Union Pacific and Rio Grande in the 1980s
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.Tour the UP and DRGW in the 1980s. Freight pulled by now-gone diesels, including DD40X units, and see 844 and 3985 pulling excursions!
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Tour the UP and DRGW in the 1980s. Freight pulled by now-gone diesels, including DD40X units, and see 844 and 3985 pulling excursions!
Due to the possibility of fire from coal embers, K-36 #481 can only be run in the winter – but boy does she look good in the winter!
In Part One of this heralded former New York Central mainline, we observe CSX operations on the Chicago Line between Syracuse and Ripley, NY near the Pennsylvania border.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Hinckley Subdivision carries a variety of railroad traffic from the Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Green Frog revisits the former Illinois Central Mainline of Mid-America.
Watch Trains Magazine cover 19 of the most memorable moments in railroading over the past year! Travel across the country hitting high spots, witnessing important locomotives and restorations, and experiencing history.
Leave Johnstown, stopping at Latrobe and Greensburg then on to Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvanian Station.
We focus on two routes through Virginia, the NS Christiansburg District between Roanoke and Montgomery, and CSX between White Sulphur Springs in the Alleghany Sub to Buttons Bluff in the James River Sub.
The former Pennsy crested the Alleghenies through tunnels between Gallitzin and Cresson. Always a favorite railfan location!
Ayer, Massachusetts, was an important junction city on the Boston and Maine. It still is for the Guilford Rail system and MBTA.
The ‘Ole Weak and Weary came to be in 1916, operating from Winchester to Gore, Virginia, and beyond.
Included are Hartwell, Georgia Northeastern, Georgia Marble, Sandersville, Chattahoochee Industrial, Chattahoochee Valley, Apalachicola Northern, Oneida and Western.
Exploring West Virginia in May 2017, we feature the fascinating gear-driven Shay and Heisler steam locomotives to be found on the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley Railroad and working the steep climbs of the Cass Scenic Railroad.
In our second visit to New Mexico, The Land of Enchantment, we concentrate on operations in the eastern half of the state, featuring the BNSF Southern Transcon, but also showing Union Pacific trains on the route between Logan and Vaughn that heads south to el Paso.
Conway Yard, near Pittsburgh, was the Pennsy ‘s major classification yard. Under Conrail and now NS, it is still very busy.
This classic ore hauling railroad operates with stunning maroon and gold locomotives that pass through some of the most beautiful landscapes in the state! See the last days prior to CN taking over.
Classic early diesels and Soo Line cabooses in classic Soo Line red and white colors abound. Mix in post merger power of Milwaukee Road units and cabooses, and you get a colorful array of locomotives.
From the 1980s, you’ll see aging Soo F units, Alco’s and early Geeps. Second generation power includes the EMD GP30, GP35, GP40 and SD40, transitioning into the later series of GP38 and SD40 “dash two” series locomotives.
We travel Missouri Pacific territory in Illinois as new owner Union Pacific was taking hold between 1986 and 1988.
This is the busy Water Level Route from Berea Tower near Cleveland, to Millbury Jct on Toledo’s east side. Part 3 of the 4 part Water Level series.
We follow the former New York Central mainline from Frontier Yard in Buffalo, New York to Erie, Pennsylvania. We also look at Norfolk Southern’s parallel mainline, and new General Electric locomotive testing at the Erie plant. Part 1 of the 4 part Water Level series.
You’ll see TV trains, Amtrak, and tonnage freights behind SD80MACs and C30-7As as claw their way across the Berkshires. Part 2 of a 2 part series on the Boston Line.
Exciting non-stop railroading through some of the Keystone State’s finest scenery. Pittsburgh Line Part 2
Exciting non-stop railroading through some of the Keystone State’s finest scenery. Pittsburgh Line Part 1
Tour the brand new Conrail in May of 1976. See new and old: Erie Lackawanna, Lehigh Valley, Reading, Lehigh and Hudson River, Central New Jersey, and Penn Central.
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