The second volume of this series features the B&O’s finest steam. From rare 1954 film footage we see steam powering passenger trains on the West End between Grafton, West Virginia and Cumberland, Maryland. We also steam at the head end of freights over Sand Patch Grade and coal trains on the old Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh near Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

Featuring the color film Karl Walters, Vignettes of the Baltimore and Ohio, Volume 1 documents Karl’s penchant for branch lines and smaller steam locomotives. Karl was trackside during the transition years on the B&O to film steam engine classics and the newest diesels.

It’s the 1970’s era of the BN in Washington and Montana, as well as pre-merger views of the Burlington, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern with pre-merger CB&Q, NP and GN in the Twin Cities, Montana and Nebraska.

The Santa Fe Railroad along the Santa Fe trail.

Volume 3 wraps up the Clear Block series by following the Soo Lines former Milwaukee Road lines from Kansas City to Chicago and Terre Haute, Indiana to Louisville, Kentucky.

Part 2 of Clear Block’s three part series on the Soo follows the original mainline west of the Twin Cities to Portal, North Dakota and Noyes, Minnesota. This line taps the rich farm lands of this area.

In Part 2 we follow the KCS’s Louisiana and Arkansas route from Dallas and Ft Worth to New Orleans, and its newest acquisition, the Gateway Western, from Kansas City to East St Louis.

Join us on a tour of the North-South mainline of the Kansas City Southern, from KC to the Gulf.

We cover the former Monon and Chicago and Eastern Illinois lines in the Hoosier State. CSX runs on the former C&EI Rileysburg to Evansville and the old Monon from Dyer to Crawfordsville and Bedford to New Albany.

Clear Block wraps up its look at the GTW with in Detroit area – from Andersonville, north of Pontiac on the GT Holly Sub, to Monroe.

Part 5 of the comprehensive 1990s GTW series features the former Detroit Toledo Shoreline Route from Delray Tower in Detroit to Lang Yard in Toledo.

Watch the GTW on the former Detroit Toledo and Ironton Railroad from Springfield, Ohio north to Flat Rock Yard, on Detroit’s south side. Shot over a 5-year period, we see a detailed look at GT and Indiana and Ohio trains from trackside and onboard a passenger special.

See the Grand Trunk in the 1990s from its western terminus in Chicago to Battle Creek, Michigan.

Climb on board a 3-unit lash-up of ALCo Centuries and ride the second unit (Second unit?? Yes!! That’s the BEST place to record that Great Alco Sound!) on D-LS Portland Turn from Scranton to the NS interchange at Slateford Junction in Pennsylvania.

Ride in the cab of CSX GE AC6000 unit 680 as we make a non-stop run on Intermodal train Q-161 from Willard, Ohio to Garrett, Indiana. This is 130 miles of former Conrail and B&O main line.