Was Under Siege 2 in there, they had custom built double decker rail cars built for that movie by Colorado Railcar. Also I just watched Night Train and in the makeing of they talked about how 80 people on set were able to complete multiple full size train car sets with in two weeks (quit a few museums I know of would love to have these guys working for them).

A personal favorite that never seems to get mention in any of these lists is Preston Sturges' escapist comedy Sullivan's Travels (1941), in which Joel McCrea's character, a film director, lives the life of a tramp as research and development for his latest film. It features some great SP steam action around the Los Angeles area, including 0-6-0s, Consols, and a GS as it runs down a malevolent hobo. There's a brief Santa Fe sequence or two as well. Six-chimes, night switching and Veronica Lake - what's not to love?

Worry not, Ed. Sullivan made the Trains list. It's a personal favorite of mine, too.

KL

How about "The Wild Bunch" (1969), set in southern Texas in 1913. There's about a 10 minute sequence where the Bunch hijack a US Army munitions train. Great action, I think that part of it was filmed in Mexico, does anyone know?

I'd also nominate "Bound for Glory" (ca. 1978) for its scenes filmed on the Sierra Ry. That's the movie about folksinger and labor activist Woody Guthrie. If I recall correctly, it shows #28 and #34 doubleheaded.

Wild Bunch was shot in Mexico with NdeM #650 I believe. I have two more to add to the list of train movies which no one has mentioned yet:

1. "Dark of the Sun" with Rod Taylor and Jim Brown. Shot in Jamaica with a pretty good looking 2-8-0 which dies at the end;

2. "Powderkeg", again with Rod Taylor and Dennis Cole. Shot on Magma Arizona with 2-8-0 #5 playing two locomotives in the movie.

I believe the locomotive in the movie was a Twelve-Wheeler, not a 2-8-0. There was a sister 4-8-0 still in existance at one time in Jamaica, but I am not sure of its current status. I think both of the engines were built in Canada sometime in the late 1940's.

Les

While looking at some other material in regard to model railroading on another site, I came across this, a French documentary on the filming of "The Train," with many of its iconic shots, albiet from different angles--and in color!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2pEvr32 ... re=related

Who needs to remember his high school French?

Don't know if it made it on the list

but

How about Von Ryans Express with Frank Sinatra?

my favorite

The Station Agent wasn't bad. The main character inherits an old station and goes to live in it. There is a scene where he shows his buddy about chasing trains, as his friend couldn't understand why any one would do that.

Ahh! Special effects the old fashioned way: blowing stuff up!

Later!
Mr. Ed

One film that is curiously missing from either the Trains list or in the discussion here is a pre-Civil War era detective story called "The Tall Target," based on the attempted killing of President-elect Abraham Lincoln on the way to his inauguration in 1861. For us railfans, there is plenty of train action (ex-V&T equipment), equipment is properly lettered for roads running in the area at the time, the horse-drawn transfer of cars through the streets of Baltimore is re-enacted, and Will Geer (later of Grandpa Walton fame) is comic relief as a conductor who, among other things, looks with disgust at a street merchant in Baltimore as he sells "Crabs, lobsters, crabs, lobsters. . .," and wonders how anyone would want to eat such crispy critters. . .

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044105/

I've never seen the whole thing--has anybody else here done so?

Fun detail:lead actor Dick Powell's character is named John Kennedy. . .