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Featuring the color film Karl Walters, Vignettes of the Baltimore and Ohio, Volume 1 documents Karl’s penchant for branch lines and smaller steam locomotives. Karl was trackside during the transition years on the B&O to film steam engine classics and the newest diesels.
It’s the 1970’s era of the BN in Washington and Montana, as well as pre-merger views of the Burlington, Northern Pacific, and Great Northern with pre-merger CB&Q, NP and GN in the Twin Cities, Montana and Nebraska.
Here are six rare Union Pacific publicity and safety training films that have never been presented to the general public.
This collection of rare training and PR films was produced by the Southern Pacific in the 1950s and is presented together for the first time!
See zebra-striped switch engines and GP9s; and blue & yellow F-units, GP9s, U-Boats, GP35s, SD45s, and F45s in this fantastic collection of Santa Fe training and promotional films from the 1950s and 1970s.
Southern Pacific’s last Imperial Valley sugar beet train pulled into the station at Guadalupe, California in 1993 – the nearby sugar mill would shut down after nearly 100 years of operation. Catch the last run of the famous sugar beet train.
Union Pacific’s 8500-series Gas Turbine Electric Locomotives earned the nicknames ‘super Fleet” as they were the largest, most powerful locomotives ever employed by the railroad.
The largest, most powerful diesel locomotives ever built: Union Pacific DDA40X Centennials weighed 270 tons, were almost to 100 feet long, carried 8,000-gallons of fuel, and generated 6,600 horsepower – with speeds of up to 90 mph.
Here is the whole turbine story, from rare footage of an early steam turbine experiment in 1938 to an experimental coal-burning turbine locomotive.
Sleek and stylish EMD E-8s and E-9s were the backbone of the Union Pacific Railroad’s fleet throughout the 1950s and ’60s.
In 1959, General Electric surprised the industry by introducing a new line of road switchers called the Universal Series. “U-Boats” are loved for their appearance, distinctive chugging, and tendency to spew sooty black smoke into the air.
This collection of archival footage documents the trauma that Mother Nature and Murphy’s Law inflicted upon Southern Pacific and how the railroad coped with these setbacks.
Enjoy the sights and sounds of 40-year old GP9, SD7, and SD9 diesel locomotives moving freight over Southern Pacific’s Central California mainlines and branch lines in the 1990s.
The vaults of the Southern Pacific provided a treasury of vintage footage to Pentrex, enough for two outstanding shows now combined on one DVD.
For 125 years, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the leader of its industry and proudly called itself the Standard Railroad of the World. Here are two outstanding productions about the Pennsy.
The NYC hired cinematographer Fred Beach to produce a number of public relations and employee training films. Mr. Beach went trackside between 1941 and 1954 to record the many activities of this iconic railroad.
Here is a priceless collection of vintage films that highlight the style and efficiency of the mighty New York Central Railroad.
Covering the years 1934 to 1955, this spine tingling video highlights some of the worst train crashes to occur in over 20 years of railroading.
If there ever was a Midwestern railroad that achieved storybook charisma, it was the “Hoosier Line”, Indiana’s own railroad.
Experience The Milwaukee Road of the early 1970s as Pentrex takes you on a three-volume video adventure along the CMStP&P’s Rocky Mountain Division!
Historic Hot Spots are etched in the minds of those who were there firsthand and revered by those who wish they had been. Here we highlight a few in the transition time of American railroading.
Five promotional films feature both steam and early diesel power in rare glimpses of an earlier time. These advertising films promoted the value railroads played in the public’s daily lives.
From the Pentrex archives comes a stunning collection of five films produced during the 1940s and 1950s by the Association of American Railroads.
For over 40 years, Anthony DeRosa railfanned the Great Northern Railway system, filming its operations from Seattle to Lake Superior and capturing the essence of a once-powerful and always popular railway.
Here are two shows presenting your favorite fallen flags: Filmed during the 1960s and 1970s at two of the country’s railroading hot spots: Chicago and the Twin Cities of Minneapolis/St. Paul.
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