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This page provides a guide to nearly 100 feature-length movies with railroad themes and substantial train scenes. A description of filming locations is provided with each title, including specific railroad and locomotive data where available. Please note that documentaries and specialty videos catered to rail enthusiasts and model railroaders are NOT included, and may be found in RailServe.com's Videos & DVDs category.

All titles included in this guide are available on DVD and may be purchased worldwide from Amazon.com. You're welcome to browse the information about each film on this page, then click the blue "Click Here To Order" link with each title for more information, reviews, and ordering from Amazon.com. If you have any questions or corrections concerning a title, or suggestions for additions to this page, please let us know.

Note: This page is currently under development. Synopsis and filming location info will be added for all films in August.

 
Top 10 Classic Railroad Movies
as selected by RailServe.com Editor Christopher Muller
  #1 - The Train (1964)

Cast: Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon
Director: John Frankenheimer (replaced Arthur Penn upon firing)
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 133 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.8 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $9.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: Paris, August 1944. With the Allied army closing in, German commander and art fanatic Colonel Von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) steals a collection of rare French paintings and loads them on a train bound for Berlin. But when a beloved French patriot is murdered while trying to sabotage Von Waldheim's scheme, Labiche (Burt Lancaster), a stalwart member of the Resistance, vows to stop the train at any cost. Calling upon his vast arsenal of skills, Labiche unleashes a torrent of devastation and destruction in an impassioned, suspense filled quest for justice, retribution, and revenge. Inspired by the actual looting of paintings from the Musée du Jeu de Paume, and France's successful delay of the German train until the Allies arrived.

Filming Locations: The Train was primarily filmed on location in France, featuring authentic train derailments, wrecks, and air attacks staged in "full scale" without models and with limited sets. Period equipment was donated by French National Railways (SNCF) during their transition from steam to diesel, and full access was provided to seldom used routes and yards. As a result, The Train is widely considered to have the most authentic railroad scenes in a feature film.

Except for the interior museum shots which were filmed with a studio set, other early scenes including the loading of the art train were shot near Paris at the docks of St. Ouen. The rail yard (Vaires) destroyed by an air raid (filmed using A-26s from the French Air Force) was actually staged west of Paris at Gargenville, and required four months to plant and wire nearly two tons dynamite. The Spitfire attack on the daytime light engine return to Rive-Reine (filmed using a Spitfire Mark V) was shot just south of the Château de Robert-le-Diable, near Moulineaux, where the tunnel and viaduct are still used today in freight service. The stations shown during the run to Germany were filmed for about 25 straight nights east of Paris at Troyes, Longueville, and Provins.

The station, crash, and hotel in the fictional Rive-Reine were actually filmed at Acquigny, approximately 60 miles northwest of Paris. The scenes immediately before the crash were shot on the track heading south from Acquigny. The idea of a circuitous route returning to Rive-Reine was not part of the original script, but was improvised to maximize filming opportunities at Acquigny. Director John Frankenheimer felt the village was superior to the initially intended filming locations. Passenger service to Acquigny ended four years prior to filming, providing the opportunity to stage the crash sequence without interrupting rail service. The line is still active as an industrial branch as of 2008, serving the Georgia Pacific mill near Hondouville. The station is now used for offices, and the hotel where Labiche stayed the night was recently converted to a private residence.

The steam locomotives are Class 230Bs #739 (leads the military train Paris to Vaires), 517 (art train until Rive-Reine crash), 855 (rear engine in Rive-Reine crash), and 711 (art train post-crash). The "armored" locomotive was just another conventional steam engine with exterior casing built by the filmmakers. The air raid at Vaires included several Class 141R locomotives at the engine shop, though perhaps unintentionally as this locomotive class did not begin delivery until 1945. Additionally, a Class 030C #757 was used for the initial derailment at Rive-Reine that blocked the art train. The derailment of #757 was intended to occur much slower, but the stuntman pulled the throttle too far before jumping and caused a high speed crash that took out 9 of 10 cameras and suspended shooting for two days. The unharmed (buried) camera captured a stunning track-level shot for the film. The art train served not only as a subject in the film, but also to transport the filmmakers' equipment between shooting locations.

   -- Christopher Muller, RailServe.com


  #2 - Emperor of the North (1973)

Cast: Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine, Keith Carradine, Charles Tyner,
Cast: Malcolm Atterbury
Director: Robert Aldrich
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 118 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $7.49 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: In this gritty and violent period drama set in the depths of the Great Depression, Lee Marvin stars as A #1, the acknowledged King of the Hoboes. A #1 is famous among his fellow tramps for his ability to catch a ride on any train no matter how risky the hop or dangerous the guards. He acts as a sort of mentor for Cigaret (Keith Carradine), a young hobo who brags that someday he'll surpass A #1 in his accomplishments. But neither has had the courage to ride a train guarded by Shack (Ernest Borgnine), an unusually sadistic railroad cop who will brutally beat or even murder any man who tries to catch a ride on his train. A #1 is determined that no one, not even Cigaret, is going to deny him his title, so taking his life in his hands he and Cigaret hop a ride on Shack's train and they are soon bearing the full brunt of his violent nature.

Filming Locations: Filmed on the Oregon Pacific & Eastern Railroad, including the rail yard in Cottage Grove, Oregon, with 2-8-2 Mikado Steam Engine #19 which now operates in excursion service on the Yreka Western Railroad in Yreka, California.


  #3 - The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)

Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam, Hector Elizondo,
Cast: Earl Hindman, Jerry Stiller
Director: Joseph Sargent
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 104 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.7 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $10.49 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: Somewhere underground in New York's subway system, just outside the Pelham Station, a gang of armed men hijack a train threatening to kill one hostage per minute unless their demands are met. Forced to stall these unknown assailants until a ransom is delivered or a rescue is made, transit chief Lt. Garber (Walter Matthau) must ad-lib, bully, con, and shrewdly outmaneuver one of the craftiest and cruelest villains (Robert Shaw) in a battle of wits that will either end heroically or tragically.

Filming Locations: Filmed on location in the New York City Subway including tunnels, stations, and subway cars. Some scenes were filmed in Brooklyn's former Court Street Line, which now serves as a link to the New York City Transit Museum. The dispatch/control center was filmed using a studio replica that accurately portrays a control center of the time.

Remake Note: A remake of this film starring Denzel Washington (as Lt. Garber) and John Travolta (as the lead hijacker) will be released in mid-2009.


  #4 - Runaway Train (1985)

Cast: Jon Voight, Eric Roberts, Rebecca De Mornay, John P. Ryan
Director: Andrei Konchalovsky
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 111 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $12.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: Manny (John Voight) is the toughest convict in a remote Alaskan prison who, along with fellow inmate Buck (Eric Roberts), makes a daring break into the frozen wasteland. Hopping a freight train, they head for freedom, but when the engineer dies of a heart attack, they find themselves trapped and racing full-throttle towards disaster. Crashing through stations at fatal speeds and hunted from above by a sadistic warden in a helicopter, Manny and Buck are convinced it's just the two of them against the world...until they discover a beautiful railroad worker (Rebecca DeMornay) who's also trapped aboard and destined to share their uncertain fate.

Filming Locations: Filmed on the Alaska Railroad near Portage Glacier, Whittier, and Grandview, Alaska. Four Alaska Railroad locomotives included GP40 #3010, F7 #1500, and GP7s #1801 and #1810. Railyard scenes were filmed at the Butte, Anaconda & Pacific Railroad in Anaconda, Montana using BA&P's locomotive fleet and an F9 locomotive from the Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad.


  #5 - La Bataille Du Rail (1946)

Director: René Clément
Format: French (English subtitles), Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $26.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: A remarkable and courageous film from noted French director Rene Clement who completed the film during the final months of WWII under extremely dangerous conditions. Using a cast of non-professionals, Clement tells the story of French railway workers who bravely battle the Nazis on many fronts, aiding the Allied invasion of 1944. Legendary cameraman Henri Alekan (Beauty and the Beast), himself a resistance fighter who escaped Nazi POW camps, shot the film in a gritty, semi-documentary style.

Filming Locations: Filmed on the French National Railways (SNCF) in 1945, using steam locomotives, rolling stock, armored train, and infrastructure authentic to WWII. All scenes were filmed "full scale" -- there were no models or soundstage used.


  #6 - The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)

Cast: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, John Lupton, Eddie Firestone
Director: Francis D. Lyon
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 88 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.1 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $15.49 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: When Andrews (Fess Parker), a Union spy, leads a team of soldiers into the South to demolish the railway system, things don't go as planned. The train conductor catches on to the plan, and does everything he can to stop them. Based on the true Civil War story of Andrews' Raiders, who captured a Confederate railroad train during the Civil War and were then pursued by another Confederate locomotive.

Filming Locations: Filmed on the now abandoned Tallulah Falls Railway which ran 58 miles from Cornelia, Georgia to Franklin, North Carolina until 1961. Rural locations along the line resembled the site of the actual chase which occurred nearly 100 miles to the southwest in Kennesaw, Georgia. The General was filmed with 4-4-0 American Steam Engine #25 "William Mason" (built 1856), borrowed from the B&O Railroad Museum where it still operates today. Yonah was shot with a B&O Museum replica of the 1837 "Lafayette."  Finally, Texas was filmed using Inyo #22 (built 1875) of the Virginia & Truckee Railroad. The B&O Museum also supplied two Civil War ammunition cars, two coaches, and a baggage car, and Disney built an additional five period boxcars. The actual steam engine on which the film is based, The General (built 1855), is safely preserved at the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History in Kennesaw, Georgia.


  #7 - Night Passage (1957)

Cast: James Stewart, Audie Murphy, Dan Duryea, Dianne Foster,
Cast: Elaine Stewart
Director: James Neilson
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 91 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.7 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $12.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: When the local railroad becomes the constant target of a band of desperadoes led by the notorious Whitey Harbin (Dan Duryea), train officials recruit soft-spoken but life-hardened employee Grant McLaine (Stewart) to guard the payroll from any more robberies. Trouble is, the gang's most skilled and lethal gun-slinger, the Utica Kid (Audie Murphy), is Grant's kid brother. Torn between the bonds of blood and his allegiance to the railroad, Grant finds himself hoping for the best but preparing for the worst as the train comes under attack from Harbin's bandits, climaxing in an unforgettable gun battle as the brothers from opposite sides of the law meet again to settle an old score.

Filming Locations: Filmed at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad (Durango, Colorado) using Denver & Rio Grande Western K-28 Class 2-8-2 #476 which still operates in excursion service today. Railroad scenes were shot just north of Ah Wilderness Ranch, while nearby filming locations included Molas Lake, Red Mountain City, Silverton, and two mines north of Silverton -- Shenandoah-Dives Mine and Mayflower Mine.


  #8 - Breakheart Pass (1975)

Cast: Charles Bronson, Ben Johnson, Richard Crenna, Jill Ireland,
Cast: Charles Durning
Director: Tom Gries
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 95 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.5 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $12.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: At the height of the frontier era, a locomotive races through the Rocky Mountains on a classified mission to a remote Army post. But one by one, the passengers are being murdered. Their only hope is John Deakin (Charles Bronson), a mysterious prisoner-in-transit who must fight for his life - and the lives of everyone on the train - as he uncovers a deadly secret that explodes in a torrent of shocking revelations, explosive brawls, and blazing gun battles.

Filming Locations: Filmed on the Camas Prairie Railroad (Lewiston, Idaho), using Great Western Railway 2-8-0 Consolidated Steam Locomotive #75. This engine later pulled excursion trains at the Heber Valley Railroad in Heber City, Utah, where it is now undergoing restoration.


  #9 - Von Ryan's Express (1965)

Cast: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrŕ, Brad Dexter,
Cast: Sergio Fantoni, John Leyton, Edward Mulhare, Wolfgang Preiss
Director: Mark Robson
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 117 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.1 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $10.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: When US combat pilot Col. Joseph Ryan (Frank Sinatra) is shot down by Nazis and placed in a prison camp, he's more concerned with surviving than escaping, earning him the insulting nickname, "Von Ryan." But in time, Ryan takes over from the commanding British officer (Trevor Howard) and masterminds the commandeering of a train and gets it across Italy to Switzerland with the Nazis in hot pursuit. Then it's all blazing action, hair-raising chases, and spectacular Italian scenery in this Oscar-nominated adventure that runs full speed until the nail-biting finale.

Filming Locations: Exterior scenes were filmed on the Italian State Railways, including the train station in Florence, Italy. Interior train scenes (including compartments) were filmed on a soundstage. The final battle scenes outside the train (with bridges and tunnels) were filmed near El Chorro, Málaga, Spain.


  #10 - La Bęte Humaine (1938)

Cast: Jean Gabin, Simone Simon, Fernand Ledoux, Blanchette Brunoy
Director
: Jean Renoir
Format: French (English subtitles), Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.8 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $26.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: The story tells of train engineer Jacques Lantier (Jean Gabin) who lusts after Séverine Roubaud (Simone Simon), the wife of his co-worker Roubaud (Fernand Ledoux). Roubaud, discovers that his young wife, Séverine, has been seduced by her godfather, the wealthy Grandmorin. Jealous, Roubaud forces Séverine to assist in the murder of Grandmorin during a train journey.

Filming Locations: Filmed on the French National Railways (SNCF) between Le Havre and Paris, including St. Lazare Station in Paris.


 

Other Films with Significant Railroad Themes
sorted alphabetically by title

  Atomic Train (1999)

Cast: Rob Lowe, Kristin Davis, Esai Morales, John Finn, Mena Suvari
Director: David Jackson, Dick Lowry
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 168 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 4.3 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $19.95 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV thriller, a train hauling a cargo of radioactive waste is passing through Colorado when its brakes fail in the Rocky Mountains. The train begins rolling out of control and is headed for Denver with no way to stop it. John Seger (Rob Lowe), an agent with the National Transportation Safety Board, has to find a way to bring the train safely to a halt, and he soon learns that the stakes are even greater than he imagined -- a faulty Russian atomic bomb is also on board, which could blow the city sky high in the event of a wreck.

Filming Locations: Filmed on the British Columbia Railway (BC Rail) near Vancouver.


  The Billion Dollar Hobo (1977)

Cast: Tim Conway, Al Stellone, Ellen Gerstein, Jerry Toomey, Kevin Brando
Director: Stuart E. McGowan
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 96 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 4.2 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $12.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: The obtuse nephew of a multi-millionaire finds that he has inherited a fortune. However, a stipulation in the will requires that he become a hobo before he can become a billionaire. To inherit his uncle's fortune, Vernon Praiseworthy must ride the rails in imitation of a Depression-era hobo, just as his uncle did before he became rich. Vernon and his faithful dog Bo take off on their adventure and soon find themselves enmeshed in a dognapping scheme with two thugs.

Filming Locations: Filmed on the Southern Pacific Railroad around Santa Susana Pass (southern California) using GP20 #4101 and GP9s #3840 and #3688, among others.


  Boxcar Bertha (1972)

Cast: Barbara Hershey, David Carradine, Barry Primus, Bernie Casey
Director: Martin Scorsese
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 88 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.1 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $12.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set during the Depression. The title character, played by Barbara Hershey, links up with union organizer David Carradine after the death of her father. Running afoul of anti-union forces, Bertha and Carradine are forced into a life of crime. Whereas Bonnie and Clyde robbed banks, Boxcar Bertha's specialty is trains.

Filming Locations: Filmed with a 24-day shoot on a budget of $600,000 in Reader, Arkansas


  The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

Cast: William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Alec Guinness, Sessue Hayakawa,
Cast: James Donald, Geoffrey Horne
Director: David Lean
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 167 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.4 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 100 Films of All Time
Amazon.com DVD Price: $21.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: Based on the 1943 building of a railway bridge to link Thailand and Burma, the story centers on a Japanese prison camp isolated deep in the jungles of Southeast Asia, where the remorseless Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) has been charged with building the bridge for the Japanese. His clash of wills with a British prisoner, the charismatic Colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness), escalates into a duel of honor, Nicholson defying his captor's demands to win concessions for his troops. How the two officers reach a compromise, and Nicholson becomes obsessed with building that bridge, provides the story's thematic spine; the parallel movement of a team of commandos dispatched to stop the project, led by a British major (Jack Hawkins) and guided by an American escapee (William Holden), supplies the story's suspense and forward momentum.

Filming Locations: Filmed entirely on location in Sri Lanka (then Ceylon). The 400-foot wood bridge created for the film took more than six months to complete using 25 elephants and hundreds of native workers. The locomotive in the crash was built in the 1890s and operated in India prior to purchase for the film. A diesel engine was used at the rear of the train to ensure all four coaches followed the steam engine off the bridge.

The destruction of the bridge as depicted in the film is entirely fictional. In reality, two bridges were built -- a temporary wooden bridge and a permanent steel bridge a few months later. Both bridges were used for two years until they were destroyed by Allied warplanes in June 1945. After the war, the steel bridge was rebuilt by Japan and is still in use today.


  Brief Encounter (1945)

Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey,
Cast: Cyril Raymond
Director: David Lean
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 86 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.3 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 150 Films of All Time
Amazon.com DVD Price: $29.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: Sentimental yet down-to-earth and set in pre-World War II England, the film follows British housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson), who is on her way home, but catches a cinder in her eye. By chance, she meets Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard), who removes it for her. The two talk for a few minutes and strike immediate sparks, but they end up catching different trains. However, both return to the station once a week to meet and, as the film progresses, they grow closer, sharing stories, hopes, and fears about their lives, marriages, and children.

Filming Locations: Train and platform scenes were filmed at the railway station in Carnforth, Lancashire, UK, then a junction on the London, Midland & Scottish Railway.


  Broadway Limited (1941)

Cast: Dennis O'Keefe, Victor McLaglen, Marjorie Woodworth, Zasu Pitts,
Cast: Patsy Kelly, George E. Stone, Leonid Kinsky
Director: Gordon Douglas
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 75 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.1 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $9.95 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: The whole story unfolds on a Chicago-to-Manhattan express train; among the passengers are Hollywood starlet April (Marjorie Woodworth), her producer Ivan (Leonid Kinskey) and her wisecracking secretary (Patsy Kelly). Hoping to stir up publicity for April, Patsy and Ivan conspire to adopt a baby for their client. Trouble is, the authorities are convinced that the child has been kidnapped, causing no end of trouble for such innocent bystanders as engineer Mike (Victor McLaglen), bookish young doctor Harvey North (Dennis O'Keefe), and a garrulous clubwoman (Zasu Pitts).

Filming Locations: Features a number of Pennsylvania Railroad scenes on "the broad way" between New York and Chicago, including PRR K4 Pacific steam locomotive #3768 with a matching passenger train. Also included is PRR 4-4-0 American steam locomotive #1223. The 1223 later operated on the Strasburg Railroad, a tourist railroad in the Amish farmlands of eastern Pennsylvania, and is now preserved at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. We also see Pennsy's GG1 on electrified track east of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.


  The Cassandra Crossing (1976)

Cast: Sophia Loren, Richard Harris, Martin Sheen, O.J. Simpson,
Cast: Lionel Stander, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster
Director: George P. Cosmatos
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 129 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.1 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $12.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: When a plague-infected terrorist, fleeing from the police, exposes the 1,000 riders of the Geneva to Stockholm Express, Colonel MacKenzie (Burt Lancaster) is called in to handle the situation. He locates a doctor aboard the train, Jonathan Chamberlain (Richard Harris) who, with his wife (Sophia Loren), finds the fugitive. They attempt to transfer him to a hovering helicopter, but fail, and the terrorist dies. To prevent the spread of the plague, Colonel MacKenzie directs the train to the Cassandra Crossing where it will plunge into oblivion, killing all aboard. At Nuremberg, the train is pumped with oxygen and the stricken passengers begin to recover. Dr. Chamberlain argues that they can be spared, but Colonel MacKenzie refuses, and as the train rushes toward the collapsing Cassandra Crossing bridge, Chamberlain struggles to disconnect the cars and save the passengers from their appointment with doom.

Filming Locations: The Garabit Viaduct, an active railroad bridge spanning the Truyčre River in France, was filmed to represent the condemned "Cassandra Crossing." The viaduct was built from 1880 to 1884 by Gustave Eiffel, who later constructed the famous Eiffel tower.

The train station at the beginning of the film, identified as Geneva, was actually filmed at Basel, Switzerland. Exterior scenes of the train were filmed in Italy, France, and Switzerland with multiple electric and diesel locomotives. Interior shots were filmed at a studio in Rome, Italy.


  Caught on a Train (1980)

Cast: Peggy Ashcroft, Michael Kitchen, Wendy Raebeck, Michael Sheard
Director: Peter Duffell
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 80 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.9 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $21.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: An overnight train trip through Europe becomes a profoundly unsettling odyssey for a young English businessman in this award-winning BBC drama. Peter (Michael Kitchen) boards the Ostend-Vienna express on his way to an important meeting and is delighted to meet a potential companion, a free-spirited young American (Wendy Raebeck) traveling alone. Already crowded, their compartment is overrun by the arrival of an imperious Viennese dowager, Frau Messner (Peggy Ashcroft). This vestige of Old Europe becomes Peter’s nemesis, by turns infuriating and fascinating him, while his relationship with the young American takes an unexpected course.

Filming Locations:


  Closely Watched Trains (1966)

Cast: Václav Neckár, Josef Somr, Vlastimil Brodský, Vladimír Valenta
Director: Jirí Menzel
Format: Czech, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 93 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.0 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $26.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: The 1966 Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film, "Closely Watched Trains" is a charming look at the life of a young train conductor (Václav Neckár) during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia. He is ineptly led into an erotic encounter with a beautiful girl and fails to perform. But this unlikely hero takes a stand when his village is threatened by the occupying German Army.

Filming Locations:


  Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day (1996)

Cast: Peter Alexander, Henry Gibson, Michael Stipe, John Diehl
Director: Christopher Munch
Format: English, Black & White, Matrix Surround
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.0 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $23.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: This winner of the Best Cinematography Award at the Sundance Film Festival tells the story of John Lee (Peter Alexander), grandson to a Chinese railroad laborer, who holds idealistic visions of saving the Yosemite Valley Railroad from bankruptcy with help from long-time rail employees (Michael Stipe of R.E.M. and Henry Gibson of Magnolia).

Filming Locations:


  Danger Lights (1930)

Cast: Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur, Hugh Herbert
Director: George B. Seitz
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 74 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.0 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $9.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: When an engaged woman falls in love with a handsome hobo, life gets complicated for the old railroad supervisor who is set on marrying her. Wonderfully detailed, this film features several classic trains and railways from the 1920s.

Filming Locations: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad


  The Darjeeling Limited (2007)

Cast: Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, Jason Schwartzman, Anjelica Huston
Director: Wes Anderson
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 91 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $9.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: Francis (Owen Wilson) has invited his brothers, Jack (Jason Schwartzman) and Peter (Adrien Brody), to join him on a train trip for a spiritual quest through India. The brothers have been estranged since their father's sudden death, and each is now embroiled in his own personal drama. Jack is toyed with by his two-timing girlfriend, Peter's wife is about to give birth, and Francis recently survived a car crash that nearly killed him. As the train travels across India, the brothers try to reconnect, but mainly end up arguing and sharing pharmaceuticals. Francis admits that the real reason he lured them there is because he wants them to visit their mother (Anjelica Huston), so they travel on to meet her at a convent in the Himalayas.

Filming Locations:


  Death Train (2006)

Cast: Arnold Vosloo, Mathis Landwehr, Stefan Bieker, Ken Bones
Director: Diethard Küster
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 104 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 3.9 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $12.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: A relentless secret society known as "Pugnus Dei" attempts to recruit a former solder by any means necessary in this white-knuckle action thriller starring The Mummy's Arnold Vosloo. Their target has been traumatized, but nothing he can say or do will prevent the nefarious order from realizing their goal. Time is running out fast, and when the cornered soldier realizes that he has no choice but to fight, the stage is set for a rumble that will send shockwaves reverberating across the globe.

Filming Locations:


  Detonator aka Alistair MacLean's Death Train (1993)

Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Patrick Stewart, Alexandra Paul, Ted Levine,
Cast: Christopher Lee
Director: David Jackson
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 98 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.4 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: Available Used Only (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: A German scientist has aided an ex-Soviet general in constructing a nuclear weapon which is now in the possession of an American mercenary, heading across Europe in a hijacked train. Malcolm Philpott, a member of UNACO (United Nations Anti Crime Organization), must use a team of agents to stop this death train at all costs.

Filming Locations:


  El Ultimo Tren (2002)

Cast: Héctor Alterio, Federico Luppi, Gastón Pauls, Pepe Soriano
Director: Diego Arsuaga
Format: Spanish, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 93 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.0 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $12.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: An ambitious business man (Gastón Pauls) wants to sell locomotive #33 to a company in Hollywood. A group of elderly men known as "The Friends of the Rails" believe that doing so would cost Uruguay a part of its heritage, so they devise a plan to steal the train. The escapade takes the train all across the country, exhibiting Uruguay's vibrant landscape and varied climate, as well as revealing many abandoned towns and train stations.

Filming Locations:


  End of the Line (1987)

Cast: Kevin Bacon, Wilford Brimley, Levon Helm, Mary Steenburgen,
Cast: Henderson Forsythe
Director: Jay Russell
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 105 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.7 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: Available Used Only (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: Two Southern railroad workers, Will Haney (Wilford Brimley) and his friend Leo Pickett (Levon Helm), steal a locomotive and drive it to Chicago to protest the closing of a station in Clifford, Arkansas.  The duo gathers encouragement at every hamlet along the way as entire towns come out to lend support for the cause. The company tries to use the rural rubes to their promotional advantage, but Haney and Pickett take a stand and win an audience with aging company figurehead Thomas Clinton (Henderson Forsythe).

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  The General (1927)

Cast: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack
Director: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 78 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.3 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 150 Films of All Time
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Synopsis: Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern railroad engineer who loves his train engine, The General, almost as much as he loves Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack). When the opening shots of the Civil War are fired at Fort Sumter, Johnny tries to enlist -- and he is deemed too useful as an engineer to be a soldier. All Johnny knows is that he's been rejected, and Annabelle, thinking him a coward, turns her back on him. When Northern spies steal the General (and, unwittingly, Annabelle), the story switches from drama and romance to adventure mixed with Keaton's trademark deadpan humor as he uses every means possible to catch up to the General, thwart the Yankees, and rescue his darling Annabelle -- for starters.

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  The Ghost Train (1941)

Cast: Arthur Askey, Richard Murdoch, Kathleen Harrison
Director: Walter Forde
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.2 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $21.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: This is the third remake of a popular British comedy/thriller about travelers stranded at a desolate train station who are startled by the appearance of a phantom train, actually part of a very real smuggling conspiracy.

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  The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969)

Cast: Robert Mitchum, George Kennedy, Martin Balsam, David Carradine,
Cast: Tina Louise, Douglas Fowley
Director: Burt Kennedy
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.9 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $17.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: In this comic western, Flagg (Robert Mitchum) is a veteran marshal forced to retire by the pompous Mayor Wilker (Martin Balsam). McKay (George Kennedy) is a wily gunslinger. The two combine forces to stop a young band of outlaws from robbing the train when it pulls into the station. Flagg warns the mayor of the upcoming attempt but is not taken seriously by the town politician. McKay and Flagg ride out to warn the train of the impending crime, which finds McKay facing members of his own gang in a traditional western showdown.

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  The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)

Cast: Frankie Howerd, Dora Bryan, George Cole, Reg Varney,
Cast: Ramond Huntley, Richard Wattis
Director: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.5 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $21.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: Comedian Frankie Howerd plays the head of a train-robbery gang who cleverly hides the loot from their biggest haul in a deserted old mansion. The gang waits seven years for the statute of limitations to run out, then returns to the mansion to dig up their $7 million booty. Unfortunately for the crooks, the mansion has been converted into the new site for St. Trinian's School for Girls.

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  The Great Train Robbery (1979)

Cast: Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, Wayne Sleep, Alan Webb,
Cast: Lesley-Anne Down
Director: Michael Crichton
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 110 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.9 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $10.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: The Great Train Robbery is a dramatization of the famous first hold-up of a moving train in 1855 England. The conspirators in this undertaking are Edward Pierce (Sean Connery), Agar (Donald Sutherland) and Clean Willy (Wayne Sleep). Pierce is the brains, Clean Willy the brawn, and safecracker Agar provides the finesse. The scheme involves stealing a shipment of gold bars intended to be used in the payroll for the Army in the Crimean War.

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  The Great Train Robbery (1903)

Cast: Morgan Jones, Tom London, Gilbert M. Anderson, A.C. Abadie
Director: Edwin S. Porter
Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 12 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.5 (of 10)
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Synopsis: A group of four men assault a train station clerk, then rob a train where they take the money and shoot a passenger. Once the clerk is discovered tied up at the station, the sheriff and his men begin a hunt for the bandits. This 1903 film uses simple editing techniques (each scene is a single shot) and the story is mostly linear (with only a few "meanwhile" moments) but it represents a significant step in movie making, being one of the first "narrative" movies.

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  The Harvey Girls (1946)

Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger, Angela Lansbury,
Cast: Preston Foster
Director: George Sidney
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 101 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.9 (of 10)
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Synopsis: On a train trip west to become a mail order bride, Susan Bradley (Judy Garland) meets a cheery crew of young women. They're traveling west to open a Harvey House restaurant at a remote whistle stop to provide good cooking and wholesome company for railway travelers. When Susan and her bashful suitor find romance daunting, Susan joins the Harvey Girls instead.

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  Horror Express (1973)

Cast: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Telly Savalas
Director: Eugenio Martín
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.3 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: Available Used Only (Click Here To Order)

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  Hurricane Express (1932)

Cast: John Wayne, Tully Marshall, Conway Tearle, Shirley Grey
Director: J.P. McGowan, Armand Schaefer
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.3 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $7.98 (Click Here To Order)

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  The Iron Horse (1924)

Cast: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull,
Cast: Cyril Chadwick, Will Walling
Director: John Ford
Format: Black & White, Silent
Runtime: 149 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $17.99 (Click Here To Order)

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  It Happened To Jane (1959)

Cast: Doris Day, Jack Lemmon, Ernie Kovacs, Steve Forrest, Teddy Rooney
Director: Richard Quine
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 97 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.6 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $10.99 (Click Here To Order)

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  Jesse James (1939)

Cast: Tyrone Power, Henry Fonda, Nancy Kelly, Randolph Scott, Henry Hull
Director: Henry King
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 106 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.2 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $12.99 (Click Here To Order)

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  Kansas Pacific (1953)

Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eve Miller, Barton MacLane, Harry Shannon,
Cast: Tom Fadden, Reed Hadley
Director: Ray Nazarro
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 73 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.9 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $6.99 (Click Here To Order)

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  Kontroll (2004)

Cast: Sándor Csányi, Zoltán Mucsi, Csaba Pindroch, Sándor Badár
Director: Nimród Antal
Format: Hungarian, Color, DTS
Runtime: 106 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.6 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $7.99 (Click Here To Order)

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  La Ilusión viaja en tranvía (1954)

Cast: Lilia Prado, Carlos Navarro, Fernando Soto, Agustin Isunza
Director: Luis Bunuel
Format: Spanish, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.5 (of 10)
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  The Lady Vanishes (1938)

Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas, Dame May Whitty,
Cast: Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 97 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.2 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 200 Films of All Time
Amazon.com DVD Price: $17.98 (Click Here To Order)

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  Man on the Tracks (1956)

Cast: Kazimierz Opalinski, Zygmunt Maciejewski, Zygmunt Zintel
Cast:  Zygmunt Listkiewicz, Roman Klosowski
Director: Andrzej Munk
Format: Polish, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 86 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.6 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $26.99 (Click Here To Order)

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  Money Train (1995)

Cast: Wesley Snipes, Woody Harrelson, Jennifer Lopez, Robert Blake,
Cast: Chris Cooper, Joe Grifasi
Director: Joseph Ruben
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 103 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.2 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $9.95 (Click Here To Order)

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  Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

Cast: Albert Finney, Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset,
Cast: Lauren Bacall, Martin Balsam
Director: Sidney Lumet
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 127 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $7.49 (Click Here To Order)

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  Murder, She Said (1961)

Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow,
Cast: James Robertson Justice
Director: George Pollock
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 86 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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  The Narrow Margin (1952)

Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White, Gordon Gebert,
Cast: Queenie Leonard, David Clarke
Director: Richard Fleischer
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 71 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.9 (of 10)
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  Narrow Margin (1990)

Cast: Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James Sikking, J.T. Walsh,
Cast: M. Emmet Walsh, Susan Hogan, Nigel Bennett
Director: Peter Hyams
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 99 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.4 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $12.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: Gene Hackman stars as a LA District Attorney attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Archer) back to Los Angeles to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hit men sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours as the train hurls through the isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.

Filming Locations: The film was shot in British Columbia, where a  "Lac Des Arcs" train station was built along the tracks specifically for the film. The train consisted of a British Columbia Railway (BC Rail) SD40-2 diesel and 12 privately owned passenger cars, all painted in VIA Rail Canada livery to appear as the Toronto-Vancouver Canadian. The private cars included one dormitory, one baggage car, three coaches (#521, 524, 550), one dome car (#555), one dining car (#548), another coach (#540), three sleepers (#558, 564, 544), and a rear dome car (#597). The primary compartments in the film are A6 in #564, and later C6 in #558. Some of the distant exterior shots of the train (specifically two bridge crossings) were filmed using a model train.


  The Navigators (2001)

Cast: Dean Andrews, Thomas Craig, Joe Duttine, Steve Huison, Venn Tracey
Director: Ken Loach
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 96 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.9 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $12.99 (Click Here To Order)

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  Night Train (Ludzie z pociagu) (1961)

Cast: Lucyna Winnicka, Leon Niemczyk, Teresa Szmigielówna,
Cast: Zbigniew Cybulski, Helena Dabrowska
Director: Jerzy Kawalerowicz
Format: Polish, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 93 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.6 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $26.99 (Click Here To Order)

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  North by Northwest (1959)

Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Ed Binns, Leo G. Carroll
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 136 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.6 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 50 Films of All Time
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Synopsis: Cary Grant plays a Manhattan advertising executive plunged into a realm of spy (James Mason) and counterspy (Eva Marie Saint) and variously abducted, framed for murder, chased and in another signature set piece, crop-dusted. He also holds on for dear life from the facial features of the Presidents on Mount Rushmore.

Filming Locations: Exterior scenes feature the 20th Century Limited (specifically car #10006), though the interior shots of dining and sleeping cars were filmed at an MGM soundstage. Station scenes include LaSalle Street Station (Chicago) and Grand Central Station (New York City). The final scene was filmed at the west portal of Southern Pacific (now Union Pacific) Tunnel #26 in Santa Susana Pass near Los Angeles.


  North West Frontier (1959)

Cast: Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 124 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.2 (of 10)
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  Once Upon A Time In The West (1968)

Cast: Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Charles Bronson,
Cast: Gabriele Ferzetti, Frank Wolff
Director: Sergio Leone
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 165 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 8.8 (of 10) - Ranked in Top 25 Films of All Time
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Synopsis: Morton (Gabriele Ferzetti), the power-hungry owner of a railroad company, hires Frank (Henry Fonda), a gunfighter without a conscience, to kill anyone who stands in the way of the completion of the railroad. After Frank murders land owner Brett McBain (Frank Wolff), McBain's widow (Claudia Cardinale) hires two killers of her own to protect her and gain revenge: a mysterious, harmonica-playing desperado (Charles Bronson) and his rogue sidekick (Jason Robards).

Filming Locations: Railroad scenes were filmed in Spain, with additional scenery shots from the Monument Valley of Utah and Arizona. Most interior filming was done in-studio in Rome, Italy.


  Paradise Express (1937)

Cast: Grant Withers, Dorothy Appleby, Arthur Hoyt, Maude Eburne
Director: Joseph Kane
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 53 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.6 (of 10)
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  The Phantom Express (1932)

Cast: William Collier Jr., Sally Blane, J. Farrell MacDonald, Hobart Bosworth
Director: Emory Johnson
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 60 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.0 (of 10)
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  The Polar Express (2004)

Cast: Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola, Michael Jeter, Leslie Zemeckis,
Cast: Eddie Deezen, Nona Gaye
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 100 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.7 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $17.99 (Click Here To Order)

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Filming Locations: Features Pere Marquette 2-8-4 Berkshire steam locomotive #1225, owned by the Steam Railroading Institute in Owosso, Michigan.


  Prison Train (1938)

Cast: Fred Keating, Dorothy Comingore, Clarence Muse, Nestor Paiva
Director: Gordon Wiles
Format: English, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 64 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 5.8 (of 10)
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  The Railroad Man (1956)

Cast: Sylva Koscina, Carlo Giuffré, Edoardo Nevola, Franco Fantasia
Director: Pietro Germi
Format: Italian, Black & White, Mono
Runtime: 115 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.9 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $26.99 (Click Here To Order)

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  The Railrodder (1965)

Cast: Buster Keaton
Director: Gerald Potterton
Format: Color, Silent
Runtime: 24 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.5 (of 10)
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  The Railway Children (1970)

Cast: Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, William Mervyn, Iain Cuthbertson,
Cast: Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett
Director: Lionel Jeffries
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 109 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.5 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: Available Used Only (Click Here To Order)

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  The Railway Children - BBC TV Remake (2000)

Cast: Jack Blumenau, Clare Thomas, Jemima Rooper, Jenny Agutter,
Cast: Michael Kitchen, Richard Attenborough
Director: Catherine Morshead
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 105 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.4 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $14.99 (Click Here To Order)

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  Santa Fe (1951)

Cast: Randolph Scott, Janis Carter, Jerome Courtland, John Archer,
Cast: Peter M. Thompson, Warner Anderson
Director: Irving Pichel
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 87 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.1 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $12.99 (Click Here To Order)

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  Silver Streak (1976)

Cast: Gene Wilder, Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Patrick McGoohan,
Cast: Ned Beatty
Director: Arthur Hiller
Format: English, Color, Mono
Runtime: 114 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 6.7 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $4.99 (Click Here To Order)

Synopsis: In this wild comedy adventure, rail passenger George Caldwell (Gene Wilder) finds that a romantic escapade with a sultry secretary (Jill Clayburgh) puts him in the middle of a Hitchcockian murder plot. Leaping on and off the train, in and out of roomettes, bars and dining cars, George teams up with an amiable, small-time crook (Richard Pryor) to defy the murderer's henchmen, FBI agents, and a host of other outrageous characters.

Filming Locations: Exterior shots were filmed using Canadian Pacific Railway FP7 diesel locomotives #4070 and #4067 and a collection of Canadian Pacific passenger cars (most now used on VIA Rail's Toronto-Vancouver Canadian train) at locations around Calgary and Toronto. Although a fictional railroad name "AMRoad" appears on the train, original color schemes as well as car names and numbers were not changed. Interior train shots, including sleeping compartments, were filmed on a soundstage using near-accurate replicas.

The train wreck sequence was filmed using a mock-up engine and station at Burbank Airport. However, the approach to the crash was filmed using a Hi-Rail truck on Track #2 at North Western Station (now Ogilvie Transportation Center) in Chicago. Inclusion of this scene caused Amtrak to withdraw from the film, pushing much of the filming to Canada.

The film's title Silver Streak was inspired by the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy (CB&Q) Railroad's Pioneer Zephyr, nicknamed "Silver Streak" for its stainless steel construction and 13 hour and 5 minute speed record between Denver and Chicago in 1934.


  The Station Agent (2003)

Cast: Peter Dinklage, Bobby Cannavale, Patricia Clarkson,
Cast: Michelle Williams
Director: Thomas McCarthy
Format: English, Color, Dolby Digital
Runtime: 89 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.9 (of 10)
Amazon.com DVD Price: $15.49 (Click Here To Order)

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  Station Jim (2001)

Cast: George Cole, Charlie Creed-Miles, Frank Finlay, Prunella Scales,
Cast: Stanley Townsend
Director: John Roberts
Format: English, Color, Stereo
Runtime: 87 minutes
IMDB User Rating: 7.3 (of 10)
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