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Peter Bowler said:
Another film to add to this list, titled "Clockers", released in 1995. The film was a depressing story of ghetto youth, violence, and escape. I believe it was a Spike Lee film.
The protagonist is a ghetto youth with never ending troubles. He happens to escape his grim reality by playing with a Lionel layout in his bedroom.

The AMTRAK connection comes at the end, when things collapse in on the boy so completely that he must flee. A theme that appears in the film is his obsession to escape his life, and he fantasizes about escaping by means of a long, one way trip on AMTRAK. Ultimately, he gets his wish.

FIlm is violent, dark, unrelenting look at a harsh life style. People either love it for what it is or hate it for the same reason.
When I saw this description, another film came to mind - "Hurricane Streets" (1997, MGM). The last five to ten minutes feature the main character and his girlfriend "running away" on an Amtrak train out of New York Penn Station. The movie closes with the two characters in a Viewliner deluxe sleeper.
 
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