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It’s one of the roughest, toughest mountain passes, where heavy tonnage trains battle 2.2 percent grades and up to three sets of helpers are needed for the haul.
Donner Pass… the famous name evokes daunting obstacles… and with good reason. Steep grades and seven months a year of winter weather would put any railroad’s resources to the test, but the Southern Pacific was up to the job.
Climbing gently from the tidewater ports near Portland is the Columbia River Gorge. It is a spot of beauty that hosts two railroad: BNSF and Union Pacific. Follow the UP in Volume Two.
Enjoy four hours of nonstop action from dozens of America’s classic steam locomotives. Watch these steam locomotives in excursion service today – and see vintage film of steam in the glory days of steam.
In pre-merger days the Southern Pacific ran a nonstop parade of trains across its Sunset Route and one of the most scenic stretches was the Lordsburg District between Tucson, Arizona and Lordsburg, New Mexico.
Explore San Francisco’s South Bay using San Jose as our hub. Amtrak, Caltrain, Altamont Commuter Express (ACE), Union Pacific, BNSF, and several tourist railroads all operate here.
Experience The Milwaukee Road of the early 1970s as Pentrex takes you on a three-volume video adventure along the CMStP&P’s Rocky Mountain Division!
Pentrex takes you where few have ventured: deep into the inner plant and strip mines of LTV Mining Company’s Minnesota operation as it existed in the early 1990s.
Visit the southern half of the Illinois Central Railroad as it existed in 1996 for an eye-opening tour of discovery. The secrets of the IC unfold as our travels take you from Fulton, Kentucky to New Orleans.
Historic Hot Spots are etched in the minds of those who were there firsthand and revered by those who wish they had been. Here we highlight a few in the transition time of American railroading.
For over 40 years, Anthony DeRosa railfanned the Great Northern Railway system, filming its operations from Seattle to Lake Superior and capturing the essence of a once-powerful and always popular railway.
The Durango & Silverton offers one of the most spectacular train rides in North America. Steep grades, sharp curves, narrow ledges, and perilous chasms are the hallmarks of this popular narrow gauge tourist railroad.
From headwaters in Canada, the Columbia River flows over twelve hundred miles to the Pacific Ocean and for many of those miles it marks the boundary between the states of Washington and Oregon.
Experience the Auto Train – one of the most unusual trains on the entire Amtrak system. Passengers on this train not only bring their luggage, they bring their personal vehicles.
To an Alcophile, there’s nothing sweeter than the wheezing, whistling, barking sound produced by a smoke-belching, burbling Alco diesel. Volume One.
Here is the story of a truly momentous undertaking involving a truly historic steam locomotive. Then in December 1991 former AT&SF steam locomotive #3751 returned to the Santa Fe mainline. Now 2 Discs in 1 case, saving you money.
Excitement and anticipation were in the air on September 14, 1993 when engineer Steve Sandberg eased newly restored Milwaukee Road steam locomotive #261 back to life in Minneapolis.
The San Francisco Bay Area’s own steam engine, fully restored Southern Pacific 2472, on the journey from San Jose to Los Angeles and back.
This edition of Pentrex’s popular “Best of” series is packed with exciting steam and diesel events recorded throughout the Millennium Year. It features all new footage.
Watch Frisco 1522 lead the Peach Blossom Special to the NRHS National Convention in Atlanta. Traveling from St. Louis, Missouri to Birmingham, Alabama, the powerful 4-8-2 ran on its home rails for the first time in almost 50 years.
Denver’s David Moffat spent his entire fortune building this engineering marvel through the continental divide.
Historic Feather River Canyon between Oroville and Portola, California.
The beautiful scenery of the Pacific Northwest’s Columbia River Gorge is the backdrop for UP’s Portland Subdivision.
Arizona is home to monumental monoliths, grand canyons, petrified forests, and one of the busiest mainline railroads in America.
Double? No. Triple track Main.
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