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Southern # 4501 is back in the news these days. After years on static display, Norfolk Southern and the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum are working put her back on NS rails. Here is 4501 on different excursions prior to retirement.
This is nearly an hour of priceless color film from the 1950s featuring steam in regular service. Featured railroads include the Union Pacific, Southern Pacific, D&RGW, CB&Q and the Great Western. 16mm unedited, silent, film.
Over 100 different steam engines – in just under two hours! This is a steam lover’s steam smorgasbord.
Short Lines and Short Stories is a compilation of five short films featuring the Vermont Rail System, New England Central, Silver Lake Railroad, Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad and the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum.
The winter of 2007-2008 was especially harsh on Vermont’s railroads. More than 98 inches of snow fell in the Green Mountains during that winter – and brought out the snow fighting equipment on the region’s short line railroads.
Join us for a steam excursion on the Conway Scenic Railroad, from North Conway to the Sawyer River bridge, six miles up the track from Bartlett, NH and return.
Follow Pan Am Southern train ED-2 as they switch businesses from East Deerfield to the oxbow (old American Indian name: Nonotuck) in Northampton on the old Boston & Maine’s Connecticut River Division.
Travel the southern half of the old Berkshire Division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad!
A rare mileage trip from Meredith to Concord, NH and return behind some classic ALCo switchers and a GP39-2.
CSX runs the famed B&O main from Point of Rocks, Maryland to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Discover the world of backyard railroading in this two part video featuring two live steam clubs in Massachusetts.
Continuing the Massachusetts Bay Railroad Enthusiasts trip series, take a ride through the granite region of Vermont.
The Griffin Line of the Central New England Railroad was built in the early part of the nineteenth century by the Central New England Railway as part of their main line to Boston.
The only complete printed railroad traffic atlas available. In 92 detailed pages you get all rail lines, traffic density on each line, crew change points, helper districts, tonnage estimates between points and trackage rights over each line. Traffic density for the entire US rail system.
See the entire North American railroad system in an interactive way that no wall map can provide. Mouse over or click on a track segment and you’ll find information including owner, mileage, traffic density, type of signaling and more.
The Indian Railway is the world’s largest passenger service, over 25 Million people – plus 2.5 Million tons of freight – every day.
As a part of the 1948 Chicago Railroad Fair, there was a twice-daily pageant based on the history of American transportation called Wheels-a-Rolling. Significant historic events were related with a railroad background. Hundreds of actors participated and many of these were steam powered!
Visit the CN and CP in BC, in 1998! There is action in Kamloops yards and along Kamloops Lake and the Thompson and Fraser Rivers at locations such as Boston Bar, Savona and the famous twin bridges at Siska and more.
Union Pacific took on the Continental Divide head on! The ruling grade over Sherman Hill, between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming, made the UP the leader in locomotive “super power”. Big Boys and Challengers ruled in steam days, Turbines and Centennials handled right after.
Excursion steam captured in the Lone Star State!
Selkirk Yard is the major classification yard for much of the Northeast. See it up close and personal, with employee access!
Through the magic of vintage film, now digitized, we can see the way things used to be! Where in New England would you look to find an interurban trolley line that interchanged with a major steam railroad, crossed a state line on a toll bridge, hauled freight behind steeplecab freight motors and served several large industries in a small city?
Fantastic color images from 8mm film taken in the Appalachians on the last holdouts of steam railroading!
In the early 1980’s, an ailing New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad was acquired by the growing Delaware Otsego Corporation. New management and a new contract meant new traffic – like stack trains!
Known as the Desert Princess or the Slim Princess, this Southern Pacific line was a rarity: a narrow gauge owned by a major railroad.
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