The Burlington Northern Railroad was the product of a March 2nd, 1970, merger of four major railroads, the Great Northern Railway, Northern Pacific Railway, Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway and the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad. In this series, we feature the films of Fred Crissey, who traveled to many areas along the BN's route in the central United States in the late 1970's and 1980's with his 8-millimeter movie film camera.
In volume 2, Fred travels to the states of Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin and South Dakota.
Cascade green and black locomotives are seen in such locations as St. Joseph, Missouri, The Sandhills Region of Nebraska, Crawford Hill and Edgemont, South Dakota. Next, Fred takes us to the Twin Cities of Minnesota and its surrounding areas to view the BN working in such places as Dayton's Bluff, Prescott, Wisconsin and more! A brief look at the Huron to Watertown Local in eastern South Dakota precedes more footage in Minnesota with BN's F units in charge of main line trains! Fred ends the show with Northern Pacific number 328 operating tourist trains in Stillwater.
This program showcases the BN at a time when they were growing and expanding since the 1970 merger. If you are a fan of the Cascade Green, you won't want to miss Classic Burlington Northern, Volume 2!
Running Time 84 minutes, Color/Silent Films with Music and Narration, Music On/Off Feature, ©2017 C. Vision Productions
In volume 2, Fred travels to the states of Kansas, Missouri, Minnesota, Nebraska, Wisconsin and South Dakota.
Cascade green and black locomotives are seen in such locations as St. Joseph, Missouri, The Sandhills Region of Nebraska, Crawford Hill and Edgemont, South Dakota. Next, Fred takes us to the Twin Cities of Minnesota and its surrounding areas to view the BN working in such places as Dayton's Bluff, Prescott, Wisconsin and more! A brief look at the Huron to Watertown Local in eastern South Dakota precedes more footage in Minnesota with BN's F units in charge of main line trains! Fred ends the show with Northern Pacific number 328 operating tourist trains in Stillwater.
This program showcases the BN at a time when they were growing and expanding since the 1970 merger. If you are a fan of the Cascade Green, you won't want to miss Classic Burlington Northern, Volume 2!
Running Time 84 minutes, Color/Silent Films with Music and Narration, Music On/Off Feature, ©2017 C. Vision Productions
Customer Reviews
- 5 of 5
classic burlington northern vol.2 continues looking at the footage from fred crissey capturing the bn in the late 70s and 80s in this video fred shares the footage of more bn action in the states of Kansas Missouri Minnesota Nebraska Wisconsin and South Dakota you'll see footage in St. Joseph Missouri with bn power and units of the former Missouri pacific the planes of Nebraska with union pacific making appearances and helper power of a few units of the kansas city southern Crawford Hill and Edgemont in south Dakota the twin cities of Minneapolis/st.Paul Prescott Wisconsin the local run from huron to watertown south dokota there's also sences of amtrak trains making cameo's powered by the old fp40ph's and a pair of the bn's f unit's on fright trains the video than concludes with footage of northern pacific ten wheeler 328 pulling tourist trains in stillwater Minnesota which that engine has been on static display since 2001 overall this was a vary intresting series c vision productions has shared and as the description says the footage shows how the bn was expanding since the 1970 merger and is now a fallen flag railroad for anyone who loves the bn these videos are just the perfect ones in my opinion
Additional comments:
Narration: Could have used more.
Would kids enjoy this? I doubt it.
Image quality: Good.
Value: Fair.
Recommend? Definitely.
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