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Remarkable new vistas greeted rail passengers in 1885 when the “National Dream” of the link between British Columbia and eastern Canada was hammered into reality with a final spike. The Coast, Selkirk and Rocky Mountains still beckon visitors – and the best way to see it all is the Rocky Mountaineer.
Both regular operation and charters are part of our North American tour, which spans the late 1930s to 1970 along with a few postscript items bridging the new century. This was truly a different time in America, a time when you grabbed your lunch pail and caught the street car a block or two from your home and rode to work with ease and style. Some of America’s largest cities continue to operate trolley lines, trams or light rail. A few are even using PCC cars! You can still see these proud old cars running in Boston (Mattapan Line), Kenosha, Philadelphia, San Diego and San Francisco (the F Line, or Market Line). If you live in, or go to, one of those cities, you can ride the past – today!
20 years after Conrail. Covers current operators, stations, and shops, principal branches, with scenes from E-L years – we update the EL to 1999.
A Double Feature! See 20 minutes of Pennsylvania Railroad heritage from 1948 to 1952 and then the modern Curve, PC, Conrail, NS and Amtrak.
The ticket agent at Newark Penn Station raised his eyebrows… and invited me into his office. It was 1969, and I had given him a cross-country itinerary for three us which included a segment from Prince George to North Vancouver over the Pacific Great Eastern. “You’re the first person in twenty years to request that line!” The PGE and BCR via RDC and more, including steam!
Horsepower was the main thing – just get the tonnage over the road but for the observer, B&O’s mixed bag of external and internal combustion power made for a show full of suspense and variety
There are other surprises as well, but mostly just good train watching: “20th Century Limited”, “Empire State Express”‘ and other Limiteds alongside freights with pacemaker box cars, flexi-vans, and tri-level auto racks.
Using the Offical Guide as a 90 minute study of passenger runs before Amtrak. An invaluable work for modelers, as the entire consist of most trains is shown
Lots of mainline steam & diesel at Lordstown, Willard. and more.
Next we view typical action in the early years with a colorful mix of hand me-down EMDs: Five units on a heavy coal drag out of Pittsburgh’s Rook Yard, the 2662 screaming up the 5% grade at Mogadore as the engine dies while passing the camera, a cab ride through the P&WV tunnel district, some yard action, a few wrecks, and some stunning winter scenes.
See authentic narrow gauge action in the 1950s by Colorado Railroad Museum founder Bob Richardson. You will see wedge plows in action on the Sapinero Branch during the “Big Snow” year of 1953, along with the drifted-in Crested Butte Station.
Ride ALCO RS-2 #900 on the “Steel King” through the street at Warren – Visit the Cleveland Docks – Watch Bloomsburg Branch Fs and Patriotic SDs in the snow at Olean.
Don’t miss the Soo Line Laker with NYC, PRR Pullmans, and more – including a furious 70 MPH pace of a NYC freight which eluded the auto when the photographer’s wife decided the train had won
The Baltimore & Ohio was a railroad of firsts. By 1842, it had connected Cumberland, MD, with the East Coast.
Trans-Siberian remains the backbone which unites a vast continent. See heavy passenger and freight activity, along with vistas of Moscow, St. Petersburg on its 300th birthday, followed by cities and villages across Siberia en route to Ulan Bator, Mongolia.
Here is the Viewliner story – from Amtrak’s prototypes, to design, construction, and revenue service.
The photographer O. Winston Link (1914-2001) earned praise both in railroad and photographic history for his amazing portraits of N&W steam. Fifty years after Mr. Link made his famous portraits of steam in the night, we revisit many of these places to see what has changed and, surprisingly, what has not.
From the 1902 immediate predecessor the Pennsylvania Special to the end run of the Broadway Limited in 1995. This look at one train is a tour-de-force of railroad history.
The Erie-Lackawanna offered commuters an on-time ride. Shippers received excellent service. And, until 1970, long distance passengers were afforded views of some of the best scenery east of the Rockies.
This is Tain #1 – the oldest name train in the US and America’s longest and first Coast-to-Coast route!
26,000 daily trains! Speedy Shinkansens, and slow mountain lines. Luxurious overnighters to lowly diesel cars.
Akron rails are changing as we enter the new Century. Towers, industrial sites, wild and wacky goings on spice up this wide-ranging railroad romp around northeast Ohio.
Rubber City region action from the 1950s to 1980s with steam, early diesels and a cab ride.
The early CSX years just after 1986 to 1990 brought an unprecedented array of colors to the Akron scene: B&O and C&O blue, WM red & white, Chessie orange and yellow, Seaboard System/Family Lines grey, plus Georgia, L&N and more.
View the variety of the 1950’s in the Rubber City region. B&O, Erie, Pennsy, New York Central and the AC&Y.
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