{"id":6343,"date":"2010-11-13T12:17:43","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T16:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=6343"},"modified":"2010-11-13T12:17:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T16:17:43","slug":"train-movies-and-movies-with-trains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/11\/13\/train-movies-and-movies-with-trains\/","title":{"rendered":"Train movies, and movies with trains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Liebenson at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armchaircommentary.com\/2010\/11\/train-movies.html\" target=\"_blank\">Armchair Commentary<\/a> has a large (but probably not complete) list of films about or featuring trains:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance,&#8221; Paul Simon sings, &#8220;Everybody thinks it&#8217;s true.&#8221; There&#8217;s nothing truer. Nothing pierces the heart like a lonesome train whistle. Nothing holds the promise of mystery, romance, and adventure like a train bound for somewhere. That thundering locomotive in the kick-ass trailer for <em>Unstoppable<\/em> looks like it&#8217;s bound for trouble. While waiting to see if Denzel Washington and Chris Pine can avert disasters in their path, let&#8217;s take a scenic journey aboard some of the most memorable movies in which trains played scene-stealing roles. (<em>The Polar Express<\/em> is not on this list. Those dead-eyed children give me the creeps). <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>H\/T to Jeff Shultz for the link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Liebenson at Armchair Commentary has a large (but probably not complete) list of films about or featuring trains: &#8220;Everybody loves the sound of a train in the distance,&#8221; Paul Simon sings, &#8220;Everybody thinks it&#8217;s true.&#8221; There&#8217;s nothing truer. Nothing pierces the heart like a lonesome train whistle. Nothing holds the promise of mystery, romance, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,237,73],"tags":[122],"class_list":["post-6343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-railways","category-randomness","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-1Ej","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6345,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions\/6345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}