Vintage Cab Units

Vintage Cab Units is a collection of films gathered over the years from various sources. We begin with some pre-Amtrak footage around Washington, D.C, and Richmond, Virginia. This is mostly passenger trains including B&O, RF&P, ACL, SAL, and a couple of GG1’s. We then ride a C&O excursion from Cincinnati to Huntington with a pair of F-units, likely in the 1960’s also. After a couple of scenes in Cincinnati, we head for Chicago and a variety of railroads and mostly passenger trains, with E-units, and F-units mostly, including N&W, B&O, PRR, NYC, CNW, Burlington, Santa Fe, and more.Our next segment is footage around Chicago by different sources, and includes the Upper Mid-West segment to Minnesota, including Illinois and Wisconsin. We see a lot of nice Burlington including the Shovel-Nose E-units, and other power, including Fairbanks-Morse, Milwaukee Road Hiawatha’s, Burlington Zephyrs, and much more. Some of this is shot in 1947. We also see Northern Pacific, Great Northern, and a few surprises in this neat segment. Next we venture west for a few Union Pacific scenes in Nebraska and on Sherman Hill west of Cheyenne. Then we see F-units on the Rio Grande’s “Royal Gorge” headed west through the Royal Gorge from a passenger who shot a couple of meets. The last and biggest segment is the Western Region. This is mostly in California, but also includes a bit in Oregon, and Washington, as well as a bit in a couple of other states. There is a wide variety of early E-units on the Union Pacific on Cajon Pass, and other Southern Pacific, and Santa Fe trains in the area, and in the Los Angeles area as well as the Bay Area and others. There is a lot of Western Pacific including a rare B&W 1952 segment of Truman’s Campaign Train with F-units. Lots of scenes of the California Zephyr, and some WP at Keddie Wye, including freights with NP and Great northern, some utilizing F-units as helpers mid-train. There are a lot of SP trains in California mostly passenger, and each is identified in most cases. Most all this material is new to our shows, except perhaps an accidental duplicate here or there. There is a variety of SP power including F-units in Black Widow, Daylight and red-nose paint schemes, as well as Alco PA’s in passenger service in Daylight schemes. Santa Fe is represented by name passenger trains in the famous Warbonet paint scheme. There is way too much to mention here, so you will just have to wait and be amazed by the variety of material in this show from several sources.