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Here's a fun thread, list your favorite train movie, and line from the movie.....emperor of the north, when he says......any tramp sets foot on my train. I hold him out and shake em to death like a snake..lol

Runaway train
“And your gonna clean that itty bitty spot and if you can do that, you can do anything”
Jon Voight

Von Ryan's Express! Awesome steam trains!

David

"Highballing through the yard. Busting through switches. Never heard of such a thing"
Emperor Of The North.
Another favorite would be Danger Lights.

October Sky. Good movie, good story (though embellished quite a bit), and several shots of Southern 4501 pulling coal hoppers. For the movie it had Norfolk and Western markings on it. There was even a cameo with O. Winston Link as the locomotive engineer at one point in the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi1WG_9L0mI

The (First) Great Train Robbery with Sean Connery and Donald Sutherland.

"No respectable gentleman is THAT respectable."

See also:
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"The Train" with Burt Lancaster. Great train shots. No quote sticks out for me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Hospitality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRNObtP_Fgo

GREAT RR SCENES!

Even some original Rail Fans!

Titfield Thunderbolt Great British comedy.

Let's not forget three classics:
- The General, with Buster Keaton (1926).
- Union Pacific, with Barbara Stanwyck and Joel McCrea and directed by Cecil B. DeMille (1939 — perhaps the greatest year in film production history)
- The Great Locomotive Chase, with Fess Parker. Filmed in Cinemascope (1956).

Fred_V wrote: ↑Thu Feb 14, 2019 9:18 am "The Train" with Burt Lancaster. Great train shots. No quote sticks out for me.

I guess the quote for this movie would be “ten francs is ten francs!” (A coin was used to sabotage the oil flow to the rod bearing to delay the trainload of art.)