Southern Railway 4501 to Summerville Back In Steam in 2014
Original price was: $24.95.$19.95Current price is: $19.95.2014 marked the return to steam of one of the most famous steam locomotives in the world: Southern Railway Mikado #4501.
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2014 marked the return to steam of one of the most famous steam locomotives in the world: Southern Railway Mikado #4501.

This program was a quarter-century in the making, featuring footage shot from 1985 to 2010. 65 different locomotives are featured; many that run today and many more that no longer run.

In June of 1993, former St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522 pulled a pair of trips from St. Louis to Centralia, Illinois, as a part of Norfolk Southern’s popular steam program. Lacking facilities to turn the locomotive in Centralia, Burlington Northern took the train on a pair of side trips from Centralia to Sesser, Illinois, where the train was turned on a wye. On the B.N., the train operated as an employee special.

In June, 1994, the annual convention of the National Railway Historical Society was held in Atlanta, Georgia. The convention featured two mainline locomotives: Norfolk Southern’s former Norfolk & Western Class J 4-8-4 #611, and restored St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522.

Come along for a look at Conrail in its prime during the first half of the 1990’s on former Pennsylvania Railroad lines in Illinois and Pennsylvania.

All aboard for a look at a time when Union Pacific and Southern Pacific trains ran side by side on two lines into St. Louis in Missouri and Illinois.

Detroit Edison is Michigan’s largest electric utility. A great deal of that electricity is supplied by coal fired generators, and much of that coal arrives by train!

Perhaps the rarest thing railroading is to see a steam powered rotary snow plow in action. Watch as the plow clears the snow from the high pass. Over 2 hours.

This is Clinchfield, The North End. Elkhorn City to Erwin in 1990.

From 1952 through 1980, Emery Gulash chased the Union Pacific throughout the west, and the transition period. This is a nearly four hour odyssey!

Three great California electric system, in the 1950s and ’60s. Plus a new bonus to this DVD, “Ride the Pacific Electric to San Bernardino in 1939”.

This video reveals why Cincinnati, Ohio is considered the “Railroad Gateway to the South”.

Five days a week trains trek 75 miles from paper mill to Albany.

Railroading in the Space Age is nowhere as graphically portrayed, as on the railroad which serves this county’s premier rocket launching site.

Not only will you see video shot from the cab of both E-8 diesel locomotives, but action photographed from the rear end, the full length dome car, and from the vestibule as well.

She was a 365-days-a-year railfan excursion…she was the train that behaved like a Caribbean cruise ship, inviting you to loaf and look, dine and drink, with ultimate destination beside the point,”

Climb aboard Grand Trunk train #216 (an all trailer-van train) powered by an ex-Rock Island GP38-2 for a cab ride from Springfield Cincinnati’s Queensgate Yard.

Winter 2020. Multiple camera coverage as 2 steam locomotives power D&RGW Steam Rotary Snow Plow OY at an elevation of 10,015 feet!

Southern Railway 4501 is the power for a round trip of over 100 miles.

Famous for flying off a carrier to bomb Japan in 1942. In 2017 a 75th anniversary included a “B-25 Gathering” with 12 different B-25s.

Ride the train and watch trackside, here is Canada from 1952 through the early 60s.

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…

Henry Ford needed a railroad. So he built one. A documentary with narration by Scott D. Trostel.

Nobody captured the “Days Past” era of railroading like Emery Gulash, and this amazing 5 disc Collectors Set covers the “Best of his Best”!

An incredible array of steam railroading from an amazing period. 16mm film from several photographers. Seven great programs on four DVDs.
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