The western shore of the upper Mississippi River has Canadian Pacific’s River Subdivision, a busy main line that supports a non stop flow of traffic. The eastern shore hosts BNSF’s St. Croix Sub, a mostly double-tracked route providing access for a nonstop parade of traffic from La Crosse, Wisconsin to Minneapolis/St. Paul. Get both great lines in two shows with the third show in this combo getting back to the roots of the same area with winter action on the rails of the Soo Line; Burlington Northern; Chicago & North Western; Chicago Central; Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern; and the Green Bay & Western. Three shows, three discs, one case and one great combo price.
This two pack of shows will quench any thirst you have for the history and engineering of railroad tunnels. First up is our well received “Tunnels, The Story of Underground Rails” and then the documentary “Beneath Los Angeles, The Building of the Red Line Subway” by Shoot and Run Productions and distributed to the railfan community by Pentrex.
Meet the workers, go underground, be at the tunnel face – and experience the above-ground controversy about LA’s first subway. This is the Red Line as you’ve never seen. Plus Pentrex has added a 10 minute look at the Red Line today.
Visit the southern half of the Illinois Central Railroad as it existed in 1996 for an eye-opening tour of discovery. The secrets of the IC unfold as our travels take you from Fulton, Kentucky to New Orleans.
Explore the exciting northern half of the Illinois Central Railroad from the Chicago area to Fulton, Kentucky. You’ll see locals, switch jobs, through-freights, and fast intermodal trains hard at work.
Until July, 1995, Burlington Northern and Union Pacific trains took turns using a diamond crossing where their lines intersect in Grand Island, Nebraska. Now, Burlington Northern Santa Fe trains climb up and over the UP triple-track main.
We’ll take you across the entire line from Guadalajara to the US border at Nogales. It’s an eleven hundred mile odyssey that examines the many faces of a truly extraordinary operation.
In 1934, the Union Pacific Railroad introduced a revolutionary new passenger train by sending it on a whirlwind tour of the country, stopping at more than 65 cities and covering more than 12,000 miles en route. Black & white.
When Amtrak first rolled into Milwaukee, things had changed. Milwaukee Road’s Hiawatha and C&NW’s bi-level Streamliners were out, but Amtrak’s Empire Builder was in.
Beaumont Hill’s San Gorgonio Pass – the mountain gateway to the Sunset Route – has always been a tough proving ground for Southern Pacific’s locomotives.
The Super Chief and El Capitan were two of the finest passenger trains operated by the Santa Fe. In later years the two trains were combined into one special passenger train.
One of railroading’s most spectacular runs took place over the weekend of November 30, 1957 when Southern Pacific Cab Forward 4274 left Sacramento for its final journey across Donner Pass.