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| Southern Pacific Central Corridor We'll see pre-merger Southern Pacific on the Central Corridor in Colorado and the SPCSL (SP Chicago St. Louis) into Chicago. Together these lines funnel a lot of traffic over the mountains and plains into Chicago. Over SP 50 trains are seen! Locations include Glenwood Springs on Southern Paci ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MVSPCC 1 Hour 28 Mins $19.95 |
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| Southern Pacific East 1997 It's post-merger, but Southern Pacific and Cotton Belt paint still dominates. See over 50 trains in Indiana and Illinois. We'll be on the SPCSL (SP Chicago St. Luois) route and on EJ&E, Belt Railway of Chicago andGTW tracks.Locations include Wilmington, Dwight, Odell, Pontiac, Chenoa, Bloomington, ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MVSPE 55 Mins $19.95 |
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| Southern Pacific Model Trains in Detailed Scenes Two programs on one disc! Both feature the layout and modeling of Bob Calvert. Bob and family model the Midwest and primarily the Southern Pacific, though we'll see lots of '"foreign'" power. The first program is a layout tour, made to be a '"railfan experience'" of the layou ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MVMRC 2 Hours $19.95 |
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| Southern Pacific, Eastern Illinois We'll follow pre-merger Southern Pacific on the Burlington Northern line from Aurora to Cicero and the Belt Railway of Chicago from Cicero to the BRC's West End.Trains are varied and include manifest, stack and ore trains. We'll see a variety of SP related power (SP, SSW, DRGW) and pool power from C ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MVSPEI 1 Hour 37 Mins $19.95 |
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| Tower Junctions The late 1990's saw something in the Chicago area that had long ago started to disappear elsewhere: Towers at railroad junctions. Towers are interesting by themselves, but the junction means lots of traffic! In this nearly two hour look at towers in the Chicago area, we visit JB Tower in West Chica ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MVTJ 1 Hour $19.95 |
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| Union Pacific Chicago Sub (with subtitle) The Union Pacific double track Chicago Sub hosts UP's main route from Chicago to Texas and CSX's route south out of Chicago. The Chicago Sub is former C&EI (later MoPac) territory and CSX has had trackage rights for a long time. CSX trains from off the Belt Railway of Chicago and their Barr Yard ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MVUPCS 1 Hour 27 Mins $19.95 |
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| Union Pacific Geneva Sub It's the late 1990s and Union Pacific has taken over the Chicago and Northwester and the CNW Geneva Sub. We'll see some CNW paint, but the UP is really starting to assert itself. Come along on an entriley new Geneva Sub jpourney as we visit Malta, Creston, Meredith, Elburn, Sterling, and Glen Ellyn. ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MVUPGEN 1 Hour 8 Mins $19.95 |
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| UP & CNW Geneva Sub, Volume 1 Chicago & Northwestern personality and color are still abundant on this high traffic former CNW, now Union Pacific route west out of Chicago. We'll see a wide variety of trains and motive power from GP-7s to the new SD-90MACs... and even Union Pacific 4-8-4 Northern-type steamer #844 in excursio ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MVGEN1 1 Hour 26 Mins $19.95 |
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| UP & CNW Geneva Sub, Volume 2 Chicago & Northwestern personality and color are still abundant on this high traffic former CNW, now Union Pacific route west out of Chicago. We'll see a wide variety of trains and motive power from GP-7s to the new SD-90MACs... and even Union Pacific 4-8-4 Northern-type steamer #844 in excursio ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MVGEN2 1 Hour 25 Mins $19.95 |
| West Colton Yard & Vicinity Union Pacific has taken over the Southern Pacific, but, in 1999, there is still plenty of SP flavor to this stronghold of the Southern Pacific. We'll look at West Colton Yard, PMT, Hunts Lane, old Colton and Colton Crossing. We see various views of the yard and quite a bit of action, from po ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MVWCY 57 Mins $19.95 |
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| A Day with Belt Railway of Chicago #525 Join the crew of the Belt Railway of Chicago's "Cookie Job". We ride in the cab and see the operation from the ground too. Learn about the EMD SW1200 switcher from the engineers. We'll also visit the Operations Center and see the dispatcher at work.This is a fascinating look at hard-core railroad ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MV525 1 Hour 25 Mins $24.95 |
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| Belt Railway of Chicago’s West End DVD The West End of the Belt’s Clearing Yard serves the C&NW, Southern Pacific, Burlington Northern, Wisconsin Central, Canadian Pacific/Soo Line, CSX, Canadian National and the Indiana Harbor Belt! And of course, the BRC’s own jobs. This was all daily fare in 1996. Today half this list are f ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MVBRCW-DVD 1 Hour 14 Mins $24.95 |
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| Canadian Pacific’s Soo Line Around Chicago DVD Milwaukee Road and Soo Line heritage are still well represented on the Canadian Pacific’s “new” route around Chicago. It’s 1996 and the railroad world is a very different place than today. More colorful, more traffic and more railroad names and colors. In this throw back, we find CP/Soo trai ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MVSOO-DVD 1 Hour 19 Mins $24.95 |
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| The SPCSL, Southern Pacific’s Chicago to St. Louis Line DVD Pre-merger, all Southern Pacific action: On the Belt Railway of Chicago, Illinois Central and the SPCSL between Joliet and St. Louis. We’ll see D&RGW GP-40s in local switching, SPCSL’s Bloomington Yard, taconite ore trains and SP bay window cabooses. We’ll cross both the Kankakee and MIssissip ...more | MIDWEST VIDEO SKU: MVSPCSL 1 Hour 28 Mins $24.95 |