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See the SP “commutes” on the Peninsula in late steam and early diesel days. Visit the old Third & Townsend Station where the SP Coastline really begins. Don’t miss the FM Train Master era, including the smaller FM H-12-44 switchers in various San Francisco Peninsula yards – such as the extinct Bay Shore Yard. There…
From construction to shut-down, this is Tennessee Pass history. Steep 3% grades and trains with up to 40,000 bellowing horsepower are featured.
Union Pacific ran its “Great Excursion Adventure” featuring famed 4-8-4 #844 in 2011 with a great deal of fanfare, including a contest where the public could pick the steam engine’s route! Because of its destination of Little Rock the railroad dubbed this “The Little Rock Express”. We see the train running between Kansas City and…
The Chester Sub is Union Pacific’s water level route through southern Illinois. This is the former Missouri Pacific line between Chester and Thebes, Illinois. We visit many of the scenic highlights along the line, including the Thebes bridge and the riverfront trackage in Chester. We visit nearly every town and village along the route, and…
We visit the busiest freight railroad in the world: Union Pacific’s Council Bluffs Subdivision. Join us as we see hot spots such as Gibbon and Grand Island and Bailey Yard.
Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 was on the Wabash mainline from Fort Wayne to St. Louis in 2012 to handle a series of NS employee appreciation specials. With four cameras on the job, this is the most comprehensive coverage of this trip.
Big steam returns to the big curve in 2013: Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 pulled a series of three excursions from Lewistown to Gallitzin, including the assault on the grade west of Altoona and around Horseshoe Curve.
The 1990 National Railway Historical Society convention featured four active mainline steam locomotives: N&W 2-6-6-4 #1218, UP 4-8-4 #844, St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522 and St. Louis Southwestern 4-8-4 #819.
The Missouri Pacific became a part of the Union Pacific in late 1982. But even in the mid and late 80’s, consists of pure blue Missouri Pacific power could still be found.
1990 was a year of change along the Mainline of Mid-America. We see that last months of the double track mainline and the early months of single track operations between Effingham and Cairo in Illinois.
The trains in this program were shot at the end of the ICG’s existence, in the years before the railroad reverted to the Illinois Central name. At that time, there were three ICG paint schemes, and all of them make an appearance.
With some former “Gulf” lines spun off, the renewed IC made a return to the old Illinois Central name, and a new black paint scheme harking back to the days when the Illinois Central was known as the Mainline of Mid America.
This program covers Norfolk Southern early in its existence, with plenty of locomotives painted in the colors of the Southern Railway and Norfolk & Western mixed with newly repainted Norfolk Southern power.
This program examines the formative years of CSX from the end of the Chessie and Seaboard systems in 1985 through CSX’s own image in the early 90’s. We’ll see a lot of early paint.
It’s the late 1980s and locomotives in the black, red and yellow scheme of the recently aborted SPSF merger were abundant along with units in the Santa Fe blue and yellow scheme. In addition, vintage film and photos present a few scenes of the railroad as it was in the 1940s. This program features the…
Here is the last railroad to use steam exclusively in freight service in the United States, the Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad. Interviews with one of the railroad’s founders and the current president of the railroad add to the story.
See AND hear Southern Railway’s newly restored 2-8-0 #630. The DVD covers mainline action between Chattanooga and Cleveland, Tennessee. The included CD has 16 tracks of professionally recorded sound. Shake the furniture and wake the neighbors with this one. The 630 put on a heck of a show at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s 2013…
It is not our intent to recreate battle scenes or stories through modern day documentaries. Rather this is what the people on the “Home Front” would have seen during the war. This collection includes 8 Black and White, silent with titled information – exactly as presented to the public during the war. Since the footage…
Western Rails includes a great variety of places and railroads – all west of the Mississippi!
“Western Canada Combo” brings you two outstanding shows shot in western Canada: Scenic Trains of Canada and Scenic Trains of BC Rail.
Enjoy contemporary action with CSX and Amtrak trains at the hot spot locations of Ashland, and Doswell, Virginia -located on the busy former Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad north-south mainline.
“Via F’s In The Rockies” is loaded with the great scenery of Western Canada, and includes scenes of the famous “Canadian” on the original route over Canadian Pacific tracks which includes beautiful Kicking Horse Pass. You will follow two runs of the pre-cut-back Canadian between Field and the Bow Valley in the spring of 1986…
We begin in Cheyenne as 8444 has received its original number 844 (a UP diesel was retired, freeing up the number 844) and is set for a July 1989 outing.
See both steam engines in the Union Pacific’s Steam Program: 4-8-4 #8444 (now #844) and Challenger 4-6-6-4 #3985.
Relive the glory years of steam on the Union Pacific with all new footage in this Volume Two of Union Pacific Steam Classics. There is a wealth of variety of material in this second video. Quality varies, but you can’t go back and shoot it now! We begin with late 1950s coverage of 800 series…
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