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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.
The great Pennsylvania Railroad dominated its namesake state. After the Penn Central merger debacle, the Federal Government assumed control of most of the northeastern roads. The Consolidated Rail Corporation, was set up to operate these lines.
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!
There is a lot of tourist railroading going on in New Hampshire! Two tourist lines are now operated by the same operator on former the Boston and Maine Railroad’s “Concord & Montreal” line through the scenic New Hampshire Lake Region into the White Mountains.
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
B&M, controlled by the Guilford Rail System in the ’80s & ’90s. 2 DVDs, 3 Hours.
The Eastern Tennessee & Western North Carolina was the last active narrow gauge railroad in the Blue Ridge. This DVD is the definitive “Tweetsie” visual experience.
This Conrail line, the former EL mainline, became known as “The Southern Tier”.
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The CN and CP in the Montreal run side by side along the north bank of the St. Lawrence River. There is a lot of freight action as well as VIA passenger traffic on the CN and Montreal commuters on the CP.
These DVDs cover the D&H during the late 1980s and early 1990s under the control the Guilford Rail System then operations under the court appointed Susquehanna and finally the Canadian Pacific. 2 DVD set.
New England’s CV just as steam was giving way to diesel, 3 DVDs, 3 Hours.
Shortlines of the 1980s and 1990s in the Carolinas. Maps and Narration.
Another in a series of cab ride videos taken over the B&A as a trainman. The action is centered on Palmer, Massachusetts. Palmer is the junction of Conrail with the Central Vermont and Mass Central.
Take a series of cab rides with Conrail trainman Gary Gurske over the Berkshire Hills of Western Massachusetts.
After Boston and Albany freight and passenger trains quit running the rails, it was time for New York Central trains and then Penn Central trains to ply the former B&A tracks. And then came Conrail Blue.
This is the former C&O from Lynchburg to Kenova, including Clifton Forge, Covington, White Sulfur Springs, St. Albans and Huntington. You’ll also see Ohio River Terminal operations in Huntington with a rare ALCo C415.
We visit new operations and update those on volume 1. Visited are: The Copper Basin RR, Magma San Manuel, Arizona Eastern RR, Phelps-Dodge with a new paint scheme, Cyprus-Miami Copper, Navajo RR , Black Mesa & Western and more.
See copper mining operations and the railroads associated with them from inside the operation. Volume 1.
There were a lot of great places along the Pennsylvania Railroad’s four track main over the Allegheny spine to watch and photograph trains. One of the best of those railfan locations is between downtown Altoona, (ALTO Tower) and famous Horseshoe Curve.
Two great railroads bisected the city of Berea, OH. To the north was the New York Central’s water level route and to the south was the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis, the Big 4. They interchanged here under the control of Berea Tower.
Baltimore and Ohio steam locomotives were running out their final years in the early ’50’s. Ed Birch visited the Cumberland, MD, area several times to document these engines.
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The Baltimore and Ohio’s Keystone Sub had one of the toughest grades in North America. It also was – and is – very photogenic.
With a Minuteman as its longtime corporate symbol, the Boston & Maine was the quintessential New England railroad. Ride the head end of “The Minuteman” from South Acton to the bumping post in North Station.
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