Eastern Steam Trips, Excursions & Specials

SKU: DVD-GSVP-097
(2 customer reviews)

$24.95

With steam running on their original railroads, Eastern Steam Trips is a collection of special trains operated during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Producer

Greg Scholl Video Productions

Run Time

1 hour 5 minutes

Narration

Yes

Shrink Wrap

Yes, Brand New

Technical Details

No Region Code

Eastern Steam Trips is a collection of special trains operated during the 1950s and 1960s with engines running on their original rails. There is both trackside, and riding footage here and a variety of subjects. On the Baltimore and Ohio there are two excursions, with the first being 4-8-2 #701 on a trip from Dayton to Willard in October 1957 and then 2-8-2 #421 with the very last steam run on the B&O. 1961 sees footage of Grand Trunk Western 4-8-4 #6323 in Michigan. In 1964 we catch a CB&Q (Burlington Route) 2-8-2 #4960 out of Chicago.

Norfolk and Western is well represented with 3 different excursions featuring 5 different engines! In 1957 there was a trip with double headed Pacifics number 563 and 578 from Bluefield to Norton. In 1959 we ride from Roanoke to Bluefield behind 2-6-6-4 number 1240, then switch to engine 2174 (2-8-8-2) for a circle trip out of Bluefield. In October 1959 we see footage of what turned out to be the last regular run of Class J 4-8-4 number 611.

Reading T-1 class 4-8-4s are next with different runs. Most of the footage here is footage as we excursion in Pennsylvania. There are some close-ups of the engines at service stops and runbys. 2100 is seen the most in this segment, with most trips riding and runbys along the way.

Many of these engines were scrapped, so this is historic film.

2 reviews for Eastern Steam Trips, Excursions & Specials

  1. Mwdonoughue

    This DVD documents excursions pulled by steam locomotives on their respective railroads near the end of the stem era, with some of the engines being future survivors in preservation.

  2. rickyfreni

    One of the 6 vintage steam DVDs for Greg’s 2017 season, documents the final trips on these fewer railroads who are saying goobye to steam before diesels took over. Some highlights in this include 3 N&W segments which were supposed to be shown in the 2004 version of N&W Steam passengers but was cancelled due to not enough info on the locomotives and locations, as well as 2 GTW segments: A fully restored picture quality of 6323 in 1961, as well as some scenes of 6325 on the Ohio central in “Ohio Steam Spectacular” Like many of Greg’s 2017 DVD’s minus the original 1987 editing of N&W 1218 Rebuilt & Roanoke bound, this was narrated by Brian Sellers.

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