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The Key System/ Bart: The Early Years

The Key System/ Bart: The Early Years RonRail Pictures Format: DVD Length: 1 Hour 54 Minutes Time period: Late 1930’s to 1958 Location: Bay Area Sources: Mitch Dakelman, Frank Miklos Here is a mostly color look at old Oakland area, Key System Electric Lines, and across the bay to San Francisco. A wide array of […]

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Extreme Trains- Transcontinental- History Channel

Transcontinental Extreme Trains History Channel Format: DVD Length: 55 minutes Locations: Council Bluffs, Omaha to Sacramento Source: Extreme Trains Season One Host: Matt Bown This episode features the Union Pacific Transcontinental Route. This is a 1700 mile trip!World’s busiest freight line. C45AC is a Union Pacific workhorse locomotive. A tour of the locomotive shows highlights of this third […]

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Extreme Trains- Coal Train- History Channel

Coal Train- Extreme Trains- History Channel History Channel Format: DVD Length: 50 minutes Time Period: 2008 Locations: Altoona, Johnstown, Pittsburgh, Horseshoe Curve, Juanita shops.. Host Matt Bown takes us on a tour of a Norfolk Southern coal train through the Allegheny Mountains in Pennsylvania. 300 miles from Greene County, PA., to Washingtonville power plant. This […]