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VOLUME TWO SUBWAY AND SURFACE LINES
1 Hour 7 Minutes
Philadelphia SEPTA City Transit: Juniper St to 40th St subway lines through Woodland and Chester Ave surface lines and more. 1970’s PCC Cars through 1980’s Kawasaki. Experimental color
one of a kinds. Includes Routes 10 - 11 - 13 - 34 - 36. ONLY $29.95
PHILADELPHIA MEMORIES Two Discs Set 2 Hrs 23 Min
The Colorfull Years - 1970’s and 1980’s
PHILADELPHIA MEMORIES
VOLUME 1 SURFACE LINES
VOLUME ONE SURFACE LINES
Two Discs Set 2 Hours 23 Minutes
Includes Routes 6 - 15 - 23 53 - 56 - 60
From the lens of Gary Grahl. See Philadelphia PCC’s during the color- ful 1970’ and 1980’s on Routes 6, 15, 23, 53, 56, and 60. ONLY $29.95
NJ LIGHT RAIL LINES
Two Discs Set Approx. 3 Hours Explore the history of light rail in
New Jersey from Newark Subway, thru PCC’s last ride in the Public Service Era, to NJ Transit Light Rail and More! ONLY $29.95
NJ LIGHT RAIL LINES
Two Discs Set Approx. 3 Hours
Explore the history of light rail in New Jersey from Newark Subway, thru PCC’s last ride in the Public Service Era, to NJ Transit Light Rail and More!
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VIDEO REVIEW
Railroad Video Quarterly — Issue 80 Revelation Video, P.O. Box 129, Tallmadge, OH 44278;
www.revelationvideo.com; order phone 330-630-9817. DVD, 120 minutes. $24.00 postpaid to U.S.; add $5.00 to Canada and overseas; One year subscription (four issues) to US or Canada, $59.00 postpaid. OH residents add sales tax.
2012 was a year of an- niversaries: it was 100 years since the Titanic sank,
150
years since President Abraham
Lincoln signed the charter that created the Union Pacific, and 30 years since the Nor- folk Southern merger. It has also been 20 years since Ron McElrath started the Rail- road Video Quarterly (RVQ) video magazine, a novel concept at the time. News that may have been seen in print, as well as content that has never made it into print, is brought to life on video. RVQ uses material submit- ted by independent contributors in addition to that shot by the producer, and conse- quently the content is quite varied geo- graphically and by subject matter. The video is generally well shot and edited, and appro- priately narrated.
Issue 80 has 11 main subjects, concentrat- ed on North Carolina due to Norfolk South- ern’s display of its colorful heritage locomo- tive last summer at Spencer Shops, but the
first visit is to the Carillon Park Rail Festi- val in Dayton, Ohio, where, large scale live steam and diesel locomotives operate on three loops of track. The most unusual mod- el is the New York Central’s jet powered RDC from the 1960s. Next, footage from a contributor takes us west as Santa Fe 4-8-4 No. 3751 pulls a special passenger train from California to the Grand Canyon. The train is shown from trackside and on board, including the doubleheader with Grand Canyon Railway’s ex-Burlington 2-8-2 No. 4960 on the point. A potpourri of modern Union Pacific diesel runbys on the Front Range north and south of Denver, plus some Denver light rail, appear next. This includes unit
coal trains, several catches of the
RBB&B circus train, and UP 4-8-4 No. 844 on the Cheyenne Frontier Days trains. Moving to Doswell, Va., on the East Coast, everything that moves from dawn to dusk is seen at this spot where CSX’s former Rich- mond, Fredericksburg & Potomac main line crosses the former Chesapeake & Ohio on diamonds. The Buckingham Branch short line ties up its power here and interchanges freight with CSX. An amazing number of Amtrak trains, mixed freights, unit coal trains, and the Tropicana Juice Train pass, as well as the BB Geeps.
Next are a few minutes of steam excur- sions as Southern 2-8-0 No. 630 makes a va- riety of June trips in Dixie, with and without diesel assistance. The trips are ridden or chased from Winston-Salem, N.C.
to
Roanoke, Va., and also westbound out of Roanoke on the former Norfolk & Western. Next, there’s very nice coverage of the state- sponsored Amtrak Piedmont trains as nar-
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