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This is the 1976 to 1997 story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation, widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in 1976.
Shot primarily during a time of transition for CSX, between 1999 and 2001, as it gobbled up a part of Conrail, but we also are treated to scenes from the 1991 to 1993 time frame.
Visit Canada from 1939 to 1973 from New Brunswick to Vancouver Island. We bring lots of steam and the early diesels in both freight and passenger service.
This video brings us the Southern Pacific as it existed out west from 1950 to 1978.
See the SP battle back to respectability in the early 90s. The aborted merger with the Santa Fe during the 1980s left both lines greatly weakened and the SP seemed to be the worst victim.
Visit 10 shortlines spanning the years from 1970 to 1998. We had full access to the Angelina & Neches River Railroad, in Texas, and the Central Oregon and Pacific, in Oregon, with the ‘inside’ look at two very capable shortlines.
See Gila and Lordsburg districts from the 80s and 90s with cabooses, lower quadrant semaphores and on-train footage. Main and branch line action. See Donner Pass, Cuesta and the Coastline, Beaumont Hill, Tehachapi and more.
From construction to shut-down, this is Tennessee Pass history. Steep 3% grades and trains with up to 40,000 bellowing horsepower are featured.
We visit the busiest freight railroad in the world: Union Pacific’s Council Bluffs Subdivision. Join us as we see hot spots such as Gibbon and Grand Island and Bailey Yard.
Big steam returns to the big curve in 2013: Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 pulled a series of three excursions from Lewistown to Gallitzin, including the assault on the grade west of Altoona and around Horseshoe Curve.
The 1990 National Railway Historical Society convention featured four active mainline steam locomotives: N&W 2-6-6-4 #1218, UP 4-8-4 #844, St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522 and St. Louis Southwestern 4-8-4 #819.
The Missouri Pacific became a part of the Union Pacific in late 1982. But even in the mid and late 80’s, consists of pure blue Missouri Pacific power could still be found.
1990 was a year of change along the Mainline of Mid-America. We see that last months of the double track mainline and the early months of single track operations between Effingham and Cairo in Illinois.
The trains in this program were shot at the end of the ICG’s existence, in the years before the railroad reverted to the Illinois Central name. At that time, there were three ICG paint schemes, and all of them make an appearance.
With some former “Gulf” lines spun off, the renewed IC made a return to the old Illinois Central name, and a new black paint scheme harking back to the days when the Illinois Central was known as the Mainline of Mid America.
This program covers Norfolk Southern early in its existence, with plenty of locomotives painted in the colors of the Southern Railway and Norfolk & Western mixed with newly repainted Norfolk Southern power.
This program examines the formative years of CSX from the end of the Chessie and Seaboard systems in 1985 through CSX’s own image in the early 90’s. We’ll see a lot of early paint.
Here is the last railroad to use steam exclusively in freight service in the United States, the Crab Orchard & Egyptian Railroad. Interviews with one of the railroad’s founders and the current president of the railroad add to the story.
“Western Canada Combo” brings you two outstanding shows shot in western Canada: Scenic Trains of Canada and Scenic Trains of BC Rail.
We begin in Cheyenne as 8444 has received its original number 844 (a UP diesel was retired, freeing up the number 844) and is set for a July 1989 outing.
Four big mainline steam locomotives at the 1990 NRHS Convention in St. Louis. Excursions, inbound and outbound runs!
Watch the dramatic action of two big mainline steam engines operating side-by-side as the feature attraction of the 1991 NRHS convention in Huntington, West Virginia.
See a variety of locomotives in action in this program, from big mainline double-headed power to small tourist railroad steam – all over the western USA.
Watch Santa Fe 4-8-4 number 3751 make a historic trip from Los Angeles to Chicago following the transcontinental mainline – some 2300 miles. The trip, made shortly after being restored in 1991, is still the longest this steamer has made! The trip to Chicago was an employee recognition special, and not a public excursion train….
Travel back in time almost 20 years and see the annual CSX Santa Claus Train on the former Clinchfield – with a big Challenger taking the lead.
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Big Steam's Last Stand - Winter on Jingpeng Pass