I like Emperor of the North Pole. Sometimes just called Emperor of the North. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070030/ It has a fascinating story and there's plenty of shots of the trains.
One of my favorites is an old film noir movie called HUMAN DESIRE. It stars Glen Ford as a Korean vet who comes back to his railroad job. He gets hooked up with shady gal and things go downhill. It has some great train scenes in it from passenger stuff to freight. It also has some great yard scenes and FA-1s. Eric
A good movie with trains is the one about Woodie Gutherie, I believe it was called "Bound for Glory." It was made in the 70's around the same time as Emporer of the North. It stars David Carradine as I believe.
Seen plenty of train movies or movies with trains in: "Forgotten Silver", filmed on the Silverstream Railway "Carolina Cannonball"... which was a dud! "Goodbye Pork Pie" and "Never say Die"... both Kiwi classics "Back to the Future 3"... Yeah, Right!!! The all time best in my humble opinion was a TV ad for Cadbury Crunchie bars, filmed on the Kingston Flyer, and using clips from old ww2 and western movies. I think it ran for something like 25 years
Ooops. Forgot to mention "Von Ryans Express". Excellent WW2 true story, destroyed by Hollywood trying to take credit away from the Kiwi and Aussie soldiers who actually took part in the real escape.
I don't know if anybody's mentioned it yet, but "The Polar Express" was pretty cool! For something that was animated anyway's.
How about "Runaway!" I remember watching this as a little kid in the early 70's. I believe Ben Johnson was the engineer. It's about a ski train heading home with vacationers and of course loses it's brakes. Towards the end of the line is a sharp curve where veryone thinks a big wreck will occur. The day is saved after the runaway passes a small spur and low hood EMD of some type (don't remember if it was a GP or SD) pulls out, chases it down, couples and stops the train.
"Runaway" was one of those cheesy movies made for ABC's "Tuesday Night Movie" slot back in the 70s. It was supposed to be an "Airport"- type flick on flanged wheels. In real life, all the engineer would have to do was put the locos in dynamics and slow it down, while also at least using the handbrakes on the engines. Major-league stinkeroo....
