Good Train related Movies

[dragonharh]

Anyone have any suggestions for train related movies ?

 

[edh6]

The Titfield Thunerbolt - A classic comedy about a group of locals who, upset at the closure of their branch line, set out to reopen it themselves. Very much inspired by early days of the preserved Talyllyn Railway
The Ladykillers (The original 50s one) - Another classic comedy, the railway is less central to the plot of this one, but it includes very atmospheric shots of the railway around London Kings Cross.

 

[watemple]

The Great Locomotive Chase: This tells a story of a Confederate train being stolen by Yankees.

 

[RRSignal]

The End of the Line with Wilford Brimley and Kevin Bacon. Two railway employees steal a locomotive and take it to the company headquarters to confront the owners, who are planning to close the railroad.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092967/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm

 

[Blutorse4792]

Silver Streak (1974) is a comedy with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, set primarily aboard the fictional "Silver Streak".
It's got a big cast, it's funny and there's some nice older Canadian Pacific footage.

I should warn that there are some racial jokes in there that are a bit... "old fashioned" but it's not particularly mean-spirited.

 

[SharkNose]

Three off the top of my head:

1) "The General" with Buster Keaton. A silent movie about the civil war. Steam engine chases!
2) "The Cassandra Crossing" with Richard Harris, Sophia Loren. The plague gets aboard a train in Europe.
3) "Emperor of the North" with Ernest Borgnine. Life as a hobo and hopping trains.

 

[UPRails834]

1. "The Train" (1964)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059825/?ref_=nv_sr_2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Train_(1964_film)
http://www.hulu.com/watch/70571
(This film has several wrecks and derailments, all staged full-scale with period equipment donated by the French national railway)

2. "Runaway!" (1973)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway!_(1973_film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070615/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_25
http://www.modcinema.com/categories/3-made-for-tv/458-runaway-tv-1973-dvd

 

[hiyo]

Runaway Train (1985) - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089941/?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

[gg14835]

Unstoppable!

 

[wilh]

1. The Train
2. North by Northwest (a superb film)
3. Silver Streak

 

[ulmer94]

Murder on the Orient Express

 

[dragonharh]

Thanks guys I'll look them up this weekend

 

[Engineerkenny]

I never really saw this one but rails and ties but this one was great: the station agent
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[davesnow]

Wild Boys of the Road

The Little Rascals shorts also had a lot of old trains in them.

Laurel & Hardy in "Berth Marks"

the original movie "In the Heat of the Night" has several scenes along old Mississippi tracks with high nose diesels.

 

[NewYorkCentral]

Tough Guys (1986).

 

[flyboy559]

Breakheart Pass
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakheart_Pass_(film)

 

[JCitron]

Laurel and Hardy in Berth Marks. (1929)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berth_Marks

This is their second film with sound.

You'll laugh until you nearly wet yourself! There are also some nice views of some 1920s steam.

 

[Zeldaboy14]

Thomas and Friends Blue Mountain Mystery and Thomas and the Magic Railroad.

 

[watemple]

Oh, please.

 

[nfitzsimmons]

If I had to choose I think it would either be The Emperor of the North or The Train with Burt Lancaster.

The original name of Emperor of he North was The Emperor of the North Pole, which was a mythical hobo name. Never did understand why they changed it.