webestang Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 I let a buddy barrow the movie The Train (1964) with Burt Lancaster, great film BTW, and he asked about the train wreck. I said Yes, they wrecked a real train. As far as I know, there were 4 films in which a real train was wrecked... The Train (1964), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The General (1927) (2 trains??) and The Fugitive (1993) Anyone know of other films where they wrecked a real life size train for THE effect of wrecking a train for a scene........????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineSage_jr Posted April 16, 2008 Share Posted April 16, 2008 LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (the tracks ahead of it blown up by Lawrence and his men), HOW THE WEST WAS WON and BREAKHEART PASS (the latter half of a real train, but not the whole thing). More significantly, there have been innumerable films counted as figurative train-wrecks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webestang Posted April 17, 2008 Author Share Posted April 17, 2008 I forgot about L of A...! And....yeah! LOTS of "figurative" train wreck movies...LOL So that makes 7 movies......anymore...??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainingviolets21 Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Massive train wreck in The Greatest Show On Earth, now I remember a film with Barbara Stanwyck where she was pregnant and she was in a train wreck and they thought she was someone else - the same plot was shown in Mrs. Winterborn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineSage_jr Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Yes, but webestang asked specifically for films in which real, full-sized trains were wrecked for the sake of cinematic authenticity. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH's smash-up was a miniature, albeit a large one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainingviolets21 Posted April 20, 2008 Share Posted April 20, 2008 Sorry webestang - I misunderstood... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted April 21, 2008 Share Posted April 21, 2008 They wrecked two classic old narrow-gauge trains by having the engines run in to one another in ?Denver and Rio Grande? (1952). They did that on the line north of Durango, Co. I hated that scene. The people in Colorado would love to have those two engines back now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfNB2giXz-I I see that they also rigged the engines and cars with explosives too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webestang Posted April 21, 2008 Author Share Posted April 21, 2008 No Problem......! That was a cool train wreck scene for being miniatures.....! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolrob1955 Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 The train coming into the station in 'Silver Streak' (1976) was well done. Two movies I haven't seen, but would like to, are 'Runaway Train' from 1985 and 'Hatter's Castle' from 1942 which apparently features a scene about the Tay bridge disaster. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted April 23, 2008 Share Posted April 23, 2008 Didn't they wreck a train in *The Wild Bunch* ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webestang Posted April 25, 2008 Author Share Posted April 25, 2008 I don't remember....!! I do remember them jumping off the train at a bridge..? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bargar Posted April 26, 2008 Share Posted April 26, 2008 Hi Weebs. I am not sure but I think in "Union Pacific", starring your fav,Barbara, there were two trainwrecks. I think, from a little research, they were real trains. Check it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lzcutter Posted April 27, 2008 Share Posted April 27, 2008 Web, Don't they set dynamite under the bridge to blow up the train? Aaagghhhh!!! I hate getting old! I used to be able to call this stuff up at the drop of a hat. But now that I am mid-century modern, my once great memory is foggy and hazy and I can't remember easy stuff like this. But I can still remember lines of dialogue from *Casablanca*. To paraphrase Patton "All memory is fleeting". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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