Southern Pacific Steam Variety

SKU: DVD-GSVP-SPSV
(2 customer reviews)

$24.95

Southern Pacific had a great variety of locomotives and this show covers from the 1930’s to the end of steam in the late 1950’s.

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Producer

Greg Scholl Video Productions

Run Time

56 minutes

Narration

Yes

Shrink Wrap

Yes, Brand New

Technical Details

No Region Code

Our SP Steam show begins with 1930’s black and white footage in the Tehachapi range which includes riding in the cab of a cab forward, number 4100. Then we enjoy some color and black and white footage of ferries in the San Francisco Bay then ride the famous Coast Daylight from Los Angeles toward San Francisco, including some meets, and a helper over Cuesta Grade. We move to the Sierra Nevada and see mainly Cab Forwards in pusher service with Black Widow F-units up front. There is a wide variety of action in the Bay Area including Oakland, Oakland Mole Station, West Oakland diamond, engine service area, and San Francisco, where we ride a train to Los Gatos, and see other action. At West Oakland Roundhouse we see the now famous GS4 4-8-4 number 4449 in “Warbaby” black livery without the skirts. The Siskiyou Line which splits from the mainline at Black Butte and we ride trains 327 and 328 in this mountain region. Our final segment is a parade of trains and transportation for the celebration opening the Los Angeles Union Passenger Station in 1939. There are Southern Pacific, Union Pacific and Santa Fe locomotives.

2 reviews for Southern Pacific Steam Variety

  1. Mwdonoughue

    This DVD documents many different types of SP steam in regular service, along with some ferry boats and a parade to celebrate the opening of the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in 1939.

  2. Ricky

    This 2013 DVD features some well done films by the Shattock boys. First there is a 1930’s black and white segment onboard cab forward 4100, as well as some color shots on tehatchapi grade which were eventually reused from the Vintage Rail Journey DVD from 2010. The next black and white segment even though the majority of this program is steam railroading, there is some long gone but not forgotten ferry boats as well as a look at a SP GS-2 locomotive. The next segment is a ride on the northbound coast daylight, as the color scenes were shot 6-7 coaches behind the unidentified 4-8-4. But at San Luis obispo, it switched to black and white as an unidentified 2-10-2 helps the daylight up Cuesta grade. At Santa Barbara, we not only got off the train, but did however got back into color. Next is a montage on Donner Pass with cab forward helpers in pusher service. Plus riding the Siskiyou line from Dunsmuir to Grant’s Pass with 3249, and again on the return trip. As well as a montage on the bay area, with some Santa fe steamers in cameo appearances plus the sole surviving daylight steamer 4449 in black paint with a one shot look from “SP 4449 The Daylight” from 1989. A sad montage of dead engines facing their final days of their lives are also shown, with re-used clips from the “SP Steam Fantrips” program. We finally close the program with the grand opening of LAUPT in 1939. as well as some black & white quickies of some cab forwards. John Edward Hingsbergen did some a-ok narration as well as some fine music by Gene Michael productions.

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