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See the last of working CB&Q steam, steam on the Bevier & Southern, and the last C&S steam on the Climax branch and then early ’60s steam excursions on the Burlington. Great film!
Great action on two famous grades. On the former Pennsy Middle Division. which includes Horseshoe Curve. Sand Patch, on the former B&O, is where we catch CSX action.
See a wide variety of action filmed during several journeys across the state as we visit several hot spots – and even see the last ride of an Amtrak engineer before his retirement.
The “Then and Now” series takes a look at the same railroad or locations with vintage film or video and then contrasting the “then” footage with modern “now” footage. In this series entry we look at thirty years on a stretch of railroad in deep southern Illinois: the joint Union Pacific and BNSF line primarily used by coal traffic over the hill at Goreville, Illinois.
The “Then and Now” series takes a look at the same railroad or locations with vintage film or video and then contrasting the “then” footage with modern “now” footage. In this series entry we look at the narrow-gauge lines of the Denver, Rio Grande & Western from the second World War to today’s operations on the Cumbres & Toltec and Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge railroads. This is a 2-disc set.
Come along for a look at the only steam locomotive never retired by a Class I railroad in the U.S., Union Pacific 4-8-4 #844. Our program begins with a look at vintage Union Pacific passenger power, and the 800 series 4-8-4s in their prime in the forties and fifties. Following steam’s retirement, the very last…
Steam safari 2021. Action in six states.
Big Boy on Missouri Pacific rails in Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois.
Come along for a look at change over the decades at a southern Illinois hotspot that sees three mainlines funnel through downtown in this two-disc set.
Join us for a visit to a popular Chicago area hot spot as it was in July, 1993.
Crawford Hill is well known as the toughest railroad grade in the state of Nebraska. Located on the Butte Subdivision, the route over Crawford Hill was once a quiet backwater of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system. Today, it is a heavy duty piece of railroad. Beginning in the early 70s, the line became one…
Two hours of what was the biggest steam on the rails when it ran.
American Railroading, from the 1930s through the 1950s. 90% in color.
Two hours of what was the biggest steam on the rails when it ran.
Just before and first years after the creation of BNSF, as the railroad began to find its identity.
We look back at St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522 on the mainline with freight cars in tow in 1991 and 1992. The first segment covers a pair of break-in runs in October, 1991. The locomotive suffered a mechanical failure in 1990 when the axle bearings on the pilot truck overheated. Attempts to repair…
The merger era on Union Pacific continues with this colorful look.
Crawford Hill is well known as the toughest railroad grade in the state of Nebraska. Located on the Butte Subdivision, the route over Crawford Hill was once a quiet backwater of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system. Today, it is a heavy duty piece of railroad. Beginning in the early 70s, the line became one…
The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum held its annual Rail Fest the weekend of September 7th and 8th, 2013. As part of the festivities, restored Southern Railway 2-8-0 #630 took to the former Southern line to Knoxville with a series of round trips to Cleveland, Tennessee. The four 42 mile round trips featured the locomotive running…
Come along as we visit six operating steam locomotives and an operating locomotive crane. Locomotives vary in size from a 2-8-0 to a 4-8-8-4. Our show starts on the Iowa Interstate as 2-10-2 #6988 makes a visit to Illinois to pull a series of trips to benefit first responders. The weather varied from sunny to…
1862 was a year of highs and lows in American history. The country was in the middle of a civil war, and one of the bloodiest battles of that war took place in April at Shiloh, Tennessee; near the Mississippi border. That same year, a stroke of President Abraham Lincoln’s pen created the Union Pacific Railroad as one of two companies to build the first transcontinental railroad.
The biggest railroading event of 2011 was in July, 2011, in Rock Island, Illinois.
The Rio Grande Scenic Railroad has joined the ranks of tourist railroads operating steam power over former Denver & Rio Grande Western in southern Colorado. Unlike the more established operations that run on the former Rio Grande narrow gauge lines, the Rio Grande Scenic runs standard gauge trains.br>Based in Alamosa, Colorado, trains run over La…
When you think of all of the steam locomotives that were built in the U.S., the ranks of survivors are thin; even more so for operable examples. So what would the odds be that a one-of-a-kind locomotive built for a small logging operation not only survive, but operate in the Twenty-First Century? Not good. But…
2014 marked the return to steam of one of the most famous steam locomotives in the world: Southern Railway Mikado #4501.
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