![]() | Union Pacific's Council Bluffs Sub Volume 1 DVDUnion Pacific's main between Council Bluffs and North Platte and O'Fallons is a 100 to 150 train-a-day show. Unit coal trains with UP or CNW power keep the Powder River Basin product moving. Coal isn't the only traffic moving on the Overland Route, we'll also see fast intermodal and the variety of m ...more | |
![]() | Union Pacific's Council Bluffs Sub Volume 2 DVDWe're back on the UP's Overland Route mainline, one of the busiest in the world. "Council Bluffs Sub, Volume 2" takes us from one hot spot to another, as we begin our trip west at Gibbon Junction, and end our look at the CB Sub at Bailey Yard and O'Fallons.Union Pacific and Chicago Northwes ...more | |
![]() | Santa Fe Emporia Sub & Argentine Yard DVDImagine not slow, two-mile long, trains, but a racetrack - maybe even a drag strip - of railroading. In 1994, that describes the Santa Fe's mainline between the West Coast and Kansas City.Fast freight was a matter of pride and profit for the Santa Fe. From Wellington, Kansas to KC, Missouri, ...more | |
![]() | Erie-Lackawanna Legacy - Over 5 Hours - 3 Disc DVD DVD2 Shows, 3 Discs, 5 Hours!This is a "Combo" worthy of the name! Here are two complete shows: "Erie-Lackawanna Legacy" and "Erie-Lackawanna Legacy Update". Together the bring you a picture of the Erie-Lackawanna system after the demise of the EL. The impetus for the first "Legacy" was a year ...more | |
![]() | Berea Ohio Eclipse Day 2024 DVDBEREA has been featured in 2004 and 2014 on the "Longest Days" Series. 2024 jumped the gun a bit, as April 8 saw two fewer hours of daylight compared with our normal late June timeframe. But the long anticipated total solar eclipse lured me to again spend a full day at this popular train watching ha ...more | |
![]() | B&O In Transition DVDMIX 'EM UP!! AT MID-CENTURY, THAT WAS THE RULE:HORSEPOWER WAS THE MAIN THING - JUST GET THE TONNAGE OVER THE ROAD. BUT FOR THE OBSERVER, B&O's MIXED BAG OF EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL COMBUSTION POWER MADE FOR A SHOW FULL OF SUSPENSE AND VARIETY. UNFORTUNATELY, IT WAS A LIMITED ENGAGEMENT, FOR TH ...more | |
![]() | BC Rail Starlight to Buddwiser DVDTo British Columbia Railway has fallen the distinction of operating North America's most diverse passenger services, school kids at Seton Portage ride the unique school train (dubbed "Buddwiser" by students) to Lillooet. By contrast, the elegant "Pacific Starlight Dinner Train" offers Vancouverites ...more | |
![]() | Celebrate 150 Horseshoe DVDA Double Feature! See 20 minutes of Pennsylvania Railroad heritage from 1948 to 1952 - Steam and Diesel trains on the Curve and other locations. See Saxman's water station in operation! Here. near Latrobe, PA, tenders are filled while on the move.Our second portion highlights events since t ...more | |
![]() | Grand Island - Longest Day 2008 DVDMore trains than ever before roll though this central Nebraska city. The Union Pacific transcontinental main-line passes beneath BNSF close to downtown. Until 1996 this was a diamond crossing, which is viewed during the final days. More additional video shows rebuilding of UP's main through Grand Is ...more | |
![]() | Longest Day 2017 Deshler Ohio DVDCrossroads Park has welcomed railfans for over a quarter century. In 2017, the station, tower, and a few color position light (CPL) signals remained. The new Intermodal Transfer Yard is glimpsed in nearby North Baltimore. Then, the CSX Parade begins - with heavy downpours! Freights zip across the di ...more | |
![]() | Marion King of Diamonds 2016 Longest Day15 minutes of memories from the 50s to 70s kicks off an ALL DAY stand June 24th, 2016!. All cars of most trains are viewed: Coal and Steel, Autos and Containers, Chemicals and General Freight. Visit the Station and AC Tower, which are open on a periodic basis. Serving as guide and reference, this 11 ...more | |
![]() | Longest Day North East Pennsylvania June 2022 DVDNorth East possesses double interest for the rail enthusiast, being home to both Lake Shore Railway Historical Society and two parallel mainlines. A web cam allows viewers to take in live action, but here the hours of waiting are eliminated in this dawn to sunset vigil of CSX and Norfolk Southern. M ...more | |
![]() | Longest Days CSX Quantico VA Greenwich OH DVD"Dawn- to-Dusk" vigils! QUANTICO, VA Marine Base Station offers CSX, Amtrak, and Viginia Railway Express variety along the Potomac. Coal Tropicana Auto Train Commuter! Then to the premier CSX crossroads town of Greenwich, OH. Foreign and lease units abound; the diamonds receive a workout.Tw ...more | |
![]() | Longest Days Rochelle IL June 20 2006 DVD"The Hub City" seems a pretentious claim for this place of under 10,000 persons. But, it has the Lincoln Highway, two intertates, and two double track railroads to back up that title. Rochelle has developed railroad park as a means to capitalize on the railfan popularity, and it is considered a mode ...more | |
![]() | North American Trolley Treasures DVDThe Late John Stein, Native of Akron, Ohio lived near the Akron Transit Line. But you will see few Trolleys of the Rubber City in this Volume. ("Too Dirty to Waste Film On"). You will however, witness a cavalcade of traction at over two dozen locations (see back). Since John left few notes YOU might ...more | |
![]() | Canadas Rocky Mountaineer DVDRemarkable new vistas greeted rail passengers in 1885 when the "National Dream" of the link between British Columbia and eastern Canada was hammered into reality with a final spike. The Coast, Selkirk and Rocky Mountains yet beckon visitors.Since 1990, Great Canadian Railtour Company Ltd. ha ...more | |
![]() | Secret Railways of North Korea DVDThese amazing scenes were made between 1989 and 2003 during a series of sanctioned tours by Bill Alborough of England. Rail action includes modem electrics which dominate over 80% of the network, along with steam and diesel of various types. There is even some very rare narrow gauge steam, the visit ...more | |
![]() | Winds of Change California Zephyr 1949-2005 DVDIt was not the fastest. It was not steeped in railroad tradition. And yet, CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR quickly earned fame as "the most talked about train in America". It was designed to operate through the Colorado Rockies and Feather River Canyon during daylight. Five Vista Domes offered 120 superb seats fr ...more | |
![]() | Wallins Wonders Vol 1 GM&O - Rock Island DVDThe "Alton Limited" and other GM&O trains rumbled just feet away from the home of Richard Wallin, located on Third Street near Cedar in Springfield, Illinois.GM&O action between 1960 and 1965 includes the Kansas City Bloomington Motor Car; FAs at Corinth, MS; the only E8 and F7A on the rost ...more | |
![]() | West End Erie Lackawanna Ohio to Chicago DVDErie-Lackawanna's final years, Ohio to Chicago. Begins with a 1968 can ride aboard the "Lake Cities", Youngstown to Marion. During 1974-1976, we progress station by station toward Chicago, viewing E-Units on freight, towers, traffic of intersecting line, semaphores and more. Closing scenes depict E- ...more | |
![]() | Broadway Limited 1902-1995 DVD1902 witnessed inauguration of the "Broadway Limited" predecessor "Pennsylvania Special" on a daring 20-hour schedule, cut to 18 hours in 1905 when the speedster was reinstated in historic fashion. Follow her splendid career through the decades as K-4s, GG-1s, T-1s and E-8s headed the New York City | |
![]() | Mail by Rail - An Inside Look at the Railway Post Office DVDFirst Class U.S. Mail was sorted by clerks aboard a fleet of cars which once numbered over 4,000. Here you will enter their secluded world, hemmed in by stanchions stacked with parcels, rows of hanging pouches and, above, boxes lining both sides. Ride the "Chief" and "Fast Mail" in the closing days ...more | |
![]() | Amtrak 40 1971-2011 A Four Decade Retrospective DVDThis marks our third program in the AMTRAK Series: AMTRAK 20 covered the first twenty years; AMTRAK 30 focused on changes during 1991-2001. AMTRAK 40 brings us up to 2011, but with a look back over the entire forty year period.A few features: Locomotives and Rolling Stock including "retireme ...more | |
![]() | Before the Hyphen - Lackawanna RR Erie and Early E-L DVDLackawanna: Electric (inaugural M.U. ride Morristown - Hoboken in (1930) "Lackawanna Limited" in 1940, Diesel in NJ and NY state.Erie: Long Freights, filmed by Operator Clifford Redanz at many towers and stations... Binghampton, Hornell, Olean, Randolph, Jamestownl Kento to Marion on Frei ...more | |
![]() | Laurentian to Adirondack DVDThe saga has more twists and turns than the track high above Lake Champlain. A hint of the steam era leads to Alco RS2s and the famous PAs through the 1960s until service ended April 30, 1971. Ride the Amtrak / D&H "Adirondack" inaugural special, August 4, 1974. We then follow her four decade career ...more |