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Come see heavy mainline action on the New Haven Railroad, along the shore line and its mainline. We get to see steam, diesel and electric locomotives. Included is a 10 minute Black and White section of rare NH steam in the 1940s. The balance is color and features 1950s era material. A variety of locations…
This wonderful video find is from original 16mm film footage shot by Kent Cochrane, a noted WWII Navy combat photographer, who turned his attention to the New Haven after the war.
Take a unique trip over the Denver & Rio Grande Western from Alamosa, Colorado to Durango and Silverton, via Chama, New Mexico in the mid-1950s. Enjoy the 8mm movies of Warren Scholl from a 3-day trip in 1954, and another trip to Colorado in 1956. K-36 2-8-2 #487 handles the train the first day from…
Montana Combo is a great combination of two Montana railroad related subjects. First we see Burlington Northern’s Marias Pass, a 35 minute program shot in 1990 along this former Great Northern line, and then we have a 60 minute program “Montana Rails” which was shot in 2001 on the regional hauler Montana Rail Link (MRL)….
Ride two streamliner trains on the former Rio Grande through the Colorado Rocky Mountains. Ride the famous California Zephyr in a dome car from Denver, then ride the historic “Last Run” of the “Royal Gorge” through the Royal Gorge Canyon for the last time. This concept for this program began with the finding of two…
Another visit to Illinois hot spots, featuring six junctions for a lot of variety. Volume Two.
See a variety of railroads and railroad power in this DVD featuring hot spots in eastern Illinois. First we visit Watseka, which has the old Chicago and Eastern Illinois Mainline going south from Chicago. This line is jointly operated by Union Pacific and CSX, so the double track line sees trains from both railroads, since…
Two shows on one DVD: Great Steam Trains Volume 1 and Great Steam Trains Volume 2. We see four locomotive segments in each program, and a wealth of steam variety. In Volume One we start with a visit to New England and 0-6-0 # 7470 at the Conway Scenic Railroad during fall colors. This railroad…
Washington State’s Mt. Rainier Scenic Railroad is the location of this presentation which features the two rarest types of geared steam locomotives. Heisler #90, a 90-ton, 3-truck locomotive built in 1930 is joined by the newly restored Climax #10. The Climax is ex-Hillcrest Lumber Co. which operated on Vancouver Island, and was the last standard…
Travel to Africa, noted for big game animals, and discover it is also home to some of the largest steam locomotives on the planet! At this time the unique articulated steam locomotives known as “Garratts” still thrived in the country of Zimbabwe, the world’s last stronghold of these interesting locomotives. You’ll see 15th Class 4-6-4…
Take a trip to nine states and one Canadian province in search of historic early diesel locomotives! First generation and some newer diesels are shown in operation, getting the job done, between 1987 and 1989. You’ll see F-Units on freight and Passenger trains, Alco’s on freight, GE 70-ton, GP7s and GP9s and ALCO FPA4s on…
This is a comprehensive look at Deshler: A 2-dvd set in one case with 3 hours of coverage shot over a 4-year span from 2006-2009 covering parts of more than 11 different days! Deshler is located in Northwest Ohio on the busy east-west CSX mainline to Chicago. This is former B&O trackage, and includes a…
This program consists of three rare historical military films related to the invasion of Europe in World War 2. All are black and white sound films professionally transferred to DVD. First is D-Day Convoy, which shows a lot of the preparations of soldiers, and equipment at various locations in England, as well as airborne troops…
A variety of vintage Canadian National, and Canadian Pacific Steam awaits you on this DVD. Most of it this footage is 16mm, from a variety of sources, but there is also a little bit of 8mm shot by Warren Scholl in 1958 of CN 4-8-2 number 6079 in Windsor, Ontario, and some CP commuter steam…
Vintage steam footage on the rarely filmed Colorado and Southern.
By 1959, Canadian steam was being systematically replaced by diesels. The end was near.
We journey to the CP in 1958 for a variety of CN and CP trains, all headed up by steam.
It’s 1957, and big steam still ruled CP and CN rails.
An inside look at this restoration, from the official videographer, with scenes and interviews no else could get! 2 DVDs.
CP’s Kicking Horse Pass was originally a brutal 4.5% grade, the Spiral Tunnels lowered it to 2%.
The Lima-built 2-8-4 looks good and sounds great as it blasts along on former Chesapeake & Ohio trackage.
Canadian National’s transcontinental mainline crosses through some of the most beautiful scenery in the country. West of Jasper, Alberta in Jasper National Park is Yellowhead Pass. The CN crossing of the Rockies. There is a variety of freight traffic on this busy section which splits west of Mt. Robson (Canada’s highest peak) to go southwest…
Here is one of the busiest mainlines in the United States, the 500 miles of former Chicago and Northwestern line from Chicago west to Omaha and Fremont.
The Fraser and Thompson River Canyons in British Columbia.
See the railroad as the engineer does; ride in the cab of a new SD40-2 over Kicking Horse Pass.
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