Vintage Steam Spectacular
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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.

There are a variety of steam locomotives, from small to large to see and ride behind around the Great Lakes. Join us to see several of them in action!

The last trips before a FRA boiler rebuild, Reading & Northern’s 1928 Baldwin, 4-6-2 #425 runs 2 days of Christmas trains out of Tamaqua, Pennsylvania. No Blu-ray price bump at RailfanDepot. Same price, DVD or Blu-ray.

In crisp Fall weather, with the leaves changing color. newly restored Reading 4-8-4 #2102 operates 3 roundtrips – all with great stack talk. No Blu-ray price bump at RailfanDepot. Same price, DVD or Blu-ray.

Newly restored Reading 4-8-4 #2102 operates 3 roundtrips, with long trains, grades and loud stacks talk (and a doubleheader). No Blu-ray price bump at RailfanDepot. Same price, DVD or Blu-ray.

Cincinnati Steam Classics takes you to the Queen City when Norfolk & Western was 100% steam, with the New York Central and Baltimore and Ohio still running steam locomotives on some of their passenger trains.

A classic, action filled show chronicling Colorado’s famous narrow gauge steam.

Follow the steamboat Delta Queen on its last scheduled overnight cruise from Cincinnati to Memphis in October of 2008. Whistle and calliope included! :-)

Vintage film from the 1920s and later, then video from the last 25 years show riverboats, sternwheelers and steamboats on the Mississippi & Ohio Rivers.

75th Anniversary cruise of the steamboat Delta Queen – with additional footage and history!

A 685 mile cruise, an engine room tour, a steam boat museum tour…and much more. Much more than a cruise!

You’ll see a great variety of steam engines in action with everything from 0-6-0’s to the huge 4-8-8-4 Big Boy. There’s 14 different locomotive models in all that are manufactured by nine historic steam builders. Also 3 exciting sections with double and triple header steam action. Plus a bonus section with 1959 DM&IR steam action…

Trains and ferries were the way many people traveled to New York City in the pre-expressway late 1940s.
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