California Rails The Golden State in the 1980’s
$24.95Journey back to 1985 and 1989 with Arthur Purchase as we take a look at footage he shot in California on two different trips.
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Journey back to 1985 and 1989 with Arthur Purchase as we take a look at footage he shot in California on two different trips.
We spent thirteen and a half hours at Riley’s Railhouse Bed and Breakfast from 5:45 AM to 7:15 PM
From the camera of Arthur Purchase, NostalgiaRail brings you a comprehensive look at the Chicago and Illinois Midland Railroad, one of the most overlooked railroads in Central Illinois.
The merger era on Union Pacific continues with this colorful look.
Crawford Hill is well known as the toughest railroad grade in the state of Nebraska
We were on hand for the weekend, covering the four trips and some of the other movements at the museum. Three photographers covered the action in widescreen format.
Our show starts on the Iowa Interstate as 2-10-2 #6988 makes a visit to Illinois to pull a series of trips to benefit first responders. The weather varied from sunny to heavy rain during her visit, and our visit concludes with the locomotive making time on a deadhead freight run.
1862 was a year of highs and lows in American history. The country was in the middle of a civil war, and one of the bloodiest battles of that war took place in April at Shiloh, Tennessee; near the Mississippi border. That same year, a stroke of President Abraham Lincoln’s pen created the Union Pacific Railroad as one of two companies to build the first transcontinental railroad.
The biggest railroading event of 2011 was in July, 2011, in Rock Island, Illinois.
The Rio Grande Scenic Railroad has joined the ranks of tourist railroads operating steam power over former Denver & Rio Grande Western in southern Colorado. Unlike the more established operations that run on the former Rio Grande narrow gauge lines, the Rio Grande Scenic runs standard gauge trains.
When you think of all of the steam locomotives that were built in the U.S., the ranks of survivors are thin; even more so for operable examples. So what would the odds be that a one-of-a-kind locomotive built for a small logging operation not only survive, but operate in the Twenty-First Century
2014 marked the return to steam of one of the most famous steam locomotives in the world: Southern Railway Mikado #4501.
Pullman predated the Civil War, and became THE name in first class rail travel through the golden age of railroads.
Join Diverging Clear Productions for a look at a classic Norfolk & Western locomotive in action on one of the oldest tourist railroads in the United States.
The late 1980’s were a golden era for the operation of preserved steam locomotives. Both Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern had official steam programs, and the ranks of locomotives restored by volunteer groups was expanding.
Diverging Clear Productions is proud to release the next DVD in The Heritage Series, featuring St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522 in some of her first excursions after her return to service in 1988.
This program was a quarter-century in the making, featuring footage shot from 1985 to 2010. 65 different locomotives are featured; many that run today and many more that no longer run.
The Cumbres & Toltec is one of the scenic wonders of tourist railroading in North America. Trains run over the 64 mile portion of the old Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge system between Chama, New Mexico, and Antonito, Colorado.
Join Diverging Clear Productions for a visit to one of the oldest, certainly one of the hardest working, tourist railroads in the United States.
In June of 1993, former St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522 pulled a pair of trips from St. Louis to Centralia, Illinois, as a part of Norfolk Southern’s popular steam program. Lacking facilities to turn the locomotive in Centralia, Burlington Northern took the train on a pair of side trips from Centralia to Sesser, Illinois, where the train was turned on a wye. On the B.N., the train operated as an employee special.
In June, 1994, the annual convention of the National Railway Historical Society was held in Atlanta, Georgia. The convention featured two mainline locomotives: Norfolk Southern’s former Norfolk & Western Class J 4-8-4 #611, and restored St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522.
In 2005, the Kentucky Railroad Museum in New Haven, Kentucky, celebrated the 100th birthday of former Louisville & Nashville 4-6-2 Pacific #152. On October 15 and 16, just as the fall colors were starting to turn, Diverging Clear Productions visited to catch the century old locomotive in action.
For the third year since her return to service in 2015, Norfolk & Western Class J 4-8-4 #611 in 2017 ran excursions out of her hometown of Roanoke, Virginia. Over the three day Memorial Day weekend, the locomotive handled two daily trips.
Diverging Clear Productions was on hand when a newly restored steam locomotive made her debut in September, 2010; former Southern Railway 2-8-0 #401 at the Monticello Railway Museum in Monticello, Illinois.
When in mid 2010 we learned that three Southern Railway Consolidation type steam locomotives were to be returning to operation, we began making plans to film all three. Between April and July 2011, we did just that. The result is ‘southern Steam Returns.”
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