What movies/Tv Shows have you seen Trains in?

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Here is an oldie from like the late 80's or early 90's it was my favorite because I loved trains so much. Based on an Amtrak train being hijacked by somone posing as maitenance or something like that. I think he may have been a disgruntled ex employee or something like that. Haven't seen it in ages..

-Disaster on the coastliner.


Robby
 
Just saw an episode of King of the Hill where they try to celebrate Peggy;s birthday with a mystery dinner aboard the "Studio 54" dinner train. Hilarity ensues! :p

tbh, tho, the way they portrayed both the train and train operations were highly laughable (seriously, the cab as part of the "engine room", which has a nice, friendly cab unit on the door? :p )--yes, they used a covered wagon for motive power (as well they should have! :D )
 
dnutter said:
The Fast and the Furious
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Aww man, that is just a nice movie itself. I'm more interested in that 1970 Dodge Charger that Vin Diesel Sadly Wrecks. That thing was BEASTLY.
like 750hp off the crankshaft, about 675hp off the rear axle. The main star of the movie train wise, was the ex. DRGW GP40-2, which just almost creamed that charger.
Man, thats always an adreniline scene for me.
Cheers.
Sean
 
LVman said:
Aww man, that is just a nice movie itself. I'm more interested in that 1970 Dodge Charger that Vin Diesel Sadly Wrecks. That thing was BEASTLY.
like 750hp off the crankshaft, about 675hp off the rear axle. The main star of the movie train wise, was the ex. DRGW GP40-2, which just almost creamed that charger.
Man, thats always an adreniline scene for me.
Cheers.
Sean
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yeah kinda ruins the whole mood when you watch the "making of" of the movie an they show the scene and that the train wasnt really there.. at least not at the same time as the cars :hehe:
 
Worst train movie ever: Atomic Train

Good and Decent movies:
Silver Streak
The Train


Wow...thats all I can think of worth mentioning that i have seen
 
A World Without Thieves
a chinese movie. 3/4 of the movie takes place on a chinese passenger train originating in tibet(?)
 
westrain said:
Other Trainz movies The First Great Train Robbery (filmed in in Ireland)
The Train
Did you Know the crash in The Silver Streak was inspired by a real crash
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which crash? the PRR crash into union station? where the unit a gg1, lost all brakes and plowed right into the terminal?
 
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which crash? the PRR crash into union station? where the unit a gg1, lost all brakes and plowed right into the terminal?
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I thought that it fell through the floor... :confused:

EDIT: we were both right...
the Wiki said:
One of the more interesting moments in the history of the GG1 locomotive took place on the morning of January 15, 1953 at Washington's Union Station. Due to a brake line cock (valve) that closed due to poor location (its location caused the valve to close due to contact with the bottom cross member of the car), the Federal Express from Boston was unable to apply the brakes on part of the train. Pushed by the unbraked cars, the GG1 engine (#4876) and two passenger cars ran off the end of Track 16 and crashed through the floor of Union Station and into the baggage room. With President Eisenhower's inauguration in days, the cars were hauled out by the next day. The GG1 was left in the basement under a temporary flooring. After the inauguration, in a remarkable demonstration of the durability of the GG1 engines, Engine #4876 was later cut into three pieces, removed from the baggage room, and reassembled at the Altoona (PA) shops of the Pennsylvania Railroad. It then re-entered commercial service and went on to be one of the last-serving GG1 engines. As of February 2008 it is owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum in Baltimore; the museum has no plans for restoration in the near-term.
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"The Peacemaker"
Russian trains
"Close encounters of the third kind"
Roy (Richard Dreyfuss) is playing with his Lionel train set. Then he builds Devils tower on the layout.

Kenny
 
Movie title wanted

an American version of
Bête humaine, La (1938)

was made but I can't think of the name, maybe 'Human Desire' with Glenn Ford, not sure..
Fantastic and gripping movie with heaps of trains shunting and a murder or two..:wave:
 
Not sure if anybody mentioned "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade."
There is a train at the beginning of the movie, and is possibly a D&RG locomotive.
~TTT100~
 
and while were mentioning Indiana jones, how about the mine cart chase scene in "Temple of Doom" its running on rails ergo its a train of sorts

isnt it? :o
 
Mr. Beans Holiday
The Three Stooges (a Few Episodes where they were going to get a job so they traveled by train but got thrown off in the end)
Pokemon'
Superman Returns
The Simpsons Movie
Family guy(where stewie and brian was on a Box Car going back to Rhode Island and where they was on this train but it was the interior)
Volcano Starring Tommy Lee Jones
Men in Black 2
Money Train Starring Westly snipes and Jennifer Lopez
Ghost Busters 2 (where they were in the subway and a ghost Train went by)
 
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