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Union Pacific #844
South to the Southwest

Reading and Northern #425
Blue Mountain Thunder Vol. 2

Reading and Northern #425
Blue Mountain Thunder Vol. 1

Winter Steam
Volume 1

Chesapeake and Ohio #614
Track Speed

On October 29th 2011, Union Pacific steam locomotive #844 left its home in Cheyenne, WY and began a month-long tour to help celebrate the centennial of statehood in New Mexico and Arizona. In this program, we follow #844 on the first week of the tour as it travels from Cheyenne to Alamogordo, NM. Then at the end of the month, we reunite with the special in Ogden, UT for the 2-day return trip to Cheyenne.

Highlights include: multiple dramatic pacing scenes, majestic views of #844 operating in bitter cold temperatures with billowing clouds of white steam, and #844 traveling through blizzard conditions between Pueblo, CO and Dalhart, TX on BNSF trackage.

The DVD is broken into 8 segments:

Oct. 29th - Cheyenne, WY to Denver, CO
Oct. 30th - Denver to Colorado Springs
Nov. 1st - Colorado Springs to Pueblo
Nov. 2nd - Pueblo to Dalhart, TX
Nov. 4th - Dalhart to Tucumcari, NM
Nov. 5th - Tucumcari to Alamogordo
Nov. 28th - Ogden, UT to Rock Springs, WY
Nov. 29th - Rock Springs to Cheyenne

In addition, there is also a short segment of footage of the 2011 Cheyenne Frontier Days train, as #844 pulls the annual Denver Post sponsored special to the rodeo in Cheyenne.

Filmed entirely in HD, witness #844 in stunning detail as it travels through beautiful western scenery. This program features minimal narration and no distracting music. This DVD is sure to please any fan of the Union Pacific Railroad or mainline steam railroading.

This is a standard definition DVD-R in 16:9 format and should be compatible with any DVD player.

Total running time is 86 minutes.

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Steam in the winter is a spectacular sight, made all the more special by its rarity. The winter is a slow season for tourism, and most operators use the time to perform necessary maintenance on locomotives and rolling stock.

This DVD showcases four winter steam excursions. It includes the annual Tobyhanna Ice Harvest Train at Steamtown NHS in Scranton, PA. We'll see the 2009 train, which operated on a bitter cold day, right after a major snowstorm.

Next follows a short segment on the Cascade Canyon Winter Train on the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge RR in Colorado, with the locomotive re-lettered as the 'Polar Express' for the Christmas season.

The rugged Sangre de Cristo mountains of southern Colorado provide a stunning backdrop to the first ever winter steam special on the Rio Grande Scenic. We'll see spectacular views of 2-8-0 #18 working on both sides of La Veta pass.

Finally, the last feature is a more in-depth look at the regularly scheduled Cascade Canyon train on the Durango and Silverton. As the snow melts at the lower elevations, we'll follow 2-8-2 #480 along the Animas River on four days of operation in early March.

There is no distracting music or narration on this DVD; just well-filmed and well-edited clips of steam locomotives working hard amongst breathtaking mountain scenery. This DVD is sure to please any fan of steam railroading.

This is a standard definition DVD-R in 16:9 format and should be compatible with any DVD player.

Total running time is 56 minutes.

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Filmed entirely in HD, this 2 DVD set continues where Volume 1 left off, this time chronicling the 2010 excursion season. In addition to our usual exhilarating trackside footage, this DVD also features in-cab footage from multiple cameras on one of the October fall foliage excursions.

Also included is the finale to the 2010 NRHS Convention (held in Scranton, PA), where #425 put on a spectacular show for convention goers, covering a large portion of the R&N system, with a unique routing from Duryea to Jim Thorpe, and then on to Port Clinton.

As an added bonus, Disc 2 has footage of #425 pulling excursions on the Lehigh Gorge Scenic Railway in Jim Thorpe, PA without any diesel assistance.

Once again, great stack talk, a variety of different whistles, and beautiful scenery make this DVD a must have for any fan of steam railroading.

Disc 1 includes:

May 15th - Tunkhannock to Jim Thorpe
June 26th - Duryea to Port Clinton
(Endless Mountain Rails NRHS Convention trip)
October 2nd - Duryea to Jim Thorpe
October 9th - Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe

Disc 2 includes:

September 6th - Lehigh Gorge Scenic RR
October 17th - Cab Ride footage
October 17th - Return trip to Port Clinton

There is no distracting music or narration on this DVD; just well-filmed and well-edited clips of one the loudest and hardest working steam locomotives today.

This is a standard definition DVD-R in 16:9 format and should be compatible with any DVD player.

Total running time is 111 minutes.

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After many years without active steam power, the Reading & Northern RR (formerly the Blue Mountain and Reading) made the decision to restore former Gulf, Mobile, and Northern light Pacific #425 to operation for passenger service on their extensive trackage in Eastern Pennsylvania.

This DVD chronicles the second excursion season in 2009, as we filmed all the major mainline excursions with 4-6-2 #425. We'll follow this gutsy blue Pacific as it battles the grades on the former Lehigh Valley mainline, and as it travels ex-Reading Co. trackage through the heart of anthracite coal country.

With plenty of great stack talk, a variety of different whistles, and beautiful scenery, this program has something for every viewer.

This DVD includes:

May 16th - Tunkhannock to Jim Thorpe
September 6th - Pittston to Jim Thorpe
October 10th - Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe
October 17th - Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe
October 18th - Port Clinton to Jim Thorpe

This DVD also includes the epic October 18th 2008 trip as #425 struggles mightily to keep the power to the rails. This segment features lots of wheel slipping as the crew of #425 deals with an especially long train on the climb from Port Clinton to the ex-CNJ part of the line at Haucks.

There is no distracting music or narration on this DVD; just well-filmed and well-edited clips of one the loudest and hardest working steam locomotives in the country today.

This is a standard definition DVD-R in 16:9 format and should be compatible with any DVD player.

Total running time is 99 minutes.

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This DVD covers the excursions Chesapeake & Ohio #614 ran on New Jersey Transit in 1997 and 1998. It has been digitally mastered from my original VHS videotapes.

Built by the Lima Locomotive Works in 1948, C&O #614 was one of the last 4-8-4 type locomotives (called Greenbriers on the C&O) constructed in the United States, and also one of the most advanced in terms of design. All roller bearing with an enormous boiler and the most modern steam technology, #614 is an impressive machine, especially when witnessed pounding the rails at track speed as she was built to do.

If you've seen any of my #614 videos on Youtube, you know how spectacular these trips were, and how increasingly rare this type of mainline steam action is now. We see #614 pull 20+ car passenger trains unassisted at speeds up to 79mph on the former Erie RR mainline between Hoboken, NJ and Port Jervis, NY. This DVD features plenty of pacing (with some incredibly close shots of the locomotive) and many, many high speed runbys with unbelievable stack talk.

While Mark I Video's "Return of a Thoroughbred" covered the October 1996 trips in incredible detail, seemingly little video exists of the 1997 and 1998 trips. The quality of my video isn't quite on par with the Mark I production (they had much better equipment, and I was by no means a professional at the time), but the action is unparalleled on this DVD, especially the pacing scenes on Route 17 in New York.

This DVD consists of all my #614 videos on Youtube in higher quality, plus lots of extra footage and deleted scenes not available online.

There is no distracting music or narration on this DVD; just well-filmed and well-edited clips of #614 at work.

This is a standard definition DVD-R in 4:3 format and should be compatible with any DVD player.

Total running time is 91 minutes.

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