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was it high hood? i cant remember… i need to see that movie again
My favorites are Silver Streek and Von Ryan’s Express. I agree that Atomic Train was an Atomic Bomb. As for Runaway Train, what’s with the GP-7s on AAR Trucks instead of Blomberg Trucks?
Oh no…I am quite glad that I missed that part, the entire premise of the movie was so incredibly flawed that a six-year-old who’s ever tried to move something heavy could see that it was impossible…
“Disaster on the Coastliner”…THERE was an acadamy award winner [:P] Just how many FL9s run up and down the west coast’s third rail line? Made for TV movie cinematography at its finest![oops]
“Silver Streak” and “Union Pacific” top my list.
If I recall correctly, it was a wig-wag signal. (of which a few still exist, a good number of which in Wisconsin)
I dont think so…“Disaster” featured Amtrak F-40s, I beleive they used the same trainset to film both trains on the collision course (old technic, film it from left side only for one train and from the right side only for the other, all you do is change the numbers on each side) but they were most definetly F40s. I remember cause I saw the behind the scenes of the climactic crash…
I remember that…and yes for the most part they shot the same train, but although the trains were Amfleet/F40 powered, there’s at least 1 or 2 scenes that show an FL9 hauling Heritage fleet cars up the Connecticut ShoreLine. Looks like file/stock footage that doesn’t even fit the format of the movie…typical of lower budgeted made for tv movies since the budget went to the cast and the f/x gang was last on the totem pole.
Silver Streak…(the Gene Wilder one)…why wreck a good F unit when you can drive a plastic shell over a pickup truck into styrofoam blocks painted to look like a station? And besides…“AmRoad” ? can you say “too cheap to pay for licensing”? Still a funny flick though.
Its been a while since seeing it…Yeah about the F9-pickup truck. I especially like it hitting a 8’ diameter solid central support column, knocks it clean down, and keeps going without being deflected one inch and remaining structurally intact.[(-D] Was that the original Safety Cab? Pure Hollywood, but it is a very fun flick, Right Steve? [(-D]
another classic scene…just what chance does a super modified Apache helicopter stand against a couple of lightweight yard switchers and 4 empty boxcars doing 10MPH? in “Blue Thunder”[%-)]
a great one was “Duel” one of Steven Spielberg’s first movies there were a few scenes with some SP action pretty well done id say
Duel was a classic (Spielburgs first actually) but I wouldn’t call it a train movie. There were a few classic SP scenes near Acton though.
If you are just talking about classic scenes in a movie I think In The Heat Of The Night should be included. Some great scenes of the GM&O and the Mopac.
Bert
I believe it was filmed on the Alaska RR, which used these trucks for their own reasons (cost, ability to weather, etc.) Old trucks from their retired locomotives could be attached to early EMD locomotives if requested by the railroad.
I think they were ex Army engines, and that is why they had switcher trucks instead of Blombergs.
Bert
“Duel” is one of our favorite movies, and again this is kinda nitpicky about the details, but at one point after the SP train goes by and The Truck proceeds across the crossing, The Truck Driver gives a friendly blast of the air horn, and the train gives a friendly blast back…from the cab of the locomotive which should now be about a mile down the tracks! And this will show how much of a geek I am, but we watched the DVD a couple months ago and something I had never noticed before, and probably would never have noticed without the freeze-frame pause is they ran some of the train footage film backwards. Thought I was seeing things, but sure enough a cificaP nrehtuoS hopper went by.
On the topic of great directors first efforts, Martin Scorcese’s first effort was “Boxcar Bertha” which could qualify as a train movie. I just saw this the first time about a month ago…anyone else nominate this under the “bad” portrayals?
I can not remember the movie, but in California, the first lady was on a train and a madman hijacked a train and jammed the radio and the signals so he could have a head on crash. The MOW guys caught on and built a high speed crossover in the nick of time. It was not realistic but had good drama.
“Union Pacific” 1939 BW good train movie decent special effects for the era.
That was Disaster On The Coastliner…I put in a few earlier posts about footage of an FL9 in Connecticut showing up in that one.
here’s one I just remembered…anybody notice in Harry Potter Prisoner Of Azcaban, in the Dark Arts room when Harry’s learning about the Petronum spell the model train running around is Lionel’s Thomas set?