Tag: Logging

Pickering’s Sugar Pine Railroad

Post author By William J. Hudson
Post date March 9, 2013
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Pickering’s Sugar Pine Railroad Catenary Video Productions Length: 62 minutes Time Period: 1920’s to 1965 Locations: Stanislaus River Canyon, Standard, Peeled Onion, Chinaman Creek, Strawberry, and many more.. Sources: Don Olsen collection MSRP: 29.95 Pickering’s Sugar Pine Railroad receives comprehensive coverage, from early days through abandonment. This logging line was 70 miles long. The Sugar […]

Tags California, Logging, PBS style, steam train

Catenary Video

Smoke in Niles Canyon

Smoke in Niles Canyon Catenary Video Productions Length: 35 minutes Time Period: 1920’s- Present Sources: Don Olsen, Bill Straile, Warren Haack MSRP: 19.95 A Pictorial History of The Niles Canyon Railway Niles Canyon is presented in a ‘then and now ‘ format. Located west of San Francisco, California. Both Southern Pacific and Western Pacific had […]

Tags California, Logging, PBS style, Southern Pacific, steam train, trolley

ATVR Reviews Green Frog

Steam In The 50’s: Volume 3

Post author By William J. Hudson
Post date May 3, 2012
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Green Frog Productions Format: DVD Length: 55 minutes Time Period: 1950’s Locations. Northwestern USA, Western Canada, and more… Sources: Ted Carlson, Maynard Lang (16mm) The Golden Twilight of Postwar Steam, Steam in the 50’s Special: 7 pak . This review is from the 7 pak set. Each show reviewed individually. A review of the complete […]