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We begin our look at the trains of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, at the central station, with electric loco hauled passenger trains, and MU’s, and the light rail near the station.
Lake Hood, next to Anchorage International in Alaska is the busiest float plane harbor in the world! We take off from there in a Dehavilland Beaver and fly off to Katmai National park to see the bears.
Watch the end of an era! This footage was taken just prior to and just after the Union Pacific take-over of the Southern Pacific.
Mainline steam, in full steam, running through fall foliage. What better photo op is there? How about if that steamer is pulling vintage freight cars behind her? That’s what we have with “734 Photo Freight”.
After a year rebuilding, and 20 years as a museum piece, N&W 611 stormed back into steam in 2015. See 611 in 2015 and in 1950s exclusive historical footage.
Union Pacific’s Challenger 3985 is the largest operating steam engine in the world. Here we get to see 3985 on a Union Pacific special between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Saint Paul, Minnesota.
A rare treat: Riding the narrow gauge in a steam locomotive, with a cab view.
C-18 #315 and newly restored K-27 “Mudhen” #463 team up in the fall Chama Steam charter on the Cumbres & Toltec.
See the engineers view on a good long run: Straight out the cab window of CP AC44 #9602.
This is a look back in time to the “Anthracite” roads that once made the eastern rail scene more interesting and colorful. These principal roads were the Lehigh Valley, Jersey Central, Reading, D&H and the Erie Lackawanna Railroads.
What happened to some of the railroads you grew up with? Industry mergers are explained, with the history behind big changes in eastern railroading. Maps and graphics put everything into historic and geographic focus.
Go back in time to the “Muni” after WWII to the 1980s. See when the “Iron Monsters” ruled Market Street and watch PCC cars of long ago when they were run as double-ended cars.
Visit the Western Pacific from both sides of the San Francisco Bay down to Niles Jct. and then on the San Jose branch and return to Niles Jct. for a ride through Niles Canyon.
This is the 1976 to 1997 story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation, widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in 1976.
Shot primarily during a time of transition for CSX, between 1999 and 2001, as it gobbled up a part of Conrail, but we also are treated to scenes from the 1991 to 1993 time frame.
Visit Canada from 1939 to 1973 from New Brunswick to Vancouver Island. We bring lots of steam and the early diesels in both freight and passenger service.
This video brings us the Southern Pacific as it existed out west from 1950 to 1978.
See the SP battle back to respectability in the early 90s. The aborted merger with the Santa Fe during the 1980s left both lines greatly weakened and the SP seemed to be the worst victim.
Visit 10 shortlines spanning the years from 1970 to 1998. We had full access to the Angelina & Neches River Railroad, in Texas, and the Central Oregon and Pacific, in Oregon, with the ‘inside’ look at two very capable shortlines.
See Gila and Lordsburg districts from the 80s and 90s with cabooses, lower quadrant semaphores and on-train footage. Main and branch line action. See Donner Pass, Cuesta and the Coastline, Beaumont Hill, Tehachapi and more.
From construction to shut-down, this is Tennessee Pass history. Steep 3% grades and trains with up to 40,000 bellowing horsepower are featured.
We visit the busiest freight railroad in the world: Union Pacific’s Council Bluffs Subdivision. Join us as we see hot spots such as Gibbon and Grand Island and Bailey Yard.
Big steam returns to the big curve in 2013: Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 pulled a series of three excursions from Lewistown to Gallitzin, including the assault on the grade west of Altoona and around Horseshoe Curve.
The 1990 National Railway Historical Society convention featured four active mainline steam locomotives: N&W 2-6-6-4 #1218, UP 4-8-4 #844, St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522 and St. Louis Southwestern 4-8-4 #819.
The Missouri Pacific became a part of the Union Pacific in late 1982. But even in the mid and late 80’s, consists of pure blue Missouri Pacific power could still be found.
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