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Join us for a look at the Santa Fe in its final years. Filmed between 1992 and 1995, this program visits the Santa Fe’s eastern end at several locations in Illinois, Missouri and Iowa.The show starts at Edelstein, Illinois, where trains are seen both in town and on the hill east of town. Other locations…
The Illinois Central existed for nearly a century and a half and this program covers the last sixty years from 1938 to the winter of 1998-99, the independent I.C.’s last.
The Illinois Central existed for nearly a century and a half and this program covers the last sixty years from 1938 to the winter of 1998-99, the independent I.C.’s last.
Come along for a look at Conrail’s west end in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. This program was filmed on the former Pennsylvania Railroad line from Terre Haute, Indiana, to St. Louis, Missouri, along with a look at Conrail’s runthrough trains operated over Union Pacific’s former Missouri Pacific route south of St. Elmo, Illinois.br>Locations…
We travel Missouri Pacific territory in Illinois as new owner Union Pacific was taking hold between 1986 and 1988.
Four years after Canadian National swallowed the Illinois Central we travel part of the Mainline of Mid America and look at day to day operations.
Paducah Geeps were plentiful at the beginning of 1990, but by the end of 1991 they were fast disappearing as SD40-2’s from BN were coming online.
As the 1980s came to a close, Norfolk Southern was coming closer to presenting a unified image, but Norfolk & Western and Southern Railway engines were still on the main.
When the Chessie System and the Seaboard System were combined, the new railroad had two routes into East St. Louis: the former Louisville & Nashville line from Louisville and the former Baltimore & Ohio line from Cincinnati. See a variety of traffic pulled by a variety of paint.
This is the Burlington Northern on the former Chicago, Burlington & Quincy line from Centralia to Metropolis, Illinois coal line.
This is the 765 on the Illinois Central. The trips ran between Paducah and Central City, over what is now the Paducah & Louisville Railroad. On September 19 and 20, 1992, restored former Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 made a pair of round trips over the former Kentucky Division of the Illinois Central Railroad. The…
Union Pacific ran its “Great Excursion Adventure” featuring famed 4-8-4 #844 in 2011 with a great deal of fanfare, including a contest where the public could pick the steam engine’s route! Because of its destination of Little Rock the railroad dubbed this “The Little Rock Express”. We see the train running between Kansas City and…
The Chester Sub is Union Pacific’s water level route through southern Illinois. This is the former Missouri Pacific line between Chester and Thebes, Illinois. We visit many of the scenic highlights along the line, including the Thebes bridge and the riverfront trackage in Chester. We visit nearly every town and village along the route, and…
We visit the busiest freight railroad in the world: Union Pacific’s Council Bluffs Subdivision. Join us as we see hot spots such as Gibbon and Grand Island and Bailey Yard.
Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 was on the Wabash mainline from Fort Wayne to St. Louis in 2012 to handle a series of NS employee appreciation specials. With four cameras on the job, this is the most comprehensive coverage of this trip.
Big steam returns to the big curve in 2013: Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 pulled a series of three excursions from Lewistown to Gallitzin, including the assault on the grade west of Altoona and around Horseshoe Curve.
The 1990 National Railway Historical Society convention featured four active mainline steam locomotives: N&W 2-6-6-4 #1218, UP 4-8-4 #844, St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522 and St. Louis Southwestern 4-8-4 #819.
The Missouri Pacific became a part of the Union Pacific in late 1982. But even in the mid and late 80’s, consists of pure blue Missouri Pacific power could still be found.
1990 was a year of change along the Mainline of Mid-America. We see that last months of the double track mainline and the early months of single track operations between Effingham and Cairo in Illinois.
The trains in this program were shot at the end of the ICG’s existence, in the years before the railroad reverted to the Illinois Central name. At that time, there were three ICG paint schemes, and all of them make an appearance.
With some former “Gulf” lines spun off, the renewed IC made a return to the old Illinois Central name, and a new black paint scheme harking back to the days when the Illinois Central was known as the Mainline of Mid America.
This program covers Norfolk Southern early in its existence, with plenty of locomotives painted in the colors of the Southern Railway and Norfolk & Western mixed with newly repainted Norfolk Southern power.
This program examines the formative years of CSX from the end of the Chessie and Seaboard systems in 1985 through CSX’s own image in the early 90’s. We’ll see a lot of early paint.
It’s the late 1980s and locomotives in the black, red and yellow scheme of the recently aborted SPSF merger were abundant along with units in the Santa Fe blue and yellow scheme. In addition, vintage film and photos present a few scenes of the railroad as it was in the 1940s. This program features the…
Newly restored Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 in 1985 made her first appearance of what would be many on the famed New River Train operated out of Huntington, West Virginia. We see 765 up close and then climb aboard for a ride behind steam on the mainline, as the 1944 Lima puts on quite a…
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