What movies/Tv Shows have you seen Trains in?

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Wrong Place and time...

I think I also saw a Southern Pacific GS-4 on Dukes of Hazzard.
I thought this show was supposed to take place in GEORGIA! not California... No one was paying any attention when they were making the show. If they wanted to put a train on there, why couldn't they put something like Southern or Georgia RR and possibly Atlanta & Westpoint. Steam was already over in the time period that the show was supposed to take place in!
 
already brought up Monk episode with the Cal train last year "He tried asking directions from the train, He is the only one of Us Guys who will ask for directions:hehe::D:o)
 
"The Tough Guys"

"The Tough Guys" staring Burt Lancaster & Kirk Douglas, was about 2 ex-cons who hijacked a SP steam locomitive, and ran the train through the fence across the Mexican border. The great thing about the movie was a huge scale model locomotive was used in the derailment special effects.:cool:My other favorite was: "Back To The Future" train episode.
There are dozens: "Breakheart Pass", "Bridge a Remagen", "Von Ryans Express", "Runaway Train", The Flim Flam Man", "Pelham 1-2-3", "War of the Worlds", "Dark Territory", "The 4:10 to Yuma", "Rat Race","Little Rascals-Railroading"
 
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LA Rush, Cheap Designing

I saw a crappily graphiced SD70M with Caltrain Colors on LA Rush(It didn't even have front & rear catwalks!). Hear me videogame designers:

NO-SUCH-THING-EVER-EXISTED!!!! If youre going to make a SD70M in CalTrain colors and expect to make me think it's a real locomotive, you have got to get you're facts right...
 
farthegn said:
I saw a crappily graphiced SD70M with Caltrain Colors on LA Rush(It didn't even have front & rear catwalks!). Hear me videogame designers:

NO-SUCH-THING-EVER-EXISTED!!!! If youre going to make a SD70M in CalTrain colors and expect to make me think it's a real locomotive, you have got to get you're facts right...
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The video game designers aren't there to make realistic locomotives. They don't have the eye of detail that us railfans do, unfortunately. :(

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If it hasn't been mentioned, the Red Line also features in the movie 'Volcano' starring Tommy Lee Jones, where it gets incinerated by lava. Yes, lava in the Red Line, volcano in Los Angeles. Indeed, the slogan reads 'The Coast is Toast'. Also there's at least one James Bond movie, Agatha Christie's 'Murder on the Orient Express' and others, and of course the new one, 'Bolt'.:) EDIT: train scene from 'The Spy Who Loved Me' where 007 kicks Jaws out the window.

And of course there's hundreds more. Shall I continue?
 
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Moojgoo said:
WWWHAAATTT!!!!???!!! :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :confused: :confused: I LOVED that movie and still do! I think it was MUCH better than Calling All Engines.
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Oh, don't get me started on that piece of junk. They've modernised Thomas, and everyone for that matter. This is Terrible, and the theme music, it's....and everything, it's all....all.....NNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! I can't take this anymore!:'(

On a lighter note, there's also 'Valiant' where it shows 4472, in blue paint, running near Dover of all places, on a rail system I haven't even heard of!
What is wrong with this picture?
And before I forget, 'The Great Race' where Ms. DuBois chains Hezekiah to the seat of the Atischon, Topeka and Santa Fe... "It was the Southern Pacific!"
And someone mentioned Top Gear, the episode where they run the train into the Renault Espace, to prove that running the gates is not good for you.
EDIT: But wait there's more. (I'm just going through the thread and getting some ideas)
Discovery Channel did two episodes, one about how the California Zephyr set the fastest trtavel time from Chicago to San Francisco or whatever, and another one mainly abut horrible crashes, especially the Sunset Limited that came off the bridge at Mobile, Alabama. And several Aussie travel shows have done things on the Spirit of the Outback.
And no-one has mentioned 'Superman: A Tribute to Christopher Reeves'. A few scenes, one where Kal-el runs in front of a Kansas Central or something and misses by inches, and a scene in Grand Central where Harry is run over by the New Haven after being launched from the wall by the trick manhole controlled by Mr Luthor.
Gruesome scene that.
I thought of this one yesterday: a scene from 'Those Maginificent Men in Their Flying Machines' where Sir Percy is flying along the rail line, and a steam train sneaks up behind him. The smoke fills the aircraft and he touches down between two carriages. As he runs towards the engine to stop the train, a tunnel approaches. He runs back across the carriages towards the plane, but it's too late. The plane comes out the other end with wings shaved off. As Sir Percy then quotes, "BLAST!"
 
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Titfield Thunderbolt

An old Britiah Ealing Studios comedy from the early 50's starring the late Sid James. A branch line is about to be closed and the residents of the town restore an old loco mid 19th century open cab type
 
dnutter said:
(GTA IV) Grand Theft Auto IV belong with video games lol

- David
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If your talking games, an excellent game that features a fantastic looking subway system is called The Darkness, love this game, it's on PS3 and I think XBOX 360, if you've not played it before, get the game, I promise you'll be hooked...

Also Far Cry 2 has a couple of derailed trains

As for films with trains in...

Atomic Train - it's about a runaway train that is carrying an explosive nuclear substance, won't spoil it for you.

Death Train - it's about 2 criminals who escape from an American or Canadian prison and board a frieght train to escape the area, unfortunatly the driver has a heart attack and the train becomes a runaway, I think the main prisoner is called Manny.

And as for a remake, the taking of Pelham 123

Joe Airtime
 
Magnum Force. Near the end of the movie, as Dirty Harry is fleeing from/pursuing the bad guys, the chase runs through a railroad yard with some Western Pacific equipment in it. There are one or two shots of WP boxcars, and one quick shot of a WP jeep.
 
airtime said:
If your talking games, an excellent game that features a fantastic looking subway system is called The Darkness, love this game, it's on PS3 and I think XBOX 360, if you've not played it before, get the game, I promise you'll be hooked...

Also Far Cry 2 has a couple of derailed trains

As for films with trains in...

Atomic Train - it's about a runaway train that is carrying an explosive nuclear substance, won't spoil it for you.

Death Train - it's about 2 criminals who escape from an American or Canadian prison and board a frieght train to escape the area, unfortunatly the driver has a heart attack and the train becomes a runaway, I think the main prisoner is called Manny.

And as for a remake, the taking of Pelham 123

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Joe,

Heh, yeah that's true but mostly I am as play for Xbox 360 but if I can buy new PS3 regular not slim PS3 no thank just regular but not sure that my depend heh. Also, old GTA Sanders there has SD40 with driver lol but were looking so funny to me.

As same Left 4 Dead has too but there was derail with SD40, tanker, boxcar, etc.

So interesting. :cool:

- Davod
 
OH MY GOSH

I've seen many movies with trains in them, but you all forgot about one in particular: The Train with Burt Lancaster. I wonder, if that steamer still steams around Germany, or wherever the heck that was filmed, and then there's 1962's remake of the Manchuritan Candidate with Frank Sinatra. A GG1 in classic Pennsylvania Railroad pin stripes :D on the NEC. In the shot inside, a passing Pennsylvania Railroad freight. :D In Monk's series finale I saw BNSF equipment lettered "BVSF" and one covered hopper (they probably forgot to put :eek: "BVSF" on it and it still had "BNSF" on the ends. :hehe: ) I saw some units and one of the GE Dash 9's. (hope it was 4723, the "MSTS" unit.) Psych, even had a train, probably CP 2816 on a freight train. The movie with Bill Murray and that elephant, had an SP unit. Does anyone know if Union Pacific still has that unit on the roster? It would make me happy.:D I saw a Conrail switcher in Rocky; II and if you look in the shot at the bridge as it rises, you can just make out an ex-Penn Central unit and a clear as day "RDG" from an ex-Reading Company boxcar, a C&NW covered hopper and the Market Frankford EL :D. Bolt with two CSX units. As well as ex-Santa Fe boxcars with old passenger slogans. So many, I'd need about 20 minutes to mention them all.
 
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Here's some more movies/shows, I've seen trains in...
The Polar Express: The engine is based off of Pere Marquette 1225, and was to be at the premiere, but CSX didn't agree.
Fingerprints: BNSF, and CSX modern power and an old FRISCO unit.
Silver Streak (1976, not 1934) one.
Atomic Train
Runaway Train (portions, not the whole thing)
While channel browsing, an American Girl flick with a "real" C&LE "Red Devil" trolley, later while browsing again came across two boxcars. (One with either the CN or GTW 1954 scheme, minus lettering)
Thomas, of course. (older ones perfect. New, minor to squeaky)
Kids Next Door: A few parts made with railroad equipment.
Railroad Promotional Films: YouTube
UP commercials: YouTube
BNSF Vids: BNSF.com
CSX TV comercials
NS commercial: YouTube
That's all that comes to mind, besides ones everyone else has mentioned. (Ah, for the most part).
 
"Unstoppable" - a movie coming a out later this year starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pine. A chemical train becomes a runaway and they have to stop it before it wipes out a city.

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I've seen clips of the movie shoots on youtube. It looks like the directors are doing everything in their power to avoid any CGI effects. I have high hopes for this!:D
 
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