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It’s the sought-after moment in railfanning when two trains are meeting each other or running side by side. Train Meets 2 continues the series’ action with nonstop, screen-filling, multi-train meets.
Over two years went into the filming of Train Meets – Double The Action, and the results are simply spectacular!
Burlington Northern, live steam, narrow gauge steam, store layouts…this show has it all! What a special Christmas season treat!
The country’s railroading capital, with a network of rail lines unlike anywhere else in the nation.
Tracing the eastern banks of the upper Mississippi River is BNSF’s St. Croix Subdivision, a mostly double-tracked route providing access for a nonstop parade of traffic from La Crosse, Wisconsin to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota.
Flanking the western shore of the upper Mississippi River runs Canadian Pacific’s River Subdivision, a busy main line that supports a non stop flow of traffic.
Union Pacific 844 and Southern Pacific 4449 steam locomotives make history by double-heading for the first time ever between Tacoma and Everett.
Perhaps the busiest interlocking tower in the western U.S., with an average of over 100 movements in a 24 hour period, was Tower 55 located in Ft. Worth
At Fullerton in Southern California, Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliners, Metrolink trains, BNSF freights and Locals glide past the platforms one after the other, sometimes with mere minutes between arrivals and departures.
The third volume on our popular ‘sunrise/Sunset” series takes you to the busy triple-track mainline at Cincinnati, Ohio, where 12 routes radiating in and out of town are squeezed through a funnel called Winton Place.
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.
Here’s your opportunity to sit back and enjoy an entire day’s activity at what some say is the busiest all-freight railroad junction in the world – Union Pacific’s Gibbon Junction.
To railfans, ‘street running” brings to mind images of long trains operating down busy city streets while traffic swerves to avoid disastrous collisions. Let’s look at 22 of these locations around the country.
Deep in the Piney Woods of East Texas, the hard working steam locomotives of the Texas State Railroad put on thrilling performances. With their stacks barking out steady cadences, the toiling engines carry their passenger trains uphill and down, across 25 miles of picturesque terrain.
In pre-merger days the Southern Pacific ran a nonstop parade of trains across its Sunset Route and one of the most scenic stretches was the Lordsburg District between Tucson, Arizona and Lordsburg, New Mexico.
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.
Big steam locomotive power ventured onto the high iron during the summer of 1998, and Pentrex was on the spot to capture the excitement . Join us for a look at steamers 261, 587, 4449, 844, 328, 2719 and 1003.
Steam ruled the rails in Sacramento when the California State Railroad Museum hosted Railfair ’99 and the NRHS and R&LHS scheduled their national conventions in Sacramento to coincide with the event.
SP&S 700’s shiny black paint and yellow lettering dazzled young and old alike as she traveled between Vancouver, Washington and Spokane.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of 40-year old GP9, SD7, and SD9 diesel locomotives moving freight over Southern Pacific’s Central California mainlines and branch lines in the 1990s.
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.
SP’s busy San Joaquin Subdivision runs through the agricultural heartland of California’s Central Valley. This important North-South route helps link Los Angeles and Portland Oregon, and provides plenty of fantastic train watching spots.
Union Pacific’s mighty 844, leading an A-B-A set of E-units and 18 matched passenger cars, made one last extraordinary trip through the Royal Gorge and over Tennessee Pass prior to UP’s closing of this historic line.
At 7,440 feet, the crest of the Wasatch Plateau in Utah is the fifth highest railroad pass on a US transcontinental mainline. Assaulting the steep grades of Soldier Summit takes brute force horsepower.
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