Four big mainline steam locomotives at the 1990 NRHS Convention in St. Louis. Excursions, inbound and outbound runs!

Watch the dramatic action of two big mainline steam engines operating side-by-side as the feature attraction of the 1991 NRHS convention in Huntington, West Virginia.

See a variety of locomotives in action in this program, from big mainline double-headed power to small tourist railroad steam – all over the western USA.

The last years for the Norfolk Southern’s Cincinnati to Portsmouth “Peavine” line. Volume Two.

Watch 611 work hard on the steep grades including Erlanger Hill in Northern Kentucky, plus the grades at Batavia, Peebles, and Seaman on the Cincinnati to Portsmouth Line.

Modern revenue freight trains – pulled by vintage steam! This was when Norfolk Southern’s steam program was running at full steam. See 2-6-6-4 N&W #1218, 4-8-4 N&W Class J #611, 2-8-2 NKP #587 and 4-6-2 L&N #152 – at the head of modern freights!

Vintage steam footage on the rarely filmed Colorado and Southern.

By 1959, Canadian steam was being systematically replaced by diesels. The end was near.

We journey to the CP in 1958 for a variety of CN and CP trains, all headed up by steam.

CP’s Kicking Horse Pass was originally a brutal 4.5% grade, the Spiral Tunnels lowered it to 2%.

The Lima-built 2-8-4 looks good and sounds great as it blasts along on former Chesapeake & Ohio trackage.

See Southern 4501 throughout her career. Including rare film of 4501 working on the Kentucky & Tennessee RR in the early 1960’s.

In her red, orange, and black Daylight paint, SP 4449 makes a run to LA .