Best of Steam – Top Frog – Volume 2

Producer: Green Frog

Locations: many

Timeframe: 1950s- 1970s

Length: 55 minutes

Source: Emery Gulash

Famed Railfan Cinematographer Emery Gulash compilation. Steam locomotives from the 1950s into the 1970s. A variety of Railroads.

DVD-R. Hidden chapter advance. Narrated by Dan Chandler.

Aspect ratio is 4×3. Excellent image quality. Soundtrack with train sounds.

Nearly every scene can be considered a highlight. Generally, I am not showing the common engines. UP 8444, for example.

Nickel Plate Road

Bellevue, Ohio to Ft. Wayne, Indiana area. Berkshires and more.

East Broad Top

1953. Narrow Gauge in Pennsylvania. Mount Union begins the visit. Pre tourist line footage! A look that goes to Rockville Furnace.

Pennsylvania Railroad

Altoona. Huge coaling tower. Brief visit.

Rio Grande Narrow Gauge

LaJara Station. Revenue freights. Durango Station and more.

Rotary

Vintage operation.

CB&Q 5632

At Congress Park. Burlington Route Excursion Train runs out to Sugar Grove, Illinois.

Grand Trunk Western 6330

Train 15 is fronted by GTW 6330 at Chicago. Going to Dearborn Station.

GT 5629

GTW 5629 pulls a Special Excursion out of Chicago Dearborn Station. . Check the meat reefers that fill the sidings. Chicago Stockyards had the butchering cornered for decades. Swift and Armour were huge. Morell Meats and Rath Packing are visible.

GTW 4070

At Chicago is Mikado 4070. Runs an Excursion to South Bend.

New York Central

A Mikado class departs Kalamazoo Yard. See some switchers operate there.

Mohawk class from Detriot. 2 Mohawk passes Kalamazoo Yard. Multiple classes of locomotives and locations. Plenty of action in this longer chapter.

Southern 4501

June 24. 1973 on Rock Island Rails. 4501 trips Chicago to Bureau, Ill.

EL 2102

May 73. Excursion Binghamton to Hoboken via Lackawanna trackage. Relettered to Delaware and Hudson. Called New York State Express. Tunkhannock Viaduct.

2102 Akron, Canton and Youngstown

Reading T-1 class Excursion Train on AC&Y tracks.

Union Pacific

Denver vicinity. Challengers. Northern 8444 fan trips from Cheyenne, Wyoming.

Narrow Gauge on the Denver & Rio Grande Western in the freight revenue days.

Best of Steam – Top Frog- Volume 2

A fast paced show. The time flys by while viewing. Plenty of variety.

Emery Gulash films are Classics! Green Frog has an outstanding release that contains many top scenes of Steam era and later Special Excursions.

Rating: 5 Stars