Southern Railway 4501 25th Anniversary
Original price was: $29.95.$24.95Current price is: $24.95.See Southern 4501 throughout her career. Including rare film of 4501 working on the Kentucky & Tennessee RR in the early 1960’s.
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See Southern 4501 throughout her career. Including rare film of 4501 working on the Kentucky & Tennessee RR in the early 1960’s.
Go behind the scenes as the Cumbres & Toltec opens the line blocked by a boulder. After the work, ride, ride a chartered freight train!
The “Wild Mary” from eastern terminus Baltimore to Elkins, WV and Connellsville, PA from 1940 until Chessie in 1975.
The Reading Company was the favorite railroad of Allentown, Pennsylvania native Charles Houser, Sr, who filmed throughout the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Steam and Diesel are included in this rare color and black & white film.
This program covers the years 1948 to 1963 and features the steam and diesel power of that era. Beginning near Jersey City, locations visited include High Bridge, Green Pond, Easton, Bethlehem, Allentown, Mauch Chunk, Glen Onoko, Ashley, Wilkes-Barre, and more. Featured motive power ranges from Camelback switchers to SD35s, and includes Pacifics, Babyfaces, Trainmasters, RSs, Geeps, and Fs.
Part 2 of the EL series picks up where Part 1 left off and covers the years 1970 to 1976. We’ll see EL, Penn Central, Chessie System and Norfolk and Western action at AC Tower and get a look at the Marion Humpyard, a trip down the Dayton Branch, and east of Marion to Galion and Mansfield.
Like spokes on a wheel, 4 major railroads converged on Marion, Ohio from 5 directions. For the NYC, C&O and Pennsylvania to cross at one location would assure a busy junction – but add the Erie Lackawanna with its major yard and locomotive shop – and Marion is elevated to a train watching mecca. Part One of this two part look at the “Friendly Service Route” takes place in the busy 1960s.
Watch rare film from the 1940s and 1950s of B&O steam, much of it on Sand Patch Grade. Mostly color, some 1940s film is in B&W.
The second volume of this series features the B&O’s finest steam. From rare 1954 film footage we see steam powering passenger trains on the West End between Grafton, West Virginia and Cumberland, Maryland. We also steam at the head end of freights over Sand Patch Grade and coal trains on the old Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh near Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
It’s the 1970’s era of the BN in Washington and Montana, as well as pre-merger views of the Burlington, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern with pre-merger CB&Q, NP and GN in the Twin Cities, Montana and Nebraska.
Southern Pacific’s last Imperial Valley sugar beet train pulled into the station at Guadalupe, California in 1993 – the nearby sugar mill would shut down after nearly 100 years of operation. Catch the last run of the famous sugar beet train.
Union Pacific’s 8500-series Gas Turbine Electric Locomotives earned the nicknames ‘super Fleet” as they were the largest, most powerful locomotives ever employed by the railroad.
Here is the story of a truly momentous undertaking involving a truly historic steam locomotive. After 10 years and thousands of hours of concerted effort, 3751 was returned to the rails in elegant splendor.
It’s one of the roughest, toughest mountain passes, where heavy tonnage trains battle 2.2 percent grades and up to three sets of helpers are needed for the haul.
Donner Pass… the famous name evokes daunting obstacles… and with good reason. Steep grades and seven months a year of winter weather would put any railroad’s resources to the test, but the Southern Pacific was up to the job.
Travel through six eastern states to experience one of the most powerful 4-8-4 steam locomotives ever built.. Includes a cab ride and footage of these locomotives being built!
Step back to 1991 to watch as Union Pacific sends double stack and intermodal trains through their recently upgraded, former Western Pacific, Feather Canyon and its challenging terrain.
Trains rattle across the diamonds at Rochelle, Illinois, where the double tracks of the Union Pacific and the double tracks of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks intersect.
The long-awaited debut of the new Steamtown National Historic Site took place over July 4th weekend, 1995, and Pentrex was on the spot to capture this historic Grand Opening and the excursions leading up to it.
The vaults of the Southern Pacific provided a treasury of vintage footage to Pentrex, enough for two outstanding shows now combined on one DVD.
Not your everyday fare, the sighting of a Special (special trains and extraordinary movements) are rare treats for the eager rail enthusiast. The scenic slopes of Cajon Pass, provides the ideal setting for these exotic sights.
Experience one of the busiest and most scenic railroad routes in Northern California, the Shasta Division of the Southern Pacific. The Valley and Black Butte Districts host a daily parade of trains.
Excursion trains of the 1993 NRHS Convention in Chicago! Steamers include NKP 587 and 765, UP 3985, N&W 611 and Southern 4501.
Pentrex visited one of America’s finest HO Scale model railroads, the ‘sierra Pacific Lines” of the Pasadena Model Railroad Club. Take a look at this beautifully crafted and realistically operated model railroad.
Pentrex takes you where few have ventured: deep into the inner plant and strip mines of LTV Mining Company’s Minnesota operation as it existed in the early 1990s.
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