlock. OO gauge London Underground layout featured.
As Dr. Jeffrey Geiger, Mandy Patinkin shared his love of Lionel Trains on an episode of Chicago Hope.
THE PHANTOM CREEPS
An old "serial" from the 1930's starring Bela Lugosi. They are fighting in a switch tower and knock the lever to the de-rail position. The train wrecks and many passengers are killed and injured. It is a Lionel train maybe the same footage as the BLACK SCORPION. I have both. The picture quality of the Phantom is poor, but next time I watch it, will look for the reversed tender as pointed out in earlier post.
Bill
