Favorite Railroad-related Film

[buzz456]

People have mentioned several of my favorites, like Sliver Streak, Breakheart Pass, The Train, The Professionals. But no one has mentioned Narrow Margin, an interesting Gene Hackman movie that mostly takes place on a train in BC.

I had forgotten this one. A edge of the seater all the way.

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Does anybody know where one can find train clips from Comedy Capers, Laurel & Hardy, etc. online?

Slapstick movies where cars get mangled and crushed by steam locomotives, trolleys etc.
I used to ROFL over these when I was a kid.

[_o_OOOO_oo-Kanawha]

Bad Day at Black Rock (Spencer Tracy). Not necessarily railroad-related, but it begins and ends with an SP F7 passenger train.

Great movie this is, a true classic "modern western".

I remember reading the village called Black Rock was built in a very remote part of Death Valley or some other godforsaken place in the California desert and not in the studio's backlot in LA.
The train was running backwards in the opening sequence, being chased by the helicopter camera.

[Bcbuhler]

One I enjoy is Atomic train it's an interesting movie and has a lot of BC Rail action in the first half of the movie.

[NYWhiskey]

Does anybody know where one can find train clips from Comedy Capers, Laurel & Hardy, etc. online?

Do you mean like this? This one has mine cars, try youtube. Man, Stan looks young!

[RickKfoury]

Watched a great thriller, "Suddenly!" starring Frank Sinatra as a hitman planning to assassinate the president at a Southern Pacific depot..great character study and very suspenseful. The whole movie is available on YouTube
https://youtu.be/vDBmHTrenD4

[PamBrooker]

Mine was always "Emperor of the North Pole". Earnest Borgnine plays a company man conductor and Lee Marvin plays a down and out Boe during the 1930s depression. It's fairly stark and brutal, and perhaps a little too honest, but over all, its a movie i'll never forget about riding the rails while being a commentary on the conflicts beteween boe's and the railroads during an insanely hard time..

[jgvaughan]

I'd have to say "The Train" with Burt Lancaster with "Runaway Train" with Jon Voight a very close second. We don't get 'The Train" on TV around here that often but "Runaway Train" was on the other night for like the third time in the last couple of weeks.

[ZekTheKid]

Hard to say between Back to the Future III and/or unstoppable. Also the fugitive and its sort of spoof IMO, wrongfully accused. The both have the same scene where the bus goes down onto the tracks and an oncoming train is about to plow the bus. Only they're different in their own way.

[tntrainer]

Watching a train related movie over the weekend prompted me to search this stale but always relevant post on the forum.......
I watched 1951's "Strangers On A Train" by Alfred Hitchcock with some nice inside scenes of Pullmans and Observation Cars as the protagonist meets his adversary. Neat SP dining car china and Pullman items in view. Other train scenes of New Haven equipment and stations I believe.

Agree with lots of folks in the thread. "Emperor Of The North" ranks high on my list along with "The Train"

Some things I did not see mentioned in the thread....

You might like "Danger Lights" a 1930 classic for train scenes filmed entirely on the Milwaukee Road. Plot a bit corny for some but, I love the movie, especially the company railroad picnic with a "real" locomotive tug of war!! Great movie for steam fans and Milwaukee Road lovers paradise.
https://youtu.be/7gb_xMbCqx4

"Runaway" is a 1973 TV Movie Of The Week about a ski train that has its brakes "ICE UP" and away they go down the mountain! Filmed on DR&GW ski trains of long ago. No plot spoiler here but you'll like (or laugh) at the climactic ending. Stars Ben Johnson as a ready to retire engineer.
https://youtu.be/L0fR49-u6fo

Finally, is Buster Keaton from 1965 called "The Rail Rodder"...... A classic at the end of a great career.
https://vimeo.com/29397719

Now go pop the corn....