Contemporary Steam Titles

Come along for a look at six steam locomotives filmed in six states. Locomotives include Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 #611 and 4-8-0 #475, along with Strasburg Rail Road 2-6-0 #89 at the Strasburg Rail Road; Black Hills Central 2-6-6-2T #110 in South Dakota's Black Hills; Smoky Mountain (Little River) Railroad 4-6-2 #110 in Michigan; and Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 #4014 in Arkansas, Missouri and Illinois.

Come along for a look at Union Pacific's famous Northern type #844, the only steam locomotive to never be retired by its Class I owner. This two-hour program was shot over the course of three decades and in nine states. This program includes two trips when the locomotive was painted in two-tone gray.

Come along for a look at the history of the Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boys, and the return to operation of #4014. Five days of operation were filmed in 2019 and 2021 in Arkansas, Missouri, and Illinois. This is the first time a Big Boy has operated on these lines that once belonged to the Missouri Pacific and the Cotton Belt Route.

Come along as we present six locomotives and a rare steam powered locomotive crane! Locomotives include Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 and Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 #611.

Union Pacific Challenger #3985 last ran in 2010. This two hour program looks at 18 years of the locomotive's operations from 1992 to her last run in 2010.

Presenting our 2018 "year in review" program, featuring Southern Railway 2-8-0 #401, Iowa Interstate 2-10-2 #6988, Great Smoky Mountains Scenic Railroad 2-8-0 #1702 and Southern Railway 2-8-2 #4501, working solo and doubleheaded with Southern 2-8-0 #630.

All aboard for our 2017 "year in review" program, featuring Southern Railway 2-8-0 #401, Canadian National 2-6-0 #89, Southern Railway 2-8-0 #630 doubleheading with 2-8-2 #4501 and Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 #611 on the mainline out of Roanoke, Virginia.

Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 #611 returns to the Blue Ridge and Christiansburg grades out of Roanoke, Virginia, over the three day 2017 Memorial Day Weekend. Three photographers capture the action.

Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 hauls a pair of all day excursions over regional railroad Paducah & Louisville in 1992.

Baldwin logging 2-6-6-2T Mallet hauls tourist trains in the Black Hills of South Dakota with trackside, cab, on train and pacing scenes.

A look at Norfolk & Western steam and Class J #611, focusing on the 2016 trips from Roanoke to Lynchburg and Walton, Virginia.

Southern Railway 2-8-2 #4501 hauls Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum excursions from Chattanooga to Summerville, Georgia, after her 2014 return to service.

Southern Railway #401 returns to service at the Monticello Railway Museum in September, 2010.

Three Southern Railway 2-8-0s were restored to operation in 2010 and we visit all three: #401 in Monticello, Illinois, #154 in Knoxville, Tennessee, and #630 in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Visit several operating steam engines in 2016: Norfolk & Western 611, Union Pacific #844, the Hesston Steam Museum, the Strasburg Rail Road, and Southern Railway #4501.

Union Pacific 4-8-4 #844 pulls a trainload of reenactors to the 150th anniversary commemoration of the Civil War Battle of Shiloh.

Union Pacific 4-8-4 #844 hauls 2011's Great Excursion Adventure on former Missouri Pacific rails in Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas and Kansas.

Visit the Monticello Railway Museum in central Illinois, for a look at steam and first generation diesels in operation, including cab rides on four different locomotives.

Pacing sequences with 11 steam locomotives and 34 diesel sequences over 3 1/2 hours on two DVDs. Disc 1 features steam and Disc 2 features diesels.

A look at the last steam powered freight-only common carrier in the U.S., from its start in 1973 as a tourist hauler through its diesel powered operations in 2011.

65 engines appear in four hours of footage on two discs, filmed from 1985 to 2010.

A visit to the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad in 2012 to see narrow gauge Mikados climbing the grades of Cumbres Pass.

Visit the Kentucky Railroad Museum in 2005 to see former L&N 4-6-2 #152 in operation 100 years after she was built. Features trackside, in cab and tender top views.

Visit the Strasburg Rail Road to see former Norfolk & Western 4-8-0 #475 pulling freight and passenger trains in 2013. Trackside, cab and on board scenes are featured.

Southern Railway #630 takes to the mainline without diesel assistance from the TVRM at Chattanooga to Cleveland, Tennessee, during the museum's 2013 Railfest. Also includes a CD of sounds of Southern #630.

Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 pulls excursions over the former Pennsylvania Railroad mainline around Horseshoe Curve over the Memorial Day weekend, 2013.

Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 travels from Fort Wayne, Indiana, to St. Louis, Missouri, to pull employee specials as a part of Norfolk Southern's 21st Century Steam program.

Come along for a look at steam and diesel powered specials and excursions in 2014. Southern Railway Heritage unit 8099 pulls trips out of Chattanooga, restored Iowa Pacific car operate on Amtrak, ride a Canadian National FPA4, see Southern Railway 4501 in action and visit Railfest in Owosso, Michigan to see five locomotives under steam.

Visit Coldwater, Michigan, to visit the smallest standard gauge Pacific ever built in the U.S. Trackside, in cab and on board scenes tell the story.

Six different steam operations: Union Pacific #844, Nickel Plate Road #765, Little River Railroad #110, Southern Railway #401, the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad and the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad.