Train Movies

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Do you have any favorite train/railroad movies?

I recently watched "Bound for Glory" and it was pretty cool seeing the old locomotives but it really wasn't a "train movie" just a movie with several train scenes.
 


"The Big Trees" has a runaway log train in it
There's a website somewhere that has a huge list of trains in movies. used to have it bookmarked.
 
There's a pretty good list of train movies at http://goletadepot.org/trains_movies.php. My favorite, even though the trains played a small prat, is Bad Day at Black Rock. It was filmed on the SP's Jawbone branch, and the movie company created the entire town of Black Rock, with the railroad station being the centerpiece. The SP ran a passenger train with Black Widow F's up the Jawbone branch for the filming, since Spencer Tracy arrives and leaves by train. That was 1955, about 20 years after the last regular passenger train ran on the Jawbone, and the only passenger train to have run since. Now, almost everything is gone that was associated with the move, from Spencer Tracy to the Jawbone branch up to Lone Pine. :(
 
I remember a scene from when I was younger, don't remember the name of the movie, where a young boy was peering out the window of a passenger coach into the night fog. He was kicking on the baseboard rhythmically while his mother(?) halfheartedly tells him to stop. It comes as quite a surprise when it's learned that what he is kicking is actually an access door, as it flings open sucking him into the night. Mom screams, reaches for the train stop alarm wire, and that's all that I remember. I can't even remember if it was in color or black and white ... might have been a Twilight Zone episode, too.
 
I always liked the 1976 version of 'Silver Streak.' Richard Pryor and Gene Wilder were a hilarious duo. Henry Mancini music too. Never knew there was a 1934 version.
 
I'm w/Gary B. I like the "General" w/Buster Keaton. That was a long movie for a silent. I have all of his movies on DVD.
 
Ohhhhh!! I forgot Hitchcock's 'North by Northwest' which features great footage of Chicago's Union Station (and Midway Airport, which I live very close to) A lot of onboard train footage and the very last scene wins the award for most erotic use of a train in a movie, bar none.
 


Im surprised noone mentioned the train scene from "The Fugitive". Even though its not a train movie, its still a great schene.
 
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yep. all real action. Check out the IMDB.com site for trivia. even the actors performed many of the stunts. Locos crashing at 60 mph. old railway yards blown up. Real live steam and I would say % 60 of the movie was next to or on a steam engine. Classic in my book I have it on DVD
 
sledgehammer said:
My vote goes with the 1976 release of Silver Streak as well....what's NOT to love about Jill Clayburgh PLEASE???!!!!
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What about that final scene where that E8 (or whatever it is) crashes throught the station? Pretty well done, considering its 1976...
 
I barely remember this movie when I was a kid in the 60's on TV. A young couple used to jump freight trains and go all over the country. It was kind of a love story I think, any one know the movie I am talking about?
 
Yeah I think that was it. I was only 10 or 11 when I saw it. Would not mind seeing it again cause I forgot most of it but remember I liked it. Surprised to see it was Martin Scorsese's first Hollywood film.
 


Ill also agree with Silver Steak with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor. Im also hoping this upcoming runaway train movie with Denzel Washington turns out good. I also recall an old late 70s early 80s movie with Eric Stoltz (I think) that was also a runaway train movie.
 
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