Visit the modern Norfolk Southern Railway on historic rails in North Carolina, including the former Southern Railway main between Washington and Atlanta.

In the early 1980s narrow gauge railroads still flourished in Mexico. See it on this DVD.

Sixty years ago, every major city had a mass transportation system that operated on steel rails embedded in its streets and powered by overhead wires.

When CSX and Norfolk Southern bought Conrail and split up Big Blue, NS was left in charge of much of the historical Pennsylvania Railroad lines. Lewistown Pennsylvania is on the main line from Harrisburg to Altoona and Pittsburgh.

The Laurinburg & Southern RR runs from Laurinburg to Johns and from Laurinburg to Raeford. Interchange is with CSX on the former Seaboard Air Line in Laurinburg and the Aberdeen and Rockfish at Raeford.

“Out on the Island” – To New Yorkers, that means “Long Island.” And, unless you want to be stuck in heavy, slow traffic, getting there means riding the Long Island Rail Road. That means riding one of the LIRR’s ubiquitous multiple unit trains, perhaps transferring at Jamaica to a diesel powered train.

Visit Kansas City, the nation’s second busiest rail hub, in the early 1990s. Most of our major railroads run into the city, the names may be changed due to merger, but the trains are still there!

There is a lot of tourist railroading going on in New Hampshire! Two tourist lines are now operated by the same operator on former the Boston and Maine Railroad’s “Concord & Montreal” line through the scenic New Hampshire Lake Region into the White Mountains.

Off the mainline, you never know what you might find. Short lines, small locomotives, light rails and friendlier crews.

B&M, controlled by the Guilford Rail System in the ’80s & ’90s. 2 DVDs, 3 Hours.

The Eastern Tennessee & Western North Carolina was the last active narrow gauge railroad in the Blue Ridge. This DVD is the definitive “Tweetsie” visual experience.

This Conrail line, the former EL mainline, became known as “The Southern Tier”.

New England’s CV just as steam was giving way to diesel, 3 DVDs, 3 Hours.

Shortlines of the 1980s and 1990s in the Carolinas. Maps and Narration.