Train Videos and DVD's from Catenary Video Productions (23)
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Rails of the Golden City 150 Years of Cable Cars Streetcars and Steam Trains in San Francisco DVD Catenary Video Productions150th Anniversary of Cable Cars in San Francisco 1873-2023 Out of the Halcyon Days of the Comstock Nabobs Came the invention of the Cable Car in 1873. From the Earthquake and Fire of 1906 To Baghdad-by-the-Bay of 1955. The Rails of the Golden ...more info
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The Trains We Missed Vol 2 Logging & Mining Shortlines DVD Catenary Video ProductionsLOGGING AND MINING SHORTLINES 16mm Motion Picture Footage of Steam and First Generation Diesels: Michigan-California RR & Cableway Pickering's Sugarpine RR Apache Railway Oregon & Northwestern RR Minera Mexicana PeƱoles at Avalos ...more info
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Trains We Missed Vol 1 DVD Catenary Video ProductionsVOLUME 1: Northern California & Nevada Steam Early Diesel Electric FEATURING 16MM MOTION PICTURE FOOTAGE OF: John Kirkland's Southern Pacific Steam and First Generation Diesels Sacramento Northern - New Footage Santa Fe Steam & Early ...more info
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Skookum and CV-4 Double Headed Mallets in Niles Canyon DVD Catenary Video ProductionsCatenary Video utilizes the art of Cinema to tell the complete story of a very old steam engine that rolled off a trestle, was abandoned, rescued by a railfan, changed owners, was moved twice, had parts lost, and is finally restored fifty years later, ...more info
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San Francisco Peninsula Route Circa 1954 Volume 5 DVD Catenary Video ProductionsSan Francisco Peninsula Route - 1954 History of the SF&SJ RR Mission Bay and Bayshore Yards The "Commute Parade" at 3rd and Townsend Santa Cruz Branch / Sun Tan Special San Jose Yard & Lenzen Roundhouse Los Gatos Branch, "Big Game" ...more info
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Western Pacific The First 50 Years Vol 2 DVD Catenary Video Productions 4 of 5 (1)Filmmaker Don Olsen first produced this film in 1992 with the help of Guy Dunscomb and Ted Wurm. Soon out of print, it is now re-issued and substantially upgraded in a two-volume set in wide screen format with stereo sound. The saga begins in Volume ...more info
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Western Pacific The First 50 Years 1910 to 1960 DVD Volume 1 Catenary Video Productions 5 of 5 (2)Don Olsen originally assembled the films for these programs, first produced in 1992, and now re-issued and substantially upgraded in a two-volume set in wide screen format with stereo sound. Historian and author Ted Benson assisted in the research necessary ...more info
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West Coast Railroad Logging Equipment & Techniques Vol 2 DVD Catenary Video Productions 5 of 5 (2)Volume Two covers challenges which faced railroad construction, including inclines, cableways, and powering snow. Plus parbuckling wrecks, log dumps, mills and the "end of the show". ...more info
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West Coast Railroad Logging- Equipment & Techniques Volume 1 DVD Catenary Video Productions 4.7 of 5 (3)Geography and time have brought enormous changes to the art of transforming raw logs into useful lumber. Producer-archivist Don Olsen has spent over two decades amassing rare footage spanning 50 years, which detail logging by railroad on the West Coast - ...more info
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Smoke in Niles Canyon DVD Catenary Video ProductionsThe history of trains in Niles Canyon dates back to 1862, when the first Western Pacific Railroad Company started construction in San Jose, California and headed towards Sacramento. Today the Pacific Locomotive Association operates trains in the same ...more info
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Narrow Gauge Logging Railroads of El Dorado County DVD Catenary Video Productions 4.5 of 5 (2)In the first half of the twentieth century, it was railroads -- using geared steam locomotives -- that facilitated logging California's enormous stands of virgin timber. They conquered the rugged terrain with steep grades, switchbacks and inclines, and ...more info
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Pickerings Sugar Pine Railroad DVD Catenary Video Productions 5 of 5 (1)Geared locomotives were used by the Sugar Pine Railroad between 1909 and 1965 to haul logs from the Stanislaus River Canyon to the Pickering lumber mill some 70 miles away. The challenges facing this operation led to what may be considered the most ...more info
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Californias North Coast Logging Railroads DVD Catenary Video ProductionsIn 1854, the first railroad in the western U.S. was built to haul logs from northern California's vast stands of coastal redwoods to the tideland. For the next century, railroads played a vital role in a thriving lumber industry. "California's North Coast ...more info
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Sierra Shortlines Vols 1 and 2 2-DVD Set Catenary Video ProductionsVOL. 1 Sierra Railroad The Legendary Sierra Railroad from 1947 to 1973, is covered in detail never before offered. Locomotives #3, #18, #24, #34, #36, and #38 are all shown in action. 80% freight, plus early fantrips. A tour of the shops by Al ...more info
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Sierra Shortlines Vol 2 - Yosemite Amador Nevada County Hetch Hetchy DVD Catenary Video Productions 3 of 5 (1)Yosemite Valley Railroad Yosemite Lumber Incline Amador Central Railroad Nevada County Narrow Gauge Hetch Hetchy Railroad Yosemite Valley Railroad carried thousands of sightseers from Merced to El Portal -- the gate to Yosemite. See the ...more info
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Sierra Shortlines Vol 1 - Sierra Railroad DVD Catenary Video ProductionsSierra Railroad The Legendary Sierra Railroad from 1947 to 1973, is covered in detail never before offered. Locomotives #3, #18, #24, #34, #36, and #38 are all shown in action. 80% freight, plus early fantrips. A tour of the shops by Al Lehr, retired ...more info
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West Side: Slim Gauge Logging in Tuolumne County DVD Catenary Video Productions 5 of 5 (4)Most American steam-powered logging railroads had faded into oblivion by the 1940's. However, the West Side Lumber Company still had significant stands of timber to harvest from inaccessible tracts in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and their three-foot gauge ...more info
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Rails to the Redwood Empire Northwestern Pacific DVD Catenary Video Productions 4 of 5 (1)Rails to the Redwood Empire, originally released in 1991, is a pictorial history of the steam era on the Northwestern Pacific Railroad, which featured four distinct modes of transportation. The early, pre-1900 period was mostly narrow gauge, depicted in ...more info
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Southern Pacifics Circa 1950 Series Volume 1-4 DVD Set Catenary Video Productions 5 of 5 (1)Our spectacular programs documenting the zenith of steam-era railroading on the Shasta, San Joaquin and Coast Daylight Routes are all now on DVD. A handsome storage box will be included FREE with the purchase of this 4 DVD set. NOTE: Storage box ...more info
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Southern Pacifics Coast Daylight Route Volume 4 DVD Catenary Video Productions"The Most Beautiful Train In The World", SP's Coast Daylight, was a favorite of fans and travelers during its heyday in the 1940's. The luxurious, strikingly painted streamliner was conceived in the depths of the depression, and revolutionized rail ...more info
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Southern Pacifics San Joaquin Route Circa 1950 Volume 3 DVD Catenary Video Productions 4 of 5 (1)"Southern Pacific's San Joaquin Route, circa 1950", Volume 3, provides an in-depth study of one of SP's major north-south arteries in the post-WW II decade. In this exciting era, the diesel gained ascendancy, but steam soldiered on until the middle ...more info
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Southern Pacifics Shasta Route Circa 1950 Volume 2 DVD Catenary Video Productions 5 of 5 (1)Lumbering played a vital role in Oregon's development and economy. Rare footage shows logging trains powered by as many as slx "hogs" on the Tillamook Branch, and the last regular passenger train on the Coos Bay Branch. Portland's vast ...more info
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Southern Pacifics Shasta Route Circa 1950 Volume 1 DVD Catenary Video Productions"SP's SHASTA ROUTE, c.1950", Volume 1, features SP's north-south West Coast Route - from the Bay Area to Portland, Oregon -- with its steep grades requiring heavy power and multiple helpers. Special sections on SP's famous cab-forwards and mountain ...more info
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