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American Railway: 200 miles from Las Vegas Part 3 (??-mins) ()

Ref: LN138D

Filmed in February 2007 we journey from the Northern Mojave desert around Cima Hill (the UP line to Las Vegas), to the junction with the BNSF at Daggett, before moving on to the town of Mojave. We then travel to one of the most famous railroad features in the US; the Tehachapi loop. We begin the climb up to Tehachapi at the foothills around Caliente as long freight trains with four locos on the front and two on the rear blast their way up the gradients in spectacular style. Union Pacific and BNSF locos are seen, from the mighty Dash-9 to the equally powerful SD-70Ms, all in a variety of colour schemes and shades of ?road dust? deposits. Our final section covers the impressive spiral at Tehachapi where trains pass over the top of themselves as the line loops towards the summit, these scenes have got to be seen to be believed! There is no doubt that the US railroads are particularly impressive both in terms of size and scale this series provides an exciting look at modern-day U.S. railroading.

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200 MILES FROM LAS VEGAS PT 2 (??-mins) ()

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American Railway Vol.8: Power over the Alleghenies (??-mins (DVD-R)

Ref: LN161D

In this programme we witness some of the most powerful diesel locomotives working in the United States, with superb soundtracks of trains struggling up grades over the Allegheny Mountains. We cover two routes including the old Baltimore and Ohio line over Sand Patch, now CSX, and the Pennsylvania Railroad over the summit at Gallitzin, close to the famous Horseshoe Curve, now Norfolk Southern territory.

We begin at Sand Patch where BNSF & CSX locos storm up the grade with container & manifests headed by SD50, SD70Mac, Dash-9s & Dash-8s: we also see Amtrak’s ‘The Capitol’ as it travels between Chicago & Washington.

We then travel to the Norfolk Southern route where freight trains are banked up the grades by powerful SD40E & SD40-2 locos - the sound from these unsilenced machines is awesome! To add to the variety, container, mixed freight, coal trains, trash trains, gravel & a load of farm equipment are also seen with a mixture of SD60, SD70, Dash-9, AC44-CW & Dash-8 locos up front.

At Altoona we see Amtrak P40-2s on ‘The Pennsylvanian’ passenger working, Conrail liveried SD40-2s on helper duties & even a shot of a GG1 electric in Altoona’s National Railroaders Museum.

Travelling back to line through Hyndman to witness CSX Dash-8s & SD50-2s on freight as well as a spectacular scene from Wills Creek Valley of two freight trains passing on tight curves.

Finally we are back at Cresson on the old PRR route to witness what has got to be one of the loudest sequences we’ve yet filmed, a 120-wagon coal train headed up the grade by two SD70s with the train being pushed from the rear by four SD40 helpers.

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American Railway Vol.7: Ohio River to Lake Erie (100-mins) (DVD-R)

Ref: LN156D

This programme follows a journey from West Virginia northwards through the State of Ohio to the shores of Lake Erie.

We look at the railways running along either side of the Ohio River including a route which was originally the famous Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad (known as the ‘Chessie’) and which today is operated by the CSX railroad company. We study freight traffic through the steel-making city of Ashland, where long coal and manifest services are seen, as well as a switcher on a coke working, traversing tracks so uneven that sea-sickness tablets would normally be the order of the day! Another interesting sight is that of an ex-GP30 locomotive known as a road slug, working a train of scrap metal paired with its ‘mother’.

The programme journey's into West Virginia as we see some interesting scenes of Norfolk and Southern tracks crossing over the CSX ‘Chessie’ route at Kenova via the impressive Ohio River Bridge towering above the town’s streets. CSX freights and NS trip workings are seen including modern and older locomotives at work. We cross into Ohio on the Norfolk Southern line which runs north to eventually reach Cleveland; we also cover the CSX route through West Virginia over the long climb through the small town of Hurricane, where a 130-wagon coal train really tests the train locomotives – an impressive sight for North American Railroad fans!

The programme then moves to the East of Cleveland near to the shores of Lake Erie on the CSX route east to Buffalo, which eventually reaches New York. CSX, NS, Conrail, BNSF and Union Pacific railroad locomotives are seen on a variety of workings, including double-stack container trains, grain, manifest, coal, oil and autoracks.

Finally we pay a return to the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific main line in southern Kentucky as we witness trains through the steep cutting at Kings Mountain and over the trestle bridge at South Fork. A fascinating range of trains, in-country locations and locomotive liveries are on offer in material which was only just filmed in May 2009.

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American Railway Vol.6: Trains Around Kentucky Part 3 (100-mins) (DVD-R)

Ref: LN901D

This programme is the third and final part in our series on the railways to be found in the US State of Kentucky & in the neighbouring States of Illinois and Ohio. Louisville - a significant railway crossroads in the west of the State; we call in to various yards and to the junction at Central Avenue, here CSX Dash9-ES44 are seen on long trains of car transporters, also seen are R J Corman GM-GP38-2, and SD40-2 locos on empty slab and CSX Dash-8s on a manifest. North of the city we see ancient 1950s Louisville and Indiana Railroad’s GP-11s during shunting operations.

Waddy - East of Louisville on the Norfolk Central mainline to the south into Tennessee. Dash 9-C40s, GP38-2, SD60, SD70, GE Dash-8 make up the motive power to be seen on a mixture of freight services.

Southern Kentucky - we previously visited the lines around Sloans Valley in issue number 5, this time we see more long freights struggling up the gradients between the rocky escarpments, including Dash-9s, Dash-8s and SD-60m.

Hamilton - north of Cincinnati as CSX SD-60, Dash-8, SD-40-2 and NS Dash-9 are seen on manifests, racks and stacks through this busy junction location. We continue to the town of Carlisle as autoracks and a manifest blast their way north, with Dash-8s and SD-40s up front.

South of Dayton, Ohio - CSX AC44 , SD50 on a long manifest, a Power Station Switcher, CN SD-60f, Dash-8, Dash-9, SD-40-2, CSX SD-60s are just some of the engines seen on a parallel CSX and NS mainline to the south, near to the town of Carlisle.

La Grange - more incredible footage of trains running through the main street of this town situated just to the north of Louisville. CSX SD70-mac, SD-60, ES44-DC, AC-44W, SD40-2, SD-50 and Dash-8 make up the locomotives seen on manifests and trains of Autoracks.

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