Building Better Model Railroads, Volume 3
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.In our third volume of “Building Better Model Railroads” we have a variety of new projects to take on and skill up with.
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Burlington Northern, A Quarter Century, 1983 to 1996
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.The Burlington Northern Railroad was formed out of three large and three smaller roads in 1970. It was a success for 25 years. This DVD brings back all the great BN power and clean cars of those years that led up to the merging with the Santa Fe Railroad to create the BNSF system today!…
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Freight West: SP, WP, UP and Santa Fe 1970s and 80s!
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Do you miss the Santa Fe, SP, WP, and the old version of the UP? This show brings it back with a fine display of older, smoking power… beautiful graffiti-free freight cars and trailers that are railroad owned. Four railroads are covered in the 1970’s and 80’s at all the most scenic locations on beautiful “Kodak” color film with sound!
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Historic SP Around the Greater Bay
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the early 1950s. Many classes of SP steam, diesels and FM Train Masters pulling commutes are shown…
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Building Better Model Railroads, Volume 2
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.In this presentation, we feature models of more freight cars from the 1940s to the 1960s era. Many of these cars remained in use even into 1970. Most of the techniques and ideas used to build these older cars can work well on more modern rolling stock too. In this volume, we will see ways…
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Building Better Model Railroads, Volume 1
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.This DVD features models of the steam to diesel transition era. Our time will mostly be spent outlining building techniques and using various tools and materials that you might be unfamiliar with.br>In this volume, we will see, and build, flatcars, boxcars, and tank car models. Structures modeled include a Fruit to Reefer loading-complex, a rail…
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Rio Grande Narrow Gauge Remembrances
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Andy Payne became a fireman in 1954, then yard hostler, then engineer. His footage is priceless.
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Tehachapi Remembered, Pre-merger Southern Pacific and Santa Fe
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Harvey Laner recorded exciting railroad action through California’s Tehachapi Mountains. This program brings together his best work capturing dramatic sights and sounds of the pre-merger period from 1988 to 1996. It was a time when SP scarlet and gray and Santa Fe war bonnets still dominated these mountains. Harvey narrates the program and describes his…
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Railfanning Cajon and Tehachapi, 1976 to 1993
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Don’t miss UP, Santa Fe and Southern Pacific, on Cajon & Tehachapi together, as they developed locomotive power to combat ever longer trains, faster schedules and heavy grades.
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Midwest Electric Rails
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.This extensive show paints the picture that was the extensive interurban transportation system that, not that long ago, wrapped around lower Lake Michigan, from Milwaukee through Chicago and then to South Bend, Indiana. Excellent documentary!
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Canadian Electric Rails 1950s
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Visit 5 classic electric railroads in Canada in the 1950’s! Brilliant color film of the Canadian people, architecture and trains! Peel back the years and relive the days of what it was like to ride and see the: LONDON AND PORT STANLEY RY NIAGARA ST CATHERINES & TORONTO TORONTO TRANSIT PCC CARS AND SUBWAY FIRST…
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Pacific Electric and Los Angeles Railway (1940-1963)
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.This DVD outlines the history of both of these famous electric rail lines.
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Key System ScrapBook One
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Vintage Key System: The early years of 500s and 600s plus the ferryboat pier! See the Key’s new bridge units in their original, striking, orange and silver splendor. Also we bring supporting scenes of the IER Red Trains, Muni Railway, steam trains and the Key’s small streetcars. Ride and watch beautiful ferryboats shot on some…
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Kansas City Diesel Power Review
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Visit Kansas City and surrounding areas, before all the great mergers of the 90s. See trains from many different roads, with detailed maps and narration.
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Espee Hall of Fame
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Visit “Espee” locations that were in and around Sacramento in the early 1990s. See Elvas and Stockton Junction with the towers that have long ago been removed. Watch hours of great, original Southern Pacific power that has sent to the scrap yard since this material was shot. Learn much of the history of the SP…
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Tehachapi – The SP and Santa Fe era
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Visit Tehachapi from the mid-60s to the mid-90s, plus regional locations Taylor Yard, Barstow Yard, Richmond Yard, Colton Crossing, Cajon Pass and the building of the SP Palmdale cutoff. Pre-merger railroading at its best.
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Hard Coal Roads – What Went Wrong
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.This is a look back in time to the “Anthracite” roads that once made the eastern rail scene more interesting and colorful. These principal roads were the Lehigh Valley, Jersey Central, Reading, D&H and the Erie Lackawanna Railroads.
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Chessie and Seaboard Hall of Fame
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.What happened to some of the railroads you grew up with? Industry mergers are explained, with the history behind big changes in eastern railroading. Maps and graphics put everything into historic and geographic focus.
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Municipal Railway Vintage Scrapbook
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Go back in time to the “Muni” after WWII to the 1980s. See when the “Iron Monsters” ruled Market Street and watch PCC cars of long ago when they were run as double-ended cars.
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Western Pacific Remembered
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Visit the Western Pacific from both sides of the San Francisco Bay down to Niles Jct. and then on the San Jose branch and return to Niles Jct. for a ride through Niles Canyon.
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Conrail Hall of Fame, Conrail from 1976 to 1997
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.This is the 1976 to 1997 story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation, widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in 1976.
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CSX Scrapbook
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Shot primarily during a time of transition for CSX, between 1999 and 2001, as it gobbled up a part of Conrail, but we also are treated to scenes from the 1991 to 1993 time frame.
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Northeast Rails Remembered II
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Revisit the early 1990s and the last years of the D&H and the ushering in of CP Rail to new territory in the United States. This was a very colorful era in the Northeast and dramatic changes were still in effect after the bankruptcy of the old Penn Central. We cover the history of the…
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Mountain Grades of the B&O
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Visit Sand Patch Grade, Cranberry Grade and more. Chessie fans will see lots of “tri-color” power and CSX fans will see the early color schemes and well as CSX liveries from the 1991-era.
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Northeast Rails Remembered
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.The Conrail story from 1988 and 1989, along with vintage film from predecessor Penn Central. See Conrail’s former Reading line as we head through Allentown, Reading and other scenic spots including many small towns and splendid countryside. The scenic Southern Tier on the former Erie mainline brings lots of action with Conrail, NYS&W and Delaware…
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