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See the historic 1970 formation of Burlington Northern – and take a look at the BNs predecessors. See great vintage trains of Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Chicago Burlington & Quincy and the Spokane Portland & Seattle from the 50s into the 70s. We bring the history of the
Both the Rio Grande and the Utah Railway had a long history of hauling massive coal trains over this summit. See vintage black and orange Rio Grande action and rare film of the RSD and ‘Alligator’ ALCOs of the Utah Railway. These trains generally had helper sets of six or seven six-axle diesels to provide…
From old Sacramento to Reno, Nevada here are all the challenges of the Southern Pacific’s Sierra crossing. Filmed over three decades in all types of weather and with every type of SP train caught on film — from 1955 to 1995 — see a lot of change come to the Southern Pacific. Ride a F7…
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.
See the SP “commutes” on the Peninsula in late steam and early diesel days. Visit the old Third & Townsend Station where the SP Coastline really begins. Don’t miss the FM Train Master era, including the smaller FM H-12-44 switchers in various San Francisco Peninsula yards – such as the extinct Bay Shore Yard. There…
See both steam engines in the Union Pacific’s Steam Program: 4-8-4 #8444 (now #844) and Challenger 4-6-6-4 #3985.
Travel back to the late 1940s through 1958 to see Union Pacific steam in action in regular service. This DVD also features bonus footage of the modern UP Steam program.
Four big mainline steam locomotives at the 1990 NRHS Convention in St. Louis. Excursions, inbound and outbound runs!
Here is a rare steam powered rotary snow-clearing operation on the former Rio Grande Narrow Gauge (now Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR) in northern New Mexico and Colorado. The rotary OY snow plow is steam operated, but her own boiler can only power her blade, thus locomotives are required to push it ahead. The southern…
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….
Norfolk Southern’s Cincinnati to Portsmouth line is former Norfolk and Western trackage that winds and climbs through the hills of southern Ohio. Volume One.
Take a trip to nine states and one Canadian province in search of historic early diesel locomotives! First generation and some newer diesels are shown in operation, getting the job done, between 1987 and 1989. You’ll see F-Units on freight and Passenger trains, Alco’s on freight, GE 70-ton, GP7s and GP9s and ALCO FPA4s on…
Spokane, Portland and Seattle #700 is the lone survivor of her class.
The Ohio Central has gained a reputation for expertise in restoring steam engines. Here we get to see a Grand Trunk Western 6325 brought back to operating condition. We begin with a bit of history of the 6325 and the 4-8-4 class of engines, as we watch the 6325 at the Ohio Central’s Morgan Run…
Follow SP 4449 from Portland to Yakima on several days of action.
Last four CSX F-units, and in mainline class-1 freight service.
Louisville and Nashville 4-6-2 #152 is one of the more authentic locomotives that has ever operated in mainline excursion service. 152 now runs for the Kentucky Railway Museum in New Haven, but in the late 80s was running on old home mainline rails! The focus of this video is a series of operations with 152…
See the golden age of railroading in films of that period with four vintage films from the 1930s to early 1950s. The highlight film is a 20 minute New York Central film showing the famous Hudson (4-6-4) locomotive – from operations to servicing. The Pennsylvania Railroad is represented with the tourist-targeted “On To Washington”. In…
This is a fascinating look at perhaps the rarest event in railroading, a steam-powered Rotary Snowplow opening a snowbound railroad.
What’s better than a passenger train chasing you? Well, how about a second trip up the mountain, but this time engine #484 (a 2-8-2) pulls a freight train of 10 cars and caboose. This is maximum tonnage for this locomotive on this piece of railroad, and #484 puts on quite a show. Several times the…
Take a unique journey on the rails of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad in the Rocky Mountains, as we view a steam passenger train from in front of the train. Through special arrangements with the railroad we chartered a passenger train, and an escort train to use as a camera platform and videotaped the…
Must see for ALCO fans! Two shows featuring diesel action in Canada, one of the last ALCO mainline strongholds.
Part 2 of this series covers the final 15 years of operation in the Keystone State. Vintage diesels abound, but we’ll also see the Readings famous T1 4-8-4s power The Rambles at several locations around the system.
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