Railroad Movies

Please name your best railroad movies:
Here are mine, not in any order:'The Taking Of Pelham,One,Two,Three' (NY City subway hijacking)
'Bullet Train' (Japanese Bullet train bomb threat..came out in the mid 70's before 'Speed' stole it's plot)
'Emperor Of The North' (Sadistic freight Conductor kills Hobos who steals rides on his train)
'From Russia With Love' (James Bond's 2nd movie takes place mostly on a train)
'Money Train' (NY City cops plan to steal from the special train millions)Any others?

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The Silver Streak
The ClaimTim Baldwin
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How about "The Train" with Burt Lancaster, and "The Cassandra Crossing" with Richard Harris, Sophia Loren and again, Burt Lancaster, "Breakheart Pass" with Charles Bronson, and last but not least, "Runaway Train", with Jon Voight and Eric Roberts.

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How about "Tough Enough" with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Dounglas......buried the SP SG-4 Daylight accross the Mexican Border.
John Wayne had another Great one... "The Great Train Robbery" Hijacking a shipment of gold back in the Civil War time

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Oh lets not forget "Under Siege 2, Dark Territory" HAd some guy pretending to be an actor, Good wreck on the bridge at the end.

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I always thought that the Silver Streak was the best/most realisticYou get movies like Atomic Train where the second train hits the runaway at the top of a mountain and blows all the brakes out and the engineer isn't even using the dynamic brakes. That one got me rialed up.
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Emperor of the North
Under Siege 2
Silver Streak(by far the most plausable runaway scenario from Hollywood)
and Runaway Train
Though it was but a tiny bit of the film the derail scene from The Fugitive was pretty darn good and the send up of that scene in Wrongfully Accused was darn funny.BTW the movie previously mentioned was Tough Guys not Tough EnoughGary S

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>I always thought that the Silver Streak was the best/most
>realistic
>
>You get movies like Atomic Train where the second train hits
>the runaway at the top of a mountain and blows all the
>brakes out and the engineer isn't even using the dynamic
>brakes. That one got me rialed up.
>
> Actually Dave, the Atomic Train movie was a Frieght that was heading over the Moutain with two Dash 9's (BRC paint) the break line blew between the two head end engines... the other Engine was used to hook up to the end and slow down the runaway train...

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>How about "Tough Enough" with Burt Lancaster and Kirk
>Dounglas......buried the SP SG-4 Daylight accross the
>Mexican Border. It wasn't called "Tough Enough'.It was "TOUGH GUYS".

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great locomotive chase
silver streak
runaway train
derailedJason Underwood
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I didn't see the older version of The Taking of Pelham One, Two, Three, but I did see the '97 version. IMO, it should be called "The Taking of the Bloor-Danforth Subway"

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Danger Lights -1930 Runaway Train-1985 Silver Streak-1976 End of the Line-1987
...and music video...

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This ones a british film. The Titfield Thunderbolt! A classic film!

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Mattaf
Geeze that's digging up one from the past,I'd completely forgot about,saw it years ago(late 70's) on the local PBS station unfortunately much like the old ABC made for TV movie Runaway I'm probably going to bet not avalible on either vid cassette or DVD Gary S

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I'm surprised no one's mentioned Von Ryan's Express - WWII train/escape movie with Sinatra.And Gary - I noticed your sig line has notched up a year - Happy Birthday!Andy

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Andy
Thanks,though it's been up a notch since 10/01 Gary S

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Just goes to show how observant I am! Andy

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> End of the Line-1987 Yea I forgot about that oneAlso, Tough Guys was just on AMC. It was the first time I saw it. Very good movie.
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Runaway Train-1985, Jon Voight, Eric Roberts. 2 convicts board a train, the engineer dies.-Andy the LRC lover
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An advanced keyword search for railroad at the Internet Movie Database (www.imdb.com) comes up with 160 hits. I doubt that all 160 are railroad movies, but many of the titles seem right.I recently saw a movie where the lead character is a railfan. It is called "The Station Agent." Some of you may like it; I did. You can read about it at www.imdb.com/title/tt0340377/.Larry

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My favorites are

.The Union Pacific
.Detonator
.Bridge Over River Kwai
.Great Locomotive Chase

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Atomic Train A train hauling a nuclear bomb and high explosives goes out of control and the crew jumps off and the train derails on a sharp turn. But, The bomb doesn`t go off. They have to defuse the bomb. The bomb soon went off after other explosions happen. Then Half of the city was gone. Then it shows the survivers making it to safety.

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1. Runaway Train
2. Under Seige 2
3. Atomic TrainEven though Atomic Train could have been written better, and the situation could have been handled easily, insted of making it complicated, I liked it, especially those BCRail units in "Colorado". Why didnt they just uncouple the freight cars from the locos and let the helper locomotives to pick em up and let the runaway locos meet their fate. Oh, I forgot. There needed to be drama.

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The Great Locomotive Chase (This movie got the William Mason, and Lafayette in operable condition again!)
Von Ryan's express
Wild Wild West(not much of a plot, but The William Mason stole the show)

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Silver Streak - wish they would release it on DVDDisaster on the Coastliner - two amtrak trains get put on a collision course by disgruntled employee Express to Terror pilot "Supertrain" who could forget that widetrack hilevel monster that got a bad rap because NBC didn't spend enough time in development. The scene of Supertrain racing out of Grand Central is forever burned into my mind.

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Under Seige 2
Atomic Train
Runaway Train

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Stand by me - kids follow railroad tracks to find body of a boy hit by a train. Scary sceen as the kids run off a bridge trying to outrun a steam train. I think it was a berkshire.

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Nope it was the Mcloud Railway's number 25 a 2-6-2 oil burner.

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Some of my favorites have already been mentioned, so I'll add a few of movies that are not really about trains, but have some nice scenes:The Sting
Bound for Glory
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
North by Northwest
How the West was WonRon
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I have to add Once Upon A Time In The West. The movie was about the Railroad Baron trying to take over land from a widow. Great flick out on DVD.

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I'd vote for Buster Keaton's "The General." There are several references above to "The Great Locomotive Chase." Is that a remake of "The General" or maybe the same movie released under a different name?

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I think Disney made "The Great Locomotive Chase" in the 1950's. Although it is about the same event, I would not call it a remake of "The General".Ron
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I hate to dig up an old post, but has anyone ever seen Free Money? Two deadbeats try to steal cash from a train taking old US currency from Canada back to the US. The guys take the truck of the guy their living with and place it on the railroad tracks to get the train to stop, but the engineer and conductor are playing cards in the back of the cab of the loco. The train hits the truck and the engineers think its a deer or a large animal. The truck explodes and the train stops. The guys take the money and live better. The guy they took the truck from, then takes out his revenge on the guys. While a train isnt the main focus, it has an important piece of the storyline. That poor Dodge Ram 3500 Dually that gets totaled. Damn

Dependable transportation for West Michigan, If your 1/87 scale.

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Some of my favorites are Union Pacific
Santa Fa
The Grey Fox
The Final Run
Night Passage
Hurricane Express
and one other but I can not think of it right now.

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I like the movie End of the line, dose anyone know where I can get it on DVD, also some that nobody has brought upOctober Sky: has some great N&W steam action in the cut sceens.
Switchback: Great shots of Rio Grande and Southern Pacific equipment.
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Atomic Train... I enjoyed that movie--DriftonClinch Valley DistrictRails = 100%
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James Bond Octopussy had a good train chase with the Litra S.

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Switchback was my Favorite. Hollywood actually got everything right in that movie.Another is, obviously, Silver Streak.
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Some more are The Chattanooga Choo Choo Orphan train and a British film the Railway Children.

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I love the movie called 'End of the Line'. MP GP15 (Southland).

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