RailsNW: Train Blog

Here are just a few movies you may remember that feature trains, or just have some great train scenes. ENJOY!

• Polar Express, 2004
  Tom Hanks, Daryl Sabara
• The Station Agent, 2003
  Peter Dinklage, Paul Benjamin
• Planes, Trains and Automobiles, 1997
  Steve Martin, John Candy
• Mission: Impossible, 1996
  Tom Cruise, Jon Voight
• Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, 1995
  Steven Segal, Morris Chestnut
• Narrow Margin, 1990
  Gene Hackman, Anne Archer
• Throw Momma from the Train, 1987
  Danny DeVito, Billy Crystal
• Night Train to Venice, 1986
  Hugh Grant, Malcolm McDowell
• Runaway Train, 1985
  Jon Voight, Eric Roberts
• The First Great Train Robbery, 1979
  Sean Connery, Lesley-Anne Down
• Silver Streak, 1976
  Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder
• Murder on the Orient Express, 1974
  Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman
• The Sting, 1973
  Paul Newman, Robert Redford
• The Train Robbers, 1973
  John Wayne, Ann-Margret
• The French Connection, 1971
  Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider
• Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 1969
  Paul Newman, Robert Redford
• Once Upon a Time in the West, 1969
  Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale
• The Professionals, 1966
  Burt Lancaster, Lee Marvin
• Closely Watched Trains, 1966
  Vaclav Neckar
• Doctor Zhivago, 1965
  Omar Sharif, Julie Christie
• Von Ryan’s Express, 1965
  Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard
• The Train, 1965
  Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield
• A Hard Day’s Night, 1964
  The Beatles
• From Russia With Love, 1963
  Sean Connery, Robert Shaw
• North by Northwest, 1959
  Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
• North West Frontier, 1959
  Lauren Bacall, Kenneth More
• Some Like It Hot, 1959
  Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
• The Bridge on the River Kwai, 1957
  William Holden, Alex Guiness
• The Great Locomotive Chase, 1956
  Fess Parker, Slim Pickens
• Strangers on a Train, 1951
  Farley Granger, Ruth Roman
• The Third Man, 1949
  Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten
• Brief Encounter, 1946
  Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard
• Night Train to Memphis, 1946
  Allan Lane, Roy Acuff
• Lady on a Train, 1945
  Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy
• Night Train to Munich, 1940
  Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood
• The Lady Vanishes, 1938
  Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave
• Twentieth Century, 1934
  John Barrymore, Carole Lombard
• Shanghai Express, 1932
  Marlene Dietrich, Anna May Wong
• Danger Lights, 1930
  Louis Wolheim, Robert Armstrong, Jean Arthur
• The General, 1927
  Buster Keaton