Train Videos and DVD's from Sunday River Productions (65)
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D&RGW Freights Narrow Gauge in the 1950s and 1960s DVD Sunday River ProductionsThis comprehensive hour-long film documents 1950s and 60s Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge steam hauling freight in scenic Colorado. Watch the 400 class engines pulling freight in tandem, sometimes double heading at the front of the train, sometimes ...more info
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Thunder on Cranberry 614 DVD Sunday River ProductionsC&O engine #614 climbs the arduous hills of the Chessie System, including 17 Mile Grade, Cranberry and Sand Patch grades - all on former B&O tracks. What a show of steam! This is the only photographic record of an extraordinary feat, in which the ...more info
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Norfolk & Western Big Steam Articulated Y & A Class in the 1950s Sunday River ProductionsThis DVD replaces the former title, "Norfolk & Western Articulateds," with a new version refreshed by digital image processing, meticulously reorganized by class and location, and with additional, never before seen film footage from our vaults. It is ...more info
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611 Forever - Pride of the Norfolk & Western 1950s 1980s 2015 Sunday River ProductionsPride of the Norfolk & Western: 1950s, 1980s, & 2015. Catch all the excitement of the amazing, and indomitable #611 through several time periods. In this action-packed DVD, follow the indomitable #611 pulling famed named trains, "The Pocahontas" and ...more info
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Mallets & Texans by the Sea on the Teresa Cristina in Brazil DVD Sunday River ProductionsRare footage shows huge Texan-type 2-10-4s and 2-6-6-2 mallets built in the United States by Baldwin and Alco. In this remote corner of SE Brazil, these magnificent locomotives hauled coal from the interior mines to the docks at ocean side. The Texans ...more info
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Over Lizard Head Pass DVD Sunday River ProductionsRide the last steam passenger trains of the Rio Grande Southern and experience the world of real narrow gauge, amid the breath-taking peaks of southwest Colorado. In 1932 the Rio Grande Southern stopped running passenger trains. After that date the ...more info
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Big Boys and Brothers in the 50s DVD Sunday River ProductionsThis DVD features the rare and original 1950s films of Mr. William Altheimer. Professionally and expertly converted to digital video, the films have outstanding clarity and color. After the introduction, the following 24 minutes showcase 13 different ...more info
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Boston & Maine Steam - Heavy Haulers & Crack Limiteds DVD Sunday River ProductionsTravel back to the mid-1930s to see action on the busiest divisions of the Boston & Maine. Steam locomotives work The Portland, New Hampshire and Fitchburg Divisions and the Connecticut Valley Line in both summer and winter. Huge hulking Berkshires battle ...more info
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New England Short Lines DVD Sunday River Productions 4 of 5 (1)The vibrancy of these short lines give us a picture of life in New England in the mid-1930s, after the Great Depression. These scrappy lines, some only 7 or 8 miles long, were often built to serve a specific commodity such as milk, ice, limestone, iron ore ...more info
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Rio Grande Zephyr Main Line Through the Rockies DVD Sunday River ProductionsIn the early 1970s, passenger trains across the US struggled to survive under the fledgling Amtrak system. The most notable exception was the Rio Grande Zephyr which operated independently from 1970 to 1983 providing its own unique brand of intercity travel ...more info
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California Zephyr The Original Dream Train DVD Sunday River ProductionsTake a ride on the California Zephyr, the "Silver Lady", the epitome of streamlined passenger train luxury. This footage from the late 1960s takes you from Oakland by the San Francisco Bay eastward toward Chicago. Three rail lines combined efforts to create ...more info
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Steam in Australia Victoria & New South Wales DVD Sunday River ProductionsThe "Victoria and New South Wales" DVD offers a rare view of railroading at the height of Australia's steam era. Highlights include a holiday excursion train for school children meandering along the shore in South Geelong to Queenscliff. In the ...more info
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Intrepid Trolleys of 1950s Washington Baltimore Atlantic City Boston DVD Sunday River ProductionsSee trolleys of the 1950s in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Atlantic City and Boston In cities and suburban America, people once relied on trolley systems for transportation. Although "light rail" is the buzzword in urban transportation today, this film ...more info
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New England Steam Six Main Lines DVD Sunday River Productions 3.5 of 5 (2)Back in the 1930s when steam was the way to travel, an intertwined system of lines carried freight and passengers through the hills and hinterlands of New England. Six main lines of New England steam are shown here in rare archival film, from the largest ...more info
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Boston & Maine Steam 4-4-0 to Superpower DVD Sunday River ProductionsWith some of our oldest and most historic footage from the earliest days of motion picture film, this DVD shows the development of motive power in Eastern railroading. Beginning with diminutive Atlantics and American 4-4-0s hauling open platform wooden ...more info
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Two Foot Gauge in Maine DVD Sunday River ProductionsIn a beautiful study of the diminutive Maine railroads that used the two foot gauge we discover that they are as charming as they are hardworking. The film is split between the Sandy River and Rangely Lakes and the Bridgton and Harrison, with a four minute ...more info
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3985 Challenger DVD Sunday River ProductionsHighlights from the history of the 4-6-6-4 Challenger engines built by ALCO between 1936 and 1943. Take unique trips with 3985 the only Challenger still remaining in operation and one of the largest steam locomotives operating today. See early excursions ...more info
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The Powhatan Arrow & J Class Steam DVD Sunday River ProductionsNorfolk & Western made the bullet-nose J Class engine as the era of steam was coming to a close. See these amazing precision engines in regular passenger service in the 1950s cruising at 60 MPH over some of the toughest grades in the East. The elegant ...more info
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SP Daylights As They Were DVD Sunday River Productions 5 of 5 (3)Daylights in the 1940s and '50s by Walt Whittaker. GS 6 #4460 filmed in 1958 by Mac Owen. 4449 in 1981. SP Daylights: As They Were We start with Will Whitaker's study of the Daylight locomotive in the '40s & '50s. View The Coast and Valley ...more info
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8444 Across Oregon Union Pacific Steam DVD Sunday River ProductionsIn two entirely different trips between Cheyenne and Portland, Oregon, (in 1974 and 1979) 8444 steams along-with NO diesel support-pulling a long armor yellow consist over the steepest grades on the Union Pacific system. The train sets out from Colorado, ...more info
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8444 At Work! DVD Sunday River ProductionsFreights and Streamliners 8444 is one of only 2 steam engines that have been in continuous operation in North America (the other is Southern 4501). Watch the best run pasts chosen from 15 years of shooting on Sherman Hill-with breathtaking views from ...more info
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Autumn in the Great Gorge Nickel Plate 765 DVD Sunday River Productions 4 of 5 (1)A lush autumn journey on #765 Nickel Plate Berkshire through the Great Gorge of the New River in West Virginia. All #765!-in two crisply filmed excursions through the rich foliage, some 1000 feet below the farms of Fayette County, where much of the gorge is ...more info
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Six Hired Guns 2 DVD Collection Part 1& 2 Southern Steam Excursions Sunday River Productions 5 of 5 (1)Part 1 This DVD features the renaissance of steam in the South, with two living legends-engines 4501 and 610-returning to carry their flags before the public. Gleaming in green and gold #4501, the little Mike that started it all, charges through the New ...more info
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Six Hired Guns Part 2 Southern Steam Excursions on 722, 750, 2716 & 2839 DVD Sunday River Productions 1 of 5 (1)The story of the renaissance of Southern steam continues with double-headed trips behind Southern Railway #722 and #750 through the gorge of the beautiful French Broad River. The ex-Canadian Pacific Royal Hudson #2839 appears on a four day swing over the ...more info
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Six Hired Guns Part 1 Southern Steam Excursions on 4501 & 610 DVD Sunday River Productions 1 of 5 (1)This DVD features the renaissance of steam in the South, with two living legends-engines 4501 and 610-returning to carry their flags before the public. Gleaming in green and gold #4501, the little Mike that started it all, charges through the New River Gorge ...more info
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Niagaras & Mohawks DVD Sunday River Productions 5 of 5 (1)This one will give you goose bumps! A feast of steam hard at work across the length of the New York Central System includes streamliners like The Commodore Vanderbilt and the Chicagoan that scream across the Ohio heartland at speeds over 90 miles per hour. ...more info
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City of Portland Streamliner Series DVD Sunday River ProductionsIn the spring of 1935 a single flash of brilliant yellow westbound on Union Pacific's main line eclipsed every conventional way to measure time across the North American continent. The world's first streamlined sleeping car train slashed travel between ...more info
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Triple Heading to the Spiral Tunnels DVD - Canadian Pacific B.C. Sunday River ProductionsSummer: In the fifties Will Whittaker dropped off a local at Yoho, mid-way between the upper and lower Spiral Tunnels to capture a steam display that could only be equaled at Horseshoe Curve. In one four hour period in Summer as many as ten sections of ...more info
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Steam In Mexico DVD Sunday River Productions 4 of 5 (2)All U.S. built (some former NKP, C+NW, Florida East Coast, etc.). From 4-4-0 Atlantics - over 100 years old - to sleek, modern 4-8-4 Northerns. The rare Mastadon (4-8-0) covered in-depth. Three or four box cab electrics plus early Alco and EMD diesels. ...more info
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Nickel Plate Odyssey DVD Sunday River ProductionsFollow several of Nickel Plate Berkshire 759's most arresting journeys. First, ride the Golden Spike Centennial in 1969 between Kansas City and Moberly, with marvelous pacing shots. Then, see the 1971 break in and testing of the 759 with Western Maryland ...more info
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