Glory Machines, Volume 3, Streamlines Steam & Early Diesels
$39.9516mm footage of Chicago and Milwaukee areas in the late 1930s to the 1940s.
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16mm footage of Chicago and Milwaukee areas in the late 1930s to the 1940s.
1950s video with a focus on railroading east of the Mississippi, plus a segment on the Rio Grande narrow gauge.
31 railroads are shown in this wonderful review of railroading from the late 1930’s – early 1950’s.
Thrilling action high speed chase action! Steam from many 1950s railroads, and a couple of traction lines too!
Pennsy Steam 1955-57 with early ’50’s flashbacks and more!
Ever since the early days of railroading, bells and whistles have played an important part in the safe operation of locomotives and trains.
The 1957, Pere Marquette Number 1225 was pulled off the scrap line at Buffalo, Michigan, and taken to the C&O shops to be cosmetically restored.
We’re on the road with the “Awesome A”, N&W 1218, on her initial three-day ferry move from Birmingham, Alabama to Roanoke, Virginia.
“Assault on Asheville” takes us to the incredible STEAM TRIPLE-HEADER assaulting the Blue Ridge Grade east out of Roanoke, Virginia.
Get ready to see some beautiful scenery and exciting train action in this program!
The Norfolk Southern’s Pittsburgh Line is the main artery for NS connecting the Midwest and the East Coast – and that means a lot of action!
Here are the former Illinois Central, Gulf Mobile and Ohio, Elgin Joliet & Eastern and Grand Trunk Western lines.
In volume 5 of the Reading Blue Mountain & Northern, we’ll view freight and passenger operations from May of 1992 to May of 1993.
In Volume 5 of Railfanning the Delaware & Hudson, we’ll railfan the D&H from the early 1970s into the mid-1980s.
Niagara’s, Hudsons, Mohawks, Mikados and more NYC.
In 1988 Illinois Central Gulf dropped the “Gulf” and began a concerted effort to repaint locomotives into what railfans dubbed the “Death Star” scheme. There wasn’t much else on the Mainline of Mid-America by the mid-90s. The new IC was sleek, efficient and profitable – just not as colorful.
The Cincinnati area has many places where fans gather to watch and photograph trains. One of the busiest and a local favorite is Hamilton.
For over one hundred years four separate railroads competed for passenger and freight traffic between the New York City metropolitan area and Chicago – the New York Central, Pennsylvania, Erie, and Baltimore and Ohio.
Head to the former Santa Fe, now BNSF, main line between Chicago and Los Angeles known as “The Transcon”. This is that line West of Galesburg.
CSX to St. Louis and Canadian National’s Chicago to Memphis main, once the main line of the Illinois Central, cross at grade at Effingham. See 24 hours of action.
All the action over 24 hours on one of the busiest segments of track on the whole Norfolk Southern system
24 hours at the busy St. Elmo diamond and the Conrail and Union Pacific’s parallel track there.
Ohio’s Attica Junction in 1996. 24 hours where NS and CSX bang the diamond.
In a state full of hot spots, Rochelle, Illinois is one of the busiest and best known. See 24 hours of action in the fall of 1993 at the railfan park here.
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