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SP FAN STEAMTRIPS - Collection of 1950's steam-era specials. Doubleheaded cab forwards on two different runs, AC9 on the Modoc, smaller engines, 4-8-4's, 4-10-2's and 4-6-2's. 8mm films from the Shattock col- lection. Expertly transfered mostly color footage, with music and informative narration. Also some of the final runs in 1958 for 4460, 1744, and others. 71 min $29.95
CHALLENGER GOES EAST - 1992 action as we see Union Pacific 4-6-6-4 Challenger on CSX trackage headed to Clinchfield country. See Louisville-Cincinnati- and east on the former L&N and C&O, and out of Cincinnati on the return trip as UP 3985 on the B&O. Also see it as Clinchfield 676 en route from Huntington to Kingsport prior to the Santa Train. Learn the history and see the world's largest operational steam engine in action. 70 min $29.95
THE 2101 STORY - Ex-Reading 4-8-4 number 2101 is seen mostly in 1977 and 1978 color sound footage on Chessie Steam specials.Learn the his- tory and how it was restored to operate on the American Freedom train. Our coverage shows some historical footage, the transition to Chessie, and the two years of excursion action. Sand Patch, 17-Mile Grade, Allegheny Grade, and rare last run. 74 Min $29.95
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in the NEC HSR project. The Amtrak boss responded by saying private investors can be attracted to participate, but only after the public sector “has allocated significant fund- ing and committed itself to a project of this magnitude.” Once these services generate these revenue streams, these projects can and will attract private funding that can help repay initial capital costs,” he testified. Even the Obama administration raised the issue of passenger train privatization (long considered an oxymoron). At the same congressional hearing, Transportation Sec- retary Ray LaHood pitched the idea in con- nection with the long-stalled troubled Cali- fornia HSR plan. “We know that this project cannot or will not be built with total federal dollars. We don’t have enough money here to do that. We need private investment,” said he secretary.
Then There’s Florida As we have reported, Florida East Coast In- dustries plans to link Orlando, Orlando Air- port, West Palm Beach, and Miami with a privately funded and operated hourly pas- senger train service complete with new in- frastructure, much of which is planned or now being built. That has prompted specula- tion in the blogosphere to the effect that — aha! — if that project gets off the drawing boards, we can say good-bye to the notion that only government can keep passenger trains in regular service. Such tea leaves-reading is premature at
best. Let’s see what happens between now and the day the first train pulls out of the brand new station in Miami, or more to the point, after it’s been doing that for five years.
Secondly, Florida East Coast has left itself
a parachute on the question of seeking fed- eral dollars, saying only it is its intent not to have to seek government aid. Let’s see if that slightly ajar door swings bit wider when the moment of truth arrives. Third, the folks at Florida East Coast In- dustries have put up a mountain of money to make certain that this railroad is a class act. How many investors are ready to take that plunge on the kind of operation (passenger rail) that has a poor history in the role of “profit center?” Fourth, the South Florida corridor is one of the busiest and most densely populated in the country, especially when one adds the tourist traffic to a state that has for decades been a premiere vacation getaway. Finally, other corridors have some of these
characteristics. Few others have all of them, and even fewer have investors in their com- munities who see money-making opportuni- ties in the passenger train business. So yes, while the Florida project is excit-
ing, we are a long way from the point at which it may generate a change in the entire nation’s approach to corridor passenger rail privatization. China has just launched a 186-m.p.h. line between Beijing and Guangzhou — the longest high-speed train in the world — about equal to the distance between New York and Key West, Fla. And some bemoan that “political forces” in the U.S. leave the us “further be- hind countries like China.” Ah yes, amazing what you can do in a country ruled by the looming threat of a shot in the head. Wes Vernon is a Washington-based writer and veteran broadcast journalist.
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