Re: Whats your Favorite Train Movie?

"This Property is Condemned" was a pretty good RR flick from the ' 60s or early ' 70s.

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Nobody mentioned Von Ryan's Express with Frank Sinatra James F. Westphal

"This Property is Condemned" .........Not bad......it was believable as far as imagery was concerned. One could almost feel what life in a small southern railroad town was like in the 30's...............but trying to pass of a US Army 2-8-0 for an L&N 2-8-0???? It smoked and made choo choo sounds, but that was still enjoyable. Reford got the crap kicked out of him......probably much to the chagrin of liberals everywhere. Personally I thought he was great in this film as was Natalie Wood. Charles Bronson, one of my all time favorites, I thought was weak in this film, but I suspect poor script and directing. Note...Redford and myself were born exactly on the same day and time in '38 (read an article once), only he looks a hell of a lot better. Maybe someone should send him a train set for Christmas and let him start on the model railroader's famous exercise program...........None!!

HZ

"JFWestphal"

Yes they have, several times.

Another movie with no idea how railways operate.

-- Cheers Roger T.

Box Car Bertha for the gret nude scenes.

Another one for the list (not a favorite):

Cassandra Crossing - plaque on the Geneva-Stockholm express. Nice Swiss scenery, Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, Lee Strasberg, Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster

- and OJ.

The novel and movie were set in Russia but it was filmed in Finland.

Finnish railways are interesting. Because wood was so plentiful they were still running wood-burners to the end of steam.

I think I will nominate:

Train (w/Burt Lancaster) and Titfield Thunderbolt

As other posters have mentioned, the General is hard to beat. 1:1 scale train wrecks were mentioned in the thread above, here's one that will let you see how it was done.

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I didn't brush its teeth?

-- Cheers Roger T.

"Joe" wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@corp.supernews.com:

The Taking of Pelham 123 - yeah it's a subway but still a great flick.

Oops. forgot about Boxcar Bertha with Barbara Hershey in the 1960's. Don't recall how much train action there was but SHE was easy on the eyes! =8^@

Paul - "The CB&Q Guy"

FWIW, this is the best thread I've seen on any NG in quite some time...

As to movies...just a suggestion for those of you near possible sources--many, many, moons ago schools and other orgs were able to borrow films produced by UPRR (and I'm sure many others) from the PR dept. Various topics, always with lots of good "train" footage...I don't know if this is still done, but the films must be somewhere--as I recall they were 16mm.

Happy Hunting!

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My favorite is Emperor Of the North Pole, the story of hobos battling a cruel freight conductor (Shack, played by Earnest Borgnine) during the great depression. I'd love to get it on DVD. greate filming of steam feight. not absolutely accurate WRT RR operation, but believable.

skyl> Ok, so I broke down the other week and ordered some DVD's from amazon.com.

-- Dale leasure Chief Rust Scraper Penfield and Western RR

Faves?

The Titfield Thunderbolt Silver Streak (the one with the Pioneer Zephyr in the starring role) Bullet Train (either the english dub or the nihongo original) The Great Train Robbery The Train Union Station

I notice that nobody's mentioned "Under Siege 2". :-{)

I remember when they filmed that. They parked the train at Denver Union Station. It took me a while to figure out what the totally bizarre train sitting there was. The worst part (other than the paint scheme) was the two GP20s on the point.

Huh? You mean there is a different one other than the Gene Wilder version using the CP "Canadian". When was it made?

It was made in 1934.