Model Trains

Features: Aimed at the modeler just starting out, this DVD covers all the basics in creating one's first model railroad. Just about every question an inexperienced railroader might have is covered.
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing DVD - World's Greatest Hobby -- Building Your First Model Railroad - All Digital Format - Color, Stereo Sound

Features: Covers everything you need to build layout scenery, as well as use an airbrush to apply scenery paint. Covers tools, applications and special techniques. 120 minutes; stereo sound; color.
...more about the Kalmbach Publishing DVD -- Scenery & Airbrushing Made Easy - All Digital Format - Color, Stereo Sound

Features: This two-volume set begins with Joshua Lionel Cowen's first train and ends with the magnificent scale Big Boy. In between you'll see all the classics including the State Set, Blue Comet, Hudsons, Streamliners, F3s, GG-1s, Daylights, Turbines, and accessories. VHS, 60 minutes.
...more about the Motorbooks International Video -- A Century Of Lionel Trains- Two Volume Set

Features: WP freight and passenger actions from the 1950s to 1980; late steam to early diesel. Covers Sacramento Northern, California Zephyr, Oro Dam reroute, Las Plumas, Oakland Mole, Canyon, High Line and desert action. FTs, F7s, Geeps to U-Boats and much more. 90 minutes.
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- WP Vintage West

Features: See the Key System from its early days with ferryboats to the Bay Bridge era. Visit all the lines and cross the bay by ferry and bridge-rails to San Francisco. Streetcars, Bridge-articulated units and many surprises, plus cameo appearances of early Muni and IER make this a great story. 61 minutes.
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Key System Empire

Features: Action from early 90s to the end. Heavy Shasta action and Donner Pass with floods, snow storms and blue skies.Lots of old power and great coverage of rotaries, flangers, snow-cats and spreaders. 112 minutes.
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Extreme SP

Features: Vintage film of freight and passenger. Rare Pasadena Sub., Franklin Canyon, Stockton, Cajon, Tehachapi, Mojave to Barstow, Illinois and much more. See PA, F-units, GP9, ALCO, SD24, GP30, FP45, U-boats and lash-ups. Super-C trains, street-running, history of diesels, passenger trains and more. 91 minutes.
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Diesel Power on the Santa Fe

Features: Visit numerous locations from 1985 to 1997. Elvas tower, Stockton Jct. tower and lots of older SP power such as Geeps and SD9s. Beet trains, Oil-cans, manifest freights and intermodals. 90 minutes.
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- SP Scrapbook

Features: Sacramento Northern, SP-IER and Peninsular Railway history and action in B&W and beautiful color film. See early passenger, ferry and the freight of the SN in the Oakland Hills. Fifty years of great electric filming. 61 minutes.
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Electric Rails Around the Bay

Features: Helpers, foreign power, 10,000-ton trains and more battled three percent grades on this stretch of rugged mountain railroad back when it was a busy stretch of line. Covers Pueblo to Dotsero including pacing shots and two-camera views, plus maps, graphics and more.
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Tennessee Pass

Features: A look at the SP between 1965 and 1979 from Charles Smiley productions.
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- SP-When the Empire was Intact

Features: Features all the Milwaukee Road favorites including Bi-Polars, Quills, Little Joes and Boxcabs on passenger and freight trains. Also looks at the lineside scene along the Milwaukee including structires, wrecks, snow and MOW. Includes NP, GN and Butte, Anaconda & Pacific electrics and more.
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Milwaukee Road Scrapbook

Features: Revised and rereleased on DVD, see commuter action onthe San Francisco Peninsula. Features the last of steam plus FM Trainmasters, GP9 and EMD and Alco freight and local power.
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- SP by the Bay

Features: Details original Shelby and Cobra models and covers the competition among replica owners to capture the spirit of these popular cars. With very few models left for enthusiasts to buy, collectors turned to clones to replicate the cars they loved. This informative book includes GT40s, prototypes and clones and illustrates the creativity of replica owners in modifying their cars to capture the originals. Covers the glory years from 1962 to 67, the fall from fame and their dramatic return to popularity. Includes Ford's Carol Shelby-developed 2007 Shelby Mustang GT500. Wallace Wyss. Paperback, 8-1/2 x 10-1/4", 128 pages, 75 color & 75 b/w images.
...more about the Motorbooks International Iconografix Photo Archive Series Book -- Cobra and Shelby Mustang 1962 - 2007

Features: Join the journey for a look back at the SP in the 1990s and in earlier views of the 1970s. See the SP power taken away by the 1996 UP/SP merger. Action from the San Fernando Valley, Cajon Pass and Beaumont Hill brings you a Southern Pacific you can fondly remember. These are the views that define the SP to every fan who misses the railroad. Lots of fun and lots of older SP power. Bakersfield Yard scenes are compared from 1971 and 1993. Don't miss this! 100 minutes.
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Scarlet & Gray Memories/Color/100 min

Features: Early film from the 1950s through the 80s with synchronized, accurate sound. See more action from pre-merger 1993 with the last of the new Warbonnets. Many F units on mail, freight and passenger trains. Lots of older Alco and early EMD and GE power. The Tehachapis, Cajon Pass, Eastbay & Stockton. The Needles sub brings stunning desert action. 94 minutes.
...more about the Motorbooks International DVD -- Santa Fe Vintage West/Color/94 min