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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.
It’s the late 1980s and locomotives in the black, red and yellow scheme of the recently aborted SPSF merger were abundant along with units in the Santa Fe blue and yellow scheme. In addition, vintage film and photos present a few scenes of the railroad as it was in the 1940s. This program features the…
Newly restored Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 in 1985 made her first appearance of what would be many on the famed New River Train operated out of Huntington, West Virginia. We see 765 up close and then climb aboard for a ride behind steam on the mainline, as the 1944 Lima puts on quite a…
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.
See AND hear Southern Railway’s newly restored 2-8-0 #630. The DVD covers mainline action between Chattanooga and Cleveland, Tennessee. The included CD has 16 tracks of professionally recorded sound. Shake the furniture and wake the neighbors with this one. The 630 put on a heck of a show at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum’s 2013…
It is not our intent to recreate battle scenes or stories through modern day documentaries. Rather this is what the people on the “Home Front” would have seen during the war. This collection includes 8 Black and White, silent with titled information – exactly as presented to the public during the war. Since the footage…
Western Rails includes a great variety of places and railroads – all west of the Mississippi!
“Western Canada Combo” brings you two outstanding shows shot in western Canada: Scenic Trains of Canada and Scenic Trains of BC Rail.
Enjoy contemporary action with CSX and Amtrak trains at the hot spot locations of Ashland, and Doswell, Virginia -located on the busy former Richmond, Fredericksburg, and Potomac Railroad north-south mainline.
“Via F’s In The Rockies” is loaded with the great scenery of Western Canada, and includes scenes of the famous “Canadian” on the original route over Canadian Pacific tracks which includes beautiful Kicking Horse Pass. You will follow two runs of the pre-cut-back Canadian between Field and the Bow Valley in the spring of 1986…
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.
See both steam engines in the Union Pacific’s Steam Program: 4-8-4 #8444 (now #844) and Challenger 4-6-6-4 #3985.
Relive the glory years of steam on the Union Pacific with all new footage in this Volume Two of Union Pacific Steam Classics. There is a wealth of variety of material in this second video. Quality varies, but you can’t go back and shoot it now! We begin with late 1950s coverage of 800 series…
Travel back to the late 1940s through 1958 to see Union Pacific steam in action in regular service. This DVD also features bonus footage of the modern UP Steam program.
Enjoy powerful diesel locomotives as they battle the rugged southwestern U.S. – as the Union Pacific heads west over the Caliente Subdivision. This 240 mile section of mainline runs between Milford, Utah and Las Vegas, Nevada. This line is a major portion of Union Pacific’s route between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. The geography…
Four big mainline steam locomotives at the 1990 NRHS Convention in St. Louis. Excursions, inbound and outbound runs!
Here is a rare steam powered rotary snow-clearing operation on the former Rio Grande Narrow Gauge (now Cumbres & Toltec Scenic RR) in northern New Mexico and Colorado. The rotary OY snow plow is steam operated, but her own boiler can only power her blade, thus locomotives are required to push it ahead. The southern…
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.
This is the story of Canadian National branch lines that need cleared of snow and the big orange plow and early diesels CN has doing the job. In the winter of 1987 we ventured to Canada to capture some incredible railroad action. Stratford, Ontario is our base as we enjoy some plow runs on the…
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.
If you want to see train action, then Rochelle, Illinois is one of the best places in North America . With between 80 and 100 trains a day for Union Pacific and Burlington Northern Santa Fe, there is little down time.
Imagine if you could turn the railroad clocks back to say 1950 and relive the days of Rio Grande narrow gauge freight trains storming over Cumbres Pass. Well in the fall of 1992, photographer John Craft, organized a series of 5 trips over a one-week period that was the first time such trips were operated…
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