How about Runaway Train with Jon Voigt and Eric Roberts.
That was a good movie. Heh, there’s a road conductor out of Vancouver(CN) that looks like Ernest Borgnine did in the movie, I found myself watching the movie thinking “hey that looks like so-and-so!”
I hope you all know, Frank Sinatra was a “big time” rail fan and toy train collector. A member of The Train Collectors Association, he had a building built on his west coast ranch to house an operation Lionel layout and had a very large collection. A high point, on his visit to the Pope, Sinatra was presented with a brass model train by the Vatican.
Von Ryans Express was a labor of love for him.
In any event, it would be nice to see more movies made with trains in them. A movie was made recently ('05?), don’t remember the name, where Jodie Foster’s daughter was kidnapped while on a flight aboard a plane. That same movie could’ve just as easily been made aboard a passenger train.
It would help return travel by rail back to the American conscience. Most people don’t even consider the train when making their travel plans anymore.
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the scene from Rio Lobo is great…gotta love the Duke
Danger Lights
Murder on the Orient Express
Terror by Night
Von Ryan’s Express
The Train
Silver Streak was a great train movie. For those who like Westerns, Whispering Smith was good also.
Doc
“The General” with Buster Keaton. They used a real locomotive for the crash scene. Took three days to prepare etc for it. Also he is funny as all get out. 
About thirty years ago I had on the TV while I was getting dressed for work, the afternoon shift. An over the air channel had a 90% on train a lot in Cab movie. It was a French Movie in French with sub-titles. It was shot in a real Cab because of the cramped shots and soot flying. A lot of Cab action.
Never again and no information of.
Let’s not forget The Great Train Robbery. There may have been, I think, more than one film by this name — the one I’m thinking of is the 1903 one. Yes — 1903, and maybe the first feature film ever. Although a western, it was shot on the Lackawanna Boonton Line in New Jersey (You can ride it today – an NJ Transit commuter route!).
RE the disparaging comments about Disney’s The Great Locomotive Chase: I always enjoyed that version. Having read an account or two of the Andrews raid, I would say the Disney film recounted it quite accurately. Although the real General and Texas still exist neither was used in the film, rather they borrowed engines of the same vintage from the B&O Museum in Baltimore. The shooting didn’t use the real location either — what had become the Louisville & Nashville (today CSX) main, with its heavy rail and block signals, would hardly have had an 1862-ish look. The film was shot on the Tallulah Falls RR, an old short line on its last legs at the time, and which was abandoned not many years after its starring role in this film.