The SP streamliner at the beginning and end of Bad Day at Black Rock. The 20th Century Limited in North by Northwest that always whets my thirst for a Gibson.
Regards, Peter
The Railway Children
Yeah. When I watch a movie I turn off the desire to play critic. Every hollywood movie made about a subject I have any experience or knowledge in is full of inaccuracies. I just ignore and enjoy the movie trip.
The Train with Burt Lancaster
Boxcar Bertha since it was shot on the Reader RR and my wife and I spent many weekends running the 1702 and 108 used in the movie.
oldline1
My favorite has always been Silver Streak with Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor.
Unstoppable with Denzel Washington somehow slipped by me. I will have to check it out and see if Amazon Prime gives me that one and perhaps some of the others posted here.
TF
I love the train from Back to the Future so much
Silver Streak is a great movie! Besides the death of an F unit.
Unstoppable is also a good movie. Kind of cheesy twards the end
I won’t watch Silver Streak (1970s version). I have seen it but I’ve never cared for it. The same for Runaway Train.
Unstoppable is becoming like that. The thing with the mistakes in it that bug me probably aren’t the ones that bug most everyone else.
Emperor of the North, The Train, Von Ryan’s Express are among my top favorites. Even with inaccuracies in them. Another is Danger Lights, shot on the Milwaukee Road out west back in the 1930s. The version that’s usually shown or available on line has about (IIRC) 10 or 15 minutes edited out. I saw the entire movie version on TV about 30 or so years ago, but the shorter version is all that now seems to be available.
Jeff
Obscure but The Hucksters 1947 as scenes shot on the real 1938 20th Century Limited including at 1.11.50 having a drink with Ava Gardner in a Century series lounge car. I wouldn’t mind doing that right now come to think of it [:D]
The original “Taking of Pelham 1-2-3” with Walter Matthau.
I was talking about the Original one that came out in 1934. You might like that one it’s more grounded than the remake.
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I don’t play critic. It’s simple railroad/train knowledge. Passing prototypical stereotyping information that Hollywood wouldn’t really expand on.
Most of my friends are huge military history buffs, and I cannot stand to have conversation with them after a war movie is released.
Movies are entertainment, who cares if there is one too many track return rollers on that particular model of a PzKfw-IV?
I don’t know how they can follow a plot while they pay that much close attention to details.
There is only one shot in a movie that ruined a scene for me.
In the original Jurrassic Park, after Dr. Grant, Lexi, and Tim run through the mud and hide in a tree, they zoom out at the end of the shot, and Dr. Grant’s boots are perfectly clean and brand new.
Oh, the disappearing beer bottle in Twins bothered me too.
-Kevin
I was always partial to Johnny Cash’s ‘Riding the Rails’, if that could fall into a movie category.
Unstoppable is watchable aslong as the viewer understands its a comedy.
Pelham 123 - [tup]
Definately “Emporer of the North”! (being a railfan, dontcha find yourself pulling for ole Earnest?)
Silver Streak… um, nah.
Polar Express, well good grief, being a PM Railfan plus im a former kid myself, who wouldnt watch this one? Even IF Tom Hanks wasnt in it.
Hogans Heroes, while portraying being imprisoned in war torn Germany, it has alot of train shots. Albeit, not a movie and the trains were actually SP Daylights filmed with heavy filters on the cameras to illicit night time scenes (helped cover it up). No mistaking them though, their American Daylights and War-Babies!
Pettycoat Junction wasnt bad at all, but Alan Hale Jr. playing “Casey Jones” was more of a railroad show.
Thankfully no one has, but if anyone mentions that stinkin hogwarts thing, imma kick you in BOTH shins! Same goes for Super Train!
A#1 North!
PMR
I’d say mine is Pelham 123. Not much into subways, but I mean, it’s Denzel Washington, in a train, what’s not to love!
Edit: I also liked the new Murder on the orient express. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but I liked it.