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The Tourist Trains Guidebook Eighth Edition from Kalmbach is THE must-have book for planning your vacation train excursions and railroad museum visits. With listings for over 500 railroad attractions in the US and Canada this easy easy-to-use softcover book includes a handy site list, map and photo at the beginning of each section as well…
We’ll visit 9 Cuban sugar mill railroads when American steam locomotives were hauling the cane plus the Hershey Cuban Railway, an interurban line built by the Hershey Chocolate company.
Trolley action in Louisville, Nashville, Birmingham, and Miami in the 1930’s, ’40’s and ’50’s.
One of the largest Interurban systems in the country, with 800 miles of track radiating out from Indianapolis.
Let’s go back to the 1950’s for streetcar and interurban action on 10 Pennsylvania lines.
Documentary on the Cincinnati & Lake Erie, including the famous interurban vs airplane race.
From a single line of little cars pulled by horses, a series of lines emerged until the Louisville Railway Co. reached all parts of the city.
American Railroading, from the 1930s through the 1950s. 90% in color.
Join us for a second tour of the electric railways in and around Chicago. View footage captured on 16mm film by the noted photographer David J. Williams III. David captured all the action between the 50s & 80s on both color and black & white film. The majority of this program covers the Chicago, South…
A tour of the electric railways in and around Chicago and Milwaukee.
The New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad – the New Haven for short – was one of the proud old companies of New England for nearly a century. Best known for its nearly incomparable fleet of passenger trains connecting Boston and New York, two hundred thirty miles apart, the New Haven also ran commuter…
Action railroading from the 1960s around Chicago’s south side. Railroads featured are: * Wabash * Rock Island * Illinois Central * Santa Fe * Grand Trunk * B&O * Chicago & Northwestern * Pennsy * and C&O Great passenger train sequences on most roads! Steam excursions: (Run-bys and onboard) Grand Trunk Western #6218 in winter…
DAYTON’S ELECTRIC RAILWAYSLearn why Dayton’s RTA decided not to phase out their trolley system, and what the future holds for this unique form of transportation. This video contains vintage footage of the RTA’s Christmas Trolley #559 which now resides in San Francisco, California. Also included are vintage shots of #501 and #900. Narration for this…
A giant from two giants, the Penn Central tried to save the New York Central and the Pennsylvania from financial ruin, but facing the same economic headwinds, ultimately failed.
The Pennsy, The ‘Standard Railroad of the World” was, beginning in the summer of 1952, the standard for filmographer Emery Gulash, when he began capturing prolific amounts of activity on the PRR.
The railroad that launched famed photographer Emery Gulash into his railfanning and movie-making passion was The New York Central.
Is it a NKP Berk…or a C&O Kanawha? Yes.
Giant action…15 Steam locomotives from Coast to Coast, including cab rides!
Over the Rockies, East through Idaho and Montana behind a smooth, fast SP&S #700.
Southern Pacific Baldwin 2472 steam locomotive pulling Daylight cars.
This extensive show paints the picture that was the extensive interurban transportation system that, not that long ago, wrapped around lower Lake Michigan, from Milwaukee through Chicago and then to South Bend, Indiana. Excellent documentary!
Today, it’s a fallen flag railroad, but it was once one of the most unique rail lines in the United States. The Milwaukee Road, which ran from Chicago to the Pacific Northwest, operated as an electrified line in Montana up until June of 1974. Photographer Ted Pope captured the last 4 days of the electric…
The locomotives are colorful, the mountains are barren, and we take you right to the action in Chile.
Now gone, once these grassy hills and pine forests were the domain big electric power.
A high speed trainset from Denmark was the precursor for the Acela.
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