1968 scenes contrast with NS and CSX modern trains: Chemicals, Grain, Containers… and, yes, still some coal. Local freights and Amtrak’s “Cardinal” offer a change of pace. Between trains, life-long Kenova native Tim Hensley helps bring the past to life, and even takes us across the big bridge -in the cab of J #611!

Journey aboard a private train along 3,000 wildly diverse miles in norhtern Mexico.

See the Chihuahua Railway, Southern Pacific of Mexico and Sonora-Baja California Railway! This is a new set, a 3 show combo – with all the excitement and scenery and rail action that comes with being three shows!

Two Dawn-to-Dusk vigils! The tiny village of Quantico, Virginia offers variety along the Potomac with CSX, Amtrak, and Virginia Railway Express. Then it’s a very busy CSX crossroads at Greenwich, Ohio. Two days and 100+ trains!

These amazing scenes were filmed between 1989 and 2003 during a series of tours by Bill Alborough of England. Rail action includes modern electrics, which dominate over 80% of the network, along with streetcars, narrow gauge steam and diesel locomotives of various types and eras.

In a Dawn to Dusk day we see 50 trains, many railfans and totality at Berea.

It’s a long day for the camera guy, but you don’t have to find them time and brave the weather to see all cars of most trains! We see something for everyone this day: coal, steel, auto, and containers, chemical and general manifest freight trains. Also visit the station and AC Tower.

More trains than ever before roll though this central Nebraska city. Union Pacific’s transcontinental mainline passes beneath BNSF close to downtown.

California Zephyr quickly earned fame as “the most talked about train in America”. It operated through the Colorado Rockies and Feather River Canyon – some of the most beautiful scenery in the US West.

GM&O action between 1960 and 1965 includes the Kansas City Bloomington Motor Car; FAs at Corinth, MS; the only E8 and F7A on the roster; and mail pick up at 80 per in Virden, IL. Then, there’s Rock – some of their FAs rode on EMD trucks! Silvis Shops power includes Centercab Whitcombs and a leased UP Alco S4. An F2 on freight and E3 heading the “Golden State” are two examples of why this road has such appeal to the student of rare diesels.

Both regular operation and charters are part of our North American tour, which spans the late 1930s to 1970 along with a few postscript items bridging the new century. This was truly a different time in America, a time when you grabbed your lunch pail and caught the street car a block or two from your home and rode to work with ease and style. Some of America’s largest cities continue to operate trolley lines, trams or light rail. A few are even using PCC cars! You can still see these proud old cars running in Boston (Mattapan Line), Kenosha, Philadelphia, San Diego and San Francisco (the F Line, or Market Line). If you live in, or go to, one of those cities, you can ride the past – today!

20 years after Conrail. Covers current operators, stations, and shops, principal branches, with scenes from E-L years – we update the EL to 1999.

A Double Feature! See 20 minutes of Pennsylvania Railroad heritage from 1948 to 1952 and then the modern Curve, PC, Conrail, NS and Amtrak.