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.

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.

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.

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.