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We see the NKP from 1950 to 1964, beginning in its hometown of Cleveland, Ohio. The action then moves to southeastern Ohio on the former Wheeling and Lake Erie in the Coshocton and Adena areas, before ending up at Conneaut, Ohio, with a cab ride side trip to Buffalo. Vintage steam and diesel.
It’s the final 6 years of the BN, from 1990 to 1996, as seen from five major locations around the system. The Chicago area at Highlands and LaGrange, at Birmingham, Missouri, near Kansas City, then along the old Great Northern in the Minot area and in the Sandhills of Nebraska, and finally along the former CB&Q at Ottumwa and Mt Pleasant, Iowa.
Here is the final four years of the BN before its inclusion into BNSF. We focus on three major locations around the system, in the St Paul area at Newport, Hoffman Ave and Westminster, then along the old Northern Pacific in the Valley City, North Dakota area, and finally along the former CB&Q at Bushnell, Illinois.
The Santa Fe Railroad along the Santa Fe trail.
Climb on board a 3-unit lash-up of ALCo Centuries and ride the second unit (Second unit?? Yes!! That’s the BEST place to record that Great Alco Sound!) on D-LS Portland Turn from Scranton to the NS interchange at Slateford Junction in Pennsylvania.
Ride in the cab of CSX GE AC6000 unit 680 as we make a non-stop run on Intermodal train Q-161 from Willard, Ohio to Garrett, Indiana. This is 130 miles of former Conrail and B&O main line.
See zebra-striped switch engines and GP9s; and blue & yellow F-units, GP9s, U-Boats, GP35s, SD45s, and F45s in this fantastic collection of Santa Fe training and promotional films from the 1950s and 1970s.
Union Pacific’s 8500-series Gas Turbine Electric Locomotives earned the nicknames ‘super Fleet” as they were the largest, most powerful locomotives ever employed by the railroad.
In 1959, General Electric surprised the industry by introducing a new line of road switchers called the Universal Series. “U-Boats” are loved for their appearance, distinctive chugging, and tendency to spew sooty black smoke into the air.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At 7,440 feet, the crest of the Wasatch Plateau in Utah is the fifth highest railroad pass on a US transcontinental mainline. Assaulting the steep grades of Soldier Summit takes brute force horsepower.
Featuring one of the most dramatically exciting side-by-side steam locomotives scenes ever staged: UP 8444 and SP 4449 running on the parallel tracks leading up Cajon Pass.
Explore San Francisco’s South Bay using San Jose as our hub. Amtrak, Caltrain, Altamont Commuter Express (ACE), Union Pacific, BNSF, and several tourist railroads all operate here.
Santa Fe 3751 and 24 private cars graced the scenic Surfline route in September 2008.
Named for the 23 tunnels that once embellished the line, the Rathole stretches between Danville, Kentucky and Oakdale Tennessee.
For 125 years, the Pennsylvania Railroad was the leader of its industry and proudly called itself the Standard Railroad of the World. Here are two outstanding productions about the Pennsy.
Stretched against the stunning backdrop of Glacier National Park, Burlington Northern’s transcontinental mainline climbs up and over the rugged Rocky Mountains.
Tour the entire Kansas City Southern Railway system in 1990 – from Kansas City to Port Arthur and over the former Louisiana & Arkansas line from New Orleans to Shreveport and across the Texas Division towards Dallas.
Sizzling action – that’s railroading in the Twin Cities in 1998 when this show was filmed. Minneapolis/St. Paul hosts eight different railroads plus Amtrak passenger trains.
It’s exciting ride on the longest and highest narrow gauge railroad in North America, the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad. Narrow gauge from Chama, New Mexico to Antonito, Colorado.
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