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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In our third volume of “Building Better Model Railroads” we have a variety of new projects to take on and skill up with.
The Burlington Northern was a 25 year success and a railfan favorite. Go back to the last 13 years of the green machine that was BN with this fantatic video.
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!
Late Steam, Early Diesel. Freight and Passenger.
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 to use low-cost materials to build classic Gondolas, a variety of early-style covered Hoppers, and some great-looking freight carloads.
Learn from, and build along with, an expert. Files included on the DVD that you can print out to follow along with the action.
Andy Payne became a fireman in 1954, then yard hostler, then engineer. His footage is priceless.
Exciting pre-merger era railroad action through California’s Tehachapi Mountains.
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.
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!
Visit 5 classic electric railroads in Canada in the 1950s!
This DVD outlines the history of both of these famous electric rail lines.
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.
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.
Visit “Espee” locations that were in and around Sacramento in the early 1990s. The Southern Pacific trains shown have been selected with care to tell a story and portray how things once were.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Conrail story from 1988 and 1989, along with vintage film from predecessor Penn Central.
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