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Hi Everyone, I sawe someone posted something about railroad movies I dont think its very hard to find a movie with a train in it...But does anyone know a good movie with AMTRAK for more than lets say a hlaf hour or so, The Italian Job has the Coast Starlight for a minute or two and someone mentioned Double Take has Amtrak on the Past posting? But does anyone know a real AMTRAK film?
PS: not too old 1985+ (Superliner Year)
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irish1 Member # 222
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disaster on the coastliner with william shatner is all amtrak. itsa about a hijacked la /sf train. i think it was a made for tv movie. very good for us amtrak fans.
------------------ The Copper Country Limited [Milwaukee Road] and the Peninsula 400 [CNW} still my favorites
Southwest Chief Member # 1227
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Check out Pearl Harbor for a major Amtrak camera slip!
When the train pulls out of New York (really LA Union Station) look out the window for the Cal Zepher car, coupled to it is an Amtrak Genesis in phase III paint( all you can see is the back of the loco but it is very noticable!).
I didn't know there were any Genesis locos out there during WWII, not to mention Amtrak. And how did the Cal Zepher get to New York or actually Los Angeles!
MPALMER Member # 125
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Just caught "The Italian Job" (on an airplane-horrors!!). The train was "supposed to be the Sunset" (it was going to New Orleans) and left mid-day! I wish! In addition to Amtrak there are some UP engines and some LA Metro footage but much of the Metro footage looked like a stage and not the real thing. I can't imagine driving a Mini Cooper off the elevated platform onto the track...ouch!! Even the Blue Line underground ramp on Flower looked fake.
A late 80s movie was "To Live and Die in L.A." which included some scenes looking out of the San Diegan at the industrial scenery in the Vernon or Commerce area...
mrhall53 Member # 1580
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"Witness" has exteriors of a train in Pennsylvania Dutch country, not much from the inside, though. The biggie in that one is the 30th Street Station (?) in Philadelphia.
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