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With “Steam In The 90s, Part 2”, we head West with 5 different engines. We begin in Iowa at the Boone & Scenic Valley Railroad which operated a new engine built in China, a JS Class 2-8-2. This has a number plate of JS8419. We were shooting for the America By Rail video in 1994,…
So much steam! Including Strasburg Rail Road #475 (Ex-N&W). We see #475 in station shots and several trackside runbys, plus being serviced. Our next stop is in Sugar Creek, Ohio, for the Ohio Central Railroad and OC #1551. A tourist train operated the 5 miles to Baltic and back. 1551 is an ex-Canadian National 4-6-0….
We enjoy steam scenes such as start-ups, Cincinnati Union Terminal departures and the engine facility where local railroads kept their power. We’ll also see the freight yard near Clare. Scenes at Batavia include stopping, starting, and blowing through without stopping! We even see the trains catching mail on the fly from the RPO car. Speaking…
GN, NP, Great Western, SP, UP, and a steam-led California Zephyr!
Steam, steam and more steam! Burlington 4-8-4’s and 2-8-2’s, Chicago and Northwestern 4-6-2’s mainly around Chicago, Grand Trunk Western 4-6-2’s, 2-8-2’s, and 4-8-4’s. Includes a nice 3 steam engine meet at Durand. Illinois Central is included with a parade of 2-10-2’s and 4-8-2’s on mainline freight trains plus a switcher. One of the longer segments…
Rio Grande 2-8-2 #483 leads on a October 1961 trip from Alamosa traveling through fall color. Then it’s two K-28 class engines on the Silverton Line, with the engines split for the high bridge. A helper is used on the return trip from Chama to Cumbres. Much of this is riding footage In Oregon and…
Eastern Steam Trips is a collection of special trains operated during the 1950s and 1960s with engines running on their original rails. There is both trackside, and riding footage here and a variety of subjects. On the Baltimore and Ohio there are two excursions, with the first being 4-8-2 #701 on a trip from Dayton…
Rare B&O steam power footage between 1954 and 1958, the last years of B&O Steam operations. Visit the big passenger stations still bringing in plenty of passengers, and the yards and service areas where these beasts lived when not on the mainline.
You are in the cab of a steam engine! Actually, several steam engines! There is a brief set-up narration for each engine, then the cab ride itself is audio of the steam engine and crew only, so you experience it the way we did when it was shot. The first segment with 4-6-0 #1551 was…
This visit to Union Pacific territory is from two visits in 1995 and 1999. In 1995 we explore a few scenes at Creston, Wyoming, the crest of the Continental Divide. Then the next day we get lucky and find the last Centennial Number 6936 on a freight from Denver to North Platte. We chase it…
Three steam engines running on the mainline, with not a diesel in sight.
Narrow gauge 2-8-0 #315 was built for the Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad in 1875, later became Rio Grande 425, then D&RGW 315. It finished service as the Durango Switcher in 1949, and now runs for the Durango & Silverton!
This is a quality show with 16mm original films expertly transferred to video for your viewing pleasure. There is a wealth of material here with both riding and trackside views between 1954 and the early 1970’s. This covers freight and passenger trains on the 4th Division of the Denver and Rio Grande Western between 1954…
See Alamosa to Chama, Chama to Durango, the line to Farmington, and of course the Silverton Branch. The video covers mostly freight operations and some mixed trains between the late 1940’s right up to 1968. Rio Grande ran steam right through 1968 being the last class 1 railroad to operate steam in regular service. The…
Travel to New Mexico and Colorado and see passenger train operations on the Denver and Rio Grande Western’s narrow gauge between 1947 and 1966. First we see rare footage of the San Juan that was the daily regular train from Alamosa to Durango. We see both onboard and some trackside views of this train that…
4014 is the largest operational steam locomotive in the world. The now famous Big Boy class of 4-8-8-4’s were world-renowned, and folks came from around the world to see this one operating for the first time in nearly 60 years. This video record features the run from Cheyenne to Ogden. We begin with the first…
Prince Rupert is on the west coast of British Columbia and is somewhat remote. Wood products and fishing are the two main industries, and there is a small rail yard on the Canadian National. We start with afternoon switching with a rebuilt GP9 in the yard adjacent to the station and the water. Besides switching…
Deshler, Ohio is a CSX hotspot with a double-track main west to Chicago, and a diamond with the north-south line between Toledo and Cincinnati. With the amount of action, you can’t make too many trips to Deshler!
Enjoy a dawn and early morning chase of double headed 15AR class 4-8-2’s on a passenger train on the Stormberg to Rosmead line. Visit the famous De Aar to Kimberley line and see solid action of class 25NC 4-8-4’s, and make a visit to the De Aar Shed to see a group of engines, and…
If you are into aircraft, then you like P-51 Mustangs. These were the best fighter planes the allied air forces used during World War 2.
This World War Two aircraft was built as a scout/dive bomber, thus the designation SBD Dauntless.
While there is a lot of Rio Grande Narrow Gauge film, Rio Grande Standard Gauge Steam is harder to come by. 1956 was the final year for standard gauge steam through the Rockies of Colorado and Utah on the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. This bridge railroad handled freight and passengers mainly between Denver…
Dipping into our archives for a variety of locations and trains over several years.
Vintage planes, not vintage film. The clarity of today’s technology with the beauty of yesterday’s airplanes.
A collection of various newsreels and military films, all vintage film with sound.
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