Shortlines and regionals are a vital source of traffic for the big Class 1 Railroads. Much of Conrail’s traffic in the Northeast fit this pattern. Explore those railroads and their Conrail connections.
Famed rail photographer Emery Gulash once said “to be a railfan in the mid 1950’s in or near Chicago was a double barrel dream”. If that’s the case, being a Chicagoland railfan in the early 1990s meant capturing the great railroads before they were gone. Dennis Jenko caught these soon to be fallen flags: ATSF, BN, CCP, CNW, CR, CSX, EJ&E, IHB, SOO, and WC.
Renowned filmographer Emery Gulash captures a variety of classic railroading in Michigan. 1967 action on C&O, DT&I, Pennsy, Santa Fe, N&W, New York Central, Grand Trunk, and DT&SL in Michigan.
Emery Gulash once said “to be a railfan in the mid 1950’s in or near Chicago was a double barrel dream” Being a railfan in the early 90’s meant capturing all the great railroads of Chicagoland before they disappeared.
In part two of BNSF’s Chillicothe Subdivision, videographer Chris Wehman continues our westward journey on the super-busy BNSF Chillicothe Subdivision.
Join Green Frog Productions and videographer Chris Wehman as we take an exciting, two-part look at BNSF Railway’s Chillicothe Subdivision. Running from Chicago, ILL. to Fort Madison, IA. the line.
Join Green Frog videographer Chris Wehman as we tour the Midwest for a look at modern Norfolk Southern and CSX action in NS and CSX in the Midwest, Volume 2.
GE’s GEVOs have become the locomotive of choice for class one railroads and some regionals in the United States. Since then, many of the older mainline EMDs have been either purchased by regionals and shortlines or retired and scrapped. In Volume 3, we find them in North Dakota, Kansas, Arkansas, Nebraska and Colorado. NOTE: This series is a compliation of great video. Some video has appeared in other CVP programs.
EMD locomotives once dominated the rails. Many of the older EMDs have been either purchased by regionals and shortlines or retired and scrapped. In Volume two, we travel to the South and Southwest before buying our ticket to Michigan, Nebraska and South Dakota. NOTE: This series is a compliation of great video. Some video has appeared in other CVP programs.
EMD locomotives once dominated the rails. Now GE’s GEVOs became the locomotive of choice for class ones and some regional railroads in the United States. In Volume one, we will see the last of the standard cab EMDs on the Montana Rail Link before we hit California, Colorado, Idaho, and Washington. NOTE: This series is a compilation of great video. Some video has appeared in other CVP programs.
The Cincinnati area is laced with shortlines. In Part 3 of this series we follow three Indiana & Ohio’s subdivisions plus the varnish of the Lebanon, Mason & Monroe Railroad.
In Part 4 of the Cincinnati Shortlines series, we see the Cincinnati East Terminal Railway. This beautiful stretch of railroad was once part of the Norfolk & Western.