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Newsletter - FEBRUARY 2009
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It has been a while since WB Video Productions has released any new titles but here we have their two latest productions showing fabulous large steam action and also Tehachapi in 1988 when Tehachapi was truly a great railfanning spot.
The world's largest operating steam locomotive, Union Pacific 3985, a 4-6-6-4 Challenger, is featured on two passenger specials. The trips between Denver, Colorado and Laramie, Wyoming were sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club in the 80's. You are on board, trackside and in the cab of Challenger 3985. Then Union Pacific 8444, a 4-8-4, puts on a spectacular show hauling a freight east of Cheyenne. Narrow gauge action features an excursion on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club. Authentically lettered D&RGW freight cars and a caboose were added to the special train. An excursion on the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad with carefully planned photo run-bys was also sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club. In the mountains west of Denver, the Georgetown Loop Railroad operates a passenger special over the magnificent High Bridge connecting Georgetown with Silver Plume. At the Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden a special steam-up features D&RGW 2-8-0 #346 running over Museum trackage
60 mins colour Narration Regular price £21.00 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 27th February 2009 - £20 (free UK & European p&p)
3 1/2 hour . . .Two-Disc Special Rare, never-before-seen footage photographed in 1988 over Tehachapi Pass between Bakersfield and Mojave, California. Tehachapi...a Railfan's Paradise! Owned by the SOUTHERN PACIFIC with trackage rights by the ATCHISON TOPEKA & SANTA FE. Southern Pacific's unit oil tank train, known as the "Oil Can" is featured in many scenes. The red and yellow SF and SP paint are still seen on Tehachapi. Motive power includes the GP60, C30-7, SD45, GP50 and many others. The Caboose was fast disappearing from America's railroads, but in 1988 they were still a common sight on Tehachapi trains. So return now...for ten glorious days...to this memorable location and time in railroad history.
210 mins colour Narration Regular price £24.00 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 27th February 2009 - £23 (free UK & European p&p)
Great examples of track plans in HO, O, On2 1/2, and N scale fill the pages of Model Railroad Planning 2009. Ideas for having more railroad in less space, how to avoid the top 10 planning mistakes, and other expert design tips are included. Each copy also includes a free bonus planning booklet! Contents: HO Scale Virginia & Ohio HO SP's Orange Grove Route Building a Modern Shelf Switching layout Making Narrow Scenes HO Alma Branch of the Sante Fe O Scale Appalachian & Ohio Professional railroader shares ideas on how to add realism to your MR. Model a Steam Electric Interchange On 2 1/2 Bigger Trains in Less Space HO Nickel Plate HO Shelf Layout Providence River Branch of the UP HO Freelancing an Urban Terminal Memphis N Scale Branch line to Dawson Creek N Scale RR to Grow NY Central Adirondack Division
£5.00 (Incl. UK p&p)
Contents
UP's Big Boys By Night 1965 Ride on Frisco's mixed out of Kansas City Steam in the Easter Townships CN and CP Reflections on a 28year Long Island Railroad Career One Day at Brookfield, IL CB & Q Boston's South Station Trainmaster Troubles at remote B & O terminal My SP Roundhouse Days SP Heaven In a Canyon- Niles Canyon RR Spring Break 1950-Trains around Chicago It's pretty exciting stuff!
£ 5.00 (Incl. UK p&p)
New Books From
Pennsylvania Railroad Facilities In Color Volume 2: New York Division, Lane to Torresdale by Robert J. Yanosey
Stations, towers, bridges and anything else “without wheels” on the PRR west end of its New York Division main line and the PA&W, Princeton, Amboy and Bel-Del branches.
£ 42.00 (Incl. UK p&p)
Lehigh Valley Facilities In Color Volume 2: Wyoming Division by Mike Bednar
Stations, towers, bridges and anything else “without wheels” on the LV Wyoming Division Main and L&S District.
Iowa Trolleys In Color by Ed Ridolph
Cedar Rapids & Iowa City, Charles City Western, Des Moines Rwy., DM&CI, Ft. Dodge, Des Moines & Southern, Iowa Terminal, MC&CL, O&CB, Sioux City Service, Southern Iowa Rwy., and WCF&N – all in vivid color!
Special Offers End of Line
All-color photo album of the New Haven Railroad's eastern section, focusing on central and eastern Massachusetts as it was in the 1950s and 1960s. Hardcover, 128 pages, profusely illustrated
WAS £39.00 NOW ONLY £ 34.00 (Incl. UK p&p)
(The Final Decade) See the final years of "The Rock". Equipment wore several colorful paint schemes and locomotive lashups were unbelievable at times. Rock Island operated several passenger trains during the 1970's with a wide assortment of 1st and 2nd generation motive power, both owned and borrowed / leased. Author: Louis A. Marre Hardcover, 128 pages
WAS £37.00 NOW ONLY £ 34.00 (Incl. UK p&p)
In his seventh book featuring the lines of the southwest, rail historian Steve Goen takes a look at the trains and operations of Southern Pacific's Texas & New Orleans. This book features more than 300 all-color photos of T&NO trains such as the SUNBEAM, HUSTLER, SUNSET LIMITED, OWL, ARGONAUT, and BORDER LIMITED, all prior to the 1961 merger with the parent company. Steam and diesel locomotives working on both passenger and freight trains are featured as well. Classic advertising, chapters on T&NO depots, and the El Paso & Southwestern of Texas complete this fine book. Author: Steve Allen Goen Hardcover, 128 pages, ALL Color
The Fleet Gives Way to the West Wind By John F. Strauss, Jr Color laminated hardcover ; 8.5 x 11.5"; 208 pages; hundreds of color and b/w photos. "This is the first volume (of two) featuring an in depth look at the passenger operations of the CB&Q Railroad. This volume covers the Flyers, the shovel nose Zephyrs operating between 1930 and 1947, prior to the Domeliner's arrival. There are many actual "Q" consists from the author's personal files. Also featured is the Burlington's Farewell to Steam program."
WAS £42.00 NOW ONLY £ 35.00 (Incl. UK p&p)
Continuing this series on the Pennsylvania Railroad diesel-electric locomotives, this volume discusses switchers. The main feature is an all-color spectacular venture across the line from Chicago to Philipsburg, New Jersey. Hard Cover. Pages: 128
Hardcover, 128 pages New Haven's West End, begins at New York City covering the electric zone to New Haven and continues on to Hartford and Springfield. Side trips explore the freight only line to Maybrook, NY via the Poughkeepsie Bridge and "under the wire" to Danbury, CT. The introduction reviews the classes of passenger and freight electric locomotives from the EP-1 of 1906 to the EP-5 of 1955 and all the steel multiple-unit cars.
There are limited stocks of these titles so order quickly to avoid disappointment! We are also reducing prices on ALL 4 Ways West titles so check out our web site. Once they’re gone, there gone! (With the Dollar/Pound rate these are even more attractive bargains!)
This was the Southern Pacific at work on the Yuma District of the Sunset Route. The best material from our discontinued video, “Sunset Salute”, is combined with a wealth of newly discovered material to make this new DVD video. See mixed freights and ‘intermodal’ trains as well as locals and transfer freights. We also bring lots of ‘foreign’ and pool-power. Visit the Imperial Valley lines to remember the Sugarbeet trains of the SP. Learn how the beet cars were loaded and follow the beets to Betteravia where they were processed at the Holly sugar plant. Beet trains handed off to the SMV Railroad at Guadalupe, CA are covered from the 1970s and 1992. And don’t miss a cab ride on the SP-owned Carriso Gorge line just before hurricane Kathleen closed it to through traffic in 1976. Featuring... • Yuma AZ to Colton CA • Desert beauty • Beaumont Hill 1991 - 1995 • Helpers and Foreign Power • Imperial Valley SA&E Ry. cab ride c. 1975 • Sugar Beet Trains c. 1992 • Beet loading and processing • Betteravia Sugar Factory • Santa Maria Valley Railroad • SP Coastline action
95 mins colour Narration Regular price £21.00 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 27th February 2009 - £20 (free UK & European p&p)
Fullerton, California, southeast of Los Angeles, sees freights from BNSF, MetroLink commuter trains and Amtrak Surfliners, and can be a very busy place indeed, often with several trains in sight at once. • Features narration on/off and a marker for each train.
WIDESCREEN ONLY 75 mins colour Minimal Narration Regular price £20.00 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 27th February 2009 - £19 (free UK & European p&p)
See and hear two famous locomotives climbing over the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California. Experience their massive pulling power like nothing you've ever seen. On May 21, 1999, many hundreds of rail fans pulled their cars to the roadside and along the line, people stopped what they were doing, and stared at the spectacle as, for a moment, the two soot- breathing locomotives pulling their train, stopped the world and transported us back in time for a day. People watched in amazement as the Union Pacific Railroad's Challenger # 3985 and Northern # 844 locomotives journeyed all the way from Cheyenne Wyoming steaming their way over Donner Pass in California. The purpose of their journey included a rededication of the rebuilt Roseville Rail Yard, recently refurbished with millions of dollars by UP. The locomotives also steamed across country to participate in the Rail Fair 99 at the Sacramento State Railroad Museum. Traveling over the Sierra Nevada mountain range, these locomotive steamed through many of California's famous railroad towns along the main line of the former Southern Pacific/Central Pacific main line over Donner pass. The engines rolled through towns and places like Truckee, Norden, Soda Springs, Cisco, Emigrant Gap, Gold Run, Colfax, Auburn, Rocklin, all the way to Roseville! The Donner Rails camera crews were strategically positioned at over 40 locations along this historic route between Sparks Nevada and Roseville California to catch all the adrenaline-pumping excitement. The journey for the locomotive crews and engineers was not without risk and unexpected events. Hear their stories in rare interviews, the only interviews given and recorded exclusively by Donner Rails. Get the real story about what happened in Tunnel 41 as told by the engineers. You can hear it, see it, feel it all in this video "Steam Over Donner" from BA Productions right in your own living room! It's so real and in your face, you can almost smell the steam and oil, you can feel the heat of the firebox!
54 mins colour Narration Regular price £21 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 27th February 2009 - £20 (free UK & European p&p)
"Roseville to Truckee" is a documentary/entertainment video that gives viewers the best seat in the house as they ride with the crew in the cab of an expedited freight train over the Sierra Nevada mountains. Feel the excitement of riding in the engineers seat as we depart Roseville and head East to Truckee. This hour-long ride brings home all the in-your face railroading action as viewers take this incredible journey along the nostalgic main line between Roseville and Truckee. Experience the challenges engineers face each day while climbing the steep grades up to Donner. Learn some of the amazing history as our story tells how Chinese laborers carved the path for the rail bed along solid granite ledges and how track was laid by rail gangs through snow and ice over the Sierras. Feel goose bumps as you ride along those lofty granite ledges where sweeping panoramic vistas are set to the emotions of soft mesmerizing music. See dark solid granite interiors inside historic tunnels where builders chipped and blasted their way clear through whole mountain sides. Feel the cool shadows inside the snow sheds where rays of light filter through the sturdy wooden beams and icicles hang from the ceilings. See all the historic towns built along this famous route as we pass through Auburn, Colfax, Cape Horn, Alta, Blue Canyon, Cisco, and finally, Donner Pass. Then, arriving in Truckee where our camera crew ends their journey, the train crew continues on with a blast of the horn and a wave goodbye. Roseville to Truckee was produced by a local producer with the permission of Union Pacific Railroad for the purpose of documenting what it is like traveling over the Sierras in a freight train. See for yourself the creative video editing and dialog with pictures.
52 mins colour Narration Regular price £21 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 27th February 2009 - £20 (free UK & European p&p)
CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA
We are releasing lots of DVDs around the California area this time and have reduced the cost of this title from £15.95 to only £10. Now you can follow the routes with this comprehensive atlas of California and Nevada!
was £15.95 NOW ONLY £ 10.00 (Incl. UK p&p)
In 2001, LTV Mining's plant site and dock shut down operations in the arrowhead of Minnesota. In the summer of 2008, Cliffs Erie revived the line for one last time. They brought back the famous set of F-9 locomotives to move taconite fines from the former LTV dock at Taconite Harbor to the Hoyt Lakes mine site for transloading onto trains for the Severstal Steel plant in Baltimore, Maryland. Only a handful of these trains were operated and C. Vision was granted special access to ride in the cab between Taconite Harbor and Tunnel Siding! Not only will you get a chance to view the scenic beauty of northern Minnesota from these 1956 built locomotives, but we also captured several trackside views from Taconite Harbor to Hoyt Lakes, including shots of the very last train that ran on October 28, 2008. The sound of this A-B-B-B-A set of F-9's grinding up the grade out of the Lake Superior dock will amaze any rail enthusiast! You even get to view the train going through the long tunnel from the cab! You won't want to miss this exciting show, as you won't find a set of 5 F-9's in freight service in the United States ever again! If you love F-Units, this video is a must for your collection!
96 mins Colour Narration Regular price £21 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 27th February 2009 - £20 (free UK & European p&p)
Harold Werthwein's Erie Railroad is one of the largest HO layouts in the country at 85x30 feet. Now he has added a new coal route above the original layout that we documented in Great Model Railroads, Vol. 18. It's the Wyoming Division with three coal branches. This show follows that line from Port Jervis, New York to Lackawaxen, where it interchanges with the Erie's Delaware Divsion. Even though the layout is huge, Harold felt that he needed to add more switching work for his 14 to 18 operators. This group meets monthly and operates about 25 trains on an 8 hour schedule using a fast clock. He follows prototype practices as much as possible using official railroad documents. A layout this large requires quite a bit of maintenance. Every week Harold and friends work on the railroad to make adjustments and repair the defects that can prevent successful train operations. It's hard to believe that this is Harold's first layout. Prior to this project he had been an armchair modeler, but after his retirement 28 years ago he began modeling in a big way. Now at 87 Harold shows few signs of slowing down. In fact the hobby helps him keep his body and mind active, and is a main source of social activity. Harold will show you his coal mines, how to use prototype paperwork, block trains for operation and operate less than carload freights. The Wyoming Division is a Great Model Railroad because Harold has captured the feel of the prototype by using official railroad paperwork and by getting help from former railway executives
60 mins colour Narration Regular price £30 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 27th February 2009 - £29 (free UK & European p&p)
A look at two of Britain’s Heritage Railways, the North Yorkshire Moors and the Great Central, both on Gala Weekends and with a total of 13 engines in steam. The world’s newest main line steam engine, the 2008 built A1 Pacific “Tornado” is running on the GC, as is the 2008 restored Britannia Pacific “Oliver Cromwell”.
WIDESCREEN ONLY 90 mins colour Narration ON/OFF Regular price £18 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 27th February 2009 - £17 (free UK & European p&p)
Audio CD Special Offers
Locomotives of the former Great Eastern Railway at work in Eastern England. Track One Lineside recordings on the Haverhill - Long Melford Line. A Journey with a J.15. to Bury-St-Edmunds. Track Two At Ely Station. Track Three A journey with a Claud from Newmarket to Kennett. Track Four At Brundall station and a B.I2. on the Southend line. Track Five A journey with a Claud from Cantley to Yarmouth. Track Six At Cambridge Station Track Seven At South Lynn station.
Regular price £9.95 SPECIAL OFFER £5.00 (free UK & European p&p)
16 tracks covering a variety of steam locomotives at work at Bromsgrove and between Bromsgrove and the summit at Blackwell on the 1 in 38 climb of the Lickey Incline in 1955 and 1959. It includes trains headed by LMS ‘Crab’ 2-6-0s, Midland 4F 0-6-0s, BR Standard class 5 4-6-0s, LMS ‘Jubilee’ 4-6-0s, LMS ‘Black 5’ 4-6-0s and banked by GWR 9400 0-6-0 Pannier Tanks, LMS ‘Jinty’ class 0-6-0 tanks, a mighty BR 9F class 2-10-0 and as the ‘icing on the cake’, the Midland ‘Lickey Banker’ 0-10-0 "Big Bertha". 14 tracks are in true stereo, 2 tracks are in mono.
(1) The S&D and Southern comings and goings at Templecombe (2) Doubleheaders climbing between Binegar and Chilcompton (3) The arrival and departure of the ‘Pines’ with shunting in background (4) Beside the line on the 1 in 50 climb from Evercreech New (5) On board a heavy ‘Pines’ doubleheaded by Std 5 & 2P working hard on the climb from Bath to Evercreech (6) Evercreech on a dull, damp day in July. A doubleheader sets out for Sheffield, whilst a 2P and 4F set out with locals (7) On a wet and windy morning in August a doubleheader sets out for Leeds and then a 7F wheezily sets out with a freight for Bath (8) At Winsor Hill tunnel. More doubleheaders including the ‘Pines’ with the deep sounds of the 2P contrasting with the Bullied chatter and background thunder (9) At Winsor Hill tunnel in May 1964. A 9F, making light work of the climb against the wind, forges past with a train for Bath chased by sounds of quarry blasting.
(1) At Newton Abbot Station. (2) ‘King John’ climbing from Stoneycombe to Dainton Tunnel. (3) At the Newton Abbot end of Dainton Tunnel. (4) At the Totnes end of Dainton Tunnel. (5) Inside Tigley Siignal Box. (6) The slip coach just detached at Saunderton Summit. (7) The slip coach stops and is taken toPrinces Risborough Station. (8) A morning at Princes Risborough Station. (9) ‘King George II’ leaving Princes Risborough with an up express. (10) A Cheltenham-London express climbs towards Sapperton Tunnel. (11) A freight train climbs past Abergavenny Junction Station. (12) A passenger train climbs past Abergavenny Junction Station. (13) A freight train and ‘City of Truro’ with a special train, near Ruabon. (14) ‘City of Truro’ with a special train at Crumlin. (15) A ‘Dukedog’ leaving Bow Street with a train for Aberystwyth. (16) At Exeter, St Davids Station. (17) ‘King Edward VII’ with the up ‘Inter City’ at Princes Risborough. (18) An up local passenger train and a down express at Risborough. (19) A down express and up push and pull train at Princes Risborough. (20) At Hatton Station. (21) ‘Hinton Manor’ with the up ‘Cambrian Coast Express’ approaching Talerddig. (22) The last passenger train from Watlington.
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