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See AND hear Southern Railway’s newly restored 2-8-0 #630. The DVD covers mainline action between Chattanooga and Cleveland, Tennessee. The included CD has 16 tracks of professionally recorded sound. Shake the furniture and wake the neighbors with this one. The 630 put on a heck of a show at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s 2013…
Short Lines and Short Stories is a compilation of five short films featuring the Vermont Rail System, New England Central, Silver Lake Railroad, Sandy River and Rangeley Lakes Railroad and the Shelburne Falls Trolley Museum.
The winter of 2007-2008 was especially harsh on Vermont’s railroads. More than 98 inches of snow fell in the Green Mountains during that winter – and brought out the snow fighting equipment on the region’s short line railroads.
Follow Pan Am Southern train ED-2 as they switch businesses from East Deerfield to the oxbow (old American Indian name: Nonotuck) in Northampton on the old Boston & Maine’s Connecticut River Division.
Travel the southern half of the old Berkshire Division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad!
Discover the world of backyard railroading in this two part video featuring two live steam clubs in Massachusetts.
This program includes mostly 16mm color and black/ white film of Steam and Diesel action during the 1930s-40s-50s-and 60s in Massachusetts, Eastern New York, Ohio and Indiana. Beginning in Boston on the Boston and Albany, the program moves west along the NYCs Water Level Route.
Volume 3 covers The Big Little Railroad for almost its entire length from Jersey City to the Scranton, Pennsylvania vicinity during its final 15 years. Among the many locations featured are Communipaw, Bound Brook, Bethlehem, Allentown, Lehighton and Jim Thorpe. Cab views too!
Volume 2 in the CNJ series shows the CNJ in the turbulent 1960s, from Jersey City, NJ to Bethlehem, PA. The CNJs multiple track mainline, used by parent company Baltimore and Ohio and sister company Reading is featured being utilized by all three companies in Jersey City, Communipaw, Elizabethport, Elizabeth, Aldene, Cranford, Plainfield, Middlesex, and Bound Brook.
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.
Step back to the 1930s-1950s to experience one of the largest interurban railroads in the country. The Illinois Terminal Railroad was a significant provider of passenger and freight service for central Illinois, with Springfield as its hub.
As a part of the 1948 Chicago Railroad Fair, there was a twice-daily pageant based on the history of American transportation called Wheels-a-Rolling. Significant historic events were related with a railroad background. Hundreds of actors participated and many of these were steam powered!
Selkirk Yard is the major classification yard for much of the Northeast. See it up close and personal, with employee access!
Until the late sixties, the New Haven Railroad was the dominant force in Southern Connecticut. Then things began to diversify when Penn Central, Amtrak and then Conrail took charge. And then the railroad scene changed even more!
Long before Conrail and now CSX, Albany, New York has long been a congested railroad “hot spot” for freight traffic.
Sit back and watch vintage railroad action on the famous “Joint Line”! The Denver and Rio Grande Western and Santa Fe each had single track mainlines between Denver and Pueblo.
The Newfoundland Railway was the longest narrow gauge railroad in North America. Confined to an island, interchange came via Ferry boat.
Sixty years ago, every major city had a mass transportation system that operated on steel rails embedded in its streets and powered by overhead wires.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway had just added “and Pacific” to its name by crossing the Continental Divide, the Bitterroots and the Cascades to reach the Puget Sound. And now the railroad was going to take on electrification!
In the early decades of the last century, you could go anywhere by railroad. If the steam roads couldn’t take you somewhere, then the interurbans and trolleys could.
The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad was chartered in 1868 by the Union Pacific to be its southern division with a mission to connect Kansas with Texas and the Gulf of Mexico.
Visit Kansas City, the nation’s second busiest rail hub, in the early 1990s. Most of our major railroads run into the city, the names may be changed due to merger, but the trains are still there!
Off the mainline, you never know what you might find. Short lines, small locomotives, light rails and friendlier crews.
The Hudson River has been an avenue for transportation since the area was settled. First it was boat traffic and then railroads built on the Hudson’s banks.
Hancock Tower, in West Virginia, between Harpers Ferry and Cumberland was one of the last of the old B&O manned interlockings. It controlled crossovers, access to a small yard and the Berkeley Springs branch. Heavy and varied traffic
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