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This wonderful video find is from original 16mm film footage shot by Kent Cochrane, a noted WWII Navy combat photographer, who turned his attention to the New Haven after the war.
A variety of vintage Canadian National, and Canadian Pacific Steam awaits you on this DVD. Most of it this footage is 16mm, from a variety of sources, but there is also a little bit of 8mm shot by Warren Scholl in 1958 of CN 4-8-2 number 6079 in Windsor, Ontario, and some CP commuter steam…
Headin’ East boys! For a variety of early diesels in 1986 to 2002.
Volume 2 of the series heads out west for a variety of early diesels still running in 1989 to 1999. First we visit California and the Trona Railroad with rare Baldwin AS616’s in the California Desert region. These units no longer operate on this line. Next we see switching operations in Council Bluffs, Iowa with…
The “Wild Mary” from eastern terminus Baltimore to Elkins, WV and Connellsville, PA from 1940 until Chessie in 1975.
We get a look at the Southern through two of her own promotional films: “Piggyback Southern Style”, made in the early 1960s, and “Via Sevier” a film that follows two box cars through the system in the 1950s.
Part 2 of this series covers the final 15 years of operation in the Keystone State. Vintage diesels abound, but we’ll also see the Readings famous T1 4-8-4s power The Rambles at several locations around the system.
The Reading Company was the favorite railroad of Allentown, Pennsylvania native Charles Houser, Sr, who filmed throughout the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. Steam and Diesel are included in this rare color and black & white film.
Tour George Washington’s Railroad from The Mines to The Lakes during the 1950s and 60s. See the last of steam and 1st and 2nd generation diesels.
This is a time of transition for the B&O: Steam to diesel, first generation to second generation diesel and from the 1950s to the 1960s. Rare film gives us a peek at that exciting time.
Watch rare film from the 1940s and 1950s of B&O steam, much of it on Sand Patch Grade. Mostly color, some 1940s film is in B&W.
The second volume of this series features the B&O’s finest steam. From rare 1954 film footage we see steam powering passenger trains on the West End between Grafton, West Virginia and Cumberland, Maryland. We also steam at the head end of freights over Sand Patch Grade and coal trains on the old Buffalo Rochester and Pittsburgh near Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.
Featuring the color film Karl Walters, Vignettes of the Baltimore and Ohio, Volume 1 documents Karl’s penchant for branch lines and smaller steam locomotives. Karl was trackside during the transition years on the B&O to film steam engine classics and the newest diesels.
In Part 2 we follow the KCS’s Louisiana and Arkansas route from Dallas and Ft Worth to New Orleans, and its newest acquisition, the Gateway Western, from Kansas City to East St Louis.
Join us on a tour of the North-South mainline of the Kansas City Southern, from KC to the Gulf.
Clear Block wraps up its look at the GTW with in Detroit area – from Andersonville, north of Pontiac on the GT Holly Sub, to Monroe.
Part 5 of the comprehensive 1990s GTW series features the former Detroit Toledo Shoreline Route from Delray Tower in Detroit to Lang Yard in Toledo.
Watch the GTW on the former Detroit Toledo and Ironton Railroad from Springfield, Ohio north to Flat Rock Yard, on Detroit’s south side. Shot over a 5-year period, we see a detailed look at GT and Indiana and Ohio trains from trackside and onboard a passenger special.
Climb on board a 3-unit lash-up of ALCo Centuries and ride the second unit (Second unit?? Yes!! That’s the BEST place to record that Great Alco Sound!) on D-LS Portland Turn from Scranton to the NS interchange at Slateford Junction in Pennsylvania.
Travel back to the 1950s to visit both the West Side Lumber Company in 1951 and the Pickering Lumber Company in 1953.
Visit the CN and CP in BC, in 1998! There is action in Kamloops yards and along Kamloops Lake and the Thompson and Fraser Rivers at locations such as Boston Bar, Savona and the famous twin bridges at Siska and more.
Shenandoah Junction, in the panhandle of West Virginia, is a great train watching spot with Norfolk Southern, CSX, Amtrak and MARC trains.
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.
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.
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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