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From: simon@biomed.UUCP (Simon Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: Railroad Movies
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Date: Wed, 22-Jan-86 15:11:49 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 22 15:11:49 1986
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My railroad Oscars go to : "The Train". Burt Lancaster in a WW2 movie about
the French Resistance foiling (successfully) Nazi attempts to move valuable
paintings out of France by train. Also, the Czech film "Closely Observed
Trains" (Milos Forman ?).

	Does anyone remember the English (1950's) Ealing Studios comedy
"The Ladykillers", with Alec Guinness? This has several shots of the
main line from London to Edinburgh just outside King's Cross station in
my native London, and I seem to remember that a critical part of the
plot was the frequent appearance of clouds of smoke from passing
locomotives which stopped various attempts at murderous wrong-doings.
There were no diesels on that line till 1959 or so ...

	Simon Rosenthal
	Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston MA.
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