A Salute to the Southern Pacific
Original price was: $24.95.$19.95Current price is: $19.95.The SP lives! At least in the hearts of its fans, and here on this Highball Productions DVD.
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The SP lives! At least in the hearts of its fans, and here on this Highball Productions DVD.
This collection of rare training and PR films was produced by the Southern Pacific in the 1950s and is presented together for the first time!
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.
Perhaps the busiest interlocking tower in the western U.S., with an average of over 100 movements in a 24 hour period, was Tower 55 located in Ft. Worth
In pre-merger days the Southern Pacific ran a nonstop parade of trains across its Sunset Route and one of the most scenic stretches was the Lordsburg District between Tucson, Arizona and Lordsburg, New Mexico.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of 40-year old GP9, SD7, and SD9 diesel locomotives moving freight over Southern Pacific’s Central California mainlines and branch lines in the 1990s.
The vaults of the Southern Pacific provided a treasury of vintage footage to Pentrex, enough for two outstanding shows now combined on one DVD.
SP’s busy San Joaquin Subdivision runs through the agricultural heartland of California’s Central Valley. This important North-South route helps link Los Angeles and Portland Oregon, and provides plenty of fantastic train watching spots.
At 7,440 feet, the crest of the Wasatch Plateau in Utah is the fifth highest railroad pass on a US transcontinental mainline. Assaulting the steep grades of Soldier Summit takes brute force horsepower.
Experience one of the busiest and most scenic railroad routes in Northern California, the Shasta Division of the Southern Pacific. The Valley and Black Butte Districts host a daily parade of trains.
Covering the years 1934 to 1955, this spine tingling video highlights some of the worst train crashes to occur in over 20 years of railroading.
The Joint Line is an action-filled mainline with a colorful past. The Denver & Rio Grande and the Santa Fe built parallel tracks between Denver and Pueblo in the mid 1880s. During WW1, the US Government forced “joint” operations, and the scheme stayed.
The San Francisco Bay Area’s own steam engine, fully restored Southern Pacific 2472, on the journey from San Jose to Los Angeles and back.
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