This program covers the years 1964-1979 along the former Nickel Plate Road from Buffalo to Ft. Wayne (New Haven). Filmed by N&W employee Edward Durnwald, this program is a diesel fan’s Dream. Not only are the varied lash-ups of EMD, Alco and GE units nice, but the many paint schemes and one-of-a-kind units must be seen to be believed.

We see the NKP from 1950 to 1964, beginning in its hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. The action then moves to southeastern Ohio on the former Wheeling and Lake Erie in the Coshocton and Adena areas, before ending up at Conneaut, Ohio, with a cab ride side trip to Buffalo. Vintage steam and diesel.

Vignettes of the Milwaukee Road covers this colorful railroad from Chicago, through its hometown of Milwaukee to St. Paul. Along the way, you’ll see lightning fast passenger trains with skytop observation cars, pulled by E- and F-units, freights behind Fs and GP40s, locals behind ALCo RS units, and more.

Volume 2 in the CNJ series shows the CNJ in the turbulent 1960s, from Jersey City, NJ to Bethlehem, PA. The CNJs multiple track mainline, used by parent company Baltimore and Ohio and sister company Reading is featured being utilized by all three companies in Jersey City, Communipaw, Elizabethport, Elizabeth, Aldene, Cranford, Plainfield, Middlesex, and Bound Brook.

This program covers the years 1948 to 1963 and features the steam and diesel power of that era. Beginning near Jersey City, locations visited include High Bridge, Green Pond, Easton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Mauch Chunk, Glen Onoko, Ashley, Wilkes-Barre, and more. Featured motive power ranges from Camelback switchers to SD35s, and includes Pacifics, Babyfaces, Trainmasters, RSs, Geeps, and Fs.

Part 2 of the EL series picks up where Part 1 left off and covers the years 1970 to 1976. We’ll see EL, Penn Central, Chessie System and Norfolk and Western action at AC Tower and get a look at the Marion Humpyard, a trip down the Dayton Branch, and east of Marion to Galion and Mansfield.

Tour George Washington’s Railroad from The Mines to The Lakes during the 1950s and 60s. See the last of steam and 1st and 2nd generation diesels.

This is a time of transition for the B&O: Steam to diesel, first generation to second generation diesel and from the 1950s to the 1960s. Rare film gives us a peek at that exciting time.

Watch rare film from the 1940s and 1950s of B&O steam, much of it on Sand Patch Grade. Mostly color, some 1940s film is in B&W.

It’s the 1970’s era of the BN in Washington and Montana, as well as pre-merger views of the Burlington, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern with pre-merger CB&Q, NP and GN in the Twin Cities, Montana and Nebraska.

It’s the final 6 years of the BN, from 1990 to 1996, as seen from five major locations around the system. The Chicago area at Highlands and LaGrange, at Birmingham, Missouri, near Kansas City, then along the old Great Northern in the Minot area and in the Sandhills of Nebraska, and finally along the former CB&Q at Ottumwa and Mt Pleasant, Iowa.

Here is the final four years of the BN before its inclusion into BNSF. We focus on three major locations around the system, in the St Paul area at Newport, Hoffman Ave and Westminster, then along the old Northern Pacific in the Valley City, North Dakota area, and finally along the former CB&Q at Bushnell, Illinois.

Part 2 of Clear Block’s three part series on the Soo follows the original mainline west of the Twin Cities to Portal, North Dakota and Noyes, Minnesota. This line taps the rich farm lands of this area.

Volume 1 of this 3 volume look at the Soo covers the former Milwaukee Road racetrack from Chicago to Milwaukee and on to the Twin Cities.

Climb on board Conrail’s largest locomotive – the EMD SD80MAC – and learn what made this locomotive so revolutionary!