Working on the Railroad
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Have you ever passed a track gang and wondered what all those machines actually do? Here’s your answer and more.
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UP 844 Western Heritage Tour
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.In April 2009, Union Pacific sent its goodwill ambassador, steam locomotive 844, on a 32-day excursion to help celebrate several Western railroading events.
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Logging Railroads of the Sierras, West Side & Pickering
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Travel back to the 1950s to visit both the West Side Lumber Company in 1951 and the Pickering Lumber Company in 1953.
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Union Pacific Classic Collectors’ Combo
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.During the 1950s, steam ruled the Union Pacific fleet. From the smaller 0-6-0s to the giant Big Boys, these workhorses were the backbone of an empire. Here are three features that highlight Union Pacific steam.
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Amtrak the Surfline and Amtrak Surfline Cab Ride
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Known as the Surf Line or Surfline, this is one of the most scenic stretches of railroad track in the entire country. It is about as far west as you can get – hugging the Pacific coastline between Los Angeles and San Diego
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Southern Pacific Classic Collectors’ Series
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Southern Pacific steam abounds in this collection of rare color films from the 1930s to the 1950s.
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Big Boys Cab Forwards Challengers & Daylights
$29.95Henry Hank Griffiths Jr. was one of the most prominent railroad cinematographers of the steam era. Traveling throughout the northwest, he captured images of steam at work in locations other photographers seldom visited.
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Cajon 2 – w/ Cab Ride
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Cajon Pass is one of the world’s great railroading landmarks. From 1991 to 1993 – we see Southern Pacific, Santa Fe, Union Pacific, and Amtrak trains at your favorite Cajon hotspots. Two programs on one DVD.
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Blue Mountains Combo: Volumes 1 2 and 3
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.For the Union Pacific Railroad in the early 1990s, railroading in the Blues – the 200-mile segment of UP’s Oregon Division Mainline – meant staggering grades, extreme weather, and 3 daunting summits.
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Imperial Valley Sugar Beet Trains
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Southern Pacific’s last Imperial Valley sugar beet train pulled into the station at Guadalupe, California in 1993 – the nearby sugar mill would shut down after nearly 100 years of operation. Catch the last run of the famous sugar beet train.
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Santa Fe 3751 Route of the Chiefs
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.In 1992, Santa Fe’s mighty steam locomotive 3751 returned to the rails, this time to race from Los Angeles to Chicago and back.
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Union Pacific Turbines of the Wasatch
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Union Pacific’s 8500-series Gas Turbine Electric Locomotives earned the nicknames ‘super Fleet” as they were the largest, most powerful locomotives ever employed by the railroad.
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Santa Fe 3751 – The Restoration
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Here is the story of a truly momentous undertaking involving a truly historic steam locomotive. After 10 years and thousands of hours of concerted effort, 3751 was returned to the rails in elegant splendor.
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Santa Fe 3759 Final Run Over Cajon Pass
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Santa Fe’s “final run” of steam power over Cajon Pass took place in 1955 when 3759 was brought out of storage for a special excursion dubbed “Farewell to Steam”.
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Mullan Pass The Monsters and More!
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.It’s one of the roughest, toughest mountain passes, where heavy tonnage trains battle 2.2 percent grades and up to three sets of helpers are needed for the haul.
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Donner Pass Southern Pacific’s Sierra Crossing
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Donner Pass… the famous name evokes daunting obstacles… and with good reason. Steep grades and seven months a year of winter weather would put any railroad’s resources to the test, but the Southern Pacific was up to the job.
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Union Pacific 6900s The Centennials
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.The largest, most powerful diesel locomotives ever built: Union Pacific DDA40X Centennials weighed 270 tons, were almost to 100 feet long, carried 8,000-gallons of fuel, and generated 6,600 horsepower – with speeds of up to 90 mph.
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Norfolk & Western 611
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Travel through six eastern states to experience one of the most powerful 4-8-4 steam locomotives ever built.. Includes a cab ride and footage of these locomotives being built!
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Virginian & Ohio Afton Division Finale
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.One of the most famous model railroads, the Afton Division of Allen McClelland’s Virginian & Ohio, is now gone.
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Union Pacific’s Mighty Turbines
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Here is the whole turbine story, from rare footage of an early steam turbine experiment in 1938 to an experimental coal-burning turbine locomotive.
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Union Pacific Feather River Rotary Snow Plow
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.The rotary is rarely called out… but January 1993 saw a series of storms with heavy snowfall in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. The Union Pacific mainline through the Feather River Canyon was hard hit. And so the rotary was called to duty.
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Union Pacific’s Triple Track Main The Kearney Sub
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.The busiest freight mainline in North America is Union Pacific’s Kearney Subdivision in central Nebraska. The 110-mile portion from North Platte to Gibbon Junction can see an average of 100 trains a day.
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Union Pacific’s Feather River Route
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Step back to 1991 to watch as Union Pacific sends double stack and intermodal trains through their recently upgraded, former Western Pacific, Feather Canyon and its challenging terrain.
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Union Pacific’s Elegant E-9s and Feather River Canyon E-9s
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Sleek and stylish EMD E-8s and E-9s were the backbone of the Union Pacific Railroad’s fleet throughout the 1950s and ’60s.
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Columbia River Gorge Part 2, Union Pacific’s Portland Sub
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Climbing gently from the tidewater ports near Portland is the Columbia River Gorge. It is a spot of beauty that hosts two railroad: BNSF and Union Pacific. Follow the UP in Volume Two.
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