In the 1995 film, "MONEY TRAIN" (starring Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes), the action was focused around the New York subway system. Ironically, most of those "New York" subway scenes were actually filmed right here in Los Angeles.

Columbia Pictures built an enormous outdoor set (3,000 feet long, 20 feet high, and 60 feet across) in downtown, over four existing Southern Pacific train tracks, just off North Broadway, near the north end of Chinatown. Inside this $4.5 million wooden box, they built replicas of three New York subway stations, then retrofitted actual subway cars with Chevy engines so they could go from zero to 40 m.p.h. in only 400 feet, enabling the producers to shoot scenes of the trains racing and crashing, fires in tunnels, and people jumping from one speeding train to another. *
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There is a dramatic scene in the 1995 movie "OUTBREAK" where Dustin Hoffman (trying to stop a deadly virus) jumps from a helicopter onto the deck of a Korean cargo ship; crew members of the ship have recently smuggled a virus-infected monkey into the country. Aboard ship, he discovers the bloody remains of a crew member who has died from the horrible disease.

That scene was actually shot aboard the S.S. Lane Victory, a historic WW2 merchant marine ship which is now permanently docked at Pier 94 at the Los Angeles Harbor in San Pedro (under the Vincent Thomas Bridge - near the Cruise center.)

The Lane Victory was also was used for the 1999 NBC TV movie, "MUTINY," produced by Morgan Freeman (who was also in "Outbreak.") And the ship's wake was used in the movie "Titanic"!

(The Lane Victory is now open for public tours.)
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Speaking of "OUTBREAK," the hospital scenes in that suspense film were shot at the Huntington Memorial Hospital, 100 Congress Street, Pasadena. [Buy the Movie.]