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1990 was a year of change along the Mainline of Mid-America. We see that last months of the double track mainline and the early months of single track operations between Effingham and Cairo in Illinois.
The trains in this program were shot at the end of the ICG’s existence, in the years before the railroad reverted to the Illinois Central name. At that time, there were three ICG paint schemes, and all of them make an appearance.
With some former “Gulf” lines spun off, the renewed IC made a return to the old Illinois Central name, and a new black paint scheme harking back to the days when the Illinois Central was known as the Mainline of Mid America.
This program covers Norfolk Southern early in its existence, with plenty of locomotives painted in the colors of the Southern Railway and Norfolk & Western mixed with newly repainted Norfolk Southern power.
This program examines the formative years of CSX from the end of the Chessie and Seaboard systems in 1985 through CSX’s own image in the early 90’s. We’ll see a lot of early paint.
Here is the last railroad to use steam exclusively in freight service in the United States, the Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad. Interviews with one of the railroad’s founders and the current president of the railroad add to the story.
“Western Canada Combo” brings you two outstanding shows shot in western Canada: Scenic Trains of Canada and Scenic Trains of BC Rail.
We begin in Cheyenne as 8444 has received its original number 844 (a UP diesel was retired, freeing up the number 844) and is set for a July 1989 outing.
Four big mainline steam locomotives at the 1990 NRHS Convention in St. Louis. Excursions, inbound and outbound runs!
Watch the dramatic action of two big mainline steam engines operating side-by-side as the feature attraction of the 1991 NRHS convention in Huntington, West Virginia.
See a variety of locomotives in action in this program, from big mainline double-headed power to small tourist railroad steam – all over the western USA.
Watch Santa Fe 4-8-4 number 3751 make a historic trip from Los Angeles to Chicago following the transcontinental mainline – some 2300 miles. The trip, made shortly after being restored in 1991, is still the longest this steamer has made! The trip to Chicago was an employee recognition special, and not a public excursion train….
Travel back in time almost 20 years and see the annual CSX Santa Claus Train on the former Clinchfield – with a big Challenger taking the lead.
The Pennsy had thousands of steam engines running millions of miles through the 1950s, and yet vintage film of a PRR steamer is hard to find.
The last years for the Norfolk Southern’s Cincinnati to Portsmouth “Peavine” line. Volume Two.
Our day of shooting Ohio Rail Diamonds begins in Fostoria, where we see CSX trains, including ones from Toledo connecting to the east-west mainline, and trains on that line going both directions. Then we move east to Attica Junction where the same Pittsburgh/Cleveland CSX mainline crosses the Norfolk Southern line between Columbus and Belleview. Then…
Watch 611 work hard on the steep grades including Erlanger Hill in Northern Kentucky, plus the grades at Batavia, Peebles, and Seaman on the Cincinnati to Portsmouth Line.
Modern revenue freight trains – pulled by vintage steam! This was when Norfolk Southern’s steam program was running at full steam. See 2-6-6-4 N&W #1218, 4-8-4 N&W Class J #611, 2-8-2 NKP #587 and 4-6-2 L&N #152 – at the head of modern freights!
A steam lover’s dream! With four steam locomotives making mainline appearances! Volume Two.
Experience the excitement of 4-8-4 Class J #611 and 2-6-6-4 #1218 on former Norfolk and Western trackage once more. Volume One.
This is a comprehensive look at Deshler: A 2-dvd set in one case with 3 hours of coverage shot over a 4-year span from 2006-2009 covering parts of more than 11 different days! Deshler is located in Northwest Ohio on the busy east-west CSX mainline to Chicago. This is former B&O trackage, and includes a…
Vintage steam footage on the rarely filmed Colorado and Southern.
By 1959, Canadian steam was being systematically replaced by diesels. The end was near.
We journey to the CP in 1958 for a variety of CN and CP trains, all headed up by steam.
It’s 1957, and big steam still ruled CP and CN rails.
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