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2 discs, 8 Hours. From desert heat to snow-capped mountains, with curves, tunnels, nonstop parade of trains, and famed Loop, Tehachapi offers mainline railroading excitement like no other place in the world. Map included!
California’s Cajon Pass has long been a favorite destination for countless railfans from around the world.
As Class One railroads concentrate more and more on mainline operations, smaller railroads fill the need to move goods from branch to main lines. Visit seven shortline and regional railroads in the upper Midwest.
Enjoy four hours of nonstop action from dozens of America’s classic steam locomotives. Watch these steam locomotives in excursion service today – and see vintage film of steam in the glory days of steam.
Tennessee Pass has been a magnet, drawing railfans and photographers to Colorado’s mountains for years. When word spread that Union Pacific was closing the pass in 1997, interest climbed to an all-time high.
Take a step back in time as Pentrex pays affectionate tribute to the Northwestern Pacific Railroad.
Every single scene in this 2 disc set has two or more trains in it – exciting and busy railroading!
It’s the sought-after moment in railfanning when two trains are meeting each other or running side by side. Train Meets 2 continues the series’ action with nonstop, screen-filling, multi-train meets.
Over two years went into the filming of Train Meets – Double The Action, and the results are simply spectacular!
Burlington Northern, live steam, narrow gauge steam, store layouts…this show has it all! What a special Christmas season treat!
The country’s railroading capital, with a network of rail lines unlike anywhere else in the nation.
Tracing the eastern banks of the upper Mississippi River is BNSF’s St. Croix Subdivision, a mostly double-tracked route providing access for a nonstop parade of traffic from La Crosse, Wisconsin to Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota.
Flanking the western shore of the upper Mississippi River runs Canadian Pacific’s River Subdivision, a busy main line that supports a non stop flow of traffic.
Union Pacific 844 and Southern Pacific 4449 steam locomotives make history by double-heading for the first time ever between Tacoma and Everett.
Perhaps the busiest interlocking tower in the western U.S., with an average of over 100 movements in a 24 hour period, was Tower 55 located in Ft. Worth
At Fullerton in Southern California, Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliners, Metrolink trains, BNSF freights and Locals glide past the platforms one after the other, sometimes with mere minutes between arrivals and departures.
The third volume on our popular ‘sunrise/Sunset” series takes you to the busy triple-track mainline at Cincinnati, Ohio, where 12 routes radiating in and out of town are squeezed through a funnel called Winton Place.
Trains rattle across the diamonds at Rochelle, Illinois, where the double tracks of the Union Pacific and the double tracks of the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks intersect.
Here’s your opportunity to sit back and enjoy an entire day’s activity at what some say is the busiest all-freight railroad junction in the world – Union Pacific’s Gibbon Junction.
To railfans, ‘street running” brings to mind images of long trains operating down busy city streets while traffic swerves to avoid disastrous collisions. Let’s look at 22 of these locations around the country.
Deep in the Piney Woods of East Texas, the hard working steam locomotives of the Texas State Railroad put on thrilling performances. With their stacks barking out steady cadences, the toiling engines carry their passenger trains uphill and down, across 25 miles of picturesque terrain.
In pre-merger days the Southern Pacific ran a nonstop parade of trains across its Sunset Route and one of the most scenic stretches was the Lordsburg District between Tucson, Arizona and Lordsburg, New Mexico.
The long-awaited debut of the new Steamtown National Historic Site took place over July 4th weekend, 1995, and Pentrex was on the spot to capture this historic Grand Opening and the excursions leading up to it.
Big steam locomotive power ventured onto the high iron during the summer of 1998, and Pentrex was on the spot to capture the excitement . Join us for a look at steamers 261, 587, 4449, 844, 328, 2719 and 1003.
Steam ruled the rails in Sacramento when the California State Railroad Museum hosted Railfair ’99 and the NRHS and R&LHS scheduled their national conventions in Sacramento to coincide with the event.
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