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From the 1902 immediate predecessor the Pennsylvania Special to the end run of the Broadway Limited in 1995. This look at one train is a tour-de-force of railroad history.
The Erie-Lackawanna offered commuters an on-time ride. Shippers received excellent service. And, until 1970, long distance passengers were afforded views of some of the best scenery east of the Rockies.
This is Tain #1 – the oldest name train in the US and America’s longest and first Coast-to-Coast route!
The Great White North, by rail, with polar bears and whales.
The much anticipated, and long delayed, merger of the Pennsylvania and New York Central in 1968 (with the forced addition of the New Haven in 1969) was not to be a panacea for railroading in the Northeast. Film from a half dozen photographers help us look back at important transition period – one we can see now was filled with a lot of variety.
Imagine not slow, two-mile long, trains, but a racetrack – maybe even a drag strip – of railroading. In 1994, that describes the Santa’s Fe’s mainline between the West Coast and Kansas City.
Union Pacific’s main between Council Bluffs and North Platte and O’Fallons is a 100 to 150 train-a-day show.
Join us as we see train after train run the Nebraska prairie from Gibbon Jct to O’Fallons – and past one grain elevator after another grain elevator.
A classic, action filled show chronicling Colorado’s famous narrow gauge steam.
Come with us as we tour one of Union Pacific’s three helper grades in the Blue Mountains before the age of distributed power and see 24 hours of action on the UP’s main line to the Pacific Northwest.
Enjoy the Denver & Rio Grande Western 3′ gauge lines in Colorado with an emphasis is on vintage passenger and freight operations in the 1950’s and ’60’s.
Emery Gulash at his best with his camera pointed at steam. This is steam on film from one of the best cinematographer of the 1950s, 60s and 70s.
A first for Herron: An all diesel video. And Chicago is, of course a great place to catch a variety of diesels.
Diesels have taken over on the NYC Ohio Division. Steam is gone, but it’s an exciting time on the railroad.
It’s the last 6 months of steam on the NYC Big Four Ohio Division. Relive it here!
It’s 1955 and steam still rules on NYC’s Big Four Ohio Division.
The age of steam came to its finale’ in the early 1950’s.
Detroit Edison is Michigan’s largest electric utility. A great deal of that electricity is supplied by coal fired generators, and much of that coal arrives by train!
This is the finest, most complete #1218 program ever produced! One hour of exclusive footage, with the chief mechanic responsible for her rebuilding and even shots from the air!
See how one of the finest modelers in the country followed the prototype RGS, and learn how to build some of the best looking evergreen trees you’ve ever seen!
Spectacular scenery, mountain railroading, pusher service, spectacular bridges, rivers…all the things that make railroading enjoy-able to watch…this is what you’ll find on the CSX Chattanooga to Nashville Line!
The haunting sounds of steam locomotives echoed once again through the Deep South when the National Railway Historical Society held its 1994 National Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Steam on the legendary City of Los Angeles.
See the Chicago & NorthWestern Railroad and their iron ore operations in the Upper Peninsula Michigan. This footage was shot just prior to the UP taking over the C&NW. Located on the famous Marquette Iron range at Palmer, Michigan, you’ll see fascinating mining activities at the Empire Mine and taconite plant. The scenes include: open…
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