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Just as we began shooting in the 16×9 widescreen format in 2011, several Southern Railway steam locomotives were being restored to operation. In the years that followed, we made numerous trips to film these locomotives in action. This program presents some of the best scenes of these locomotives, shot over the course of a decade.
Our theme in our search for steam in 2022 was beasts in the east.
A trio of the Southern Railway’s best steam locomotives.
4501 was the first of 177 Mikados the Southern ordered from Baldwin in 1911. She’s now the last of her breed. Here is film from three decades of excursions.
Steam excursion trains thunder and whistle over the Southern Railway.
2014 marked the return to steam of one of the most famous steam locomotives in the world: Southern Railway Mikado #4501.
In June of 1993, former St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522 pulled a pair of trips from St. Louis to Centralia, Illinois, as a part of Norfolk Southern’s popular steam program. Lacking facilities to turn the locomotive in Centralia, Burlington Northern took the train on a pair of side trips from Centralia to Sesser, Illinois, where the train was turned on a wye. On the B.N., the train operated as an employee special.
When in mid 2010 we learned that three Southern Railway Consolidation type steam locomotives were to be returning to operation, we began making plans to film all three. Between April and July 2011, we did just that. The result is “Southern Steam Returns.”br>The first part of the program covers Southern Railway #154, an 1890 product…
The Illinois Central existed for nearly a century and a half and this program covers the last sixty years from 1938 to the winter of 1998-99, the independent I.C.’s last.
Southern Railway 4501 is the power for a round trip of over 100 miles.
This is the perfect introduction of the entire NS Heritage Fleet. Covering the NS Family Portrait held at the North Carolina Transportation Museum, we introduce each heritage unit including its history, and maps of current trackage.
Vintage MoPac, Frisco & more from Metro StL.
“Cincy Diesels” spends time in Cincinnati where the CSX line heads onto the C&O River Bridge approach where we see a number of trains at different visits, with the skyline of Cincinnati in the background. We also see the Norfolk Southern engine terminal in Ludlow, Kentucky. The Southern and Norfolk Southern merger is still fairly…
Southern Railway 2-8-0 #630 on NS excursions duty in NC, over the famous loops.
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