Rail Trek, Volume 3, The West (Best of the 1960s & ’70s)
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Two Dawn-to-Dusk vigils! The tiny village of Quantico, Virginia offers variety along the Potomac with CSX, Amtrak, and Virginia Railway Express. Then it’s a very busy CSX crossroads at Greenwich, Ohio. Two days and 100+ trains!
Do you like vintage ALCO / MLW units, steam on the grade (like a Beyer-Peacock 2-8-0) and century-old shops machinery? From the tropical semi-Amazon of Machu-Picchu to the Atacama desert and the almost 16,000′ Andes summit, this is one unforgettable roller-coaster of a rail journey!
Thinking of Amtrak as America’s Rail Trek, it has now lived long (half a century), but has it prospered? Amtrak at 50.
From October 2022 to the end of 2023, we followed many veteran EMD led trains on the Staples Subdivision. By the end of 2023, BNSF moved nearly all these survivors out of the Northtown terminal, to be replaced by GE’s.
In Volume 5, we capture veteran EMD’s leading trains from January through September of 2022. Catch them here, because BNSF has moved the EMD’s off of the Staples Sub.
The rail network in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota hosts key routes to and from Chicago, Kansas City, ports in the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Many trains travel through the area, but the most unique trains are led with EMD locomotives. See those trains on the CP Paynesville and Withrow subs as captured between 2014 and 2023.
The rail network in the Twin Cities area of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota hosts key routes to and from Chicago, Kansas City, ports in the Pacific Northwest and Canada. Many trains travel through the area, but the most unique trains are led with EMD locomotives. See those trains on the BNSF Midway and St. Paul subs as captured between 2012 and 2023.
Celebrating the merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, CP sent their historic 4-6-4 Hudson #2816 on a three country tour.
See a wide variety of action filmed during several journeys across the state as we visit several hot spots – and even see the last ride of an Amtrak engineer before his retirement.
Clinchcross, North Carolina is where the former Southern Railway crossed over the former Clinchfield Railroad. This is an active CSX/NS spot. 2 Disc Set.
In part two of BNSF’s Chillicothe Subdivision, videographer Chris Wehman continues our westward journey on the super-busy BNSF Chillicothe Subdivision.
EMD locomotives once dominated the rails. Many of the older EMDs have been either purchased by regionals and shortlines or retired and scrapped. In Volume two, we travel to the South and Southwest before buying our ticket to Michigan, Nebraska and South Dakota. NOTE: This series is a compilation of great video. Some video has appeared in other CVP programs.
EMD locomotives once dominated the rails. Now GE’s GEVOs became the locomotive of choice for class ones and some regional railroads in the United States. In Volume one, we will see the last of the standard cab EMDs on the Montana Rail Link before we hit California, Colorado, Idaho, and Washington. NOTE: This series is a compilation of great video. Some video has appeared in other CVP programs.
Our theme in our search for steam in 2022 was beasts in the east.
BNSF still runs several trains with older EMDs on their Staples Sub in Minnesota. A huge variety of 4 and 6 axle EMDs can be seen on both local and road freights. BN colors still adorn few locomotives while many are dressed in BNSF black and orange. Most of these locomotives are on borrowed time, so capturing these now was a must.
Class One railroads were well supplied with a plethora of modern GE locomotives for use on their main line trains. BNSF still runs several trains with older EMDs on their Staples Sub in Minnesota. Most of these locomotives are on borrowed time, so capturing these now was a must.
Two shows with the complete story of the avalanche on Donner Pass that rolled a diesel, trapped a crew and closed Donner Pass for 9 days. Meet the crew, see the rotary go out, hear the rescue and see the UP crews reopen this important mountain pass.
In Part 3, of this 4 part farewell series, we continue east across Montana Rail Link’s Second Subdivision over Winston Hill and through Lombard Canyon to Logan. In Stock and Shipping.
Get a last look at a fan favorite. We visit the KCS’s Meridian Speedway – and off the Speedway too. See matched F-units with silver behind and the latest locomotives in new paint. KCS Finale is a great goodbye!
From the height of the Norfolk Southern Steam program comes this two DVD Set from one of the Kings of Steam, Greg Scholl. Get the excitement of 4-8-4 Class J #611 and 2-6-6-4 #1218 on former Norfolk and Western trackage and NKP 587.
From 2013 to 2019, Canadian Pacific began an extensive program to update their fleet of aging EMD 4 and six axle power.
Trains magazine is excited to bring you Search for Steam Volume 1 featuring over 40 engines from across the United States and England.
See KCS on the ‘Meridian Speedway’, in Mississippi and Meridian itself. Volume 2 covers the Speedway through the entire 150 miles in the state of Mississippi.
The Norfolk Southern’s Pittsburgh Line is the main artery for NS connecting the Midwest and the East Coast – and that means a lot of action!
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