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REAL RAILROADING! The world’s oldest and largest source for historic railroad videos.

Classic train DVDs produced from original historic railroad film. Sunday River’s historic rail videos are produced and edited in house. Where necessary, accurate sound has been added for realistic effect. Scrupulous historic research, brings you trackside in eras long gone by. Sunday River’s classic train DVDs are known world wide as the most comprehensive and authoritative available.

View our catalog by clicking on the historic railroad video categories. Our extensive classic rail catalog is being re-mastered on DVD so that access to these treasured train journeys will not be lost. We carry a full range of historic rail and even a “must-have” model railroad DVD. 

We hold ourselves to the tradition of excellence that was established by founder Alva Morrison, a passionate train enthusiast who researched and narrated the films – and occasionally rode the rails with the camera himself. We eagerly solicit your comments. If what you receive from us isn't better than expected, send it back for full refund or exchange. 

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Southern Pacific Steam

Our Southern Pacific steam collection includes the NEW Anthology, brilliant orange Daylights and narrow gauge in the Owen's Valley!

The SP Daylights: As They Were

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The SP Daylights: As They Were

$29.95

See Southern Pacific's 4-8-4 Daylights in the 1940s and '50s filmed by Walt Whittaker. Daylight or GS 6 #4460 was captured in 1958 by Mac Owen and #4449 comes back to life in 1981.

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View Will Whitaker’s study of the Daylight locomotive in the ‘40s & ‘50s including The Coast and Valley Daylights and a wide variety of Southern Pacific steam history. In the Tehachapis, over the Sierras and across the Nevada desert Whitaker caught all aspects of the famed GS 4: all color, all black, with skirts and without. Daylights pull freights, commuters, fan trips and football specials. They haul or are doubled with such name train legends as The Gold Coast, The San Joaquin Daylight and even The City of San Francisco.

BONUS: SP's Centennial Engine steams through Niles Canyon.

In Southern Pacific’s 1958 official “Farewell To Steam” Daylight GS 6 #4460 crosses the Sierras six days before her boiler time expires. This foray was intended to be the final movement of steam anywhere on the Southern Pacific system and upon her return to Sacramento Shops her rods were severed with a cutting torch so that steam could never run again on SP tracks. 4460 made this dramatic trip, unassisted in either direction except where a bearing runs hot. The DVD closes with #4449's triumphant return heading for Railfair 1981, with the first cars in Daylight orange: storming the Cascades, snaking down to Dunsmuir and wide open on the valley floor. Here we witness #4449 bringing SP steam back to life!

29 minutes