Complete Nickel Plate Berkshire, 700 Class Steam
SKU: DVD-SRP-NKP1Original price was: $39.95.$35.75Current price is: $35.75.
Machine and man, in the 1940s & 50s. (Ships to USA & Canada only.)
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| Producer | Sunday River Productions |
|---|---|
| Narration | Yes |
| Run Time | 55 minutes |
| Technical Details | Region Code 1, USA and Canada |
The famous 700 class Nickel Plate Berkshire locomotives from the 1940s and 50s – as well as the men who operated them – are featured in this DVD. See Berks dragging coal and way freight, many double-headed, and screaming down the main carrying perishables. Some 500 class Mikados make an appearance as double-headed partners. In addition to the working steam footage, the engineers, firemen, conductors and dispatchers who handled the 700s tell their stories. The tales and details told by these men make the railroad come alive. Descriptions of tight situations and wrecks are included, as well as the ways they outran, outfoxed and buried competition from the B&O, Pennsy and New York Central to make the Nickel Plate the celebrated wonder of Wall Street.
Narration. Sunday River Productions programs may feature Color film, B&W film, Music, Dubbed Sound and still photos.
rickyfreni –
Originally released on VHS only in 1990, this program features a July 1989 visit to 755’s resting place at the Conneaut Ohio Railroad Museum which is between Cleveland & Erie, but the majority of this program covers the Berkshires in regular service which was filmed by Mr. Guy Brant, & later witness 587 in action from Indianapolis to Logansport Indiana that was filmed by Steve Neff. Along the way, there are interviews with railroad crewmembers Jim Burrows (Not the same Jim Burrows who created the NBC sitcom Cheers), Charles O’Brien, Cliff Cooke, Edward Burnett, Fredrick Law, Edward Matz, Johnathan Koontz, Raymond Shufelt, Carlton Gee, Frank Marvin, Jim Pofft, & Raymond Dennis. Plus there are some Wreck scenes of Boxcars being piled up on each other as 2 Berkshires helped out with the Cleaning situation, not to mention Doubleheaders, Pacing sequences, & a handful of Mikados as well. Majority of these locations are in Indiana & Ohio but there is a Short Segment on the Buffalo Division. Aside from 755, there are 5 more which resides with us in the present century: 759 is at Scranton Pennsylvania, 763 is at Sugar Creek Ohio, 779 is at Lima Ohio, & of Course 765 at New Haven Indiana In the Suburbs of Fort Wayne. 757 used to be on display at the Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania which is across the Street From the Strasburg Railroad in Lancaster County, but in Recent years, 757 is now at it’s new home in Bellevue Ohio: The Mad River & NKP Museum.