Train Movies

gm071class · Post by **gm071class** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:06 pm

Can any one remember a movie a good few years ago about a runaway train. In the end, a GP20 or something "went after" the train to try hook up at the rear.He gives up but than has second thoughts and gives it one more go just before the train is doomed.He couples up, applies his brakes and everybody lives happily ever after.
Anybody remember the movie name and where can I get it?

nestfilms · Post by **nestfilms** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:16 pm

i think it is this
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0144039/

Post by **codrivermike** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:16 pm

Sounds corny. There wasn't a sleek lookin doggie or a super inteligent Kangaroo in it was there?

gm071class · Post by **gm071class** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:39 pm

I dont think that was it, I presume it was called Runaway Train or something, not that Alaska one with the convicts

nwallace · Post by **nwallace** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:44 pm

Atomic Train?

I got the jist of the film from watching 5 mins of it

lateagain · Post by **lateagain** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:55 pm

gm071class wrote:I presume it was called Runaway Train or something, not that Alaska one with the convicts

Well you'd certainly have to say that anyone who considered that a happy ending had an "alternative" mind set

Great Movie though and Jon Voight at his er..... "Finest"?!.... well in a psychopathic sort of way

IMHO A much underated film atmospherically shot in the bleakest of locations and with a tension and menace that leaves you drained (and strangely cold

?) as the credits roll. http://imdb.com/title/tt0089941/

Geoff

rlmathers · Post by **rlmathers** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:59 pm

Titfield Thunderbolt

Well they all lived happily ever after.

jimmyladd · Post by **jimmyladd** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:25 pm

did anybody see that rediculous made for tv film a few years ago with a run away train, and they stopped it by hooking a helicopter to the back? never seen anything so silly in my life!
Jim

117305 · Post by **117305** » Thu Nov 24, 2005 11:29 pm

the film was actulley called"runaway" and was one of those made for tv movies in 1973 involving A group of skiers that are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside the driver of the train was also planning to retire but decided not to in the end oh yes and the 2nd man kept haveing flashbacks to home and a model railroad if i remember correctley oh and one of the passengers nicks someones ticket as well!!!! hope that helps -- well i hope its the right rilm

sillyevan27 · Post by **sillyevan27** » Fri Nov 25, 2005 2:48 am

Silver Streak

...oh wait...the train didn't stop in that one...oh well. See it for Gene Wilder anyways

heh

SteveFranks · Post by **SteveFranks** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 6:25 pm

Now if you want to see a REALLY great train movie, I would suggest hunting down a copy of Emperor of the North [Pole], starring Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin.

There are some great train sequences throughout, set in the 1930s during the Depression. Ernest Borgnine plays a freight conductor (named Shack) meaner than a junkyard dog who will stop at nothing to prevent hobos from hitching a ride aboard his train. Lee Marvin plays a hobo who taunts Shack mile after mile to win a wager that he can ride Shack's train to his destination. Very exciting.

It has been out of print for years and you'll have to find a VHS copy. I found one for $9.95 in mint condition. If you love trains, you'll flip for this flick.

Originally released as Emporer of the North Pole (a title given to hobos who are master's of the rail), but it was being confused as a Christmas movie, so it was later redistributed as Emperor of the North.

End of the Line, with Wilfred Brimley, is also a good picture if you like trains, but has more "charm" then hard action. I got a VHS copy for 75 cents off Ebay. Their line is shut down threatening a small town who all work for the line. Brimley's character decides to "steal" a train and head down the line to Chicago to plead the town's case to the company director. Great ending. Some great shots inside and outside a road switcher.

unionpacific · Post by **unionpacific** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 6:43 pm

Whats about Mission Impossible 2?
He's on the roof of a TGV......with no overhead wires!
Or Under Siege 2, what a load of . that was.
Death on the Orient Experss, I wont even go their!

jimmyladd · Post by **jimmyladd** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 7:02 pm

SteveFranks wrote:
End of the Line, with Wilfred Brimley, is also a good picture if you like trains, but has more "charm" then hard action. I got a VHS copy for 75 cents off Ebay. Their line is shut down threatening a small town who all work for the line. Brimley's character decides to "steal" a train and head down the line to Chicago to plead the town's case to the company director. Great ending. Some great shots inside and outside a road switcher.

Yeah, I saw that one on sky some years ago..its a great film

Jim

gmt59 · Post by **gmt59** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:48 pm

"The Train" with Burt Lancaster is another film worth tracking down, I think its only on VHS and is B/W but very good set in WW2 on French railways.
Burt plays a driver and member of the resistance trying to stop Paul Schofields Nazi officer from taking a train load of looted art treasures back to Germany.
I don't know if its true but I heard that the train crash in it was staged with a real loco.

Glen

jimmyladd · Post by **jimmyladd** » Sat Nov 26, 2005 10:40 pm

I watched that the other day...Considdering the date it was made, then I recon they smashed a good few engines up....and I'll second that, its a top film to watch