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Once leading the country’s finest passenger trains on high-speed schedules, the last remaining fleet of Electro-Motive E-units worked during their later years pulling commuter trains in Chicago.
Step back to the late 1990s and climb aboard one of BC Rail’s brutish C40-8 diesels for a fantastic cab ride from sea level at Squamish up through the rugged coastal mountain range to the big sky country at Lillooet.
At the Throttle Volume 5 takes you to Southern California’s scenic Surfline, primarily in San Diego and southern Orange Counties, this is railroading that few ever experience.
From Hobart Yard in Los Angeles to the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach and back again, including Terminal Island and Pier 400, you’re about to witness a line that few are privileged to see.
With our camera mounted on the lead engine of a BNSF train, we’ll take to the rails to bring you a spectacular and unique perspective of railroading like no other – train meets.
With the camera secured to the front of an eastbound stack train and the scenic landscapes of the BNSF San Bernardino Subdivision stretching before you, you’re “at the throttle”.
The Alaska Railroad, Volume 2. We’ll treat you to a 3-day tour of the lines between Anchorage, Whittier and Seward. Trackage that runs past the incredibly scenic vistas of Turnagain Arm and Kenai Fjords National Park.
To an Alcophile, there’s nothing sweeter than the wheezing, whistling, barking sound produced by a smoke-belching, burbling Alco diesel. Volume One.
On June 1, 2008, AT&SF 3751 made its first trip from Los Angeles to San Diego in 55 years and now you can see all the action.
The San Francisco Bay Area’s own steam engine, fully restored Southern Pacific 2472, on the journey from San Jose to Los Angeles and back.
1990 was an exciting year in American Railroading. Pentrex crews traveled the nation to capture the railroading events and subjects worthy of inclusion in the “Best of” series.
1985 was an exciting year of railroading, from steam excursions to the new EMD SD60 Demonstrator unit. This is a special presentation of many of the events that took place.
Watch Frisco 1522 lead the Peach Blossom Special to the NRHS National Convention in Atlanta. Traveling from St. Louis, Missouri to Birmingham, Alabama, the powerful 4-8-2 ran on its home rails for the first time in almost 50 years.
As a part of the 1948 Chicago Railroad Fair, there was a twice-daily pageant based on the history of American transportation called Wheels-a-Rolling. Significant historic events were related with a railroad background. Hundreds of actors participated and many of these were steam powered!
Visit the CN and CP in BC, in 1998! There is action in Kamloops yards and along Kamloops Lake and the Thompson and Fraser Rivers at locations such as Boston Bar, Savona and the famous twin bridges at Siska and more.
Union Pacific took on the Continental Divide head on! The ruling grade over Sherman Hill, between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming, made the UP the leader in locomotive “super power”. Big Boys and Challengers ruled in steam days, Turbines and Centennials handled right after.
Excursion steam captured in the Lone Star State!
Selkirk Yard is the major classification yard for much of the Northeast. See it up close and personal, with employee access!
Through the magic of vintage film, now digitized, we can see the way things used to be! Where in New England would you look to find an interurban trolley line that interchanged with a major steam railroad, crossed a state line on a toll bridge, hauled freight behind steeplecab freight motors and served several large industries in a small city?
Fantastic color images from 8mm film taken in the Appalachians on the last holdouts of steam railroading!
In the early 1980’s, an ailing New York, Susquehanna and Western Railroad was acquired by the growing Delaware Otsego Corporation. New management and a new contract meant new traffic – like stack trains!
Known as the Desert Princess or the Slim Princess, this Southern Pacific line was a rarity: a narrow gauge owned by a major railroad.
Fans of the Southern Pacific know their favorite railroad had a lot to offer – and this DVD proves it! This program is made up of five vintage films about the SP.
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