Model Trains

Features: * From 1964 through 1992, Dennis Henry took 8mm and Super-8mm color movies of and from trains in the Midwest, West, and Canada. These original films (formerly released as a two-tape VHS set) have been upgraded with additional footage and digitally recorded, edited, and reorganized into this 107-minute DVD "Indiana, Minnesota, and Early Amtrak Railroad Memories: 1964-72." The original films are silent and color, but an accurate and personal narration by the photographer has been added to the scenes. The films were shot and edited mostly with Bolex equipment, but they are amateur films, with most scenes photographically good to excellent. * The action includes vist
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Features: * Part documentary, part spoof, "Model Railroading Unlimited" celebrates the greatest hobby in the world. "It's probably one of the most entertaining films promoting the hobby of model railroading ever made," says producer Mike O'Connell. Chooch Enterprises produced the film in association with Model Railroader magazine in the mid 1970s. * Narrated by Hans Conried and starring Ward Kimball, "Model Railroading Unlimited" is an uproarious ride through the fantasy, fiction and joy of model railroading. It tells the story of our hero as he plunges headlong into the world of model trains... and there's no turning back.
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Features: A powerful documentary covering the end of passenger service on BC Rail in western Canada, from the perspective of the employees and area residents. 83 minutes.
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Features: From 1952 until 1980, rail photographer Emery Gulash shot the Santa Fe from Chicago to the west. See the Santa Fe FT freight units, the PA passenger power, and a variety of switchers and road trains. The Warbonnet paint scheme and the change to the Santa Fe blue scheme is also covered in this chronology. 2 hours 10 minutes.
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Features: * Follow the old Santa Fe line from Cajon Pass Summit through Victorville and on to Barstow, California. Then on to Needles, California and Topock where the BNSF crosses the Colorado River. Also features Kingman Canyon, Kingman, Walapai, Hackberry, Valentine, Seligman and Williams, Arizona. * Approximately 60 minutes.
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Features: Green Frog photographer Rich Scheid takes viewers to CN operations in Southern Ontario, as well as CN's southeast subsidiary, Grand Trunk, on the Mt. Clemens subdivision. 60 minutes.
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Features: Visit CN operations in Southern Michigan on the old Grand Trunk Western's Flint and Holly subdivision.
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Features: * Travel across the tracks of the Missouri Pacific with Green Frogs professional railroad photographer Rich Scheid. Start at Kansas City Union Station and head east through Lees Summit, Pleasant Hill, Warrensburg, Sedalia, Tipton, and California. * Then the railroad follows the beautiful Missouri River Valley through Gasconade, Hermann, New Haven, and Washington. Then travel through the tunnels and rock cuts near Pacific, Eureka, and then to Kirkwood in the western suburbs of St. Louis. Lots of passenger trains as well as freight trains across Missouri. 61 minutes.
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