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It’s a long day for the camera guy, but you don’t have to find them time and brave the weather to see all cars of most trains! We see something for everyone this day: coal, steel, auto, and containers, chemical and general manifest freight trains. Also visit the station and AC Tower.
“The Hub City” seems a pretentious claim for this place of under 10,000 persons. But, it has the Lincoln Highway, two interstates, and two double track railroads to back up that title. For us, we concentrate on the many trains, and varied motive power, of the two big railroads.
The ticket agent at Newark Penn Station raised his eyebrows… and invited me into his office. It was 1969, and I had given him a cross-country itinerary for three us which included a segment from Prince George to North Vancouver over the Pacific Great Eastern. “You’re the first person in twenty years to request that line!” The PGE and BCR via RDC and more, including steam!
The Baltimore & Ohio was a railroad of firsts. By 1842, it had connected Cumberland, MD, with the East Coast.
This is Tain #1 – the oldest name train in the US and America’s longest and first Coast-to-Coast route!
Rubber City region action from the 1950s to 1980s with steam, early diesels and a cab ride.
The early CSX years just after 1986 to 1990 brought an unprecedented array of colors to the Akron scene: B&O and C&O blue, WM red & white, Chessie orange and yellow, Seaboard System/Family Lines grey, plus Georgia, L&N and more.
View the variety of the 1950’s in the Rubber City region. B&O, Erie, Pennsy, New York Central and the AC&Y.
Do you like vintage ALCO / MLW units, steam on the grade (like a Beyer-Peacock 2-8-0) and century-old shops machinery? From the tropical semi-Amazon of Machu-Picchu to the Atacama desert and the almost 16,000′ Andes summit, this is one unforgettable roller-coaster of a rail journey!
The Great White North, by rail, with polar bears and whales.
The C&NW was great granger railroad with lots of action. In this documentary by Bill Warrick we’ll see C&NW steam, diesels, streamliners, and freights. Exclusive interviews help us understand this great railroad.
It was a time of tears, that fateful Spring of 1865, as Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train crept from Washington, DC to Springfield, Illinois. This is the complete story of the sad, unique and historic train. Reported by Bill Warrick with the help of Lincoln scholar Dr. Wayne Wesolowski of Benedictine University.
The Sand Hills Subdivision was once a quiet backwater of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system.
The Norfolk & Western “J” class 4-8-4 is considered by many to be the best engineered passenger steam locomotive ever built. Designed to handle passenger trains in the mountains unassisted and to make time in the flatlands, the class had a combination of speed and power unmatched anywhere. In May, 2016, the last surviving “J”…
Norfolk Southern’s takeover of the former Delaware and Hudson south of Schenectady on September nineteenth of last year has continued the slow increase in traffic on the critical midsection of the former D&H that began with the 2004 trackage and haulage rights agreement with Norfolk Southern that resulted in a modicum of profitability for this beleaguered line.
31 railroads are shown in this wonderful review of railroading from the late 1930’s – early 1950’s.
Steam Action with UP 844 and 3985!
You can’t miss with both N&W and Virginian action in the Pokey in the mid to late 1950s.
The age of steam came to its finale’ in the early 1950’s.
We follow the MRL mainline from Helena, Montana to Sandpoint, Idaho, over the 3rd and 4th Subdivisions. MRL’s fleet of blue EMDs has never looked better.
By the numbers: 4 years and 30 trips bring us 98% of trains led by EMD power, 92% of the trains are led by MRL power.
In June, 1994, the annual convention of the National Railway Historical Society was held in Atlanta, Georgia. The convention featured two mainline locomotives: Norfolk Southern’s former Norfolk & Western Class J 4-8-4 #611, and restored St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522.
All aboard for a look at five different operations featuring steam power in 2016.br>We begin in Roanoke, Virginia, in May, as Norfolk & Western Class J 4-8-4 #611 hauled a series of excursions from Roanoke to Lynchburg and Walton. We focused on the grades surrounding Roanoke to present scenes of the locomotive at work. This…
Canadian National’s former Grand Trunk Western mainline runs from Chicago to the Canadian border.
We’re at locations such as Buffalo NY, Monessen PA, Western Maryland Scenic RR, Howell Interlocking (Atlanta), Lansing MI, and Silver Creek NY.
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