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In 1991, Pentrex traveled across the country to capture the highlights of the year’s railroading events to grab two hours of nonstop adventure featuring 8 different railroad subjects.
1990 was an exciting year in American Railroading. Pentrex crews traveled the nation to capture the railroading events and subjects worthy of inclusion in the “Best of” series.
Pentrex traveled the country in 1989, capturing the railroading highlights of the year. The result is a two-hour show filled with great steam and diesel action.
There was action-packed railroading in 1988 – and Pentrex brings it to you! This two hour look at 1988 features railroading in the USA, Canada and Mexico.
1985 was an exciting year of railroading, from steam excursions to the new EMD SD60 Demonstrator unit. This is a special presentation of many of the events that took place.
Follow steam locomotive Frisco 1522 on an historic journey through Texas as she pulls a long train – the Burlington Northern Santa Fe Employee Appreciation Special.
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.
As a part of the 1948 Chicago Railroad Fair, there was a twice-daily pageant based on the history of American transportation called Wheels-a-Rolling. Significant historic events were related with a railroad background. Hundreds of actors participated and many of these were steam powered!
Visit the CN and CP in BC, in 1998! There is action in Kamloops yards and along Kamloops Lake and the Thompson and Fraser Rivers at locations such as Boston Bar, Savona and the famous twin bridges at Siska and more.
Union Pacific took on the Continental Divide head on! The ruling grade over Sherman Hill, between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming, made the UP the leader in locomotive “super power”. Big Boys and Challengers ruled in steam days, Turbines and Centennials handled right after.
Excursion steam captured in the Lone Star State!
Selkirk Yard is the major classification yard for much of the Northeast. See it up close and personal, with employee access!
Through the magic of vintage film, now digitized, we can see the way things used to be! Where in New England would you look to find an interurban trolley line that interchanged with a major steam railroad, crossed a state line on a toll bridge, hauled freight behind steeplecab freight motors and served several large industries in a small city?
Fantastic color images from 8mm film taken in the Appalachians on the last holdouts of steam railroading!
In the early 1980’s, an ailing New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad was acquired by the growing Delaware Otsego Corporation. New management and a new contract meant new traffic – like stack trains!
Known as the Desert Princess or the Slim Princess, this Southern Pacific line was a rarity: a narrow gauge owned by a major railroad.
Fans of the Southern Pacific know their favorite railroad had a lot to offer – and this DVD proves it! This program is made up of five vintage films about the SP.
Coal was discovered on Cape Breton, in Nova Scotia, in the 1800s. To haul their product, the coal companies constructed a rail line to the Port of Sydney.
Shenandoah Junction, in the panhandle of West Virginia, is a great train watching spot with Norfolk Southern, CSX, Amtrak and MARC trains.
Famed in song and legend, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe is a great railroad. Although now merged with the Burlington Northern to from the giant BNSF railroad, this DVD brings back the Santa Fe during the steam-diesel transition era in Cajon Pass and Sullivan’s Curve.
Until the late sixties, the New Haven Railroad was the dominant force in Southern Connecticut. Then things began to diversify when Penn Central, Amtrak and then Conrail took charge. And then the railroad scene changed even more!
Long before Conrail and now CSX, Albany, New York has long been a congested railroad “hot spot” for freight traffic.
Sit back and watch vintage railroad action on the famous “Joint Line”! The Denver and Rio Grande Western and Santa Fe each had single track mainlines between Denver and Pueblo.
The RF&P was chartered in 1834. It was to run between the Civil War capitals of the South and the North. The railroad evolved into a bridge line, connecting the major lines of the south, such as the ACL, SAL and C&O, with the major carriers in the north, such as the Pennsy and the B&O.
The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad was referred to as the “Burlington Route” – or, to fans, as the “Q”. This program covers the CB&Q and other lines with which it had a relationship – hence the title “Q” Connections.
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Rails in Transition Odyssey, Two Decades, 2 Discs
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Amtrak 50th Anniversary CHALLENGE COIN Limited Edition
1 × $19.95 
Train Action Hot Spots Volume 3: La Grange Rochelle & Owen
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Northland Railroads in the 70s and 80s
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Complete Vignettes of the B&O, 4 Discs, 1 Case
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Grand Trunk, Part 2
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Chicago & Northwestern: This is our Railroad
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Kansas City, Mid 80s & Extra East
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