This show is a compilation of footage previously seen in other Main Line Motion Picture programs, plus new footage that cuts straight to the heart of the action, these mighty machines pulling hard; hitting the steepest grades of the East and West. Every clip is a steam locomotive pulling hard, or with wheel slip, or with great stack talk – as she works hard on a steep grade!
Join us in Chattanooga for the 25th Anniversary of the Southern Railway’s steam powered excursion program. See every engine the Southern had in excursion service: 16 different steamers.
Southern # 4501 is back in the news these days. After years on static display, Norfolk Southern and the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum are working put her back on NS rails. Here is 4501 on different excursions prior to retirement.
In volume 2, we’ll revisit the busy operations of the Southern, RF&P, SCL and other railroads in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina in June of 1981.
It is June of 1979 and we travel to Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and North Carolina to railfan the busy operations of the Southern, RF&P, L&N, Clinchfield and other railroads.
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.
See AND hear Southern Railway’s newly restored 2-8-0 #630. The DVD covers mainline action between Chattanooga and Cleveland, Tennessee. The included CD has 16 tracks of professionally recorded sound.
We get a look at the Southern through two of her own promotional films: “Piggyback Southern Style”, made in the early 1960s, and “Via Sevier” a film that follows two box cars through the system in the 1950s.