A Day in the Life of a Steam Train [DVD]

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Industrial Narrow Gauge Railways - Photos and information about current industrial and commercial narrow gauge railways operating throughout Europe, plus narrow gauge railway videos and DVDs from J&S Productions FOUR DISC DVD SET with 13 layouts and 12 Bonus Features! DISC ONE * Joe & Doreen Gianetti's Layout * Jim Bengert's Railway Express Layout * The B&O Travelling Layout at Cinergy Corp. DISC TWO * Frank Miller's Delta Lines ... more info We begin at Oxted with the “H” Class push-pull service to Tunbridge Wells West. Other locations along this route include Hever and the junction station at Groombridge. At Upper Waringham we see passenger trains in action plus the local freight service shunting the yard followed by steam activity in and around Norward Junction engine shed. At Three Bridges, Motor Set 618 is coupled to an “H” Class tank ready for the East Grinstead auto train. Although Brian had put his camera away by 1965, he did film the GW 150 celebrations some twenty years later in Devon and Cornwall and a few minutes has been included to bring our miscellany of Great Western steam to a close.

Barstow, California. Gateway to both Cajon Pass and the Mojave Desert. Barstow features a huge, and restored, former Harvey House/Santa Fe depot. It is also division point for three BNSF subdivisions: Mojave Sub, Needles Sub and the Cajon Sub. Union Pacific ... more info Volume 2 follows this beautiful piece of railroad from Springfield, MA through the Berkshire Mountains and across the Hudson River to Selkirk Yard near Albany, NY. You will see TV trains, Amtrak, and tonnage freights behind SD80MACs and C30-7As claw their ... more info

Steam and Diesel Traction on the Main Line and on the Heritage network

Lineside Video Productions - Producer of UK, European, and American railroad DVDs including modern diesels, electrics, steam, and archive footage

Class One railroads were well supplied with a plethora of modern GE locomotives for use on their main line trains. BNSF occasionally ran several trains with older EMDs on their Staples Sub in Minnesota. In the year 2021, we followed westbound trains from ... more infoPrairieWorks - DVDs of the Northern Pacific, Great Northern, Soo Line, Twin Cities & Western, steel mills, logging railroads, and more Majik Video Systems - Produces four volumes of New Zealand Railscene DVDs annually covering recent activities of rail operation in New Zealand including Toll Rail freight and Tranz Scenic passenger services, mainline steam-hauled excursions, restoration projects, archive footage, railway museums, and preserved operational branch lines Video125 - British producer of rail DVDs and train videos, including "drivers eye views" (broadcast quality cab rides), plus many archive and newsreel productions from 35mm film Filmed over the last quarter of a century, The Beauty of Steam Collection series features wonderful steam trains as they wend their way through some of the most spectacular countryside, lakes and mountains that the British Isles has to offer. A wonderful mid-price series - highlighting the wonderful world of British steam locomotives in the landscape. Finally, we visit Isle of Wight for steam action at Ryde Pierhead, Ryde Esplande, Ryde St.Johns Road, Smallbrook Junction, Newport, Cowes, Shanklin and Ventnor. Watch those ‘O2’ 0-4-4T tanks scurrying about!

Left Coast Rail Videos - Railroad DVDs from Southern California including BNSF's Cajon and Needles Subdivisions plus Union Pacific's Mojave (Tehachapi Pass) and Yuma SubdivisionsThe fourth volume in our series concentrating on archive footage of the branch line railways in this area. Here we feature two contrasting branches in Hertfordshire. Volume 2 continues our look at the non-stop railroading around the Marion, Ohio area, featuring Conrail, CSX, and Norfolk Southern. Taped over a 7 year period during all 4 seasons, these railroads provide a great deal of variety, including Office Car ... more info A NOTE ABOUT THE PHOTO: After spending most of its life working from Edinburgh area sheds, including the ex-Caledonian engine shed at Dairy Road (May 1951 to October 1952), J37 No.64547 left for Dundee at the end of March 1964. ln June 1965 after completing a 'Light Intermediate' repair at Inverurie works, the 0-6-0 was on the Tayport goods run and is seen here at Wormit station awaiting a signal. Built at, Cowlairs in November 1915. the J37 was repaired exclusively at Cowlairs until the beginning of the BR era when, from June 1951, it then travelled to Inverurie for 'shopping'. The Dundee reallocation gave the engine a further extension of work but in this period of the 1960's the life of any steam locomotive was precarious and on the last day of 1966 No.64547 was condemned and three months later it was in the hands of scrap mcrchant J.McWilliarn at Shottleston.

The fourth release features Train Crazy film of the Class 86 locomotives from the period 1994 to 2021. The 86 needs little introduction and locos are featured far and wide including West Coast, Cross Country and Anglia passenger duties as well as West Coast container and mail trains. More than 50 different locos are featured wearing a rainbow of liveries - from Inter City and Virgin to the numerous Freightliner colours, RES and a few celebrities.

Here's the good bit... In the last few years, software to restore old grainy and wobbly film has become more accessible. Previously it was expensive, slow and not very good, but in 2022 huge advances were made. The old film used on these new compilation programmes is all being reworked, improved, cleaned up and upscaled. For the first time, all of the film shot in standard-definition (720 x 576 or less) can be upscaled and presented in top-quality high-definition (1920 x 1080). Iron Horse America Video - Produces railroad documentaries including the Into The Allegheny Range series From Red Cars to the Red Line Subway. This is a tunnel-face look at the construction of LA's first modern Subway. Plus Pentrex gives us an 'Extra", a 10 minute look at the Red Line Subway today. Independent filmmaker Chris Hume spent thousands of ... more info BA Productions - Produces railfan videos specializing in the crossing of the Sierra Nevadas at Donner Pass Filmed between 1989 and 2022, we explore the line jointly operated by Union Pacific and BNSF in the hills of deep southern Illinois. We visit the tower at Neilson Junction just before it was removed from service, and see what is probably the last manned ... more info