Steam on Horseshoe Curve

Rare B&W footage from the 1930s and 1940s shows the K-4, M-1 (Mountain) and J class (2-10-4 Texan) engines. Plus see the famed I Class Decapods. 600 of these 2-10-0s, made the Pennsylvania’s the largest fleet in the world. This moving visual history displays E-6 Atlantics, heavyweight Pullmans and brass rail observations climbing the curve. Sync sound scenes include the famous “banshee whistle”. See many high-speed run pasts rounding the curve from trackside plus views from on board and in the cab. Color footage from the 1940s and 1950s presents a spectacle of double and triple headers on the famous Horseshoe Curve in summer with the T-1 4-4-4-4s and Q-2 4-4-6-4s. The DVD closes with the arrival of the diesels: a Baldwin Centipede, E-7s and E-8s and, finally, the lo-nose hoods. 50 minutes 

Under the Heat: Pennsylvania GG1s

Introduced in 1935 by the Pennsylvania Railroad, it ran until the early ‘80s, outliving the railroad that built it. Based on the P-5a, the GG1 was Pennsy’s answer to an electric passenger locomotive that had a steam boiler for heat and could pull more than 14 passenger cars. In the DVD, we start with a brief history of Pennsy Electric engines showing the DD-1, the P-5 (box cab) and P-5A (streamlined) and explain the circumstances that led to the development of the GG-1. A wide variety of freight and passenger trains are shown, almost all on the high speed, four track raceway between Washington and New York: The Congressional, The Senator, The George Washington, The Crescent, The Silver Meteor and many others. GG1s cross The Great Susquehanna and the Delaware River bridges, the Port Road to Harrisburg and both arrive and depart Washington, D.C. and Penn Station in New York. See Sunnyside Yard where the famous "name" trains were stored and assembled and Wilmington Shops from where the GG-1s were dispatched. Catch the famous Tuscan Red GG-1 #4877 in action. The DVD closes with third rail action along the Harlem River on the New York Central and dwells on the New Haven FL-9s arriving and leaving 125th Street station. All color except footage of the P-5s. 24 minutes

Rambling on the Reading

Fantastic film footage, doubleheading - the works! For over 6 years starting in 1959 The Reading Railroad ran fifty-nine trips for steam enthusiasts the length and breadth of their system, many of them doubleheaded, all with the famed 4-8-4 T-1 Northerns as power. Here are twenty-two of the best with freight and passenger whistles in frequent dialogue—a roaring salute to steam as a storm of doubleheaders thunder across meadow and mountain from the first green of Spring to the last blaze of Autumn. 60 minutes