This DVD shows 30 hours of action on the UP’s toughest grade – Cima Hill

Come with us as we tour one of Union Pacific’s three helper grades in the Blue Mountains before the age of distributed power and see 24 hours of action on the UP’s main line to the Pacific Northwest.

The small town of Odin, 66 miles east of St. Louis, retains its old time railroad flavor.

“Norfolk Southern’s Fostoria District in 2012” shows over 24 hours of action on Norfolk Southern’s Fostoria District.

The former Santa Fe, now BNSF, route between Chicago and Kansas City has long been known as the Airline.

Norfolk Southern’s Columbus District between the Ohio River port town of Portsmouth and Capitol City Columbus is not the conveyor belt for coal that it was forty years ago, But, as we’ll see, it still handles a lot of coal, and non-coal traffic is growing.

This video shows the trains and operations on the Freight Main Line of Canadian Pacific’s Northeast U.S. Service Area.

The Chicago and Iowa disappeared over a century ago, but its name lives on among railroaders on BNSF’s busy line in northern Illinois.

The trains and operations on five big/little regional railroads in the Midwest in the summer and fall of 2005.

Every train for nearly 32 hours between Geneva, the end of the commuter district, and Nelson, where a former CNW secondary line heads south to St. Louis.

This video gives a look at the trains and operations on the mid-section of the Illinois Central in May of 1998.

This video shows the trains of the Cotton Belt, long part of the SP, on both sides of their hub at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, in Sept. 1996.

This program shows the wide variety of trains and operations.