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Akron rails are changing as we enter the new Century. Towers, industrial sites, wild and wacky goings on spice up this wide-ranging railroad romp around northeast Ohio.
In 1984 we were fortunate to see the “Last of the Garratts” on line workings with a day-long ballast train hauled by GMAM Garratt 4088 from Waterval Boven to Breyten and return.
This is a unique film about Norfolk and Western steam operation over the famous Blue Ridge Grade in 1957.
The story of steam, in 30 minutes! Remastered, color corrected with new footage.
Green Frogs professional photographer Rich Scheid takes us to the world famous Cajon Pass.br>The ATSF route to the pacific and Los Angeles California was completed in 1885 by the California southern railroad and bought by the ATSF in 1902. We will start this journey in downtown L.A. at L.A. Union Station. We will then climb…
We head up the California golden coast and along the beaches of southern California as the surf pounds in behind the many trains. From San Diego’s Union Station and up the surf line we travel through Old Town, Sorrento Valley, Del Mar, Solana Beach, Carlsbad, Oceanside, San Clemente, San Juan Capistrano, Anaheim, and take a…
Chase big diesels on the UP and BN in 1978.
Chase UP, D&RGW and the Utah Railway in 1977.
We’re on a journey from West Virginia northwards through the State of Ohio to the shores of Lake Erie.
104 pages. Over 80 maps, including detail maps. Comprehensive index. Updated 2009. Reprinted with permission. New larger format. 9×12 size allows for larger maps, clearer text.
See the building of railroads in the 1940s through 1960s, throughout the American West and Brazil. Color. Two hours and 50 minutes on 6 DVDs!
The Soo Line was a classy Midwest Class One operating from Portal, North Dakota to Sault Saint Marie, (The SOO in Soo Line) Michigan, along with many branch lines throughout its system.
Travel the World, from home: Sweet Steam explores the railroad, fields and mills of sugar cane country in Java. Steam to Janakpurdham looks at the daily work of a coal mine and the steam engines that serve it – then we charter a steam train across India into Nepal!
In this program, we will have an exciting look of a few of the Reading Iron Horse Rambles filmed on 8mm film in the early 60’s.
We see C&NW trains operating on former Rock Island, Chicago Great Western and Minneapolis & St. Louis lines in Iowa, Missouri and Minnesota. Classic Chicago and North Western, Volume 3 features Fred Crissey’s footage from the late 1970’s. Plenty of Midwest action is captured as trains operate over the Spine Line that runs from St….
Shot between 1977 to 1983, this is a look back at the CNW’s main and branch lines. Silent film with music and narration.
In the late 1970s, many ALCo units were based at Huron, South Dakota, due both to their lightweight and pulling capacity. This suitability to the area’s light rail and slow speeds made the Pierre to Winona route the CNW’s “ALCO Line”.
These are the last runs of the Cliffs Erie taconite trains. Get a cab ride and see the very last run.
Follow BNSF’s historic and scenic Milwaukee Road main from Summit, South Dakota to Terry, Montana, with extended coverage to Miles City, Montana. Also covered, the “Core Lines”, from Sioux City, Iowa to Aberdeen, South Dakota.
Take a journey across the former Milwaukee Road mainline from St. Paul, Minnesota to Summit, SD. The line’s current operators, Canadian Pacific, Minnesota Commercial, Twin Cities & Western, and BNSF keep this line active and interesting, and we will see all of them in operation. We take a look back to TC&W’s operations in the…
Climb aboard the Whitewater Valley Railroad, running a former New York Central branchline, for a 17 mile ride 150 years back in time!
The final volume of this 6 part series covers the branchlines in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula from Trout Lake to Powers, and from Marquette back to Trout Lake.
Join us for a trip back to the mid-1960s to see the south end of the Ann Arbor Railroad from Owosso to Toledo. Lots of great action, including pacing of classic covered wagons.
Bring the DCC revolution home. Volume 2.
Digital Command Control (DCC) has revolutionized the operation of model trains, offering a level of precise control of motion, lights, and even sound just not possible with older DC systems. Of course, using DCC requires a decoder in each locomotive. Some locomotives are available with decoders pre-installed, but what if, like many modelers, you have…
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