What is your favorite train movie?

Trains Magazine General Discussion
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Like any good railfan. my DVD colection contains a nice collection of train movies Here are my top 3 favorites:

  1. Sliver Streek

  2. Von Ryan’s Express

  3. Runaway train (despite the fact it’s totaly not pluasable)

I’ve also seen some real turkies, including Atomic Train.

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Mine is Tough Guys with Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas and SP 4449 (with Doyle himself at the throttle)

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Check out The Greatest Show on Earth (the train wreck scene)

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Emperor of the North

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Buster Keaton – “The General”

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I have to check those out, are any of them on NetFlix?

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The General
The Train
Our Hospitality (another Keaton film with the funniest train segment I’ve ever seen)

worst- 2nd vote for Atomic Train-woof!

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Has to be Emperor of the North ! AND ITS COMING OUT IN DVD SOON!!!

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[^] THE TRAIN, EMPEROR OF THE NORTH & TOUGH GUYS

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Which movie had Frank Sinatra yelling at a young fellow from the back of a passenger train[?] Anyone remember[?]

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There are a lot of movies that had a little or a lot of train footage. Hard to pick one. I like Emperor of the North and Tough Guys.

I’m partial for NHRR movies though - I love seeing my favorite road in action, sound and all.

Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
It Happened to Jane

Check this out - the NHRHTA put together a list of movies with a NHRR cameo or STARRING ROLE!

Click on the movie and most will give you a description, including the NHRR appearance.

http://www.nhrhta.org/htdocs/nhrrfilms/films_index.html

Cool huh?

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Double Indemnity has a cool train scene…and Barbara Stanwyck (…mmmmm, Barbara Stanwyck)

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“Von Ryan’s Express”, “The Great Locomotive Chase”, and the first few minutes of “I’d Climb the Highest Mountian” ( It has an actual TF passenger train pulling into the station)

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William Shat-ner. Disaster on the Coastliner. No exceptions.

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Don’t forget Burt Lancaster in “The Train.”

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La Bete Humaine. French flic from late 1930s by Jean Renoir, with lots of action shots of 4-6-2s. The RR scenes have real credibility. Lead character is an engine driver who goes around the bend after murdering his girlfriend.

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I’m with you all the way.

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[:D]

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The Polar Express. Features the first steamer I ever chased, Pere Marquette #1225!

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1 - Danger Lights
2 - Emperor of the North

Or maybe it’s the other way around . . .

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