Swithin Posted September 14, 2015 Share Posted September 14, 2015 But to get back to trains, Cat Ballou has many important scenes on trains, including this scene between Jane Fonda and Reginald Denny. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 perhaps the greatest special effects scene involving a train, at approximately the 1:00 mark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 When it comes to train wrecks, Buster Keaton's in THE GENERAL is still an eye popper. This was a real train: From Wiki: The climax of the film includes a spectacular moment where a bridge (sabotaged by Johnnie) collapses as a railroad train crosses it. Keaton filmed the collapse in the conifer forest around the town of Cottage Grove, Oregon, using 500 extras from the Oregon National Guard. They all dressed up in Union uniforms and were filmed going left-to-right before changing into Confederate uniforms and being filmed going right-to-left. The production company left the wreckage of the locomotive in the river bed after the scene was filmed. The wrecked locomotive became a minor tourist attraction for nearly twenty years, until it was salvaged in 1944-45 for scrap during World War II. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 perhaps the greatest special effects scene involving a train, at approximately the 1:00 mark. LOL (...hmmm...must have been before Richard Denning moved from Mexico City to his lavish Governor's mansion on the island of Oahu, eh Mr.R?!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 perhaps the greatest special effects scene involving a train, at approximately the 1:00 mark. Does anyone notice anything "special" about the train in this scene? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 I've always thought of this one as The Greatest Train Wreck on Earth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Does anyone notice anything "special" about the train in this scene? Yeah, instead of saying somethin' like the "Sierra Madre Limitado", it says "Lionel" on the side of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SansFin Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Yeah, instead of saying somethin' like the "Sierra Madre Limitado", it says "Lionel" on the side of it. Capuchin has a photograph of a railroad overpass in Michigan which has: Lionel in white block letters on the side. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomJH Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 I've always thought of this one as The Greatest Train Wreck on Earth! Yep, it's impressive, clearly one of the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrroberts Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 In the film THE FIGHTING SULLIVANS (about the five Sullivan brothers who all died together when their ship was sunk in WW2) their father (played by Thomas Mitchell) worked on the railroad. The young boys would climb up on the tower to watch their dad go by. At the end of the film the father "sees" his sons up there for one last time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigarjoe Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 A publicity stunt but interesting: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cigarjoe Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 A clip from TCM summer of Darkness La Bête Humaine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ui3UiURgo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DownGoesFrazier Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 If we're wandering into "bus" territory now... How about the ending of The Graduate? ..or MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Hoffman had a thing for buses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 General Yen's private car: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Capuchin has a photograph of a railroad overpass in Michigan which has: Lionel in white block letters on the side. That overpass was in MY neck o' the Michigan woods. I recall seeing a story about it on the local news in the mid '60s when it happened. Went by it a couple of times, but it's LONG gone, now. Apparently, it was back when "tagging" was creative! Sepiatone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 The General: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Strelnikov's train Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Shanghai Express: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Leave Her to Heaven: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Strangers on a Train Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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FredCDobbs Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Double Indemnity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FredCDobbs Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jakeem Posted September 15, 2015 Share Posted September 15, 2015 In "Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stone" (2001), Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) meets Ron Weasley (Rupert Grint) and Hermione Granger (Emma Watson) on the train to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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