Volume 1 was recorded on June 6, 1993, behind one of the loudest locomotives to operate in mainline excursion service: St. Louis & San Francisco 4-8-2 #1522.
Volume 2 was recorded on June 14, 1980, behind one of the many “hired” locomotives to operate on the famed steam excursions of the Southern Railway: former Canadian Pacific 4-6-2 #2839.
Volume 3 was recorded on April 25, 1981, as the Chessie Safety Express traversed the former Baltimore & Ohio line from East St. Louis to Flora, Illinois, and return.
Volume 4 was recorded on May 2, 1982, as Southern Railway 2-8-4 #2716 headed up a round trip excursion from Memphis, Tennessee, to Sheffield, Alabama, and return.
Volume 5 was recorded on August 26, 1984, as Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 #765 pulled a round trip excursion from Cincinnati, Ohio, to Indianapolis, Indiana, and return over Chessie System’s former Baltimore & Ohio mainline.
Volume 6 was recorded on October 10, 1987, as Norfolk & Western 2-6-6-4 #1218 pulled a round trip excursion from Birmingham, Alabama, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and return.
Volume 7 was recorded on June 4, 1983, as Norfolk & Western 4-8-4 #611 pulled a round trip excursion from Birmingham, Alabama, to Chattanooga, Tennessee, and return.
Volume 8 was recorded on July 28, 1985, as Southern Railway 2-8-2 #4501 pulled a round trip excursion from Huntingburg to Evansville, Indiana, and return.
Climb aboard the locomotives as Southern Railway 2-8-0 #630 and 2-8-2 #4501 lead an excursion down the former Central of Georgia to Summerville, Georgia. One microphone was aboard #630 and the other was aboard #630's tender, aimed at #4501.
Climb aboard L&N #152, with in cab and tender top recordings as the locomotive hauls a train between New Haven and Boston, Kentucky.
In 2012, we put microphones aboard and behind the smallest standard gauge Pacific ever built for a U.S. railroad: Little River Railroad #110. We even rented a caboose to use as a platform for doing sound recordings.
