Penn Central Volume 1
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This series is a look at the Penn Central and its operations prior to Conrail.

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.

Lots of mainline steam & diesel at Lordstown, Willard. and more.

NKP’s famous 2-8-4 Berkshires strut their stuff across the system, from Buffalo to Chicago!

The task boys, is to “Restore a Big Boy to operation!” And it was done.

See the last of working CB&Q steam, steam on the Bevier & Southern, and the last C&S steam on the Climax branch and then early ’60s steam excursions on the Burlington. Great film!

Celebrating the merger of Canadian Pacific and Kansas City Southern, CP sent their historic 4-6-4 Hudson #2816 on a three country tour.

The C&NW was great granger railroad with lots of action. In this documentary by Bill Warrick we’ll see C&NW steam, diesels, streamliners, and freights. Exclusive interviews help us understand this great railroad.

This documentary weaves archive black & white and color film, with photos, expert narration and recent film of restored logging steam locomotives working on lines through Northwest Pacific forests. The story follows logging from colonial days through the end of steam logging and into modern logging. NOTE: The narrator discusses logging’s impact on the environment, positive and negative, and on workers.

Special Package Set!

The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad operates one of best steam tourist railroads in the world, some 45 miles each way from Durango to Silverton, Colorado in the Rockies.

In the video we will see most of the stations, as well as water tanks, breathtaking wooden trestles and loops, and pristine mountain and lakes in this remote portion of Colorado.

If you like hard-working steam action, this is a must-have for you.

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.

The Sand Hills Subdivision was once a quiet backwater of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system.

Over the years, we have used many scenes filmed at night in our video productions. Due to feedback from our viewers, we are now proud to release a video filmed completely after dark.

Just as we began shooting in the 16×9 widescreen format in 2011, several Southern Railway steam locomotives were being restored to operation. In the years that followed, we made numerous trips to film these locomotives in action. This program presents some of the best scenes of these locomotives, shot over the course of a decade.

For sixty years, the Strasburg Rail Road has been offering rides behind steam locomotives in the Dutch Country of Pennsylvania between Strasburg and Paradise.

Our theme in our search for steam in 2022 was beasts in the east.

23 steam locomotives from 17 different railroads. It’s huge variety of steam engines in action, everything from diminutive switchers to the largest to hit the high iron: N&W 1218, UP Challenger 3985 and 4014, UP’s Big Boy. Includes doubleheader action!

Here’s footage that cuts straight to the heart of the action! See mighty steam machines pulling hard; hitting the steepest grades of the East and West. Every clip is a steam locomotive pulling hard, or with wheel slip, or with great stack talk – as she works hard on a steep grade!
Some of these clips were seen in other Main Line Motion Picture Shows. This show was previously released under the title “Steep Steel & Slipping, Stalling Steam! (Volume 1)”. This new release has additional footage and has been digitized, upconverted, frame-by-frame stabilized and color-corrected.

The “Then and Now” series takes a look at the same railroad or locations with vintage film or video and then contrasting the “then” footage with modern “now” footage. In this series entry we look at the narrow-gauge lines of the Denver, Rio Grande & Western from the second World War to today’s operations on the Cumbres & Toltec and Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge railroads. This is a 2-disc set.
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