#  @charlessmileyvideos Charles Smiley Presents Videos Charles Smiley Presents Videos posts on YouTube about history, kodak, union pacific, youtube the most. 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See the Milwaukee Roads electrification on the old Pacific Extension. Remember the Quills Bipolars GE Boxcabs and GE Joes. Additional coverage includes the Milwaukee Roads diesels and a nice review of Milwaukee Roads steam powered trains. This is Milwaukee Roads passenger and freight operations in its finest years. We also bring a good section on snow fighting MOW" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4hcI_E3RkT8) 2026-02-14T20:12Z 29K followers, [---] engagements "The How and Why of the BN merger of [----] Get the full DVD at: https://cspmovies.com/products/d-121-empire-of-the-north-the-forming-of-burlington-northern Our website has over [--] train DVDs: https://www.cspmovies.com See the historic [----] formation of Burlington Northern. See great vintage trains of Great Northern Northern Pacific Chicago Burlington & Quincy and the Spokane Portland & Seattle from the 50s into the 70s. We bring the history of the James Hill Lines and how he reshaped the northwest. See the steam to early diesel transition of these lines" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=de6eJc_2O1Q) 2024-01-21T22:19Z 28.9K followers, 125.8K engagements "THE ONLY TOTAL WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD DOCUMENTARY - WHOLE SYSTEM For the first time ever on YouTube we are releasing our "WP REMEMBERED DVD" DVD in it's entirety This is the most complete movie of the Western Pacific Railroad with the full trip from Oakland to Salt Lake City in daylight. It features all the great scenery and vintage trains - both passenger and freight. Don't miss all the obscure branch lines that no longer even exist. Be sure to comment and add your memories of this beautiful but gone famous railroad equipment. Length: [--] hr. [--] minutes Visit the Western Pacific from both" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=msCMgWBLdH0) 2026-02-12T16:50Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "FASCINATING 1970'S FALLEN FLAG RAILROADING Scenes from our movie "CHESSIE AND SEABOARD HALL OF FAME" available at www.cspmovies.com Beautiful color films of the RF&P Seaboard Chessie and early Amtrak in the 1970's into the 1980's The Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac or RF&P was a 113-mile long double-tracked bridge line that neatly linked northern and southern roads together. This presentation brings the last 20-years of that roads independence to your screen with GPs F-Units and E-units The 1970s became an especially difficult time for many railroads. The bankruptcies and little-known" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-A4EEZu-JpE) 2026-01-28T08:30Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "MILWAUKEE ROAD WORK TRAINS IN THE MOUNTAINS A chapter from our DVD "MILWAUKEE ROAD SCRAPBOOK" www.cspmovies.com This is Milwaukee Road's passenger and freight operations in its finest years. We also bring a good section on snow fighting MOW equipment and practices as well as the frequent wrecks that kept the MOW people far too busy in the unfortunate years of decline. But overall the Milwaukee Road's employees always came through in the best tradition of tough and dedicated mountain railroaders. Don't miss the comparative electrics on the Great Northern and the BA&P add to the history and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bw7Za2wa3z8) 2026-01-27T20:19Z 29K followers, [----] engagements ""EXTREME SP RAILROADING"-Full [--] Hour Movie The Full Movie "EXTREME SOUTHERN PACIFIC" www.cspmovies.com See SP "battle back to respectability" in the early 90's on the featured lines to the north and many other great locations. This video selected many choice scenes out of hundreds of hours of material to show a great variety of older power and scenic locations. Some of the material used is from film shot in the seventies to balance out the presentation This video has a parade of power with both old and new mixed with foreign power "smoking it up". The second half features many retired units" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LZMi1Wc9u20) 2026-01-27T01:25Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "THE LOST SACRAMENTO NORTHERN RAILROAD FILMS A look back in the Time Machine from our DVD: "Electric Rails Around the Bay" Some of our earliest films of the Oakland and SF Bay Area are shown here with the fabulous Sacramento Northern Railroad. In this [--] minute look back in time for those that were born too late to know how their surroundings have massively changed. Be sure to check out our website at www.cspmovies.com for more historical features. More Sacramento Northern and SF Bay Area History at our website www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NmHp2BadYyI) 2026-01-31T01:52Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "RARE WESTERN PACIFIC NILES CANYON & ABANDONED SAN JOSE BRANCHLINE A chapter from our full DVD "WESTERN PACIFIC REMEMBERED" www.cspmovies.com Take a rare mileage cab ride on the Western Pacific's unseen trackage from both sides of the San Francisco Bay down to Niles Jct. and then on the old abandoned San Jose branch and return to Niles Jct. for a ride through Niles Canyon. Then from Altamont Pass we run to Stockton Sacramento and all the great locations to Oroville. Oroville to Keddie brings more trains and great scenery. We run to Bieber on a freight and then return to Keddie to run to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=U5Vqz6322FM) 2026-01-29T17:43Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "SP BY THE BAY: A [--] Year Look Full Movie YouTube Release of our [----] production of "SOUTHERN PACIFIC BY THE BAY". This re-release on DVD of a favorite video of the SP is revised and better than before. Final visions of late steam 'commutes' and freights down the 47-miles double-track main to San Jose. See the famous FM Trainmaster diesels with long fast commute trains on three-minute headway operation in the seventies. Also Passenger Geeps and SDP45 action in commute service that has long disappeared. Relive the Third & Townsend passenger train experience with inside and platform views. Watch" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=edgTrQ9xEdE) 2026-01-28T22:43Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "UNION PACIFIC VINTAGE ODYSSEY Never before seen chapter from our movie "Union Pacific Vintage West" available www.cspmovies.com Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. See the phase-out of steam and the first and second generation diesels. The focal point is in the [----] to [----] period with the onslaught of mergers in the industry. Visit UP's new WP line for a great mix of trains. Featuring: E and F units Early" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZvSeK8Obc_0) 2024-05-14T21:17Z 28.9K followers, 58.8K engagements "Full Movie "50 YEARS OF UNION PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVES" SEE THE REAL STORY OF UP's LOCOMOTIVE HISTORY --Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected This video will bring the viewer a good overview of the Union Pacific's rise to success from the E.H. Harriman days to the UP-MP-WP merger era. Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. See the phase-out of steam and the first and second generation diesels. The focal point is in the [----] to [----] period with the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=xlWNOalrxmk) 2025-09-19T07:15Z 28.9K followers, 38.9K engagements "BEAUTIFUL DELAWARE & HUDSON ALCO GE AND EMD POWER Never before seen film of the Delaware and Hudson from our full length movie: "The Hard Coal Roads" D-143 THE HARD COAL ROADS: what went wrong Railroad Press Much of the film has hard to find footage and is high quality. This collection surpasses anything that I have seen and the story is epic. The colors are accurate and the images and the trains seem to jump off the screen. A meticulous producer location awareness is always a priority. Extremely interesting and has the rarity factor. In short this exemplary show is a must have This movie" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=y0qJfX9oByM) 2025-02-19T19:21Z 28.9K followers, [----] engagements "1000 MODEL RAILROAD IDEAS: Gondola Upgrades This is one chapter of a lengthy DVD on building better model railroads. For the full story see our website onwww.cspmovies.com for item number M-154 More on the full DVD: In this presentation we feature models of more freight cars from the 1940s to the 1960s era. Many of these cars remained in use even into [----]. Most of the techniques and ideas used to build these older cars can work well on more modern rolling stock too. In this volume we will see ways to use low-cost materials to build classic Gondolas a variety of early-style covered Hoppers" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0uMuNAZcjEU) 2026-01-13T18:33Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM & EARLY DIESEL GLORY DAYS - FULL MOVIE The whole movie "SP VINTAGE WEST" first time ever on Youtube This is an incredible look at the SP when they were one of the largest railroads in the US. Much of this film was shot by the late Bernice Jackson who was an SP company photographer back in the day. This [----] to [----] feature brings the long-vanished SP visions out west. Cab-Forwards early F-units and the snows on Donner Pass plus both sides of the beautiful Bay Area are in this video. See Tracy Shasta Colton Sacramento Tehachapi Suisun Bay Altamont Pass Dunsmuir Oakland" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3iZtg3pP9Cw) 2026-01-31T22:26Z 29K followers, 13.4K engagements "UNION PACIFIC 1960'S SEARCHING FOR [-----] HORSEPOWER Look back to a grand era that featured three independent roads that featured first and second generation power. This style of railroading will never be seen again - but this feature will bring it back for your enjoyment. Don't miss the years of the UP experimenting and searching for more power and r to combat the longer trains faster schedules and heavy grades. This was Cajon Pass's and the the railroads finest hour" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IgzyM0ROOM8) 2025-12-20T05:19Z 28.8K followers, [----] engagements "LAST DAYS OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S ROSEVILLE YARD This section of a [--] hour and [--] minute DVD production is from the camera work of Gino Pagliaro and many others over the last decades on the SP . The title is of this movie is "ESPEE HALL OF FAME". www.cspmovies.com The emphasis here is on manifest trains transfer jobs and locals. We bring the kind of railroading that has been forgotten. See Davis and Suisun-Fairfield Junction and many trains on the Ione branch. Don't miss the sugar beets to Woodland California. This video took many years to shoot with nearly every scene in blue skies and with the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RDbchzcnb5E) 2026-01-24T00:37Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "1000 MODEL RAILROAD IDEAS: Building a Cattle Loading Facility This is an approach to create a cattle loading facility in a country setting that will give a railroad's branch line a reason to exist without disrupting the beauty of a rural setting. This works in both HO and N scale models from [----] to around [----] settings. More model railroading at our website www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_64PDkKOMs8) 2026-02-05T21:59Z 28.8K followers, [---] engagements "CLASSIC C&O AND B&O LOCOMOTIVES & CABOOSES An informative Chapter from our full length DVD "Chessie and Seaboard Hall of Fame" Relive the years of the C&O and B&O before and after the forming of the Chessie System when there was a fantastic variety of paint schemes and trains with no graffiti. Plus many Cabooses Towers and lineside railroad structures that have been scrapped of the scene. This documentary is based on movie film shooting by Bob Finan Tom Luckey and Rod Miller. Be sure to visit our website at www.cspmovies for the full DVD production and a number of other great videos of things" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=cSSwJapvEkE) 2026-02-10T08:15Z 28.9K followers, [---] engagements "WHEN FREIGHT CARS WERE ROLLING BILLBOARDS Railfan Railroad Writes: Totally amazing film with tons of clean home road cars and Per Diem boxcars Coop hoppers lumber flats and special loads Of course every train has a caboose or two The best trains are shown in their entirety making this a "Candy Store for Modeler and railfans". This is one of two chapters of the Tehachapi line shot on Kodak color movie film by Tom Butterworth. This [--] hour DVD "FRIEGHT WEST" is available on our website https://cspmovies.com/. It features many other topics that bring the SP Sana Fe and WP lines with beautiful" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=g1Ry37IozBo) 2026-02-06T19:25Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "EMD F-UNITS E-UNITS GP-9 and ALCO PAs This is one chapter of our great DVD tilted "Diesel Power on the SP". Everything in this video has vanished from the scene or is in a museum. See the way railroading was long ago when things were far more interesting and a variety of equipment was in everyday use. For the entire 1-hour and 30-minute video production visit our website www.cspmovies.com or your favorite hobby dealer. To quote Railfan & Railroad magazine .the quality and depth of the information in the narration is so great. A must for SP fans I would think as well as students of motive" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=hHOooCoH1zo) 2026-01-13T04:03Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "THE STORY OF UNION PACIFIC'S LARGEST LOCOMOTIVES A real treat are these scenes from our classic DVD "Union Pacific Vintage West" www.cspmovies.com The focal period is from [----] to [----] with the onslaught of rail mergers. See Steam GP9s E and F-units Turbines DD35 DD40s U50s SD24 and SD45s and many others with passenger and freights This is one section of a long production on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=iyWbFo5u2SE) 2026-01-26T18:29Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "Full Movie [--] hours"50 YEARS OF SANTA FE TRAINS" The Santa Fe we knew is gone but the imprint it left on the west is celebrated here on brilliant color film that has been digitized and edited with care. A number of film sources show the late-great Santa Fe through a variety of motive power changes that reflect the Santa Fe's ability to respond well to an evolving industry. Few roads could compare to their quality of service. They left a positive and lasting impression on the public. The railroad industry in general maintained credibility through their efforts. Even in the rough times. TRAINS" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=khVUSos0ZD0) 2026-02-04T08:15Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "THE MERGER LOCOMOTIVES THAT STARTED CONRAIL A colorful chapter of the rag tag team of fallen flag locomotives that helped get Conrail off the ground. From our full length movie "CONRAIL HALL OF FAME" This [--] hour and [--] minute journey "CONRAIL HALL OF FAME" brings the history and story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a successful operation that surprised nearly everyone. Everyone that is except the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=qHpibIcwlt8) 2026-01-30T19:36Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "SP CAB FORWARD'S FINAL RUN ON DONNER PASS In a once in a lifetime event the last run of Southern Pacific's famous Cab Forwards was filmed by legendary photographer Francis Guido. This is wonderful look at the final run of these "Giants" in great weather before they were silences forever. This priceless film was shot on [--] mm color film and many of the best locations on the Donner Pass Line The quality of the film and Francis techniques are amazing More SP Steam at www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sOHha9aW7zA) 2026-02-05T18:30Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "UP CNW AND SP 1990's A chapter from our full length movie "UP SCRAPBOOK" Follow us on a voyage across the UP from the Pacific to Chicago. This video is a celebration of the original UP from the 1950s to its full size by [----]. See lots of early diesel power and vintage Cajon and California action. Then we explore the UP in the 1990s when it expanded rapidly to remain a competitive player in the rail business. This video is from movie film and early video shot years ago. See the parade of C&NW power after the [----] merger. Visit many of the former SP lines with UP power in charge since 1996." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-zpA2kCQVpU) 2026-02-14T00:19Z 28.9K followers, [---] engagements "SPECIAL LOCOMOTIVES OF THE UNION PACIFIC "UNION PACIFIC VINTAGE WEST" www.cspmovies.com SEE SOME GREAT HISTORY OF UP's EARLY LOCOMOTIVES --Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Visit UP's new WP line for a great mix of trains. Featuring: E and F units Early Geeps SD24 and U-boats DD35 DD40 U50 Turbines Steam and More. This video will bring the viewer a good overview of the Union Pacific's rise to success from the E.H. Harriman days to the UP-MP-WP merger era." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EE_PSbRhT2w) 2025-12-12T22:25Z 28.9K followers, [----] engagements "THE HISTORY OF PENN CENTRAL AND CONRAIL-1976-1997 This NEVER BEFORE SEEN 34-minute video is one chapter of a 2-hour and 20-minute DVD historic documentary of the forming of Conrail that made a success out of the chaos of eastern railroading in a troubled time. Scenes were shot by Tom Luckey Jack Kuiphoff and Tim Hosey in this project. This is the [----] to [----] story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IgfXbp6XPKg) 2024-01-12T23:06Z 28.9K followers, 60.5K engagements "SP WEST COLTON OLD CAJON AND TAYLOR YARDS A great chapter as we visit the opening of West Colton and also see Old Taylor Yard with lots of GP-9's and SD-7's and witness some of SP's rare DD-35B's and the giant U-50's in West Colton transfer service. Also included is classic Tehachapi Beaumont Hill and Old Cajon Pass with U-33C's and older SD-39's and GP-35's as helper and mainline power. Los Angeles area Taylor Yard [----] Colton Crossing Kaiser ore at Ferrum Santa Paula Branch Burbank Branch Cascade and Shasta and much more More SP at www.cspmovies.com sp west colton sp taylor yard sp old" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KVeFw8rxlF8) 2026-02-08T05:08Z 28.9K followers, [----] engagements ""HOW SP WENT FROM STEAM TO DIESEL POWER" Full Movie From the first [--] glorious and historical minutes to the ending scenes there can never be a better tribute to the Southern Pacific Railroad than the priceless filming efforts of the people that shot the material in this full movie feature. Great material from [--] sources shot in many locations out west. See EMD FM and ALCO Baldwin GE power and many rare SP units. This brings the [----] to [----] era on the SP with E F units and early GP9 and SD9 power. Dont miss out on the first U- boats. These GE locomotives had some problems. But GE eventually" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YXzBHqQvrFI) 2026-02-10T21:25Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "UNION PACIFIC'S SEARCH FOR BETTER LOCOMOTIVES This insightful chapter is on Union Pacific's early locomotive history A review of the UP's great quest for more capable diesel power of improved efficiency that involved EMD GE and ALCO products. Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. Visit UP's new WP line for a great mix of trains. Featuring: E and F units Early Geeps SD24 and Uboats DD35 DD40 U50 Turbines Steam" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=sMEpaVLBx3E) 2025-07-23T22:49Z 28.9K followers, 14.4K engagements "SP SCARLET AND GREY MEMORIES Scarlet and Gray Memories - www.cspmovies.com Join us for a look back at the SP in the 1990s and in earlier views of the 1970s. See Coastline action along SoCal shores with mainline and local freight trains. Visit White Hills Lompoc and Santa Paula branch lines and follow the venerable Saugus Local and see its efficient crew keep schedules for freight customers on Metrolink's busy Saugus Line that was bought from SP. We bring nostalgic SP action in the Tehachapi's with lumber oil-can coal-drags and general freight. Remember the days when [--] front and [--] back were" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=u_M6bN_YMJ4) 2026-02-03T20:28Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "THE INTERURBAN RAIL LINE THAT HELPED WIN THE WAR The Key System from the early years of 500s and 600s plus the ferryboat pier. See the Keys new bridge units in their original striking orange and silver splendor. Also we bring supporting scenes of the IER Red Trains Muni Railway steam trains and the Keys small streetcars. Ride and watch beautiful ferryboats shot on some of the first early 16mm color film. Watch the construction and operation of the WWII Richmond Shipyard Railway by Keys staff. This line was built from Emeryville north to Richmonds Kaiser Shipyards to transport thousands of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AZ4GF3WRBM8) 2026-02-13T21:34Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "A RAILROAD MINING TOWN LOST FOREVER-Bingham Utah See the town of Bingham Utah before it was abandoned and lost to the mine's expansion. The scenes including the Kennecott mine's railroad and the mining and smelting activities were all filmed by the late railroad historian Bernice Jackson in a number of filming trips. Bernice was an expert with a movie film camera and she could tell her "story" very well for us to see the history that she witnessed. This presentation was edited and narrated by Charles Smiley. Be sure to visit your gateway to much more railroad history at www.cspmovies.com The" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=G1fqJ1RJeU8) 2026-02-11T23:38Z 29K followers, [----] engagements "UNION PACIFIC EARLY POWER RISE This is one section of a long production on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below. Visit eight states and see Americas original line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people over decades. Learn about E. H. Harrimans dramatic life and how he eventually put an empire together that resembles todays merged UP line. Follow the Harriman [----] era to modern times from the phase out of steam to first and second generation diesels. The" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=yE9OQoM_uiQ) 2024-03-18T20:53Z 28.9K followers, 33K engagements "Northeast Rails Remembered Volume One Brought back from [----] and [----] is the Conrail story with material never before released. Conrail's former Reading line Allentown Reading and numerous scenic places through many small towns and splendid countryside. The scenic Southern Tier on the former Erie mainline brings lots of action with Conrail NYS&W and Delaware & Hudson trains - and more See some scenes from the early 1970s with a struggling Penn Central and its collection of old and eclectic diesels. Learn the Conrail story that saved the rail industry by merging many failed roads into a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-8mg2YXmfw4) 2023-09-11T19:07Z 18.1K followers, [---] engagements "MILWAUKEE ROADS ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES PACIFIC EXTENSION From our full length DVD "Milwaukee Road West" www.cspmovies.com See the Milwaukee and rivals from [----] to [----] covering the electrics diesels and some lingering steam. Plenty of runby and trackside views of a vanished way of life in the mountain districts. Marvel at the GE Boxmotors Bipolars and "Little Joes" and visit a number of locations. We review the history and technical aspects of the Milwaukee and how they fit in with their rivals and allies. The end of electric railroading and eventually the Pacific Extension is covered in the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-MR7LbY3N0w) 2025-06-13T20:09Z 23.2K followers, [----] engagements "1970'S COULD HAVE BEEN RAILROAD MERGERS The 1970s became an especially difficult time for many railroads. The bankruptcies and little-known "could-have-been" mergers of that era are explained. This was the virtual "minefield" that Penn Central Reading Erie Chessie and the Seaboard had to operate in. They both emerged in good shape for their eventual merger into the CSX. Scenes from our movie "Chessie and Seaboard Hall of Fame" available at www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-mJ8ZGaKn-k) 2025-05-05T07:30Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements "The Best of the CSX and Chessie in the 1990's Relive the Chessie and CSX Railroads in the 1990's with awesome video from all the classic locations in Ohio PA WV and more Before graffiti and lots of older EMDs and GEs slugging it out on the steep grades www.cspmoives.com "We Bring The Trains"" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=-pgi3Fta_xM) 2023-06-27T21:54Z 12.4K followers, [---] engagements "Full Movie "YOUR COLORFUL SOUTHERN PACIFIC" World Wide YouTube Premiere This was the Southern Pacific at work including rare Sugar Beet footage and Carrizo Gorge See mixed freights and intermodal trains as well as locals and transfer freights. We also bring lots of foreign and pool-power. Visit the Imperial Valley lines to remember the Sugarbeet trains of the SP. Learn how the beet cars were loaded and follow the beets to Betteravia where they were processed at the Holly sugar plant. Beet trains handed off to the SMV Railroad at Guadalupe CA are covered from the 1970s and [----]. And dont miss" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0MD35QvbBHw) 2025-07-30T16:37Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements "10000 FT ABANDONDED TENNESEE PASS RAILROAD One long chapter from our movie "Tennessee Pass Start to Finish" www.cspmovies.com Acclaimed by critics and fans alike this has been a best selling video featuring Southern Pacific and the Rio Grande. This was the highest main line in the US with 3% grades and [-----] HP trains. See plenty of manifests coal taconite and other trains. Colorful pool power helpers and great train pacing plus all the heavy colorful action in a beautiful mountain setting. See Power-heavy [---] car coal trains with [--] ACs battling the high altitude and steep grades like you'll" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0N9ayBLikmM) 2025-07-29T23:09Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements "LEGENDARY MILWAUKEE ROAD TRAINS Never before seen Milwaukee Road Trains from our DVD "MILWAUKEE ROAD WEST". See the Milwaukee Road and it's rivals from [----] to [----] covering the electrics diesels and some lingering steam. Plenty of runby and trackside views of a vanished way of life in the mountain districts. Marvel at the GE Boxmotors Bipolars and "Little Joes" and visit a number of locations. We review the history and technical aspects of the Milwaukee and how they fit in with their rivals and allies. The end of electric railroading and eventually the Pacific Extension is covered in the era" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0NGfjhK_uBo) 2025-01-03T04:18Z 19.3K followers, [----] engagements "COTTON BELT & SP POWER ON BRANCHLINES A Chapter from our movie "Espee Hall of Fame" with classic branch line railroading rarely viewed. Great local trains with older DRGW Cotton Belt and SP power and clean Fallen Flag cars Visit classic "Espee" locations that were in and around CA in the early 1990s. See Elvas and Stockton Junction with the towers that have long ago been removed Watch hours of great original Southern Pacific power that has been sent to the scrap yard since this material was shot. Learn much of the history of the SP and the area involved in this video. The emphasis here is on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=0UbhWwLhwsM) 2025-04-15T18:43Z 21.7K followers, [----] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S ODDBALL TRAINMASTERS & EMD'S LOCOMOTIVES Incredible color film from our full length DVD "SP When" that features the efforts of [--] contributors who read like a who's who of railroad photographers filmmakers and historians. If it was Southern Pacific it is covered in this film. Plenty of SD-9's GP-9's clean SD-45's and all of the oddball power that made the SP such a fascinating and interesting railroad. Combine this action with all of the locations that made SP operations so difficult on a day to day basis. The rugged Siskiyou Mountains and there lofty 3.6% grades are a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1B6ACQCHcpA) 2025-03-15T03:06Z 21K followers, 12.6K engagements "Full Movie "EXTREME SOUTHERN PACIFIC" World Wide YouTube Premiere For the first time ever on YouTube see SP "battle back to respectability" in the early 90's on the featured lines to the north and many other great locations D-115 EXTREME SOUTHERN PACIFIC Railfan Railroad Magazine Writes: Plan to spend [--] pleasant hours the very first time out. Get the popcorn and some of your train chasing buddies together and put this video on a wide screen and crank up the volume. This is the real SP and the tape is worth the price just for the closed Modoc Line segment coverage. Until now I did not have an" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1NA7kgvEqkA) 2025-09-10T14:23Z 25.4K followers, [----] engagements "OLD SCHOOL SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROADING A wonderful chapter from our classic DVD "SP Vintage West" available at www.cspmovies.com This [----] to [----] look brings the long-gone visions of SP out west filmed by Bernice Jackson the SP Company historian in beautiful Kodak Color Film. See Cab-Forward steam and early Black Widow and Scarlet and Grey F-units in snow on Donner Pass. Visit both sides of the beautiful Bay Area. Run out to old Tracy and Lathrop riding the San Joaquin Daylight trains. See the City of San Francisco Coast Daylight steam 'Commute' local and mail trains. Some Locations: Old" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1Yi8O2eCcuE) 2025-04-11T20:30Z 21.7K followers, [----] engagements "SP STEAM TRAINS IN SAN FRANCISCO A super chapter on SP Steam in San Jose CA from our DVD "Historic SP Around the Greater Bay" Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the early 1950s. Many classes of SP steam diesels and FM Train Masters pulling commutes are shown when it mattered. We visit Niles Canyon Tower and then off to Altamont Pass and the greater East Bay area with stunning views of the area that have changed" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1p1yaOX3loU) 2025-05-29T07:30Z 23K followers, [----] engagements "HOW THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD EXPANDED WEST A celebration and history lesson of the original UP and it's expanded mergers in action over the years Follow us on a voyage across the UP from the Pacific to Chicago. This video is the original UP from the 1950s to its full size by [----]. See lots of early diesel power and vintage Cajon and California action. Then we explore the UP in the 1990s when it expanded rapidly to remain a competitive player in the rail business. This video is from movie film and early video shot years ago. See the parade of C&NW power after the [----] merger. Visit many of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=1pvXzO-cJXY) 2025-04-08T23:41Z 22.5K followers, 11.2K engagements "OLD LOCOMOTIVES STRUGGLING ON THE TOUGHEST GRADES OF THE B&O This material was shot in [----] [----] and [----] with a mix of video and color movie-film dating back to [----]. See a colorful mix of power and a style of railroading that is vanished forever. The Mountain Subdivision brings the last Western Maryland units in service. CSX fans will also see the early color schemes. Chessie fans will see lots of "tri-color" power. Additional color comes from several CSX liveries from the 1991-era. The history of mergers of C&O B&O WM and Seaboard Lines up to the CSXT formation is reviewed. Early film" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2LvA5_Aa180) 2025-03-28T00:04Z 21.5K followers, 26K engagements "WHERE TRAINMASTERS DOMINATED SP RAILS Enjoy this section on the SP's racetrack Peninsula and look to our website for the full DVD - as well as many other great productions at www.cspmovies.com See the SP commutes on the Peninsula in late steam and early diesel days. Visit the old Third & Townsend Station where the SP Coastline really begins. Dont miss the FM Train Master era including the smaller FM H-12-44 switchers in various San Francisco Peninsula yards such as the extinct Bay Shore Yard. Learn the mechanical details of the FM opposed-piston diesel engines with animated cut-away graphics." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2bOqvisn0kQ) 2025-04-22T07:15Z 22K followers, [----] engagements "Epic SP Steam Excursion from [----] From our railroad time machine with scenes never to be repeated we get to relive the epic "Pacific Coast Chapter Excursion" from Oakland to the Sierra Foothill Placerville Branch. These are priceless views of the people places and equipment that "Was" California Railroading in the 1950's. The [--] mm Kodak Color scenes were shot by the late Louis Stein in [----]. Don't forget to visit www.cspmovies.com The film is in the collection of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society - Pacific Coast Chapter. It was transferred to the digital realm and edited by Charles" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2f_oeI0PP_w) 2023-09-29T23:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Union Pacific Scrapbook Follow us on a voyage across the UP from the Pacific to Chicago. This video is a celebration of the original UP from the 1950s to its full size by [----]. See lots of early diesel power and vintage Cajon and California action. Then we explore the UP in the 1990s when it expanded rapidly to remain a competitive player in the rail business. This video is from movie film and early video shot years ago. See the parade of C&NW power after the [----] merger. Visit many of the former SP lines with UP power in charge since [----]. Some material is from an early video"UP Mojave" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2gtcYfe1SNg) 2023-09-11T19:49Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements "SANTA FE VINTAGE WEST - FULL MOVIE This epic movie brings the late-great Santa Fe when it was a historic and independent line. Length: [--] hr. [--] minutes The Santa Fe from the 50s to the end in the [----] era. Lots of passenger F-unit trains and freight with many paint colors. See the speedy Super-C freights that redefined the rail-freight industry - as it was run like a premium express passenger train. This is Tehachapi Cajon Pass the Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area at its best. The Needles Subdivision and Stockton Junction round out the action in this tribute to the Santa Fes" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2h7WoXdqEes) 2025-08-17T15:44Z 25K followers, [----] engagements "Full Movie:" KANSAS CITY DIESEL POWER REVIEW" Don't miss the last great stand for these fine American Railroads before everything changed forever Visit Kansas City and surrounding areas before all the great mergers of the 90's See trains from [--] different roads with detailed maps and narration on how trains moved thru the KC area. Visit Santa Fe Junction Airline Junction and the "Highline Bridge" View run down industrial backdrops with trains moving thru "the West Bottoms". Many transfers and locals are shown from Santa Fe Gateway Western Soo UP and KCS There is also plenty of beautiful" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=2hOoTS4BG_M) 2025-09-09T19:30Z 25.4K followers, [----] engagements "Extreme Southern Pacific See SP "battle back to respectability" in the early 90's on the featured lines to the north and many other great locations. This video selected many choice scenes out of hundreds of hours of material to show a great variety of older power and scenic locations. Some of the material used is from film shot in the seventies to balance out the presentation This video has a parade of power with both old and new mixed with foreign power "smoking it up". The second half features many retired units cabooses and many other surprises Featuring: Modoc Line Shasta Line Donner Line" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3fvVE7wCEIY) 2023-09-14T19:54Z 11.8K followers, [--] engagements "SP'S WEST COLTON MOJAVE AND TAYLOR YARDS A great chapter as we visit the opening of West Colton and also see Old Taylor Yard with lots of GP-9's and SD-7's and witness some of SP's rare DD-35B's and the giant U-50's in West Colton transfer service. Also included is classic Tehachapi Beaumont Hill and Old Cajon Pass with U-33C's and older SD-39's and GP-35's as helper and mainline power. Climb aboard passenger excursions on the freight only Santa Paula and Burbank Branches powered by sets of F-Units. A step back through the last fifty years on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Some Locations:" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3g5mG5xqtGc) 2025-03-13T03:54Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements "THE TANGLED WEB OF EASTERN RAILROAD MERGERS Revisit the early 1990s on the last years of the D&H and the ushering in of CP Rail to new territory in the US. This was a very colorful era in the Northeast and dramatic changes were still in effect from ripples of the bankruptcy of the old Penn Central days. We cover the history of the D&H and its sad demise. Don't miss the parade of older and borrowed power that came from all over North America. This was also a time when CP Rail was consolidating its extensive US-based rail lines. We bring you power from the D&H Soo Lines and from lines such as" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=3roVcQrP12A) 2025-04-28T19:24Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements "MODEL RAILROAD BOXCARS OF THE 1950'S In our third volume of "Building Better Model Railroads" we have a variety of new projects to take on and skill up with.In this Volume we learn how to skill up using some basic new techniques skills and tools. Many of the models and projects that are shown are easy to build and at a lower cost. You can also learn how to handle and use low cost LED lights to brighten up your layout and most of these new bulbs will last up to [-----] hours We also learn how to build easy and low cost "Lumber Loads" that really look real. They are simple and easy Another super" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4TMJUN2V8Gw) 2024-07-28T18:51Z 16.2K followers, [---] engagements "SANTA FE AND SP: STEEP GRADES CLEAN CARS A never before seen chapter from our movie "Tehachapi: SP and Santa Fe Era". www.cspmovies.com Visit Tehachapi from the mid-60s to the mid-90s -- plus related regional locations such as Taylor Yard Barstow Yard Richmond Yard Colton Crossing Cajon Pass and the building of the SP Palmdale cutoff. Learn the intertwined history of all the featured locations that are all part of the greater Tehachapi story. See all the great power and vanished scenes of pre-merger railroading at its best. We trace the history of how and why two railroads used the same" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4artAbtgWLI) 2025-05-06T08:00Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements "LAST RUNS OF SP FAMOUS CAB FORWARDS "Iron Derby" is a terrific look at Southern Pacific's Cab Forward locomotives in all their glory. Beautiful color film and special railroad history shot by the most prominent rail photographers of the era. Look for more Cab Forward History in our DVDs "SP Vintage West" and "Historic SP Around the Greater Bay" movies More Steam Railroading at www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4o4JRtcMvzM) 2025-09-14T03:34Z 25.4K followers, [---] engagements "LAST STEAM TRIP SANTA MARIA VALLEY RAILROAD Even Walt Disney was in the cab on this train so he wouldn't miss the opportunity And that is a true fact This was a Steam special trip on the Santa Maria Valley Railroad using locomotive number [--] on its last run ever in [----]. The 16mm Film stock was shot by Francis Guido and the Kodak film is now in the archives of the Pacific Coast Chapter of the Railroad & Locomotive Historical Society. This was a once in a lifetime event with magical images of glimpses into our past. More great Railroading like this at our website www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=4qpYPkjpE5w) 2024-04-17T14:52Z 14.2K followers, [----] engagements "Southern Pacific Scrapbook Visit S.P in numerous western locations with film and video shot over the last [--] years. This video brings in Arizona and the Lordsburg District the coastline Donner and a number of branchlines with great scenery great trains and a lot of action. Branch line trains in Lompoc and Santa Cruz as well as sugarbeet and the famous "Oil Can" trains all work their way past their lens. This video also includes some really cool SDP45 pace shots cab ride footage a lot of interesting camera angles and neat graphics such as maps that peel away to show the scene and way cool" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5DUi7Maq-eg) 2023-09-18T12:57Z 11.8K followers, [--] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S TREASURED TRAINS "Historic SP" DVD available at www.cspmovies.com Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the early 1950s. Many classes of SP steam diesels and FM Train Masters pulling commutes are shown when it mattered. We visit Niles Canyon Tower and then off to Altamont Pass and the greater East Bay area with stunning views of the area that have changed forever See large steam Cab Forwards and other" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5ER_wn-0fDI) 2024-11-30T21:34Z 18.5K followers, [----] engagements "SANTA FE RAILROAD WAR YEARS A long chapter from our movie "Diesel Power on the Santa Fe" www.cspmovies.com The Santa Fe we knew is gone but the imprint it left on the west is celebrated here on brilliant color film that has been digitized and edited with care. A number of film sources show the late-great Santa Fe through a variety of motive power changes that reflect the Santa Fe's ability to respond well to an evolving industry. Few roads could compare to their quality of service. They left a positive and lasting impression on the public. The railroad industry in general maintained" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5MMyLtrxMAg) 2024-09-15T04:04Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements "UNION PACIFIC'S RARE LOCOMOTIVES See Switchers Steam GP9s E and F-units Turbines DD35 DD40s U50s SD24 and SD45s and many others with passenger and freights. This is one section of a long production "Union Pacific Vintage West" on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below. Visit eight states and see Americas original line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people over decades. Learn about E. H. Harrimans dramatic life and how he eventually put an empire together" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5TlzvqLM7VM) 2025-05-24T18:33Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements "UNION PACIFIC'S RAREST LOCOMOTIVES TURBINES/U-BOATS A real treat are these scenes from our classic DVD "Union Pacific Vintage West" www.cspmovies.com Visit eight states and see Americas original line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people over decades. Learn about E. H. Harrimans dramatic life and how he eventually put an empire together that resembles todays merged UP line. The focal period is from [----] to [----] with the onslaught of rail mergers. See Steam GP9s E and F-units Turbines DD35 DD40s U50s SD24 and SD45s and many others with passenger and freights This is one" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=5rcXaxLgFOA) 2024-11-03T17:25Z 18K followers, [----] engagements "Never Seen Railroading: Street Running/Cabooses/Steep Grades Never before seen views of the Lompoc Branch in California shot over a number of years when traffic levels were booming. These epic views include Street Running Steep Grades and Beautiful Scenery during Southern Pacific's last stand on the Famous Coastline We bring lots of great Branch line action in many other California scenic and quaint locations. This was the SP we all came to love Dont miss out on the real Southern Pacific The full DVD is D-128 "Scarlet and Grey Memories" Look for it on our website www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=68aidEnhU-E) 2023-10-23T21:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC THE WWII YEARS Some scenes from our full [--] hour movie "Diesel Power on the Southern Pacific" www.cspmovies.com Glistening vintage color film of Southern Pacific's world famous Coast Line Route. See Santa Barbara in the early forties with daylights and troop trains all pulled by steam. Huge cab forwards are also shown with long blocks of reefers. View the men and women of the SP over sixty years ago all pitching in for the war effort. Southern Pacific's transition from steam to diesel is well covered with plenty of F-units in both bloody nose and black widow liveries. Visit" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6_7oGGXRWsU) 2025-05-20T18:53Z 22.8K followers, [----] engagements "DELAWARE AND HUDSON MEMORIES A full chapter from our DVD "'THE HARD COAL ROADS" This is a look back in time to the "Anthracite" roads that once made the eastern rail scene more interesting and colorful. These principal roads were the Lehigh Valley Jersey Central Reading D&H and the Erie Lackawanna Railroads. The common theme was their early success based on hauling anthracite coal from a unique area in Pennsylvania and the decline of that business. The last decade of these roads largely depended on a declining business in hauling "bridge traffic". The corporate history of these five roads is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=6pLIB3MTYls) 2025-10-16T18:44Z 26.1K followers, [----] engagements "EASTBAY WAR YEARS KEY SYSTEM TRAINS - FULL PROGRAM The Key System from the early years of 500s and 600s plus the ferryboat pier. See the Keys new bridge units in their original striking orange and silver splendor. Also we bring supporting scenes of the IER Red Trains Muni Railway steam trains and the Keys small streetcars. Ride and watch beautiful ferryboats shot on some of the first early 16mm color film. Watch the construction and operation of the WWII Richmond Shipyard Railway by Keys staff. This line was built from Emeryville north to Richmonds Kaiser Shipyards to transport thousands of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7EYfEWUMeeg) 2024-01-28T00:54Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC OUT WEST 1950-1980 This [----] to [----] look brings the long-gone visions of SP out west. See Cab-Ahead steam and early F-units in snow on Donner Pass. Visit both sides of the beautiful Bay Area. Run out to old Tracy and Lathrop riding the San Joaquin Daylight trains. See the City of San Francisco Coast Daylight steam 'Commute' local and mail trains. Some Locations: Old SacramentoSan Francisco Oakland Berkeley San Jose Colton Tracy Shasta Donner Suisun Bay Altamont Pass Tehachapi.and more. Other Features:Passenger Freight Diesel Steam All Vintage Diesels in Daylight Black Widow" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7G3Yukj3DCk) 2025-10-09T04:33Z 26K followers, [---] engagements "SP'S ABANDONED MODOC LINE WENDEL TO ALTURAS A never before seen chapter of the now abandoned Modoc Line from our "EXTREME SOUTHERN PACIFIC" movie This is the first segment covering Wendel to Alturas California www.cspmovies.com Model Railroad News Writes: Plan to spend a couple of pleasant hours the first time out. Get the popcorn and some of your train chasing buddies together put this video on a wide screen and crank up the volume. This is the real SP and the tape is worth the price just for the closed Modoc Line segment coverage. Until now I did not have an appreciation for this incredible" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7P68HPHP4vM) 2025-02-21T20:12Z 21.2K followers, [----] engagements "UNION PACIFIC EARLY POWER RISE This is one section of a long production "Union Pacific Vintage West" on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below. Visit eight states and see Americas original line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people over decades. Learn about E. H. Harrimans dramatic life and how he eventually put an empire together that resembles todays merged UP line. Follow the Harriman [----] era to modern times from the phase out of steam to first and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7Pn8zM19fWE) 2024-08-20T07:15Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements "Scarlet and Grey Memories-The Best of the SP Scarlet and Gray Memories - Join us for a look back at the SP in the 1990s and in earlier views of the 1970s. See Coastline action along SoCal shores with mainline and local freight trains. Visit White Hills Lompoc and Santa Paula branch lines and follow the venerable Saugus Local and see its efficient crew keep schedules for freight customers on Metrolink's busy Saugus Line that was bought from SP. We bring nostalgic SP action in the Tehachapis with lumber oil-can coal-drags and general freight. Remember the days when [--] front and [--] back were the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7cjQMVimjKA) 2023-09-11T18:47Z 11.8K followers, [--] engagements "EARLY EMD F-UNITS AND GP-9s This is one chapter of our great DVD tilted "Diesel Power on the SP". Everything in this video has vanished from the scene or is in a museum. See the way railroading was long ago when things were far more interesting and a variety of equipment was in everyday use. For the entire 1-hour and 30-minute video production visit our website www.cspmovies.com To quote Railfan & Railroad magazine .the quality and depth of the information in the narration is so great. A must for SP fans I would think as well as students of motive power evolution use and disposition. To quote" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7mceC8cLDiY) 2025-01-13T20:06Z 19.5K followers, [----] engagements "Full Movie" UP [--] YEARS OF RAILROADING AND MERGERS" Follow us on a voyage across the UP from the Pacific to Chicago. This video is a celebration of the original UP from the 1950s to its full size by [----]. See lots of early diesel power and vintage Cajon and California action. Then we explore the UP in the 1990s when it expanded rapidly to remain a competitive player in the rail business. This video is from movie film and early video shot years ago. See the parade of C&NW and ex Missouri Pacific and WP power after all the mergers. Visit many of the former SP lines with UP power in charge since" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=7mcqHyrapI8) 2025-10-02T09:00Z 25.9K followers, [----] engagements "LONDON & PORT STANLEY CANADIAN TRAINS 1950'S "Canadian Electric Rails" 1950's DVD available at www.cspmovies.com Visit [--] classic electric railroads in Canada in the 1950's Brilliant color film of the Canadian people architecture and trains Peel back the years and relive the days of what it was like to ride and see the: LONDON AND PORT STANLEY RY NIAGARA ST CATHERINES & TORONTO TORONTO TRANSIT MONTREAL & SOUTHERN COUNTIES RY. QUEBEC RAILWAY LIGHT AND POWER Visit yards and stations Big cities and rural outposts Learn the equipment of each railroad with in depth coverage of the Peter Witt Cars" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8FCzoa02670) 2025-08-28T19:33Z 25.1K followers, [---] engagements "REMEMBERING SAN FRANCISCO RAILROADING: SF BELT LINE AND NWP One whole chapter of never before seen color film of the SF Belt Railway at Pier One and the North Western Pacific Railroad running with Steam and Black Widow units Look back in time at Island Mountain and Old "Alton" station when they were important locations. The NWP Line North all the way to Eureka with freight and passenger trains real lineside stations bridges tunnels lumber towns and a way of life that has vanished forever The never-before-seen crystal clear Kodak Movie Film has waited up to [--] years for your viewing Look back" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8K91XFTTrpc) 2024-04-18T11:00Z 21.4K followers, 27.5K engagements "3 6% SISKIYOU MOUNTAIN GRADE BATTLE In this never before seen dramatic chapter we visit the CORP Railroad and its stiff 3.6% grades with up to [--] units powering over the Siskiyou Mountains. This segment covers from Weed CA to Medford Oregon when business was booming The whole movie "Great Short lines West" visits ten short lines in CA OR and Texas with wonderful scenes spanning from [----] to [----]. Two of our visits like this one include cab rides and access to two truly great short lines - the A&NR of Texas and CORP in Oregon. Below is a link to part two with a Cab ride over the Mountain [---] %" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=8KLEB4S2Ccs) 2024-08-24T17:35Z 18K followers, [----] engagements "Donner Pass Thunder Click to enlarge Note: Cover image may differ from actual product Witness vintage and contemporary film and video as Southern Pacific trains do battle with a [----] foot climb up 2.42% grades. This exciting video combines old film and video shot over decades of Donner Pass action. See Black Widow and Red Gray F units and ALCO PAs in freight and passenger operations. The history of the old Central Pacific and the Big four is reviewed and the comparison of the Donner and the Feather River Route is made with vintage Western Pacific diesel footage. We take several trips over the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9B6Uh8RcH1s) 2023-09-11T17:51Z 18K followers, [---] engagements "Full Movie "30 YEARS OF B&O C&O SEABOARD AND CHESSIE" Passenger & Freight CHESSIE AND SEABOARD HALL OF FAME Railfan Railroad Writes: See a colorful mix of first and second generation diesels through many of their paint scheme phases. This two hour feature explains how the C&O and the B&O were first merged together -- and how the Western Maryland came into the picture to form the Chessie System. Have you wondered what ever happened to some of the railroads you grew up with This presentation could shed some light on those thoughts and at the same time bring back visions of many things that have" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9KgNVjdY_Fo) 2025-10-05T18:24Z 26K followers, [----] engagements "BURLINGTON NORTHERN EMPIRE OF THE NORTH Watch a short preview on the legacy of the Burlington Northern history as it unfolds over the decades from the James Hill days to the [----] merger. The BN in its original form has climbed to a new level with the BNSF merger. The quarter century of BN green brought many fans who never saw the great predecessors that formed it. We bring that missing story to the screen Including coverage of Inside Gateway Chicago Area Iowa Washington Oregon Montana Idaho See the historic formation of the American giant of the North - Burlington Northern. We cover those" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9LHTfu79vH8) 2025-06-17T20:03Z 23.2K followers, [----] engagements "UNION PACIFIC'S QUEST FOR LOCOMOTIVES See Turbines Switchers Steam GP9s E and F-units DD35 DD40s U50s SD24 and SD45s and many others with passenger and freights. This is one section of a long production "Union Pacific Vintage West" on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below. Visit eight states and see Americas original line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people over decades. Learn about E. H. Harrimans dramatic life and how he eventually put an empire" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9UH3c_MdAWA) 2025-08-30T23:27Z 25.1K followers, [----] engagements "WHEN FREIGHT CARS WERE ROLLING BILLBOARDS Railfan Railroad Writes: Totally amazing film with tons of clean home road cars and Per Diem boxcars Coop hoppers lumber flats and special loads Of course every train has a caboose or two The best trains are shown in their entirety making this a "Candy Store for Modeler and railfans". This is one of two chapters of the Tehachapi line shot on Kodak color movie film by Tom Butterworth. This [--] hour DVD "FRIEGHT WEST" is available on our website https://cspmovies.com/. It features many other topics that bring the SP Sana Fe and WP lines with beautiful" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=9Ydjt3Rrm6w) 2025-08-21T22:42Z 25K followers, [----] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S TRAIN YARDS A great chapter as we visit the opening of West Colton and also see Old Taylor Yard with lots of GP-9's and SD-7's and witness some of SP's rare DD-35B's and the giant U-50's in West Colton transfer service. Also included is classic Tehachapi Beaumont Hill and Old Cajon Pass with U-33C's and older SD-39's and GP-35's as helper and mainline power. Los Angeles area Taylor Yard [----] Colton Crossing Kaiser ore at Ferrum Santa Paula Branch Burbank Branch Cascade and Shasta and much more More SP at www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AesBdQBN2Ho) 2025-08-09T19:36Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements "THE CONRAIL STORY THAT SAVED THE NORTHEAST Brought back from 1980's is our "NORTHEAST RAILS REMEMBERED" movie is the Conrail story with material never before released. Conrail's former Reading line Allentown Reading and numerous scenic places through many small towns and splendid countryside. The scenic Southern Tier on the former Erie mainline brings lots of action with Conrail NYS&W and Delaware & Hudson trains - and more See some scenes from the early 1970s with a struggling Penn Central and its collection of old and eclectic diesels. Learn the Conrail story that saved the rail industry by" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=AfR-FlkqrAo) 2025-05-01T09:00Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements "The Full "DIESEL POWER ON THE SANTA FE" Movie (World Wide Youtube Premier) The Santa Fe we knew is gone but the imprint it left on the west is celebrated here on brilliant color film that has been digitized and edited with care. A number of film sources show the late-great Santa Fe through a variety of motive power changes that reflect the Santa Fe's ability to respond well to an evolving industry. Few roads could compare to their quality of service. They left a positive and lasting impression on the public. The railroad industry in general maintained credibility through their efforts. Even" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Aq8_IkTDdOg) 2025-06-29T18:51Z 23.6K followers, 16.4K engagements "EMD F and E UNITS PLUS GP 9s This is one chapter of our great DVD titled "Diesel Power on the SP". Everything in this video has vanished from the scene or is in a museum. See the way railroading was long ago when things were far more interesting and a variety of equipment was in everyday use. For the entire 1-hour and 30-minute video production visit our website www.cspmovies.com To quote Railfan & Railroad magazine .the quality and depth of the information in the narration is so great. A must for SP fans I would think as well as students of motive power evolution use and disposition. To" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=B5gc3BgqTRI) 2025-04-10T07:30Z 21.7K followers, [----] engagements "SN [---] BOXMOTOR ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE AND NEW TENSHODO POWER TRUCK REVIEW This may be the only HO scale model of this famous Sacramento Northern freight motor (Nee Northern Electric). It was chopped down from a brass Suydam model into the shortened electric freight motor just like the real-life [---] was. Also we review the new Tenshodo "SPUD" powered trucks that are far better than the 1980s version of self-powered trucks. Learn why and how to use them" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=B841H_MVtec) 2025-04-24T09:00Z 22K followers, [----] engagements "FIVE SHORTLINES WITH FACSINATING HISTORIES Here are five shortline railroads that all have remarkable histories to tell. All the scenes were shot over [--] years ago on Kodak color movie film. (copyright [----] charles smiley presents) There are many more lengthy shortline sections in an available DVD titled "Great Shortlines West". The total time is 1-hour and 42-minutes. Look for it at your favorite hobby dealer. There's more information about it as item D-112 on our website as well as [--] more videos. www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BEsK7YneCDY) 2024-11-14T23:23Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements "LOST SACRAMENTO NORTHERN RAILROAD FILMS A look back in the Time Machine from our DVD: "Electric Rails Around the Bay" Some of our earliest films of the Oakland and SF Bay Area are shown here with the fabulous Sacramento Northern Railroad. In this [--] minute look back in time for those that were born too late to know how their surroundings have massively changed. Be sure to check out our website at www.cspmovies.com for more historical features. More Sacramento Northern and SF Bay Area History at our website www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BoWcEYy_fZQ) 2025-03-28T22:51Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements "THE REAL CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR PASSENGER TRAINS PART 1: Oakland to Portola This is just part one of our ambitious project that brings all vintage color movie scenes shot by [--] cinematographers in [--] and 16-mm film. See [--] minutes of film shot in the CZ cab and on locals and freight trains. Lots of scenes shot from trackside and other points of view. This will bring you what it was like to work for a fine railroad. We feature many special maps made for this video train sounds and informative narration. Then from Altamont Pass we run to Stockton Sacramento and all thegreat locations to Oroville." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=BttIO1yuXPU) 2025-05-18T05:28Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements "CHESSIE AND SEABOARD HALL OF FAME Have you wondered what ever happened to some of the railroads you grew up with This presentation could shed some light on those thoughts and at the same time bring back visions of many things that have vanished from the railroad scene. The mergers and their strategies are explained with some of the hidden history behind all the big changes in eastern railroading. This feature uses numerous maps and graphics created for this feature to put everything into historic and geographic focus. This presentation is really two shows brought together into a two hour" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Bzlm7CBmsDY) 2025-06-03T16:48Z 23K followers, [----] engagements "LAST SP CAB FORWARD OVER DONNER PASS "Iron Derby" is a terrific look at Southern Pacific's Cab Forward locomotives in all their glory. Beautiful color film and special railroad history shot by the most prominent rail photographers of the era. Check out our Donner Pass Thunder DVD available at the website below More Steam Railroading at www.cspmovies.com Walthers Buildings Scenery and Trains https://amzn.to/3BJMz2T Rapido HO Scale EMD E8A (DC/DCC/Sound): Amtrak - Early Black Scheme: #4316 https://amzn.to/4eZRPxF Micro Mark https://amzn.to/3Ybyz9MPin Vise Hand Drill Manual - Jewelry Drill" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Co3-xY9cwcw) 2024-10-12T17:05Z 17.6K followers, [----] engagements "FULL MOVIE: TEHACHAPI & CAJON PASS VINTAGE RAILROADING This is 2-1/2 hours of great mountain railroading with the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads. Visit Tehachapi from the mid-60s to the mid-90s -- plus related regional locations such as Taylor Yard Barstow Yard Richmond Yard Colton Crossing Cajon Pass and the building of the SP Palmdale cutoff. Learn the intertwined history of all the featured locations that are all part of the greater Tehachapi story. See all the great power and vanished scenesof pre-merger railroading at its best. We trace the history of how and why two railroads" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=D7LdXLlmT0o) 2025-08-25T17:18Z 25.1K followers, [----] engagements "AMAZING ORIGINAL RIO GRANDE NARROW GAUGE FILMS The Rio Grande still had hundreds of miles of Narrow Gauge Rail operations in [----] when Andy Payne became a steam locomotive Fireman then a Yard Hostler and later an Engineer. Andy filmed many hours of color movie film all during his career. This brings us a fresh insiders look at one of Americans all-time favorite railroads. Andy filmed all the great scenery and the working mans daily work life for many years. This leaves us a wonderful historical record of a place that still had steam locomotives and old wooden freight and passenger cars" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DT81jbchr1s) 2025-04-07T03:10Z 21.6K followers, [----] engagements "BEFORE & AFTER THE SF/OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE THAT CHANGED LIFESTYLES Magical scenes from our full production "Key System Empire" www.cspmovies.com Learn the history from start to finish of the great East-Shore Empire. Visit all the lines and cross the bay by ferry and bridge-rails to San Francisco. Streetcars Bridge-articulated units and many surprises plus cameo appearances of early Muni and IER make this a transportation story.Featuring: Pre & Post WWII Action Street Car Lines [----] World's Fair Ferryboats Bridge Trains Color & Black and White.Relive history on the Eastshore Empire built by" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DTyPDJOq90I) 2025-03-19T15:34Z 21K followers, [----] engagements "WHEN EASTERN RAILROADING HAD VARIETY Brought back from [----] and [----] is the Conrail story with material never before released. Northeast Rails Remembered Part One-www.cspmovies.com Conrail's former Reading line Allentown Reading and numerous scenic places through many small towns and splendid countryside. The scenic Southern Tier on the former Erie mainline brings lots of action with Conrail NYS&W and Delaware & Hudson trains - and more See some scenes from the early 1970s with a struggling Penn Central and its collection of old and eclectic diesels. See a great variety of diesel power and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Da7YV8orQtI) 2025-04-16T00:11Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "SANTA FE'S "SUPER CHIEFS" & "SAN DIEGANS" This is one section of our DVD production "Diesel Power on the Santa Fe". the full DVD features long -gone motion picture views of early diesel power and their development. www.cspmovies.com The late-great Santa Fe as shot on movie film. From Chicago to LA up to Stockton and out to Richmond. All the early diesels and the second-generation power too. Both passenger & freight. Enjoy the Santas various Chiefs and the speedy San Diegan. See street-running and yards. Remember the Super-C and the Chief at their best. Remember all the EMD F-units ALCOs" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=DtHjb5tlzaA) 2024-11-22T09:00Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements "Full Movie "ESPEE HALL OF FAME" YouTube Premiere Visit "Espee" locations in the last years before the UP Merger. This video took almost a decade to shoot with nearly every scene in blue skies and with the sun's light on the right side of the train. The trains shown have been selected with care to tell a story and portray how things once were. See Elvas and Stockton Junction with the towers that have long ago been removed. Watch hours of great original Southern Pacific power and lots of foreign and leased unit surprises. Most have been sent to the scrap yard since this material was shot. Learn" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EAbemljiYLo) 2025-09-27T16:24Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements "QUEST FOR POWER: VINTAGE UNION PACIFIC R.R. Here is an insightful chapter on Union Pacific's early locomotive history from our full length DVD "Union Pacific Vintage West" available at www.cspmovies.com A review of the UP's great quest for more capable diesel power of improved efficiency that involved EMD GE and ALCO products. Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. Visit UP's new WP line for a great mix of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=EL6pU5-cbVw) 2025-05-13T22:53Z 23.7K followers, [----] engagements "THE REAL CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR PASSENGER TRAINS Portola to Chicago This is part of our ambitious "California Zephyr" project that brings all vintage color movie scenes shot by [--] cinematographers in [--] and 16-mm film. See [--] minutes of film shot in the CZ cab and on locals and freight trains. In this segment we work from Portola east to beautiful Colorado and eventually Chicago. Lots of scenes shot from trackside and other points of view. This will bring you what it was like to work for a fine railroad. We feature many special maps made for this video train sounds and informative narration. Then" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ELfPZVs59bU) 2025-05-15T00:55Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements "DEMOLISHED ROSEVILLE HUMP YARD ON THE SP RAILROAD This section of a [--] hour and [--] minute DVD production was from the camera work of Gino Pagliaro over the last [--] years on the SP . This title is "ESPEE HALL OF FAME". Visit "Espee" locations that were in and around Sacramento CA in the early 1990s. See Elvas and Stockton Junction with the towers that have long ago been removed. Watch hours of great original Southern Pacific power that has been sent to the scrap yard since this material was shot. Learn much of the history of the SP and the area involved in this video. The emphasis here is on" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ETS8owneiIU) 2025-03-26T01:31Z 21.2K followers, [----] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S SAN FRANCISCO STEAM AND DIESELS Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the early 1950s. Many classes of SP steam diesels and FM Train Masters pulling commutes are shown when it mattered. We visit Niles Canyon Tower and then off to Altamont Pass and the greater East Bay area with stunning views of the area that have changed forever See large steam Cab Forwards and other early diesels leading freight" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ErNG-NMPQGg) 2025-04-17T16:25Z 21.9K followers, [----] engagements "GE & EMD fight for dominance - 1960-1970 A great chapter from our full DVD "Diesel Power on the SP" www.cspmovies.com Visit Taylor Yard with lots of GP-9's and SD-7's and witness some of SP's rare DD-35B's and the giant U-50's in West Colton transfer service. Also included is classic Tehachapi Beaumont Hill and Old Cajon Pass with U-33C's and older SD-39's and GP-35's as helper and mainline power. Climb aboard passenger excursions on the freight only Santa Paula and Burbank Branches powered by sets of F-Units. A step back through the last fifty years on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Some" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FHficlK864k) 2025-04-03T07:30Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements "UNBELIEVABLE SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM "HISTORIC SOUTHERN PACIFIC AROUND THE GREATER BAY" DVD Available at www.cspmovies.com Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. See large steam Cab Forwards and other early diesels leading freight trains at Giant Oakland Berkeley and beautiful places to Crockett Marvel at the parade of early freight cars from around the US and SP cabooses and Passenger Cars that are a real highlight We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=FTcStfLLBXA) 2025-09-24T22:48Z 25.8K followers, [----] engagements "Diesel Power on the Santa Fe The Santa Fe we knew is gone but the imprint it left on the west is celebrated here on brilliant color film that has been digitized and edited with care. A number of film sources show the late-great Santa Fe through a variety of motive power changes that reflect the Santa Fe's ability to respond well to an evolving industry. Few roads could compare to their quality of service. They left a positive and lasting impression on the public. The railroad industry in general maintained credibility through their efforts. Even in the rough times. TRAINS MAGAZINE comments" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=F_UgEZQ9T64) 2023-09-11T18:09Z 18K followers, [---] engagements "INCREDIBLE TRAIN WRECKS & SNOW FIGHTING MILWAUKEE RAILROAD A stunning chapter from our movie "Milwaukee Road Scrapbook with amazing Maintenance of Way Forces Snow Fighting and Train Wreck clearing in the treacherous mountains of Idaho. www.cspmovies.com See the Milwaukee Road's "Electrification" on the old Pacific Extension. Remember the "Quills" Bi-polars GE Box-cabs and GE "Joes". Additional coverage includes the Milwaukee Road's diesels and a nice review of Milwaukee Road's steam powered trains. This is Milwaukee Road's passenger and freight operations in its finest years. We also bring a" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=GSKN_p50xCk) 2024-11-02T20:35Z 18K followers, [----] engagements "FAMOUS LOCATIONS ON THE CSX This introduction to "CSX Scrapbook" is the chapter on the Former B&O Cumberland Subdivision. The description below explains the entire DVD. This material was primarily shot by Tom Luckey in [----] to [----] with other scenes from [----] to [----]. The various chapters bring portions of Ohio with the diamond crossings of Deshler (Crossroads of the B&O) and Fostoria (The Iron Triangle). The program then moves east to the Cumberland Subdivision from Point of Rocks west to Cumberland MD and then more gripping action on the famous Sand Patch grade. This is all color digitally" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=H-JkKhcgq_o) 2025-05-19T23:02Z 22.8K followers, [----] engagements "Northeast Rails Remembered Volume Two-CR NS D&H CP B&M and more If you like this preview subscribe to our channel www.trainmovies.com Northeast Rails Remembered Volume II -- a [--] hour and [--] minute DVD video of the former Reading RR Lehigh Valley RR and others that were operated by Conrail and the Delaware & Hudson RR in the late 1980s. This was a very colorful time when pool and leased power were everywhere. See foreign power from NW Southern NS CSX Chessie Guilford B&M D&H NYS&W PLM Helm Leasing and many more suprises The operation of the D&H over the Canadian Pacific is also covered in this" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HDlgPVLZKYg) 2023-09-12T16:23Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements "VANISHED SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF NORTHEAST RAILROADING A chapter from our full length DVD "Northeast Rails Remembered Volume II) www.cspmovies.com Revisit the early 1990s on the last years of the D&H and the ushering in of CP Rail to new territory in the US. This was a very colorful era in the Northeast and dramatic changes were still in effect from ripples of the bankruptcy of the old Penn Central days. We cover the history of the D&H and its sad demise. Don't miss the parade of older and borrowed power that came from all over North America. This was also a time when CP Rail was consolidating" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=HNiO-79WE68) 2025-09-08T15:52Z 25.4K followers, [----] engagements "THE READING RAILROAD: WHAT HAPPENED A never before seen chapter from our movie "Hard Coal Roads: What Went Wrong" This is a look back in time to the "Anthracite" roads that once made the eastern rail scene more interesting and colorful. These principal roads were the Lehigh Valley Jersey Central Reading D&H and the Erie Lackawanna Railroads. The common theme was their early success based on hauling anthracite coal from a unique area in Pennsylvania and the decline of that business. The last decade of these roads largely depended on a declining business in hauling "bridge traffic". The" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hlx4jSQi4Fw) 2024-09-19T00:15Z 23.1K followers, 21.7K engagements "BUILD A HISTORIC ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE - FULL STORY This is a how-to video on building a vintage locomotive with a variety of materials and techniques. Some of the materials and techniques can be used for your different projects and even other scales. The trucks are from peteysprintedparts (ebay) The ebay site with the powered truck is . https://www.ebay.com/usr/peteysprintedparts Don't forget to subscribe for a ton of other youtube videos and check out our website for even more rail videos at www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=INRzdKjQvAc) 2025-02-28T18:43Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements "NORTHEAST R.R. MEMORIES-Allentown & Bethlehem A colorful chapter from our stellar DVD "Northeast Rails Remembered II" www.cspmovies.com Revisit the early 1990s in PA near Allentown and Bethlehem and see a hot bed of activity. Rare older power and the last years of the D&H and the ushering in of CP Rail to the US. This was a very colorful era in the Northeast and dramatic changes were still in effect from ripples of the bankruptcy of the old Penn Central days. We cover the history of the D&H and its sad demise. Don't miss the parade of older and borrowed power that came from all over North" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=IRc_GnYHtLQ) 2024-11-11T14:00Z 18.2K followers, [----] engagements "Conrail Hall of Fame DVD-The Study of Conrail This is the [----] to [----] story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a successful operation that surprised nearly everyone. Everyone that is except the committed employees and the leadership Conrail had during its four phases of existence. This was like a four act play -- with every element needed to make a great story that will be studied by business analysts" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=J35Ara-E9qs) 2023-09-12T03:45Z 18.1K followers, [---] engagements "UNION PACIFIC'S EARLY STEAM AND DIESELS This is one section of a long production "Union Pacific Vintage West" on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below. Visit eight states and see Americas original line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people over decades. Learn about E. H. Harrimans dramatic life and how he eventually put an empire together that resembles todays merged UP line. Follow the Harriman [----] era to modern times from the phase out of steam to first" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=JTK5U90hnPo) 2025-04-11T02:08Z 22.5K followers, [----] engagements "Full Movie "WESTERN PACIFIC STORY"- YouTube Premiere Length: [--] hr. [--] minutes "WESTERN PACIFIC VINTAGE WEST" Remember the WP from the late steam era into the eighties with film from [--] different sources. We bring the real WP to the screen with freight and passenger trains plus interchange with other roads. A Sacramento Northern section of electric freight along with other surprises will show the variety of WP business interests. Follow the Zephyr story from [----] to [----] with extra coverage of the WP's partners Rio Grande and CB&Q. Featuring California Zephyr Steam to Diesel FT to F7 Power" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Jii7zRz7X0E) 2025-08-13T22:38Z 24.8K followers, [----] engagements "Full Movie "50 YEARS OF SANTA FE LOCOMOTIVES" Our one and a half hour movie "DIESEL POWER ON THE SANTA FE" celebrates [--] years of all the diesels on the AT&SF. The Original Santa Fe we knew is gone but the imprint it left on the west is celebrated here on brilliant color film that has been digitized and edited with care. A number of film sources show the late-great Sant This is a fine DVD and one that will appeal to the Santa Fe's many devoted fans.-C.S The Cast: GP20 GP30 & GP35 SD24 SD26 & SD45 CF7 FP45 & F-units ALCO PA - ALCO'S & RSDs U-boats & cabooses at all the great hot-spots Visit" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KBG-Cj7udy4) 2025-09-14T15:59Z 25.4K followers, [----] engagements "RAILROADING THE SF & OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE THAT CHANGED LIFESTYLES Magical scenes from our full production "Key System Empire" www.cspmovies.com Learn the history from start to finish of the great East-Shore Empire. Visit all the lines and cross the bay by ferry and bridge-rails to San Francisco. Streetcars Bridge-articulated units and many surprises plus cameo appearances of early Muni and IER make this a transportation story.Featuring: Pre & Post WWII Action Street Car Lines [----] World's Fair Ferryboats Bridge Trains Color & Black and White.Relive history on the Eastshore Empire built by Borax" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=KKjzXml6xUI) 2025-06-08T02:55Z 23.1K followers, [----] engagements "FASCINATING 1970'S FALLEN FLAG RAILROADING Beautiful color films of the RF&P Seaboard Chessie and early Amtrak in the 1970's into the 1980's The Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac or RF&P was a 113-mile long double-tracked bridge line that neatly linked northern and southern roads together. This presentation brings the last 20-years of that roads independence to your screen with GPs F-Units and E-units The 1970s became an especially difficult time for many railroads. The bankruptcies and little-known "could-have-been" mergers of that era are explained. This was the virtual "minefield" that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LPUmAICB_bw) 2025-04-01T20:17Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements "ORIGINAL BN RAILROAD MERGERS 1970's Watch the legacy of the Burlington Northern and other railroad history unfold over the decades from the James Hill days to the [----] merger. The BN in its original form has climbed to a new level with the BNSF merger. The quarter century of BN green brought many fans who never saw the great predecessors that formed it. We bring that missing story to the screen Including coverage of Inside Gateway Chicago Area Iowa Washington Oregon Montana Idaho See the historic formation of the American giant of the North - Burlington Northern. We cover those great vintage" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=LVbVh4ON-h0) 2025-04-02T16:45Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements "Tehachapi: SP and Santa Fe Era Visit Tehachapi from the mid-60s to the mid-90s -- plus related regional locations such as Taylor Yard Barstow Yard Richmond Yard Colton Crossing Cajon Pass and the building of the SP Palmdale cutoff. Learn the intertwined history of all the featured locations that are all part of the greater Tehachapi story. See all the great power and vanished scenesof pre-merger railroading at its best. We trace the history of how and why two railroads used the same mountain pass and how the line was built. Don't miss the wonderful vintage views of how SP opened the "Palmdale" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=M58zgSVDzq8) 2023-09-11T18:43Z 18.1K followers, [---] engagements "MILWAUKEE ROAD TRAIN WRECKS & SNOW FIGHTING A stunning chapter from our movie "Milwaukee Road Scrapbook" with amazing Maintenance of Way Forces Snow Fighting and Train Wreck clearing in the treacherous mountains of Idaho. www.cspmovies.com See the Milwaukee Road's "Electrification" on the old Pacific Extension. Remember the "Quills" Bi-Polars GE Box-cabs and GE "Joes". Additional coverage includes the Milwaukee Road's diesels and a nice review of Milwaukee Road's steam powered trains. This is Milwaukee Road's passenger and freight operations in its finest years. We also bring a good section" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=MG_Iw4zFnyY) 2025-07-09T22:12Z 23.8K followers, [----] engagements "SEABOARD LINE RAILROAD- WHAT WAS IT This is a wonderful chapter of our long DVD production all shot of Kodak color movie film decades ago. Be sure to like and subscribe and then check into our extensive website at www.cspmovies.com The "Chessie & Seaboard Hall of Fame" DVD production was copyrighted by Charles Smiley Presents" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mh_cZ23OUdk) 2025-03-22T03:47Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements "CANADA'S VINTAGE RAILROADS--CP CN AND MANY SHORTLINES To see the rest of this video "CANADIAN RAILS VINTAGE SCRAPBOOK" look for the DVD on our website www.cspmovies.com To quote Railfan & Railroad magazine Here is another in an extensive catalog of must-own vintage videos from Charles Smiley who is known for his excellent film transfers of often rare but always high-quality movie footage extensive historical research exquisite maps and excellent narration. In-cab and trackside action brings you great scenery and a nostalgic look of stations and even tracks that disappeared years ago. CANADIAN" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ml8_32N6OdI) 2025-04-04T03:16Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements "CANADA'S GREAT RAILROADS CP CN AND MANY SHORTLINES To see the rest of this video "CANADIAN RAILS VINTAGE SCRAPBOOK" look for the DVD on our website www.cspmovies.com To quote Railfan & Railroad magazine Here is another in an extensive catalog of must-own vintage videos from Charles Smiley who is known for his excellent film transfers of often rare but always high-quality movie footage extensive historical research exquisite maps and excellent narration. In-cab and trackside action brings you great scenery and a nostalgic look of stations and even tracks that disappeared years ago. CANADIAN" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mw-OOpWYm-Y) 2025-08-19T23:20Z 25K followers, [----] engagements "WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD'S EARLY YEARS Never before seen Color and B&W film of the early WP from our DVD "Western Pacific Vintage West" www.cspmovies.com Remember the WP from the late steam era into the eighties with film from [--] different sources. We bring the real WP to the screen with freight and passenger trains plus interchange with other roads. A Sacramento Northern section of electric freight along with other surprises will show the variety of WP business interests. Follow the Zephyr story from [----] to [----] with extra coverage of the WP's partners Rio Grande and CB&Q. Featuring" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=NX2ItAR-I5s) 2024-12-09T18:06Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S INCREDIBLE LUMBER TRAINS These were some of SP's finest lumber hauling moments Witness [---] car lumber trains with Manned Helpers and Cabooses snaking around "S" curves in a stellar power show never to be repeated. Then we take an in depth look at the Huge Saw Mill Operations in Scotia CA . Watch the intensive wood processes not often seen as huge tree trunks are cut into fine clean lumber loads and Presto Logs This incredible film features the efforts of [--] contributors who read like a who's who of railroad photographers filmmakers and historians. These are Hidden treasures" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O-r9YCdTgsM) 2025-03-04T09:00Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements "SANTA FE'S ODD EARLY LOCOMOTIVES This is one section of our DVD production "Diesel Power on the Santa Fe". the full DVD features long -gone motion picture views of early diesel power and their development. www.cspmovies.com The late-great Santa Fe as shot on movie film. From Chicago to LA up to Stockton and out to Richmond. All the early diesels and the second-generation power too. Both passenger & freight. Enjoy the Santas various Chiefs and the speedy San Diegan. See street-running and yards. Remember the Super-C and the Chief at their best. Remember all the EMD F-units ALCOs U-boats and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O1U3ghQhyBU) 2025-05-21T19:28Z 22.9K followers, [----] engagements "WESTERN PACIFIC'S FAMOUS LOCATIONS From our full length [--] Hour DVD "Freight West" www.cspmovies.com Do you miss the Santa Fe SP WP and the old version on the UP This presentation brings it back with a fine display of older smoking power beautiful graffiti-free freight cars and trailers that are railroad owned. Four railroads are covered in the 1970's and 80's on beautiful "Kodak" color film with sound These priceless film images were captured by Tom Butterworth and other [--] other dialed in cinematographers of the era at locations that were some of the best in the world for this type of intense" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O8xlq-TDObA) 2025-06-23T23:55Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements "Full Movie "CHESSIE AND SEABOARD HALL OF FAME" World Wide YouTube Premier CHESSIE AND SEABOARD HALL OF FAME Railfan Railroad Writes: Chessie and Seaboard Hall of Fame is a big winner. Railfans and model railroaders will find this movie a goldmine. The rare factor alone makes this a must have program. With hard to find beautiful color film maps and history once again Charles sets the standard for railroad shows. Have you wondered what ever happened to some of the railroads you grew up with This presentation could shed some light on those thoughts and at the same time bring back visions of many" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=O9xKoqZvK54) 2025-07-14T21:37Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements "BUILDING MODEL RAILROAD BOXCARS In our third volume of "Building Better Model Railroads" we have a variety of new projects to take on and skill up with.In this Volume we learn how to skill up using some basic new techniques skills and tools. Many of the models and projects that are shown are easy to build and at a lower cost. You can also learn how to handle and use low cost LED lights to brighten up your layout and most of these new bulbs will last up to [-----] hours We also learn how to build easy and low cost "Lumber Loads" that really look real. They are simple and easy Another super fun" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OOpeLqVebcU) 2024-11-20T16:32Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements "EASTBAY KEY SYSTEM AND RICHMOND SHIPYARD RY. HISTORY The Key System from the early years of 500s and 600s plus the ferryboat pier. See the Keys new bridge units in their original striking orange and silver splendor. Also we bring supporting scenes of the IER Red Trains Muni Railway steam trains and the Keys small streetcars. Ride and watch beautiful ferryboats shot on some of the first early 16mm color film. Watch the construction and operation of the WWII Richmond Shipyard Railway by Keys staff. This line was built from Emeryville north to Richmonds Kaiser Shipyards to transport thousands of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=OWHtXTlTseo) 2024-01-29T17:59Z 18.1K followers, [----] engagements "1976 TO [----] CONRAIL RAILROAD STORY This 34-minute video is one chapter of a 2-hour and 20-minute DVD historic documentary of the forming of Conrail that made a success out of the chaos of eastern railroading in a troubled time. Scenes were shot by Tom Luckey Jack Kuiphoff and Tim Hosey in this project. This is the [----] to [----] story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a successful operation that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PBP284JaVtI) 2025-07-22T02:29Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements "UNION PACIFIC KATY HERITAGE UNIT NEARLY STALLS ON TEHACHAPI PASS After sitting at Bealville for several hours due to engine problems the dispatcher finally gave this Roseville to West Colton freight the Highball to try and make it to Tehachapi Summit With maximum tonnage this train put on a great show as it blasted out of Bealville and thru the tunnel at Cliff The engineer could be heard calling the dispatcher saying he was really worried about stalling. The final two scenes at Cable show it grinding uphill at [--] MPH. Only right before the rear [--] DPU's pass towards the end did it gather enough" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PCfiMDwvT28) 2025-10-07T17:29Z 26.1K followers, 11.1K engagements "REMEMBERING CENTRAL NEW JERSEY RAILROAD A chapter from our full length DVD " THE HARD COAL ROADS: what went wrong" Railfan Railroad Magazine Writes: Much of the film has hard to find footage and is high quality. This collection surpasses anything that I have seen for the first three railroads. The colors are accurate and the images and the trains seem to jump off the screen. A meticulous producer location awareness is always a priority. Extremely interesting and has the rarity factor. In short this exemplary show is a must have This is [--] hour and [--] minutes of five featured railroads that" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PMh4WmGwyAg) 2025-04-09T22:26Z 21.6K followers, [----] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC Steam to Diesel Dont miss the Coast Daylight San Joaquin Daylight mail trains and commutes behind steam and early diesels. See diesels from the early tiger stripe Daylight colors black widow and finally scarlet & gray. To quote a review in Railfan & Railroad magazine Twenty-six photographers contributed to this program which is skillfully edited and narrated. I highly recommend this as a quality program.. This is a never before seen Kodak Color Film of an interesting period of freight and passenger steam and early diesel power at its best It's one chapter of a long DVD video" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PPHUcVffklo) 2024-08-12T22:18Z 18K followers, [----] engagements "THE RAILROAD THAT HELPED WIN WAR II Scenes from our DVD "Key System Part 2" www.cspmovies.com Watch the construction and operation of the WWII Richmond Shipyard Railway by Keys staff. This line was built from Emeryville north to Richmonds Kaiser Shipyards to transport thousands of workers that built [---] Victory and Liberty ships for the war. Retired IRT elevated cars were rebuilt to make long and elderly electric trains. This is a fascinating look at Bay Area history. The Key System from the early years of 500s and 600s plus the ferryboat pier. See the Keys new bridge units in their original" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PaGcAN-FbSo) 2025-01-09T18:32Z 19.3K followers, [----] engagements "IMPROVE HO BOXCARS - LOW COSTS From our "Building Better Model Railroad" series find them at www.cspmovies.com This is the history of model railroad HO scale kits and the prototype boxcars' development over the decades. The How-To techniques will give you motivation to try some or all of them. Check into our website for much more content to improve your modeling and your history of trains in general at www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PgsQ0Uflwco) 2025-04-21T18:12Z 22K followers, [----] engagements "SP STEAM TRAINS IN SAN JOSE CA A super chapter on SP Steam in San Jose CA from our DVD "Historic SP Around the Greater Bay" Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the early 1950s. Many classes of SP steam diesels and FM Train Masters pulling commutes are shown when it mattered. We visit Niles Canyon Tower and then off to Altamont Pass and the greater East Bay area with stunning views of the area that have changed forever" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=PnwUP63Wzwk) 2025-01-12T08:15Z 19.4K followers, [----] engagements "UNION PACIFIC'S UNRIVALED POWER STORY Follow us back to the 1960s an 1970s when the UP was intent of [-----] horsepower produced by only three locomotives instead of the usual five units. This was hoped to bring greater efficiency and reliability. This is just one great story on our available full featured DVD tilted "RAILFANNING CAJON AND TEHACHAPI" (Item D-150). The full production is available on our website www.cspmovies.com and it features the UP SP and Santa Fe railroads decades ago" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Purqf9LcJwY) 2025-03-30T16:42Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements "Santa Fe Vintage West-40 Years of the ATSF This is a look into our DVD video "SANTA FE VINTAGE WEST" - A 1-hour and 34-minute major feature presentation. Look for the DVD item number D-129 on our website for further information" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=QmfgxjEnEg4) 2023-09-12T04:12Z 18.1K followers, [---] engagements ""DO YOU MISS CONRAIL" This [--] hour and [--] minute journey "CONRAIL HALL OF FAME" brings the history and story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a successful operation that surprised nearly everyone. Everyone that is except the committed employees and the leadership Conrail had during its four phases of existence. This was like a four act play -- with every element needed to make a great story that will" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RAwCX0dZX4A) 2025-10-18T22:55Z 26.1K followers, [---] engagements "THE CONRAIL STORY Brought back from 1980's is our "NORTHEAST RAILS REMEMBERED" movie is the Conrail story with material never before released. Conrail's former Reading line Allentown Reading and numerous scenic places through many small towns and splendid countryside. The scenic Southern Tier on the former Erie mainline brings lots of action with Conrail NYS&W and Delaware & Hudson trains - and more See some scenes from the early 1970s with a struggling Penn Central and its collection of old and eclectic diesels. Learn the Conrail story that saved the rail industry by merging many failed" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RWsW_s5Al-w) 2025-01-26T18:29Z 19.8K followers, [----] engagements "MAKE BETTER FLATCARS - LOW-COST HO SCALE Upgrade inexpensive flatcars to rival the high-cost ones in HO scale with some easy tricks. watch the whole story here. Check into our website for much more content to improve your modeling and your history of trains in general at www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=RpdQdaSRIK0) 2025-04-16T21:57Z 21.9K followers, 10.8K engagements "WHEN WESTERN PACIFIC BECAME UNION PACIFIC This presentation "FREIGHT WEST" brings it back with rare freight cars old smoking diesel power and colorful graffiti-free trains of the WP UP SP and Santa Fe railroads in the 1970's and 80's In this amazing chapter from our movie [--] hour [--] minute DVD "Freight West" we witness a long bygone era when there was no Grafitti on ANY freight cars. Most cars were still painted with logos from the past and many Fallen Flag railroads in brilliant colors not seen today. Corporate image was much more important in these days as cars were rolling billboards" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Rwx6GtPiE8I) 2025-07-31T19:02Z 25.4K followers, [----] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC NORTHERN CALIFORNIA A chapter from our full movie "Donner Pass Thunder" www.cspmovies.com This is a time when SP was busy and action was packed with one last stand their form of iconic railroading. This final look at Sacramento and Roseville was years before Union Pacific changed everything forever The video is loaded with GP-9 and SD-7 and [--] action plus great coverage of old Sacramento Roseville and the Roseville hump yard before its demise. Older foreign and leased power on full display with visions you can no longer see today. The Yard in Roseville is the shell of what it" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=S4tXYWlXv1I) 2025-02-07T20:21Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements "The Full "KANSAS CITY DIESEL POWER REVIEW" Movie World-Wide YouTube Premier Don't miss the last great stand for these fine American Railroads before everything changed forever Visit Kansas City and surrounding areas before all the great mergers of the 90's See trains from [--] different roads with detailed maps and narration on how trains moved thru the KC area. Visit Santa Fe Junction Airline Junction and the "Highline Bridge" View run down industrial backdrops with trains moving thru "the West Bottoms". Many transfers and locals are shown from Santa Fe Gateway Western Soo UP and KCS There is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sav9lspmPtE) 2025-07-03T11:01Z 23.6K followers, [----] engagements "UNION PACIFIC LA TO SALT LAKE CITY In this chapter follow us on a journey with incredible history across the UP thru the Cima Hill area. This whole video is a celebration of the original UP from the 1950s to its full size by [----]. See lots of early diesel power and vintage Cajon and California action. Then we explore the UP in the 1990s when it expanded rapidly to remain a competitive player in the rail business. This video is from movie film and early video shot years ago. D-130 UNION PACIFIC SCRAPBOOK Model Railroad News: This is a large helping of trains at 1hr and [--] minutes Charles" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Sj7DVKrhuA8) 2024-09-17T01:46Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements "OLD CHICAGO: RAILROAD'S CENTER OF GRAVITY A superb chapter on railroading in Chicago from a variety of Fallen Flag Railroads. See the Milwaukee Road New York Central and their rivals from [----] to [----] covering the electrics diesels and some lingering steam. Plenty of run by and trackside views of a vanished way of life in the mountain districts. Marvel at the GE Boxmotors Bipolars and "Little Joes" and visit a number of locations. We review the history and technical aspects of the Milwaukee and how they fit in with their rivals and allies. The end of electric railroading and eventually the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SkY8ZWpYUxc) 2025-04-23T07:15Z 22K followers, [----] engagements "Full Movie "KEY SYSTEM RAILROAD SCRAPBOOK" YouTube Premiere For A limited time only we will feature on our YouTube Channel "TRACTION NIGHT" Every week we will be featuring one of our Traction Movies in it's entirety This week it is "KEY SYSTEM SCRAPBOOK VOLUME ONE" www.cspmovies.com This video has many animated graphical maps made just for video clarity and better understanding of the Key's lines streetcar lines and the SP-IER electric lines in the ferry and later bridge era. The Key System from the early years of 500s and 600s plus the ferryboat pier. See the Key's new bridge units in their" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=SseEQ0_0Wr8) 2025-08-07T02:16Z 24.6K followers, [----] engagements "PROWLING SMOKING RIO GRANDE ENGINES ON THE SP Rio Grande Engines Prowling the SP in California and Colorado from our full length movie "Tennessee Pass: from Start to Finish" www.cspmovies.com THIS HISTORICAL ROYAL GORGE ROUTE WAS ABANDONED IN SEPTEMBER OF [----]. This movie was there to capture the last months of operation. Coal Manifest and merchandise trains all run by the two cameras on a journey from Pueblo to Dotsero Colorado where the line joins with the Moffat Route. We also show early the history of regional narrow and standard gauge development and explain the DRGW operating strategies" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=StmvNSoDVhg) 2025-03-22T01:34Z 21K followers, [---] engagements "WESTERN PACIFIC REMEMBERED Visit the Western Pacific from both sides of the San Francisco Bay down to Niles Jct. and then on the San Jose branch and return to Niles Jct. for a ride through Niles Canyon. Then from Altamont Pass we run to Stockton Sacramento and all thegreat locations to Oroville. Oroville to Keddie brings more trains and great scenery. We run to Bieber on a freight and then return to Keddie to run to Portola. From Portola we ride locals to Reno and Loyalton. From there we review the run over the Great Basin Desert to Salt Lake City. See things that have been removed forever." [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=T46h_OuaKMk) 2025-06-07T03:49Z 23.1K followers, [----] engagements "SPECIAL PAINT LEADING NS TRAINS This is the second installment of our new series "21st Century Rails" brought to you by Dave D Dave was everywhere when NS Heritage Units were new and roaming around NY and PA. Here are "Home Run" hits of his with all the NS Heritage Leaders on the point when they were fresh and clean in mostly superb sunlight "We Bring the Trains" Charles Smiley Presents Videos more railroading at www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=T8SaDsZ7yrk) 2024-01-21T12:00Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements "RIO GRANDE NARROW GAUGE FREIGHT TRAINS The Rio Grande still had hundreds of miles of Narrow Gauge Rail operations in [----] when Andy Payne became a steam locomotive Fireman then a Yard Hostler and later an Engineer. Andy filmed many hours of color movie film all during his career. This brings us a fresh insiders look at one of Americans all-time favorite railroads. Andy filmed all the great scenery and the working mans daily work life for many years. This leaves us a wonderful historical record of a place that still had steam locomotives and old wooden freight and passenger cars earning" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Tg_wlCNLgIg) 2024-07-01T07:30Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements "THE CONRAIL STORY Full Movie "CONRAIL HALL OF FAME" This [--] hour and [--] minute journey "CONRAIL HALL OF FAME" brings the history and story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a successful operation that surprised nearly everyone. Everyone that is except the committed employees and the leadership Conrail had during its four phases of existence. This was like a four act play -- with every element needed to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=U0jrWEvAxGw) 2025-08-29T04:31Z 25.1K followers, [----] engagements "UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD STORY: Steam Era Into Diesels A look back at old UP from our movie "Union Pacific Vintage West" www.cspmovies.com See some of the innovation and strategic successes of the UP from the WWII to 1960s -- as if the long reach of E.H. Harriman's influence was still in effect years after his untimely death. Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. See the phase-out of steam and the first and second" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=U68UX0931rs) 2025-05-12T02:52Z 24.7K followers, 12.6K engagements "SP When the Empire was Intact: 3.6% Grades This incredible film features the efforts of [--] contributors who read like a who's who of railroad photographers filmmakers and historians. If it was Southern Pacific it is covered in this film. Plenty of SD-9's GP-9's clean SD-45's and all of the oddball power that made the SP such a fascinating and interesting railroad. Combine this action with all of the locations that made SP operations so difficult on a day to day basis. The rugged Siskiyou Mountains and there lofty 3.6% grades are a highlight as SP impressively moves [--] car lumber drags up to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UETHQ1tNxBs) 2023-09-19T21:25Z 11.8K followers, [---] engagements "SP Tiger Stripe Switchers Meet An SP Livestock Train meets a local in the countryside near Walnut Creek in [----] The "Tiger Stripe" Paint scheme on these both models preceded the Black Widow paint and lasted until the late 1940's Modeled by Charles Smiley www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UHU7glgJjkM) 2023-10-03T17:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Union Pacific Vintage West Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. See the phase-out of steam and the first and second generation diesels. The focal point is in the [----] to [----] period with the onslaught of mergers in the industry. Visit UP's new WP line for a great mix of trains. Featuring: E and F units Early Geeps SD24 and Uboats DD35 DD40 U50 Turbines Steam and More. This video will bring the viewer a good" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UTtvX8HpZIQ) 2023-09-11T18:32Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S SUGAR BEET STORY A rare look at the SP Sugar Beet Story This was the Southern Pacific at work on the Yuma District of the Sunset Route. The best material with a wealth of newly discovered material to make this new DVD video. See mixed freights and intermodal trains as well as locals and transfer freights. We also bring lots of foreign and pool-power. Visit the Imperial Valley lines to remember the Sugarbeet trains of the SP. Learn how the beet cars were loaded and follow the beets to Betteravia where they were processed at the Holly sugar plant. Beet trains handed off to" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UpCOJ6AUOZI) 2025-04-05T02:08Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements "LONDON & PORT STANLEY ELECTRIC TRAINS [----] "Canadian Electric Rails" 1950's DVD available at www.cspmovies.com Visit [--] classic electric railroads in Canada in the 1950's Brilliant color film of the Canadian people architecture and trains Peel back the years and relive the days of what it was like to ride and see the: LONDON AND PORT STANLEY RY NIAGARA ST CATHERINES & TORONTO TORONTO TRANSIT MONTREAL & SOUTHERN COUNTIES RY. QUEBEC RAILWAY LIGHT AND POWER Visit yards and stations Big cities and rural outposts Learn the equipment of each railroad with in depth coverage of the Peter Witt Cars and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=UvIcGBizlqQ) 2025-04-29T14:52Z 23.3K followers, 15K engagements "THE REAL RIO GRANDE NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD FILMS The Rio Grande still had hundreds of miles of Narrow Gauge Rail operations in [----] when Andy Payne became a steam locomotive fireman then yard hostler and later an engineer This production has an emphasis on revenue freight trains in regions that no longer have tracks. Steam firing and helper operations with up to [--] locomotives are featured up close with real sound in all types of weather and extreme conditions Andy filmed many hours of movie film all during his career This brings us a fresh "insider's" look at one of America's all-time favorite" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=V3ntOTs8fCQ) 2024-01-17T16:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO [---] STEAM SPECTACULAR This is a great American Steam Locomotive Story Shot by the master Richard Knox Chesapeake and Ohio [---] is a class "J-3-A" 4-8-4 "Greenbrier" (Northern) type steam locomotive built in June [----] by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima Ohio for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) as a member of the J-3-A class. See one of the great 4-8-4s built in the last years of any new steam power. A C&O beauty that had great speed and grace pulling passenger trains. Retired from active service in the mid 1950s No. [---] was preserved and placed on display at the B&O" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VINu3TzIT3w) 2025-04-11T17:11Z 21.7K followers, [----] engagements "Full Movie "PACIFIC ELECTRIC & LOS ANGELES RAILWAY" - World Wide YouTube Premiere This complete production outlines the history of both of these famous electric rail lines. They were both started by Henry. E. Huntington at the beginning of the 20th Century. For a time they were intertwined and created with a similar purpose. This program has a wealth of color movie film from [----] to the complete end in [----]. The accurate sound recordings accompanying these movie scenes bring back the auditory experience of living in those bygone years. Maps and graphics were specially created to enhance the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VISJgYQ6pgw) 2025-07-19T16:12Z 24.3K followers, 11K engagements "FINEST VINTAGE CAJON AND TEHACHAPI RAILROADING - FULL MOVIE This is the full "RAILFANNING CAJON & TEHACHAPI" movie shot on Kodak color movie film of the most interesting times. Look back at a grand era that featured three class one independent roads with first and second generation power. This big time mountain style of railroading will never be seen again-but this feature brings it back for your enjoyment. Don't miss the years of the UP Santa Fe and Southern Pacific as they all developed the need for more locomotive power to combat the longer trains faster schedules and heavy grades. See" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VQKAUh3YIDM) 2025-10-15T07:30Z 26.1K followers, [----] engagements "FASCINATING WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROADING Journey back into time with never before seen films of the great Western Pacific Railroad. These are [--] year old images of classic Mountain and Smaller Switching operations. Much of the film was shot by Norm Holmes a WP engineer and WP Book Author for decades Journey back to never before scene films of the great Western Pacific Railroad. These are [--] year old images of classic Mountain and Smaller Switching operations rarely seen. The Western Pacific Freight Passenger and Interchange operations made them an interesting railroad Their "Highline" was also" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VSEtALYWJvs) 2025-06-11T20:20Z 23.2K followers, [----] engagements "American Freight Trains SP UP Santa Fe and WP Scenes from our DVD "Freight West" at www.cspmovies.com Do you miss the Santa Fe SP WP and the old version on the UP This presentation brings it back with a fine display of older smoking power beautiful graffiti-free freight cars and trailers that are railroad owned. Four railroads are covered in the 1970's and 80's on beautiful "Kodak" color film with sound These priceless film images were captured by Tom Butterworth and other [--] other dialed in cinematographers of the era at locations that were some of the best in the world for this type of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VVdEfXY5VaM) 2023-09-19T16:57Z 11.8K followers, [----] engagements "MILWAUKEE ROAD ROCKY MOUNTAIN MEMORIES This is one chapter from our full length DVD "MILWUAKEE ROAD SCRAPBOOK". See the Milwaukee Road's "electrification" on the old Pacific Extension. Remember the "Quills" Bipolars GE Boxcabs and GE "Joes". Additional coverage includes the Milwaukee Road's diesels and a nice review of Milwaukee Road's steam powered trains. This is Milwaukee Road's passenger and freight operations in its finest years. We also bring a good section on snow fighting MOW equipment and practices as well as the frequent wrecks that kept the MOW people far too busy in the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vn9wMVpKx6g) 2025-10-14T02:52Z 26.1K followers, [----] engagements "THE STORY OF UNION PACIFIC'S LARGEST LOCOMOTIVES THE DD40s A real treat are these scenes from our classic DVD "Union Pacific Vintage West" www.cspmovies.com The focal period is from [----] to [----] with the onslaught of rail mergers. See Steam GP9s E and F-units Turbines DD35 DD40s U50s SD24 and SD45s and many others with passenger and freights This is one section of a long production on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=VtNlRNHwPc4) 2025-02-28T01:14Z 25.9K followers, 56.8K engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S EARLY TRAINS COLOR FILM This is a never before seen Kodak Color Film of an interesting period of freight and passenger steam and early diesel power at its best It's one chapter of a long DVD video "SP Vintage West" item D-125 available at www.cspmovies.com Dont miss the Coast Daylight San Joaquin Daylight mail trains and commutes behind steam and early diesels. See diesels from the early tiger stripe Daylight colors black widow and finally scarlet & gray. To quote a review in Railfan & Railroad magazine Twenty-six photographers contributed to this program which is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Vu3sIdaPsuw) 2025-03-21T15:42Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements "RIO GRANDE POWER SHOW Rio Grande Engines Prowling the SP in California and Colorado from our full length movie "Tennessee Pass: from Start to Finish" www.cspmovies.com THIS HISTORICAL ROYAL GORGE ROUTE WAS ABANDONED IN SEPTEMBER OF [----]. This movie was there to capture the last months of operation. Coal Manifest and merchandise trains all run by the two cameras on a journey from Pueblo to Dotsero Colorado where the line joins with the Moffat Route. We also show early the history of regional narrow and standard gauge development and explain the DRGW operating strategies right to the end of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=W229RX0qC8A) 2024-10-01T15:41Z 18K followers, [----] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM TO DIESEL ERA Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the early 1950s. Many classes of SP steam diesels and FM Train Masters pulling commutes are shown when it mattered. See large steam Cab Forwards and other early diesels leading freight trains at Giant Oakland Berkeley and beautiful places to Crockett Marvel at the parade of early freight cars from around the US and SP cabooses and Passenger Cars" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=W5u4gphlSPE) 2025-07-30T07:30Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements "Full Movie "DIESEL POWER ON THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC" Movie World-Wide YouTube Premiere Celebrating [--] Years on the Southern Pacific Glistening vintage color film of Southern Pacific's world famous Coast Line Route. See Santa Barbara in the early forties with daylights and troop trains all pulled by steam. Huge cab forwards are also shown with long blocks of reefers. View the men and women of the SP over sixty years ago all pitching in for the war effort. Southern Pacific's transition from steam to diesel is well covered with plenty of F-units in both bloody nose and black widow liveries. Visit" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WKz2psByblM) 2025-07-10T18:01Z 25K followers, 25.1K engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S LUMBER STORIES Scenes from our full DVD "Southern Pacific When" www.cspmovies.com These were some of SP's finest lumber hauling moments witness huge trains and even a trip to the saw mill in Scotia at (12:00 minutes) watch as huge tree trunks are cut into fine clean lumber loads. This incredible film features the efforts of [--] contributors who read like a who's who of railroad photographers filmmakers and historians. If it was Southern Pacific it is covered in this film. Plenty of SD-9's GP-9's clean SD-45's and all of the oddball power that made the SP such a fascinating" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WMUUZ1j5WHc) 2025-07-22T19:02Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements "10000 FT ABANDONDED TENNESEE PASS RAILROAD One long chapter from our movie "Tennessee Pass Start to Finish" www.cspmovies.com Acclaimed by critics and fans alike this has been a best selling video featuring Southern Pacific and the Rio Grande. This was the highest main line in the US with 3% grades and [-----] HP trains. See plenty of manifests coal taconite and other trains. Colorful pool power helpers and great train pacing plus all the heavy colorful action in a beautiful mountain setting. See Power-heavy [---] car coal trains with [--] ACs battling the high altitude and steep grades like you'll" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WN5R6paxnkY) 2025-04-12T07:30Z 21.7K followers, [----] engagements "Espee Hall of Fame DVD Visit "Espee" locations that were in and around Sacramento CA in the early 1990s. See Elvas and Stockton Junction with the towers that have long ago been removed. Watch hours of great original Southern Pacific power that has been sent to the scrap yard since this material was shot. Learn much of the history of the SP and the area involved in this video. The emphasis here is on manifest trains transfer jobs and locals. We bring the kind of railroading that has been forgotten. See Davis and Suisun-Fairfield Junction and many trains on the Ione branch. Don't miss the sugar" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WPFG7RriyIQ) 2023-09-13T18:08Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "OLD RAILROAD FILMS: Santa Fe SP WP and the old UP Do you miss the Santa Fe SP WP and the old version on the UP This presentation brings it back with a fine display of older smoking power beautiful graffiti-free freight cars and trailers that are railroad owned. Four railroads are covered in this movie "Freight West" the 1970's and 80's on beautiful "Kodak" color film with sound These priceless film images were captured by Tom Butterworth and other [--] other dialed in cinematographers of the era at locations that were some of the best in the world for this type of intense railroad action. We" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=WqfruSFnTn8) 2025-03-31T03:17Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements "1950s TORONTO CITY STREETCARS ON PARADE Visit [--] classic electric railroads in Canada in the 1950's Brilliant color film of the Canadian people architecture and trains Peel back the years and relive the days of what it was like to ride and see the: LONDON AND PORT STANLEY RY NIAGARA ST CATHERINES & TORONTO TORONTO TRANSIT MONTREAL & SOUTHERN COUNTIES RY. QUEBEC RAILWAY LIGHT AND POWER Visit yards and stations Big cities and rural outposts Learn the equipment of each railroad with in depth coverage of the Peter Witt Cars and the Toronto Red Rockets. This movie has excellent maps music and" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Wvev8MLo-Yo) 2025-05-02T00:51Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements "Southern Pacific Train with Caboose The Camera of Tom Butterworth brings us back to exactly what railroading was like in Central California in the 1984s as we get a good look at an SP train led by an SD-9 SW-1500 and GP-9 plus caboose pulling the Roseville to Stockton turn. The rolling stock is classic short line boxcars and PFE Reefers plus many Fallen Flag cars from all the railroads we loved. Lathrop was a super place to see trains of the SP and the UP. More of this type of railroading at our website www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=X7wyVPVwVQI) 2024-07-25T00:50Z 16.2K followers, [----] engagements "Building Better Model Railroads Volume One his DVD features models of the steam to diesel transition era. Our time will mostly be spent outlining building techniques and using various tools and materials that you might be unfamiliar with. In this volume we will see and build flatcars boxcars and tank car models. Structures modeled include a Fruit to Reefer loading-complex a rail bridge a highway bridge plus simulating country road pavement. A central theme covers scene planning and also re-purposing models built over the years before your layout was started. Many of these models shown here" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XBnSdRUD4OQ) 2023-09-12T04:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Full Movie "HARD COAL RAILROADS" World Wide YouTube Premiere This is a look back in time to the "Anthracite" roads that once made the eastern rail scene more interesting and colorful. These principal roads were the Lehigh Valley Jersey Central Reading D&H and the Erie Lackawanna Railroads. The common theme was their early success based on hauling anthracite coal from a unique area in Pennsylvania and the decline of that business. The last decade of these roads largely depended on a declining business in hauling "bridge traffic". The corporate history of these five roads is woven into a wealth" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XBwZH2R2R4k) 2025-07-28T00:58Z 25.3K followers, 18.8K engagements "WESTERN RAILROAD MERGERS 1970'S A long chapter from our full movie "Burlington Northern: Empire of the North" DVD This is the real story of the forming of the Burlington Northern Railroad Find it at www.cspmovies.com To quote Model Railroad News The story is epic. plan to watch it several times.. To quote Railfan & Railroad This [--] and a half hour program like all others Smiley has done Contains a wealth of content requiring more than one sitting to digest fully. The maps are excellent the corporate story-telling first rate. These are unreal scenes to enjoy or model". See the historic 1970" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XKqqnmm6QCg) 2024-11-06T08:30Z 18.1K followers, [----] engagements "LONGEST INTERURBAN ELECTRIC RAILROAD IN THE US This DVD production is available from our website at www.cspmovies.com. Below is the description of the full production. Three electric lines in one video. The Sacramento Northern SP Red Trains and the Peninsular Ry. We bring the SP ferry boats on the San Francisco Bay as well. This [----] to [----] history has been a favorite of rail-fans and historians. Our scenes in Oakland Berkeley and the Oakland Hills plus Sacramento Northern lines out to Contra Costa County are the essential Eastbay of a by-gone era. See the SNs ferryboat that linked the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XLcUfMuZXhI) 2024-05-30T20:55Z 20.6K followers, 53K engagements "Extreme Southern Pacific See SP "battle back to respectability" in the early 90's on the featured lines to the north and many other great locations. This video selected many choice scenes out of hundreds of hours of material to show a great variety of older power and scenic locations. Some of the material used is from film shot in the seventies to balance out the presentation This video has a parade of power with both old and new mixed with foreign power "smoking it up". The second half features many retired units cabooses and many other surprises Featuring: Modoc Line Shasta Line Donner Line" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=XS6j-bZGU5o) 2023-09-11T18:03Z 11.8K followers, [--] engagements "WHEN WESTERN PACIFIC BECAME UNION PACIFIC This presentation brings it back with rare freight cars old smoking diesel power and colorful graffiti-free trains of the WP UP SP and Santa Fe railroads in the 1970's and 80's In this amazing chapter from our movie [--] hour [--] minute DVD "Freight West" we witness a long bygone era when there was no Grafitti on ANY freight cars. Most cars were still painted with logos from the past and many Fallen Flag railroads in brilliant colors not seen today. Corporate image was much more important in these days as cars were rolling billboards Railfan Railroad" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Xa-RMrGfCTg) 2025-01-29T06:28Z 21.1K followers, 15.6K engagements "Tehachapi Trains: SP and Santa Fe [--] Years of The Classic Era Visit Tehachapi from the mid-60s to the mid-90s -- plus related regional locations such as Taylor Yard Barstow Yard Richmond Yard Colton Crossing Cajon Pass and the building of the SP Palmdale cutoff. Learn the intertwined history of all the featured locations that are all part of the greater Tehachapi story. See all the great power and vanished scenes of pre-merger railroading at its best. We trace the history of how and why two railroads used the same mountain pass and how the line was built. Don't miss the wonderful vintage" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y0dDNwjR7K8) 2025-04-27T22:28Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements "THE SEARCH FOR GREATER POWER - UNION PACIFIC 1960s and beyond This insightful chapter is on Union Pacific's early locomotive history A review of the UP's great quest for more capable diesel power of improved efficiency that involved EMD GE and ALCO products. Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. Visit UP's new WP line for a great mix of trains. Featuring: E and F units Early Geeps SD24 and Uboats DD35 DD40 U50" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YY8jXws9m5Q) 2025-03-29T15:31Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements "SANTA FE RAILROAD EARLY HISTORY A long chapter from our movie "Diesel Power on the Santa Fe" www.cspmovies.com The Santa Fe we knew is gone but the imprint it left on the west is celebrated here on brilliant color film that has been digitized and edited with care. A number of film sources show the late-great Santa Fe through a variety of motive power changes that reflect the Santa Fe's ability to respond well to an evolving industry. This is a fine DVD and one that will appeal to the Santa Fe's many devoted fans.-C.S The Cast: GP20 GP30 & GP35 SD24 SD26 & SD45 CF7 FP45 & F-units ALCO PA -" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yg0ykrcA_B8) 2025-04-20T15:28Z 21.9K followers, [----] engagements "FASCINATING 1970'S FALLEN FLAG RAILROADING Scenes from our movie "CHESSIE AND SEABOARD HALL OF FAME" available at www.cspmovies.com Beautiful color films of the RF&P Seaboard Chessie and early Amtrak in the 1970's into the 1980's The Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac or RF&P was a 113-mile long double-tracked bridge line that neatly linked northern and southern roads together. This presentation brings the last 20-years of that roads independence to your screen with GPs F-Units and E-units The 1970s became an especially difficult time for many railroads. The bankruptcies and little-known" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YkoAfDXGLfY) 2025-08-10T22:15Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC & NWP STEAM & BLACK WIDOW LOCOMOTIVES From our "Railroad Treasure Vault" here is a chapter from our full length DVD "Historic SP Around the Greater Bay" Full movie available at www.cspmovies.com Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the early 1950s. Many classes of SP steam diesels and FM Train Masters pulling commutes are shown when it mattered. Marvel at the parade of early freight cars from around the" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=YsSq8hnVi7c) 2025-08-23T22:50Z 25K followers, [----] engagements "THE REAL STORY OF THE BN & WP HIGHLINE Here is a long chapter with the beautiful color film and real history of the Inside Gateway of the BN "High Line". An operation that was put together by the Great Northern and the Western Pacific in the Depression era to increase traffic flow by forwarding traffic from the Northwest to the Santa Fe Railroad whereby they could all compete better with the Southern Pacific Railroad. Western Pacific Vintage West-www.cspmovies.com" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ys_cMbmCEVU) 2025-04-17T04:13Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements "LOOKING BACK: THE LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD Never seen sparkling film from our "Hard Coal Roads" movie This is a look back in time to the "Anthracite" roads that once made the eastern rail scene more interesting and colorful. These principal roads were the Lehigh Valley Jersey Central Reading D&H and the Erie Lackawanna Railroads. The common theme was their early success based on hauling anthracite coal from a unique area in Pennsylvania and the decline of that business. The last decade of these roads largely depended on a declining business in hauling "bridge traffic". The corporate history of" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z5sikueEFXM) 2025-04-26T00:42Z 22K followers, [----] engagements "SOUTHERN PACIFIC SAWMILL & SEMAPHORES These were some of SP's finest lumber hauling moments Witness [---] car lumber trains with Manned Helpers and Cabooses snaking around "S" curves in a stellar power show never to be repeated. Then we take an in depth look at the Huge Saw Mill Operations in Scotia CA . Watch the intensive wood processes not often seen as huge tree trunks are cut into fine clean lumber loads and Presto Logs This incredible film features the efforts of [--] contributors who read like a who's who of railroad photographers filmmakers and historians. These are Hidden treasures from" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Z6g3yZ8muPU) 2024-11-08T08:15Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements "CONRAIL HALL OF FAME This is the [----] to [----] story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a successful operation that surprised nearly everyone. Everyone that is except the committed employees and the leadership Conrail had during its four phases of existence. This was like a four act play -- with every element needed to make a great story that will be studied by business analysts and rail historians for" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZBJqiIEnl6M) 2025-06-02T22:00Z 23K followers, [----] engagements "WESTERN PACIFIC'S OLD EMD'S & CABOOSES Do you miss the Santa Fe SP WP and the old version on the UP This presentation brings it back with a fine display of older smoking power beautiful graffiti-free freight cars and trailers that are railroad owned. Four railroads are covered in the 1970's and 80's on beautiful "Kodak" color film with sound These priceless film images were captured by Tom Butterworth and other [--] other dialed in cinematographers of the era at locations that were some of the best in the world for this type of intense railroad action. We make the case for watching freight car" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZTfGBiAnPHA) 2025-03-20T18:29Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements "MILWAUKEE RAILROAD'S PATH TO EXTINCTION One chapter from our full length DVD "Milwaukee Road West" available at www.cspmovies.com See the Milwaukee and rivals from [----] to [----] covering the electrics diesels and some lingering steam. Plenty of runby and trackside views of a vanished way of life in the mountain districts. Marvel at the GE Boxmotors Bipolars and "Little Joes" and visit a number of locations. We review the history and technical aspects of the Milwaukee and how they fit in with their rivals and allies. The end of electric railroading and eventually the Pacific Extension is" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZuQ5v3DhNhM) 2024-11-25T09:00Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements "Burlington Northern Empire of the North-The forming of BN Watch the legacy of the Burlington Northern history unfold over the decades from the James Hill days to the [----] merger. The BN in its original form has climbed to a new level with the BNSF merger. The quarter century of BN green brought many fans who never saw the great predecessors that formed it. We bring that missing story to the screen Including coverage of Inside Gateway Chicago Area Iowa Washington Oregon Montana Idaho See the historic formation of the American giant of the North - Burlington Northern. We cover those great" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_28ItJURWQM) 2023-09-11T18:36Z 18.1K followers, [---] engagements "Full Movie "THE MILWAUKEE ROAD" Western Extension Story This week we are featuring the complete "Milwaukee Road West" movie for everyone to enjoy. D-118 MILWAUKEE ROAD WEST Model Railroad News Writes: This DVD is good choice for Milwaukee Road fans and for those who want a primer on an important piece of railroad history between Chicago and Seattle As with all Charles Smileys videos there is a lot of added value that goes beyond just transferred film footage. Maps narration and history of rival roads like the NP Rock and GN There are some priceless scenes here. The history of the Milwaukee" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_bZIUP56_yk) 2025-09-01T19:20Z 25.2K followers, [----] engagements "CLASSIC OLDER NORTHEAST EMD AND GE LOCOMOTIVES A whole chapter from our movie "Northeast Rails Remembered Part One"-www.cspmovies.com See a great variety of diesel power and freight cars before the graffiti era. Learn the Conrail story that saved the rail industry by merging many failed roads into a first-class operation. Conrail was split up into parts of the NS and the CSX system in [----]. We bring it back to your Conrail's former Reading line Allentown Reading and numerous scenic places through many small towns and splendid countryside. The scenic Southern Tier on the former Erie mainline" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=_pCVJ8vE7zM) 2025-06-27T22:48Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements "W.P. S.N. & S.P. JUNCTION CROSSING This video outlines how to make a model railroad area benefit from incorporating a junction that allows viewing more than one railroad on your layout. The blending of scenery with matching backdrops can also expand the apparent scene's area without making things seemed too cramped for space on the layout. The illusion of depth is all you need. Be sure to visit our website at www.cspmovies.com that features many hours of vintage trains of the USA when the scenes were much different than today's handful of railroads parading marked up freight cars with graffiti" [YouTube Link](https://youtube.com/watch?v=a6wvSGuTaNY) 2025-05-23T01:14Z 22.8K followers, [----] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"MILWAUKEE ROAD ELECTRIC RAILS -FULL MOVIE YouTube premier of MILWAUKEE ROAD SCRAPBOOK" The Full Movie To quote Model Railroad News Once again Charles Smileys magic resurrects old footage and combines it into a powerful story. See the Milwaukee Roads electrification on the old Pacific Extension. Remember the Quills Bipolars GE Boxcabs and GE Joes. Additional coverage includes the Milwaukee Roads diesels and a nice review of Milwaukee Roads steam powered trains. This is Milwaukee Roads passenger and freight operations in its finest years. We also bring a good section on snow fighting MOW"
YouTube Link 2026-02-14T20:12Z 29K followers, [---] engagements
"The How and Why of the BN merger of [----] Get the full DVD at: https://cspmovies.com/products/d-121-empire-of-the-north-the-forming-of-burlington-northern Our website has over [--] train DVDs: https://www.cspmovies.com See the historic [----] formation of Burlington Northern. See great vintage trains of Great Northern Northern Pacific Chicago Burlington & Quincy and the Spokane Portland & Seattle from the 50s into the 70s. We bring the history of the James Hill Lines and how he reshaped the northwest. See the steam to early diesel transition of these lines"
YouTube Link 2024-01-21T22:19Z 28.9K followers, 125.8K engagements
"THE ONLY TOTAL WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD DOCUMENTARY - WHOLE SYSTEM For the first time ever on YouTube we are releasing our "WP REMEMBERED DVD" DVD in it's entirety This is the most complete movie of the Western Pacific Railroad with the full trip from Oakland to Salt Lake City in daylight. It features all the great scenery and vintage trains - both passenger and freight. Don't miss all the obscure branch lines that no longer even exist. Be sure to comment and add your memories of this beautiful but gone famous railroad equipment. Length: [--] hr. [--] minutes Visit the Western Pacific from both"
YouTube Link 2026-02-12T16:50Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"FASCINATING 1970'S FALLEN FLAG RAILROADING Scenes from our movie "CHESSIE AND SEABOARD HALL OF FAME" available at www.cspmovies.com Beautiful color films of the RF&P Seaboard Chessie and early Amtrak in the 1970's into the 1980's The Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac or RF&P was a 113-mile long double-tracked bridge line that neatly linked northern and southern roads together. This presentation brings the last 20-years of that roads independence to your screen with GPs F-Units and E-units The 1970s became an especially difficult time for many railroads. The bankruptcies and little-known"
YouTube Link 2026-01-28T08:30Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"MILWAUKEE ROAD WORK TRAINS IN THE MOUNTAINS A chapter from our DVD "MILWAUKEE ROAD SCRAPBOOK" www.cspmovies.com This is Milwaukee Road's passenger and freight operations in its finest years. We also bring a good section on snow fighting MOW equipment and practices as well as the frequent wrecks that kept the MOW people far too busy in the unfortunate years of decline. But overall the Milwaukee Road's employees always came through in the best tradition of tough and dedicated mountain railroaders. Don't miss the comparative electrics on the Great Northern and the BA&P add to the history and"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T20:19Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
""EXTREME SP RAILROADING"-Full [--] Hour Movie The Full Movie "EXTREME SOUTHERN PACIFIC" www.cspmovies.com See SP "battle back to respectability" in the early 90's on the featured lines to the north and many other great locations. This video selected many choice scenes out of hundreds of hours of material to show a great variety of older power and scenic locations. Some of the material used is from film shot in the seventies to balance out the presentation This video has a parade of power with both old and new mixed with foreign power "smoking it up". The second half features many retired units"
YouTube Link 2026-01-27T01:25Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"THE LOST SACRAMENTO NORTHERN RAILROAD FILMS A look back in the Time Machine from our DVD: "Electric Rails Around the Bay" Some of our earliest films of the Oakland and SF Bay Area are shown here with the fabulous Sacramento Northern Railroad. In this [--] minute look back in time for those that were born too late to know how their surroundings have massively changed. Be sure to check out our website at www.cspmovies.com for more historical features. More Sacramento Northern and SF Bay Area History at our website www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2026-01-31T01:52Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"RARE WESTERN PACIFIC NILES CANYON & ABANDONED SAN JOSE BRANCHLINE A chapter from our full DVD "WESTERN PACIFIC REMEMBERED" www.cspmovies.com Take a rare mileage cab ride on the Western Pacific's unseen trackage from both sides of the San Francisco Bay down to Niles Jct. and then on the old abandoned San Jose branch and return to Niles Jct. for a ride through Niles Canyon. Then from Altamont Pass we run to Stockton Sacramento and all the great locations to Oroville. Oroville to Keddie brings more trains and great scenery. We run to Bieber on a freight and then return to Keddie to run to"
YouTube Link 2026-01-29T17:43Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"SP BY THE BAY: A [--] Year Look Full Movie YouTube Release of our [----] production of "SOUTHERN PACIFIC BY THE BAY". This re-release on DVD of a favorite video of the SP is revised and better than before. Final visions of late steam 'commutes' and freights down the 47-miles double-track main to San Jose. See the famous FM Trainmaster diesels with long fast commute trains on three-minute headway operation in the seventies. Also Passenger Geeps and SDP45 action in commute service that has long disappeared. Relive the Third & Townsend passenger train experience with inside and platform views. Watch"
YouTube Link 2026-01-28T22:43Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"UNION PACIFIC VINTAGE ODYSSEY Never before seen chapter from our movie "Union Pacific Vintage West" available www.cspmovies.com Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. See the phase-out of steam and the first and second generation diesels. The focal point is in the [----] to [----] period with the onslaught of mergers in the industry. Visit UP's new WP line for a great mix of trains. Featuring: E and F units Early"
YouTube Link 2024-05-14T21:17Z 28.9K followers, 58.8K engagements
"Full Movie "50 YEARS OF UNION PACIFIC LOCOMOTIVES" SEE THE REAL STORY OF UP's LOCOMOTIVE HISTORY --Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected This video will bring the viewer a good overview of the Union Pacific's rise to success from the E.H. Harriman days to the UP-MP-WP merger era. Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. See the phase-out of steam and the first and second generation diesels. The focal point is in the [----] to [----] period with the"
YouTube Link 2025-09-19T07:15Z 28.9K followers, 38.9K engagements
"BEAUTIFUL DELAWARE & HUDSON ALCO GE AND EMD POWER Never before seen film of the Delaware and Hudson from our full length movie: "The Hard Coal Roads" D-143 THE HARD COAL ROADS: what went wrong Railroad Press Much of the film has hard to find footage and is high quality. This collection surpasses anything that I have seen and the story is epic. The colors are accurate and the images and the trains seem to jump off the screen. A meticulous producer location awareness is always a priority. Extremely interesting and has the rarity factor. In short this exemplary show is a must have This movie"
YouTube Link 2025-02-19T19:21Z 28.9K followers, [----] engagements
"1000 MODEL RAILROAD IDEAS: Gondola Upgrades This is one chapter of a lengthy DVD on building better model railroads. For the full story see our website onwww.cspmovies.com for item number M-154 More on the full DVD: In this presentation we feature models of more freight cars from the 1940s to the 1960s era. Many of these cars remained in use even into [----]. Most of the techniques and ideas used to build these older cars can work well on more modern rolling stock too. In this volume we will see ways to use low-cost materials to build classic Gondolas a variety of early-style covered Hoppers"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T18:33Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM & EARLY DIESEL GLORY DAYS - FULL MOVIE The whole movie "SP VINTAGE WEST" first time ever on Youtube This is an incredible look at the SP when they were one of the largest railroads in the US. Much of this film was shot by the late Bernice Jackson who was an SP company photographer back in the day. This [----] to [----] feature brings the long-vanished SP visions out west. Cab-Forwards early F-units and the snows on Donner Pass plus both sides of the beautiful Bay Area are in this video. See Tracy Shasta Colton Sacramento Tehachapi Suisun Bay Altamont Pass Dunsmuir Oakland"
YouTube Link 2026-01-31T22:26Z 29K followers, 13.4K engagements
"UNION PACIFIC 1960'S SEARCHING FOR [-----] HORSEPOWER Look back to a grand era that featured three independent roads that featured first and second generation power. This style of railroading will never be seen again - but this feature will bring it back for your enjoyment. Don't miss the years of the UP experimenting and searching for more power and r to combat the longer trains faster schedules and heavy grades. This was Cajon Pass's and the the railroads finest hour"
YouTube Link 2025-12-20T05:19Z 28.8K followers, [----] engagements
"LAST DAYS OF SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S ROSEVILLE YARD This section of a [--] hour and [--] minute DVD production is from the camera work of Gino Pagliaro and many others over the last decades on the SP . The title is of this movie is "ESPEE HALL OF FAME". www.cspmovies.com The emphasis here is on manifest trains transfer jobs and locals. We bring the kind of railroading that has been forgotten. See Davis and Suisun-Fairfield Junction and many trains on the Ione branch. Don't miss the sugar beets to Woodland California. This video took many years to shoot with nearly every scene in blue skies and with the"
YouTube Link 2026-01-24T00:37Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"1000 MODEL RAILROAD IDEAS: Building a Cattle Loading Facility This is an approach to create a cattle loading facility in a country setting that will give a railroad's branch line a reason to exist without disrupting the beauty of a rural setting. This works in both HO and N scale models from [----] to around [----] settings. More model railroading at our website www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2026-02-05T21:59Z 28.8K followers, [---] engagements
"CLASSIC C&O AND B&O LOCOMOTIVES & CABOOSES An informative Chapter from our full length DVD "Chessie and Seaboard Hall of Fame" Relive the years of the C&O and B&O before and after the forming of the Chessie System when there was a fantastic variety of paint schemes and trains with no graffiti. Plus many Cabooses Towers and lineside railroad structures that have been scrapped of the scene. This documentary is based on movie film shooting by Bob Finan Tom Luckey and Rod Miller. Be sure to visit our website at www.cspmovies for the full DVD production and a number of other great videos of things"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T08:15Z 28.9K followers, [---] engagements
"WHEN FREIGHT CARS WERE ROLLING BILLBOARDS Railfan Railroad Writes: Totally amazing film with tons of clean home road cars and Per Diem boxcars Coop hoppers lumber flats and special loads Of course every train has a caboose or two The best trains are shown in their entirety making this a "Candy Store for Modeler and railfans". This is one of two chapters of the Tehachapi line shot on Kodak color movie film by Tom Butterworth. This [--] hour DVD "FRIEGHT WEST" is available on our website https://cspmovies.com/. It features many other topics that bring the SP Sana Fe and WP lines with beautiful"
YouTube Link 2026-02-06T19:25Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"EMD F-UNITS E-UNITS GP-9 and ALCO PAs This is one chapter of our great DVD tilted "Diesel Power on the SP". Everything in this video has vanished from the scene or is in a museum. See the way railroading was long ago when things were far more interesting and a variety of equipment was in everyday use. For the entire 1-hour and 30-minute video production visit our website www.cspmovies.com or your favorite hobby dealer. To quote Railfan & Railroad magazine .the quality and depth of the information in the narration is so great. A must for SP fans I would think as well as students of motive"
YouTube Link 2026-01-13T04:03Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"THE STORY OF UNION PACIFIC'S LARGEST LOCOMOTIVES A real treat are these scenes from our classic DVD "Union Pacific Vintage West" www.cspmovies.com The focal period is from [----] to [----] with the onslaught of rail mergers. See Steam GP9s E and F-units Turbines DD35 DD40s U50s SD24 and SD45s and many others with passenger and freights This is one section of a long production on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below"
YouTube Link 2026-01-26T18:29Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"Full Movie [--] hours"50 YEARS OF SANTA FE TRAINS" The Santa Fe we knew is gone but the imprint it left on the west is celebrated here on brilliant color film that has been digitized and edited with care. A number of film sources show the late-great Santa Fe through a variety of motive power changes that reflect the Santa Fe's ability to respond well to an evolving industry. Few roads could compare to their quality of service. They left a positive and lasting impression on the public. The railroad industry in general maintained credibility through their efforts. Even in the rough times. TRAINS"
YouTube Link 2026-02-04T08:15Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"THE MERGER LOCOMOTIVES THAT STARTED CONRAIL A colorful chapter of the rag tag team of fallen flag locomotives that helped get Conrail off the ground. From our full length movie "CONRAIL HALL OF FAME" This [--] hour and [--] minute journey "CONRAIL HALL OF FAME" brings the history and story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a successful operation that surprised nearly everyone. Everyone that is except the"
YouTube Link 2026-01-30T19:36Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"SP CAB FORWARD'S FINAL RUN ON DONNER PASS In a once in a lifetime event the last run of Southern Pacific's famous Cab Forwards was filmed by legendary photographer Francis Guido. This is wonderful look at the final run of these "Giants" in great weather before they were silences forever. This priceless film was shot on [--] mm color film and many of the best locations on the Donner Pass Line The quality of the film and Francis techniques are amazing More SP Steam at www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2026-02-05T18:30Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"UP CNW AND SP 1990's A chapter from our full length movie "UP SCRAPBOOK" Follow us on a voyage across the UP from the Pacific to Chicago. This video is a celebration of the original UP from the 1950s to its full size by [----]. See lots of early diesel power and vintage Cajon and California action. Then we explore the UP in the 1990s when it expanded rapidly to remain a competitive player in the rail business. This video is from movie film and early video shot years ago. See the parade of C&NW power after the [----] merger. Visit many of the former SP lines with UP power in charge since 1996."
YouTube Link 2026-02-14T00:19Z 28.9K followers, [---] engagements
"SPECIAL LOCOMOTIVES OF THE UNION PACIFIC "UNION PACIFIC VINTAGE WEST" www.cspmovies.com SEE SOME GREAT HISTORY OF UP's EARLY LOCOMOTIVES --Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Visit UP's new WP line for a great mix of trains. Featuring: E and F units Early Geeps SD24 and U-boats DD35 DD40 U50 Turbines Steam and More. This video will bring the viewer a good overview of the Union Pacific's rise to success from the E.H. Harriman days to the UP-MP-WP merger era."
YouTube Link 2025-12-12T22:25Z 28.9K followers, [----] engagements
"THE HISTORY OF PENN CENTRAL AND CONRAIL-1976-1997 This NEVER BEFORE SEEN 34-minute video is one chapter of a 2-hour and 20-minute DVD historic documentary of the forming of Conrail that made a success out of the chaos of eastern railroading in a troubled time. Scenes were shot by Tom Luckey Jack Kuiphoff and Tim Hosey in this project. This is the [----] to [----] story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a"
YouTube Link 2024-01-12T23:06Z 28.9K followers, 60.5K engagements
"SP WEST COLTON OLD CAJON AND TAYLOR YARDS A great chapter as we visit the opening of West Colton and also see Old Taylor Yard with lots of GP-9's and SD-7's and witness some of SP's rare DD-35B's and the giant U-50's in West Colton transfer service. Also included is classic Tehachapi Beaumont Hill and Old Cajon Pass with U-33C's and older SD-39's and GP-35's as helper and mainline power. Los Angeles area Taylor Yard [----] Colton Crossing Kaiser ore at Ferrum Santa Paula Branch Burbank Branch Cascade and Shasta and much more More SP at www.cspmovies.com sp west colton sp taylor yard sp old"
YouTube Link 2026-02-08T05:08Z 28.9K followers, [----] engagements
""HOW SP WENT FROM STEAM TO DIESEL POWER" Full Movie From the first [--] glorious and historical minutes to the ending scenes there can never be a better tribute to the Southern Pacific Railroad than the priceless filming efforts of the people that shot the material in this full movie feature. Great material from [--] sources shot in many locations out west. See EMD FM and ALCO Baldwin GE power and many rare SP units. This brings the [----] to [----] era on the SP with E F units and early GP9 and SD9 power. Dont miss out on the first U- boats. These GE locomotives had some problems. But GE eventually"
YouTube Link 2026-02-10T21:25Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"UNION PACIFIC'S SEARCH FOR BETTER LOCOMOTIVES This insightful chapter is on Union Pacific's early locomotive history A review of the UP's great quest for more capable diesel power of improved efficiency that involved EMD GE and ALCO products. Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. Visit UP's new WP line for a great mix of trains. Featuring: E and F units Early Geeps SD24 and Uboats DD35 DD40 U50 Turbines Steam"
YouTube Link 2025-07-23T22:49Z 28.9K followers, 14.4K engagements
"SP SCARLET AND GREY MEMORIES Scarlet and Gray Memories - www.cspmovies.com Join us for a look back at the SP in the 1990s and in earlier views of the 1970s. See Coastline action along SoCal shores with mainline and local freight trains. Visit White Hills Lompoc and Santa Paula branch lines and follow the venerable Saugus Local and see its efficient crew keep schedules for freight customers on Metrolink's busy Saugus Line that was bought from SP. We bring nostalgic SP action in the Tehachapi's with lumber oil-can coal-drags and general freight. Remember the days when [--] front and [--] back were"
YouTube Link 2026-02-03T20:28Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"THE INTERURBAN RAIL LINE THAT HELPED WIN THE WAR The Key System from the early years of 500s and 600s plus the ferryboat pier. See the Keys new bridge units in their original striking orange and silver splendor. Also we bring supporting scenes of the IER Red Trains Muni Railway steam trains and the Keys small streetcars. Ride and watch beautiful ferryboats shot on some of the first early 16mm color film. Watch the construction and operation of the WWII Richmond Shipyard Railway by Keys staff. This line was built from Emeryville north to Richmonds Kaiser Shipyards to transport thousands of"
YouTube Link 2026-02-13T21:34Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"A RAILROAD MINING TOWN LOST FOREVER-Bingham Utah See the town of Bingham Utah before it was abandoned and lost to the mine's expansion. The scenes including the Kennecott mine's railroad and the mining and smelting activities were all filmed by the late railroad historian Bernice Jackson in a number of filming trips. Bernice was an expert with a movie film camera and she could tell her "story" very well for us to see the history that she witnessed. This presentation was edited and narrated by Charles Smiley. Be sure to visit your gateway to much more railroad history at www.cspmovies.com The"
YouTube Link 2026-02-11T23:38Z 29K followers, [----] engagements
"UNION PACIFIC EARLY POWER RISE This is one section of a long production on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below. Visit eight states and see Americas original line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people over decades. Learn about E. H. Harrimans dramatic life and how he eventually put an empire together that resembles todays merged UP line. Follow the Harriman [----] era to modern times from the phase out of steam to first and second generation diesels. The"
YouTube Link 2024-03-18T20:53Z 28.9K followers, 33K engagements
"Northeast Rails Remembered Volume One Brought back from [----] and [----] is the Conrail story with material never before released. Conrail's former Reading line Allentown Reading and numerous scenic places through many small towns and splendid countryside. The scenic Southern Tier on the former Erie mainline brings lots of action with Conrail NYS&W and Delaware & Hudson trains - and more See some scenes from the early 1970s with a struggling Penn Central and its collection of old and eclectic diesels. Learn the Conrail story that saved the rail industry by merging many failed roads into a"
YouTube Link 2023-09-11T19:07Z 18.1K followers, [---] engagements
"MILWAUKEE ROADS ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVES PACIFIC EXTENSION From our full length DVD "Milwaukee Road West" www.cspmovies.com See the Milwaukee and rivals from [----] to [----] covering the electrics diesels and some lingering steam. Plenty of runby and trackside views of a vanished way of life in the mountain districts. Marvel at the GE Boxmotors Bipolars and "Little Joes" and visit a number of locations. We review the history and technical aspects of the Milwaukee and how they fit in with their rivals and allies. The end of electric railroading and eventually the Pacific Extension is covered in the"
YouTube Link 2025-06-13T20:09Z 23.2K followers, [----] engagements
"1970'S COULD HAVE BEEN RAILROAD MERGERS The 1970s became an especially difficult time for many railroads. The bankruptcies and little-known "could-have-been" mergers of that era are explained. This was the virtual "minefield" that Penn Central Reading Erie Chessie and the Seaboard had to operate in. They both emerged in good shape for their eventual merger into the CSX. Scenes from our movie "Chessie and Seaboard Hall of Fame" available at www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2025-05-05T07:30Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements
"The Best of the CSX and Chessie in the 1990's Relive the Chessie and CSX Railroads in the 1990's with awesome video from all the classic locations in Ohio PA WV and more Before graffiti and lots of older EMDs and GEs slugging it out on the steep grades www.cspmoives.com "We Bring The Trains""
YouTube Link 2023-06-27T21:54Z 12.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Full Movie "YOUR COLORFUL SOUTHERN PACIFIC" World Wide YouTube Premiere This was the Southern Pacific at work including rare Sugar Beet footage and Carrizo Gorge See mixed freights and intermodal trains as well as locals and transfer freights. We also bring lots of foreign and pool-power. Visit the Imperial Valley lines to remember the Sugarbeet trains of the SP. Learn how the beet cars were loaded and follow the beets to Betteravia where they were processed at the Holly sugar plant. Beet trains handed off to the SMV Railroad at Guadalupe CA are covered from the 1970s and [----]. And dont miss"
YouTube Link 2025-07-30T16:37Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements
"10000 FT ABANDONDED TENNESEE PASS RAILROAD One long chapter from our movie "Tennessee Pass Start to Finish" www.cspmovies.com Acclaimed by critics and fans alike this has been a best selling video featuring Southern Pacific and the Rio Grande. This was the highest main line in the US with 3% grades and [-----] HP trains. See plenty of manifests coal taconite and other trains. Colorful pool power helpers and great train pacing plus all the heavy colorful action in a beautiful mountain setting. See Power-heavy [---] car coal trains with [--] ACs battling the high altitude and steep grades like you'll"
YouTube Link 2025-07-29T23:09Z 24.3K followers, [----] engagements
"LEGENDARY MILWAUKEE ROAD TRAINS Never before seen Milwaukee Road Trains from our DVD "MILWAUKEE ROAD WEST". See the Milwaukee Road and it's rivals from [----] to [----] covering the electrics diesels and some lingering steam. Plenty of runby and trackside views of a vanished way of life in the mountain districts. Marvel at the GE Boxmotors Bipolars and "Little Joes" and visit a number of locations. We review the history and technical aspects of the Milwaukee and how they fit in with their rivals and allies. The end of electric railroading and eventually the Pacific Extension is covered in the era"
YouTube Link 2025-01-03T04:18Z 19.3K followers, [----] engagements
"COTTON BELT & SP POWER ON BRANCHLINES A Chapter from our movie "Espee Hall of Fame" with classic branch line railroading rarely viewed. Great local trains with older DRGW Cotton Belt and SP power and clean Fallen Flag cars Visit classic "Espee" locations that were in and around CA in the early 1990s. See Elvas and Stockton Junction with the towers that have long ago been removed Watch hours of great original Southern Pacific power that has been sent to the scrap yard since this material was shot. Learn much of the history of the SP and the area involved in this video. The emphasis here is on"
YouTube Link 2025-04-15T18:43Z 21.7K followers, [----] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S ODDBALL TRAINMASTERS & EMD'S LOCOMOTIVES Incredible color film from our full length DVD "SP When" that features the efforts of [--] contributors who read like a who's who of railroad photographers filmmakers and historians. If it was Southern Pacific it is covered in this film. Plenty of SD-9's GP-9's clean SD-45's and all of the oddball power that made the SP such a fascinating and interesting railroad. Combine this action with all of the locations that made SP operations so difficult on a day to day basis. The rugged Siskiyou Mountains and there lofty 3.6% grades are a"
YouTube Link 2025-03-15T03:06Z 21K followers, 12.6K engagements
"Full Movie "EXTREME SOUTHERN PACIFIC" World Wide YouTube Premiere For the first time ever on YouTube see SP "battle back to respectability" in the early 90's on the featured lines to the north and many other great locations D-115 EXTREME SOUTHERN PACIFIC Railfan Railroad Magazine Writes: Plan to spend [--] pleasant hours the very first time out. Get the popcorn and some of your train chasing buddies together and put this video on a wide screen and crank up the volume. This is the real SP and the tape is worth the price just for the closed Modoc Line segment coverage. Until now I did not have an"
YouTube Link 2025-09-10T14:23Z 25.4K followers, [----] engagements
"OLD SCHOOL SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROADING A wonderful chapter from our classic DVD "SP Vintage West" available at www.cspmovies.com This [----] to [----] look brings the long-gone visions of SP out west filmed by Bernice Jackson the SP Company historian in beautiful Kodak Color Film. See Cab-Forward steam and early Black Widow and Scarlet and Grey F-units in snow on Donner Pass. Visit both sides of the beautiful Bay Area. Run out to old Tracy and Lathrop riding the San Joaquin Daylight trains. See the City of San Francisco Coast Daylight steam 'Commute' local and mail trains. Some Locations: Old"
YouTube Link 2025-04-11T20:30Z 21.7K followers, [----] engagements
"SP STEAM TRAINS IN SAN FRANCISCO A super chapter on SP Steam in San Jose CA from our DVD "Historic SP Around the Greater Bay" Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the early 1950s. Many classes of SP steam diesels and FM Train Masters pulling commutes are shown when it mattered. We visit Niles Canyon Tower and then off to Altamont Pass and the greater East Bay area with stunning views of the area that have changed"
YouTube Link 2025-05-29T07:30Z 23K followers, [----] engagements
"HOW THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD EXPANDED WEST A celebration and history lesson of the original UP and it's expanded mergers in action over the years Follow us on a voyage across the UP from the Pacific to Chicago. This video is the original UP from the 1950s to its full size by [----]. See lots of early diesel power and vintage Cajon and California action. Then we explore the UP in the 1990s when it expanded rapidly to remain a competitive player in the rail business. This video is from movie film and early video shot years ago. See the parade of C&NW power after the [----] merger. Visit many of"
YouTube Link 2025-04-08T23:41Z 22.5K followers, 11.2K engagements
"OLD LOCOMOTIVES STRUGGLING ON THE TOUGHEST GRADES OF THE B&O This material was shot in [----] [----] and [----] with a mix of video and color movie-film dating back to [----]. See a colorful mix of power and a style of railroading that is vanished forever. The Mountain Subdivision brings the last Western Maryland units in service. CSX fans will also see the early color schemes. Chessie fans will see lots of "tri-color" power. Additional color comes from several CSX liveries from the 1991-era. The history of mergers of C&O B&O WM and Seaboard Lines up to the CSXT formation is reviewed. Early film"
YouTube Link 2025-03-28T00:04Z 21.5K followers, 26K engagements
"WHERE TRAINMASTERS DOMINATED SP RAILS Enjoy this section on the SP's racetrack Peninsula and look to our website for the full DVD - as well as many other great productions at www.cspmovies.com See the SP commutes on the Peninsula in late steam and early diesel days. Visit the old Third & Townsend Station where the SP Coastline really begins. Dont miss the FM Train Master era including the smaller FM H-12-44 switchers in various San Francisco Peninsula yards such as the extinct Bay Shore Yard. Learn the mechanical details of the FM opposed-piston diesel engines with animated cut-away graphics."
YouTube Link 2025-04-22T07:15Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"Epic SP Steam Excursion from [----] From our railroad time machine with scenes never to be repeated we get to relive the epic "Pacific Coast Chapter Excursion" from Oakland to the Sierra Foothill Placerville Branch. These are priceless views of the people places and equipment that "Was" California Railroading in the 1950's. The [--] mm Kodak Color scenes were shot by the late Louis Stein in [----]. Don't forget to visit www.cspmovies.com The film is in the collection of the Railway & Locomotive Historical Society - Pacific Coast Chapter. It was transferred to the digital realm and edited by Charles"
YouTube Link 2023-09-29T23:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Union Pacific Scrapbook Follow us on a voyage across the UP from the Pacific to Chicago. This video is a celebration of the original UP from the 1950s to its full size by [----]. See lots of early diesel power and vintage Cajon and California action. Then we explore the UP in the 1990s when it expanded rapidly to remain a competitive player in the rail business. This video is from movie film and early video shot years ago. See the parade of C&NW power after the [----] merger. Visit many of the former SP lines with UP power in charge since [----]. Some material is from an early video"UP Mojave"
YouTube Link 2023-09-11T19:49Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements
"SANTA FE VINTAGE WEST - FULL MOVIE This epic movie brings the late-great Santa Fe when it was a historic and independent line. Length: [--] hr. [--] minutes The Santa Fe from the 50s to the end in the [----] era. Lots of passenger F-unit trains and freight with many paint colors. See the speedy Super-C freights that redefined the rail-freight industry - as it was run like a premium express passenger train. This is Tehachapi Cajon Pass the Los Angeles Area and the San Francisco Bay Area at its best. The Needles Subdivision and Stockton Junction round out the action in this tribute to the Santa Fes"
YouTube Link 2025-08-17T15:44Z 25K followers, [----] engagements
"Full Movie:" KANSAS CITY DIESEL POWER REVIEW" Don't miss the last great stand for these fine American Railroads before everything changed forever Visit Kansas City and surrounding areas before all the great mergers of the 90's See trains from [--] different roads with detailed maps and narration on how trains moved thru the KC area. Visit Santa Fe Junction Airline Junction and the "Highline Bridge" View run down industrial backdrops with trains moving thru "the West Bottoms". Many transfers and locals are shown from Santa Fe Gateway Western Soo UP and KCS There is also plenty of beautiful"
YouTube Link 2025-09-09T19:30Z 25.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Extreme Southern Pacific See SP "battle back to respectability" in the early 90's on the featured lines to the north and many other great locations. This video selected many choice scenes out of hundreds of hours of material to show a great variety of older power and scenic locations. Some of the material used is from film shot in the seventies to balance out the presentation This video has a parade of power with both old and new mixed with foreign power "smoking it up". The second half features many retired units cabooses and many other surprises Featuring: Modoc Line Shasta Line Donner Line"
YouTube Link 2023-09-14T19:54Z 11.8K followers, [--] engagements
"SP'S WEST COLTON MOJAVE AND TAYLOR YARDS A great chapter as we visit the opening of West Colton and also see Old Taylor Yard with lots of GP-9's and SD-7's and witness some of SP's rare DD-35B's and the giant U-50's in West Colton transfer service. Also included is classic Tehachapi Beaumont Hill and Old Cajon Pass with U-33C's and older SD-39's and GP-35's as helper and mainline power. Climb aboard passenger excursions on the freight only Santa Paula and Burbank Branches powered by sets of F-Units. A step back through the last fifty years on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Some Locations:"
YouTube Link 2025-03-13T03:54Z 20.9K followers, [----] engagements
"THE TANGLED WEB OF EASTERN RAILROAD MERGERS Revisit the early 1990s on the last years of the D&H and the ushering in of CP Rail to new territory in the US. This was a very colorful era in the Northeast and dramatic changes were still in effect from ripples of the bankruptcy of the old Penn Central days. We cover the history of the D&H and its sad demise. Don't miss the parade of older and borrowed power that came from all over North America. This was also a time when CP Rail was consolidating its extensive US-based rail lines. We bring you power from the D&H Soo Lines and from lines such as"
YouTube Link 2025-04-28T19:24Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements
"MODEL RAILROAD BOXCARS OF THE 1950'S In our third volume of "Building Better Model Railroads" we have a variety of new projects to take on and skill up with.In this Volume we learn how to skill up using some basic new techniques skills and tools. Many of the models and projects that are shown are easy to build and at a lower cost. You can also learn how to handle and use low cost LED lights to brighten up your layout and most of these new bulbs will last up to [-----] hours We also learn how to build easy and low cost "Lumber Loads" that really look real. They are simple and easy Another super"
YouTube Link 2024-07-28T18:51Z 16.2K followers, [---] engagements
"SANTA FE AND SP: STEEP GRADES CLEAN CARS A never before seen chapter from our movie "Tehachapi: SP and Santa Fe Era". www.cspmovies.com Visit Tehachapi from the mid-60s to the mid-90s -- plus related regional locations such as Taylor Yard Barstow Yard Richmond Yard Colton Crossing Cajon Pass and the building of the SP Palmdale cutoff. Learn the intertwined history of all the featured locations that are all part of the greater Tehachapi story. See all the great power and vanished scenes of pre-merger railroading at its best. We trace the history of how and why two railroads used the same"
YouTube Link 2025-05-06T08:00Z 22.3K followers, [----] engagements
"LAST RUNS OF SP FAMOUS CAB FORWARDS "Iron Derby" is a terrific look at Southern Pacific's Cab Forward locomotives in all their glory. Beautiful color film and special railroad history shot by the most prominent rail photographers of the era. Look for more Cab Forward History in our DVDs "SP Vintage West" and "Historic SP Around the Greater Bay" movies More Steam Railroading at www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2025-09-14T03:34Z 25.4K followers, [---] engagements
"LAST STEAM TRIP SANTA MARIA VALLEY RAILROAD Even Walt Disney was in the cab on this train so he wouldn't miss the opportunity And that is a true fact This was a Steam special trip on the Santa Maria Valley Railroad using locomotive number [--] on its last run ever in [----]. The 16mm Film stock was shot by Francis Guido and the Kodak film is now in the archives of the Pacific Coast Chapter of the Railroad & Locomotive Historical Society. This was a once in a lifetime event with magical images of glimpses into our past. More great Railroading like this at our website www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2024-04-17T14:52Z 14.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Southern Pacific Scrapbook Visit S.P in numerous western locations with film and video shot over the last [--] years. This video brings in Arizona and the Lordsburg District the coastline Donner and a number of branchlines with great scenery great trains and a lot of action. Branch line trains in Lompoc and Santa Cruz as well as sugarbeet and the famous "Oil Can" trains all work their way past their lens. This video also includes some really cool SDP45 pace shots cab ride footage a lot of interesting camera angles and neat graphics such as maps that peel away to show the scene and way cool"
YouTube Link 2023-09-18T12:57Z 11.8K followers, [--] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S TREASURED TRAINS "Historic SP" DVD available at www.cspmovies.com Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the early 1950s. Many classes of SP steam diesels and FM Train Masters pulling commutes are shown when it mattered. We visit Niles Canyon Tower and then off to Altamont Pass and the greater East Bay area with stunning views of the area that have changed forever See large steam Cab Forwards and other"
YouTube Link 2024-11-30T21:34Z 18.5K followers, [----] engagements
"SANTA FE RAILROAD WAR YEARS A long chapter from our movie "Diesel Power on the Santa Fe" www.cspmovies.com The Santa Fe we knew is gone but the imprint it left on the west is celebrated here on brilliant color film that has been digitized and edited with care. A number of film sources show the late-great Santa Fe through a variety of motive power changes that reflect the Santa Fe's ability to respond well to an evolving industry. Few roads could compare to their quality of service. They left a positive and lasting impression on the public. The railroad industry in general maintained"
YouTube Link 2024-09-15T04:04Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements
"UNION PACIFIC'S RARE LOCOMOTIVES See Switchers Steam GP9s E and F-units Turbines DD35 DD40s U50s SD24 and SD45s and many others with passenger and freights. This is one section of a long production "Union Pacific Vintage West" on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below. Visit eight states and see Americas original line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people over decades. Learn about E. H. Harrimans dramatic life and how he eventually put an empire together"
YouTube Link 2025-05-24T18:33Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements
"UNION PACIFIC'S RAREST LOCOMOTIVES TURBINES/U-BOATS A real treat are these scenes from our classic DVD "Union Pacific Vintage West" www.cspmovies.com Visit eight states and see Americas original line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people over decades. Learn about E. H. Harrimans dramatic life and how he eventually put an empire together that resembles todays merged UP line. The focal period is from [----] to [----] with the onslaught of rail mergers. See Steam GP9s E and F-units Turbines DD35 DD40s U50s SD24 and SD45s and many others with passenger and freights This is one"
YouTube Link 2024-11-03T17:25Z 18K followers, [----] engagements
"Never Seen Railroading: Street Running/Cabooses/Steep Grades Never before seen views of the Lompoc Branch in California shot over a number of years when traffic levels were booming. These epic views include Street Running Steep Grades and Beautiful Scenery during Southern Pacific's last stand on the Famous Coastline We bring lots of great Branch line action in many other California scenic and quaint locations. This was the SP we all came to love Dont miss out on the real Southern Pacific The full DVD is D-128 "Scarlet and Grey Memories" Look for it on our website www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2023-10-23T21:17Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC THE WWII YEARS Some scenes from our full [--] hour movie "Diesel Power on the Southern Pacific" www.cspmovies.com Glistening vintage color film of Southern Pacific's world famous Coast Line Route. See Santa Barbara in the early forties with daylights and troop trains all pulled by steam. Huge cab forwards are also shown with long blocks of reefers. View the men and women of the SP over sixty years ago all pitching in for the war effort. Southern Pacific's transition from steam to diesel is well covered with plenty of F-units in both bloody nose and black widow liveries. Visit"
YouTube Link 2025-05-20T18:53Z 22.8K followers, [----] engagements
"DELAWARE AND HUDSON MEMORIES A full chapter from our DVD "'THE HARD COAL ROADS" This is a look back in time to the "Anthracite" roads that once made the eastern rail scene more interesting and colorful. These principal roads were the Lehigh Valley Jersey Central Reading D&H and the Erie Lackawanna Railroads. The common theme was their early success based on hauling anthracite coal from a unique area in Pennsylvania and the decline of that business. The last decade of these roads largely depended on a declining business in hauling "bridge traffic". The corporate history of these five roads is"
YouTube Link 2025-10-16T18:44Z 26.1K followers, [----] engagements
"EASTBAY WAR YEARS KEY SYSTEM TRAINS - FULL PROGRAM The Key System from the early years of 500s and 600s plus the ferryboat pier. See the Keys new bridge units in their original striking orange and silver splendor. Also we bring supporting scenes of the IER Red Trains Muni Railway steam trains and the Keys small streetcars. Ride and watch beautiful ferryboats shot on some of the first early 16mm color film. Watch the construction and operation of the WWII Richmond Shipyard Railway by Keys staff. This line was built from Emeryville north to Richmonds Kaiser Shipyards to transport thousands of"
YouTube Link 2024-01-28T00:54Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC OUT WEST 1950-1980 This [----] to [----] look brings the long-gone visions of SP out west. See Cab-Ahead steam and early F-units in snow on Donner Pass. Visit both sides of the beautiful Bay Area. Run out to old Tracy and Lathrop riding the San Joaquin Daylight trains. See the City of San Francisco Coast Daylight steam 'Commute' local and mail trains. Some Locations: Old SacramentoSan Francisco Oakland Berkeley San Jose Colton Tracy Shasta Donner Suisun Bay Altamont Pass Tehachapi.and more. Other Features:Passenger Freight Diesel Steam All Vintage Diesels in Daylight Black Widow"
YouTube Link 2025-10-09T04:33Z 26K followers, [---] engagements
"SP'S ABANDONED MODOC LINE WENDEL TO ALTURAS A never before seen chapter of the now abandoned Modoc Line from our "EXTREME SOUTHERN PACIFIC" movie This is the first segment covering Wendel to Alturas California www.cspmovies.com Model Railroad News Writes: Plan to spend a couple of pleasant hours the first time out. Get the popcorn and some of your train chasing buddies together put this video on a wide screen and crank up the volume. This is the real SP and the tape is worth the price just for the closed Modoc Line segment coverage. Until now I did not have an appreciation for this incredible"
YouTube Link 2025-02-21T20:12Z 21.2K followers, [----] engagements
"UNION PACIFIC EARLY POWER RISE This is one section of a long production "Union Pacific Vintage West" on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below. Visit eight states and see Americas original line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people over decades. Learn about E. H. Harrimans dramatic life and how he eventually put an empire together that resembles todays merged UP line. Follow the Harriman [----] era to modern times from the phase out of steam to first and"
YouTube Link 2024-08-20T07:15Z 16.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Scarlet and Grey Memories-The Best of the SP Scarlet and Gray Memories - Join us for a look back at the SP in the 1990s and in earlier views of the 1970s. See Coastline action along SoCal shores with mainline and local freight trains. Visit White Hills Lompoc and Santa Paula branch lines and follow the venerable Saugus Local and see its efficient crew keep schedules for freight customers on Metrolink's busy Saugus Line that was bought from SP. We bring nostalgic SP action in the Tehachapis with lumber oil-can coal-drags and general freight. Remember the days when [--] front and [--] back were the"
YouTube Link 2023-09-11T18:47Z 11.8K followers, [--] engagements
"EARLY EMD F-UNITS AND GP-9s This is one chapter of our great DVD tilted "Diesel Power on the SP". Everything in this video has vanished from the scene or is in a museum. See the way railroading was long ago when things were far more interesting and a variety of equipment was in everyday use. For the entire 1-hour and 30-minute video production visit our website www.cspmovies.com To quote Railfan & Railroad magazine .the quality and depth of the information in the narration is so great. A must for SP fans I would think as well as students of motive power evolution use and disposition. To quote"
YouTube Link 2025-01-13T20:06Z 19.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Full Movie" UP [--] YEARS OF RAILROADING AND MERGERS" Follow us on a voyage across the UP from the Pacific to Chicago. This video is a celebration of the original UP from the 1950s to its full size by [----]. See lots of early diesel power and vintage Cajon and California action. Then we explore the UP in the 1990s when it expanded rapidly to remain a competitive player in the rail business. This video is from movie film and early video shot years ago. See the parade of C&NW and ex Missouri Pacific and WP power after all the mergers. Visit many of the former SP lines with UP power in charge since"
YouTube Link 2025-10-02T09:00Z 25.9K followers, [----] engagements
"LONDON & PORT STANLEY CANADIAN TRAINS 1950'S "Canadian Electric Rails" 1950's DVD available at www.cspmovies.com Visit [--] classic electric railroads in Canada in the 1950's Brilliant color film of the Canadian people architecture and trains Peel back the years and relive the days of what it was like to ride and see the: LONDON AND PORT STANLEY RY NIAGARA ST CATHERINES & TORONTO TORONTO TRANSIT MONTREAL & SOUTHERN COUNTIES RY. QUEBEC RAILWAY LIGHT AND POWER Visit yards and stations Big cities and rural outposts Learn the equipment of each railroad with in depth coverage of the Peter Witt Cars"
YouTube Link 2025-08-28T19:33Z 25.1K followers, [---] engagements
"REMEMBERING SAN FRANCISCO RAILROADING: SF BELT LINE AND NWP One whole chapter of never before seen color film of the SF Belt Railway at Pier One and the North Western Pacific Railroad running with Steam and Black Widow units Look back in time at Island Mountain and Old "Alton" station when they were important locations. The NWP Line North all the way to Eureka with freight and passenger trains real lineside stations bridges tunnels lumber towns and a way of life that has vanished forever The never-before-seen crystal clear Kodak Movie Film has waited up to [--] years for your viewing Look back"
YouTube Link 2024-04-18T11:00Z 21.4K followers, 27.5K engagements
"3 6% SISKIYOU MOUNTAIN GRADE BATTLE In this never before seen dramatic chapter we visit the CORP Railroad and its stiff 3.6% grades with up to [--] units powering over the Siskiyou Mountains. This segment covers from Weed CA to Medford Oregon when business was booming The whole movie "Great Short lines West" visits ten short lines in CA OR and Texas with wonderful scenes spanning from [----] to [----]. Two of our visits like this one include cab rides and access to two truly great short lines - the A&NR of Texas and CORP in Oregon. Below is a link to part two with a Cab ride over the Mountain [---] %"
YouTube Link 2024-08-24T17:35Z 18K followers, [----] engagements
"Donner Pass Thunder Click to enlarge Note: Cover image may differ from actual product Witness vintage and contemporary film and video as Southern Pacific trains do battle with a [----] foot climb up 2.42% grades. This exciting video combines old film and video shot over decades of Donner Pass action. See Black Widow and Red Gray F units and ALCO PAs in freight and passenger operations. The history of the old Central Pacific and the Big four is reviewed and the comparison of the Donner and the Feather River Route is made with vintage Western Pacific diesel footage. We take several trips over the"
YouTube Link 2023-09-11T17:51Z 18K followers, [---] engagements
"Full Movie "30 YEARS OF B&O C&O SEABOARD AND CHESSIE" Passenger & Freight CHESSIE AND SEABOARD HALL OF FAME Railfan Railroad Writes: See a colorful mix of first and second generation diesels through many of their paint scheme phases. This two hour feature explains how the C&O and the B&O were first merged together -- and how the Western Maryland came into the picture to form the Chessie System. Have you wondered what ever happened to some of the railroads you grew up with This presentation could shed some light on those thoughts and at the same time bring back visions of many things that have"
YouTube Link 2025-10-05T18:24Z 26K followers, [----] engagements
"BURLINGTON NORTHERN EMPIRE OF THE NORTH Watch a short preview on the legacy of the Burlington Northern history as it unfolds over the decades from the James Hill days to the [----] merger. The BN in its original form has climbed to a new level with the BNSF merger. The quarter century of BN green brought many fans who never saw the great predecessors that formed it. We bring that missing story to the screen Including coverage of Inside Gateway Chicago Area Iowa Washington Oregon Montana Idaho See the historic formation of the American giant of the North - Burlington Northern. We cover those"
YouTube Link 2025-06-17T20:03Z 23.2K followers, [----] engagements
"UNION PACIFIC'S QUEST FOR LOCOMOTIVES See Turbines Switchers Steam GP9s E and F-units DD35 DD40s U50s SD24 and SD45s and many others with passenger and freights. This is one section of a long production "Union Pacific Vintage West" on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below. Visit eight states and see Americas original line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people over decades. Learn about E. H. Harrimans dramatic life and how he eventually put an empire"
YouTube Link 2025-08-30T23:27Z 25.1K followers, [----] engagements
"WHEN FREIGHT CARS WERE ROLLING BILLBOARDS Railfan Railroad Writes: Totally amazing film with tons of clean home road cars and Per Diem boxcars Coop hoppers lumber flats and special loads Of course every train has a caboose or two The best trains are shown in their entirety making this a "Candy Store for Modeler and railfans". This is one of two chapters of the Tehachapi line shot on Kodak color movie film by Tom Butterworth. This [--] hour DVD "FRIEGHT WEST" is available on our website https://cspmovies.com/. It features many other topics that bring the SP Sana Fe and WP lines with beautiful"
YouTube Link 2025-08-21T22:42Z 25K followers, [----] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S TRAIN YARDS A great chapter as we visit the opening of West Colton and also see Old Taylor Yard with lots of GP-9's and SD-7's and witness some of SP's rare DD-35B's and the giant U-50's in West Colton transfer service. Also included is classic Tehachapi Beaumont Hill and Old Cajon Pass with U-33C's and older SD-39's and GP-35's as helper and mainline power. Los Angeles area Taylor Yard [----] Colton Crossing Kaiser ore at Ferrum Santa Paula Branch Burbank Branch Cascade and Shasta and much more More SP at www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2025-08-09T19:36Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements
"THE CONRAIL STORY THAT SAVED THE NORTHEAST Brought back from 1980's is our "NORTHEAST RAILS REMEMBERED" movie is the Conrail story with material never before released. Conrail's former Reading line Allentown Reading and numerous scenic places through many small towns and splendid countryside. The scenic Southern Tier on the former Erie mainline brings lots of action with Conrail NYS&W and Delaware & Hudson trains - and more See some scenes from the early 1970s with a struggling Penn Central and its collection of old and eclectic diesels. Learn the Conrail story that saved the rail industry by"
YouTube Link 2025-05-01T09:00Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The Full "DIESEL POWER ON THE SANTA FE" Movie (World Wide Youtube Premier) The Santa Fe we knew is gone but the imprint it left on the west is celebrated here on brilliant color film that has been digitized and edited with care. A number of film sources show the late-great Santa Fe through a variety of motive power changes that reflect the Santa Fe's ability to respond well to an evolving industry. Few roads could compare to their quality of service. They left a positive and lasting impression on the public. The railroad industry in general maintained credibility through their efforts. Even"
YouTube Link 2025-06-29T18:51Z 23.6K followers, 16.4K engagements
"EMD F and E UNITS PLUS GP 9s This is one chapter of our great DVD titled "Diesel Power on the SP". Everything in this video has vanished from the scene or is in a museum. See the way railroading was long ago when things were far more interesting and a variety of equipment was in everyday use. For the entire 1-hour and 30-minute video production visit our website www.cspmovies.com To quote Railfan & Railroad magazine .the quality and depth of the information in the narration is so great. A must for SP fans I would think as well as students of motive power evolution use and disposition. To"
YouTube Link 2025-04-10T07:30Z 21.7K followers, [----] engagements
"SN [---] BOXMOTOR ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE AND NEW TENSHODO POWER TRUCK REVIEW This may be the only HO scale model of this famous Sacramento Northern freight motor (Nee Northern Electric). It was chopped down from a brass Suydam model into the shortened electric freight motor just like the real-life [---] was. Also we review the new Tenshodo "SPUD" powered trucks that are far better than the 1980s version of self-powered trucks. Learn why and how to use them"
YouTube Link 2025-04-24T09:00Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"FIVE SHORTLINES WITH FACSINATING HISTORIES Here are five shortline railroads that all have remarkable histories to tell. All the scenes were shot over [--] years ago on Kodak color movie film. (copyright [----] charles smiley presents) There are many more lengthy shortline sections in an available DVD titled "Great Shortlines West". The total time is 1-hour and 42-minutes. Look for it at your favorite hobby dealer. There's more information about it as item D-112 on our website as well as [--] more videos. www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2024-11-14T23:23Z 18.3K followers, [----] engagements
"LOST SACRAMENTO NORTHERN RAILROAD FILMS A look back in the Time Machine from our DVD: "Electric Rails Around the Bay" Some of our earliest films of the Oakland and SF Bay Area are shown here with the fabulous Sacramento Northern Railroad. In this [--] minute look back in time for those that were born too late to know how their surroundings have massively changed. Be sure to check out our website at www.cspmovies.com for more historical features. More Sacramento Northern and SF Bay Area History at our website www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2025-03-28T22:51Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements
"THE REAL CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR PASSENGER TRAINS PART 1: Oakland to Portola This is just part one of our ambitious project that brings all vintage color movie scenes shot by [--] cinematographers in [--] and 16-mm film. See [--] minutes of film shot in the CZ cab and on locals and freight trains. Lots of scenes shot from trackside and other points of view. This will bring you what it was like to work for a fine railroad. We feature many special maps made for this video train sounds and informative narration. Then from Altamont Pass we run to Stockton Sacramento and all thegreat locations to Oroville."
YouTube Link 2025-05-18T05:28Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements
"CHESSIE AND SEABOARD HALL OF FAME Have you wondered what ever happened to some of the railroads you grew up with This presentation could shed some light on those thoughts and at the same time bring back visions of many things that have vanished from the railroad scene. The mergers and their strategies are explained with some of the hidden history behind all the big changes in eastern railroading. This feature uses numerous maps and graphics created for this feature to put everything into historic and geographic focus. This presentation is really two shows brought together into a two hour"
YouTube Link 2025-06-03T16:48Z 23K followers, [----] engagements
"LAST SP CAB FORWARD OVER DONNER PASS "Iron Derby" is a terrific look at Southern Pacific's Cab Forward locomotives in all their glory. Beautiful color film and special railroad history shot by the most prominent rail photographers of the era. Check out our Donner Pass Thunder DVD available at the website below More Steam Railroading at www.cspmovies.com Walthers Buildings Scenery and Trains https://amzn.to/3BJMz2T Rapido HO Scale EMD E8A (DC/DCC/Sound): Amtrak - Early Black Scheme: #4316 https://amzn.to/4eZRPxF Micro Mark https://amzn.to/3Ybyz9MPin Vise Hand Drill Manual - Jewelry Drill"
YouTube Link 2024-10-12T17:05Z 17.6K followers, [----] engagements
"FULL MOVIE: TEHACHAPI & CAJON PASS VINTAGE RAILROADING This is 2-1/2 hours of great mountain railroading with the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroads. Visit Tehachapi from the mid-60s to the mid-90s -- plus related regional locations such as Taylor Yard Barstow Yard Richmond Yard Colton Crossing Cajon Pass and the building of the SP Palmdale cutoff. Learn the intertwined history of all the featured locations that are all part of the greater Tehachapi story. See all the great power and vanished scenesof pre-merger railroading at its best. We trace the history of how and why two railroads"
YouTube Link 2025-08-25T17:18Z 25.1K followers, [----] engagements
"AMAZING ORIGINAL RIO GRANDE NARROW GAUGE FILMS The Rio Grande still had hundreds of miles of Narrow Gauge Rail operations in [----] when Andy Payne became a steam locomotive Fireman then a Yard Hostler and later an Engineer. Andy filmed many hours of color movie film all during his career. This brings us a fresh insiders look at one of Americans all-time favorite railroads. Andy filmed all the great scenery and the working mans daily work life for many years. This leaves us a wonderful historical record of a place that still had steam locomotives and old wooden freight and passenger cars"
YouTube Link 2025-04-07T03:10Z 21.6K followers, [----] engagements
"BEFORE & AFTER THE SF/OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE THAT CHANGED LIFESTYLES Magical scenes from our full production "Key System Empire" www.cspmovies.com Learn the history from start to finish of the great East-Shore Empire. Visit all the lines and cross the bay by ferry and bridge-rails to San Francisco. Streetcars Bridge-articulated units and many surprises plus cameo appearances of early Muni and IER make this a transportation story.Featuring: Pre & Post WWII Action Street Car Lines [----] World's Fair Ferryboats Bridge Trains Color & Black and White.Relive history on the Eastshore Empire built by"
YouTube Link 2025-03-19T15:34Z 21K followers, [----] engagements
"WHEN EASTERN RAILROADING HAD VARIETY Brought back from [----] and [----] is the Conrail story with material never before released. Northeast Rails Remembered Part One-www.cspmovies.com Conrail's former Reading line Allentown Reading and numerous scenic places through many small towns and splendid countryside. The scenic Southern Tier on the former Erie mainline brings lots of action with Conrail NYS&W and Delaware & Hudson trains - and more See some scenes from the early 1970s with a struggling Penn Central and its collection of old and eclectic diesels. See a great variety of diesel power and"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T00:11Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"SANTA FE'S "SUPER CHIEFS" & "SAN DIEGANS" This is one section of our DVD production "Diesel Power on the Santa Fe". the full DVD features long -gone motion picture views of early diesel power and their development. www.cspmovies.com The late-great Santa Fe as shot on movie film. From Chicago to LA up to Stockton and out to Richmond. All the early diesels and the second-generation power too. Both passenger & freight. Enjoy the Santas various Chiefs and the speedy San Diegan. See street-running and yards. Remember the Super-C and the Chief at their best. Remember all the EMD F-units ALCOs"
YouTube Link 2024-11-22T09:00Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Full Movie "ESPEE HALL OF FAME" YouTube Premiere Visit "Espee" locations in the last years before the UP Merger. This video took almost a decade to shoot with nearly every scene in blue skies and with the sun's light on the right side of the train. The trains shown have been selected with care to tell a story and portray how things once were. See Elvas and Stockton Junction with the towers that have long ago been removed. Watch hours of great original Southern Pacific power and lots of foreign and leased unit surprises. Most have been sent to the scrap yard since this material was shot. Learn"
YouTube Link 2025-09-27T16:24Z 25.7K followers, [----] engagements
"QUEST FOR POWER: VINTAGE UNION PACIFIC R.R. Here is an insightful chapter on Union Pacific's early locomotive history from our full length DVD "Union Pacific Vintage West" available at www.cspmovies.com A review of the UP's great quest for more capable diesel power of improved efficiency that involved EMD GE and ALCO products. Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. Visit UP's new WP line for a great mix of"
YouTube Link 2025-05-13T22:53Z 23.7K followers, [----] engagements
"THE REAL CALIFORNIA ZEPHYR PASSENGER TRAINS Portola to Chicago This is part of our ambitious "California Zephyr" project that brings all vintage color movie scenes shot by [--] cinematographers in [--] and 16-mm film. See [--] minutes of film shot in the CZ cab and on locals and freight trains. In this segment we work from Portola east to beautiful Colorado and eventually Chicago. Lots of scenes shot from trackside and other points of view. This will bring you what it was like to work for a fine railroad. We feature many special maps made for this video train sounds and informative narration. Then"
YouTube Link 2025-05-15T00:55Z 22.7K followers, [----] engagements
"DEMOLISHED ROSEVILLE HUMP YARD ON THE SP RAILROAD This section of a [--] hour and [--] minute DVD production was from the camera work of Gino Pagliaro over the last [--] years on the SP . This title is "ESPEE HALL OF FAME". Visit "Espee" locations that were in and around Sacramento CA in the early 1990s. See Elvas and Stockton Junction with the towers that have long ago been removed. Watch hours of great original Southern Pacific power that has been sent to the scrap yard since this material was shot. Learn much of the history of the SP and the area involved in this video. The emphasis here is on"
YouTube Link 2025-03-26T01:31Z 21.2K followers, [----] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S SAN FRANCISCO STEAM AND DIESELS Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the early 1950s. Many classes of SP steam diesels and FM Train Masters pulling commutes are shown when it mattered. We visit Niles Canyon Tower and then off to Altamont Pass and the greater East Bay area with stunning views of the area that have changed forever See large steam Cab Forwards and other early diesels leading freight"
YouTube Link 2025-04-17T16:25Z 21.9K followers, [----] engagements
"GE & EMD fight for dominance - 1960-1970 A great chapter from our full DVD "Diesel Power on the SP" www.cspmovies.com Visit Taylor Yard with lots of GP-9's and SD-7's and witness some of SP's rare DD-35B's and the giant U-50's in West Colton transfer service. Also included is classic Tehachapi Beaumont Hill and Old Cajon Pass with U-33C's and older SD-39's and GP-35's as helper and mainline power. Climb aboard passenger excursions on the freight only Santa Paula and Burbank Branches powered by sets of F-Units. A step back through the last fifty years on the Southern Pacific Railroad. Some"
YouTube Link 2025-04-03T07:30Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements
"UNBELIEVABLE SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM "HISTORIC SOUTHERN PACIFIC AROUND THE GREATER BAY" DVD Available at www.cspmovies.com Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. See large steam Cab Forwards and other early diesels leading freight trains at Giant Oakland Berkeley and beautiful places to Crockett Marvel at the parade of early freight cars from around the US and SP cabooses and Passenger Cars that are a real highlight We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the"
YouTube Link 2025-09-24T22:48Z 25.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Diesel Power on the Santa Fe The Santa Fe we knew is gone but the imprint it left on the west is celebrated here on brilliant color film that has been digitized and edited with care. A number of film sources show the late-great Santa Fe through a variety of motive power changes that reflect the Santa Fe's ability to respond well to an evolving industry. Few roads could compare to their quality of service. They left a positive and lasting impression on the public. The railroad industry in general maintained credibility through their efforts. Even in the rough times. TRAINS MAGAZINE comments"
YouTube Link 2023-09-11T18:09Z 18K followers, [---] engagements
"INCREDIBLE TRAIN WRECKS & SNOW FIGHTING MILWAUKEE RAILROAD A stunning chapter from our movie "Milwaukee Road Scrapbook with amazing Maintenance of Way Forces Snow Fighting and Train Wreck clearing in the treacherous mountains of Idaho. www.cspmovies.com See the Milwaukee Road's "Electrification" on the old Pacific Extension. Remember the "Quills" Bi-polars GE Box-cabs and GE "Joes". Additional coverage includes the Milwaukee Road's diesels and a nice review of Milwaukee Road's steam powered trains. This is Milwaukee Road's passenger and freight operations in its finest years. We also bring a"
YouTube Link 2024-11-02T20:35Z 18K followers, [----] engagements
"FAMOUS LOCATIONS ON THE CSX This introduction to "CSX Scrapbook" is the chapter on the Former B&O Cumberland Subdivision. The description below explains the entire DVD. This material was primarily shot by Tom Luckey in [----] to [----] with other scenes from [----] to [----]. The various chapters bring portions of Ohio with the diamond crossings of Deshler (Crossroads of the B&O) and Fostoria (The Iron Triangle). The program then moves east to the Cumberland Subdivision from Point of Rocks west to Cumberland MD and then more gripping action on the famous Sand Patch grade. This is all color digitally"
YouTube Link 2025-05-19T23:02Z 22.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Northeast Rails Remembered Volume Two-CR NS D&H CP B&M and more If you like this preview subscribe to our channel www.trainmovies.com Northeast Rails Remembered Volume II -- a [--] hour and [--] minute DVD video of the former Reading RR Lehigh Valley RR and others that were operated by Conrail and the Delaware & Hudson RR in the late 1980s. This was a very colorful time when pool and leased power were everywhere. See foreign power from NW Southern NS CSX Chessie Guilford B&M D&H NYS&W PLM Helm Leasing and many more suprises The operation of the D&H over the Canadian Pacific is also covered in this"
YouTube Link 2023-09-12T16:23Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements
"VANISHED SIGHTS AND SOUNDS OF NORTHEAST RAILROADING A chapter from our full length DVD "Northeast Rails Remembered Volume II) www.cspmovies.com Revisit the early 1990s on the last years of the D&H and the ushering in of CP Rail to new territory in the US. This was a very colorful era in the Northeast and dramatic changes were still in effect from ripples of the bankruptcy of the old Penn Central days. We cover the history of the D&H and its sad demise. Don't miss the parade of older and borrowed power that came from all over North America. This was also a time when CP Rail was consolidating"
YouTube Link 2025-09-08T15:52Z 25.4K followers, [----] engagements
"THE READING RAILROAD: WHAT HAPPENED A never before seen chapter from our movie "Hard Coal Roads: What Went Wrong" This is a look back in time to the "Anthracite" roads that once made the eastern rail scene more interesting and colorful. These principal roads were the Lehigh Valley Jersey Central Reading D&H and the Erie Lackawanna Railroads. The common theme was their early success based on hauling anthracite coal from a unique area in Pennsylvania and the decline of that business. The last decade of these roads largely depended on a declining business in hauling "bridge traffic". The"
YouTube Link 2024-09-19T00:15Z 23.1K followers, 21.7K engagements
"BUILD A HISTORIC ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE - FULL STORY This is a how-to video on building a vintage locomotive with a variety of materials and techniques. Some of the materials and techniques can be used for your different projects and even other scales. The trucks are from peteysprintedparts (ebay) The ebay site with the powered truck is . https://www.ebay.com/usr/peteysprintedparts Don't forget to subscribe for a ton of other youtube videos and check out our website for even more rail videos at www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2025-02-28T18:43Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements
"NORTHEAST R.R. MEMORIES-Allentown & Bethlehem A colorful chapter from our stellar DVD "Northeast Rails Remembered II" www.cspmovies.com Revisit the early 1990s in PA near Allentown and Bethlehem and see a hot bed of activity. Rare older power and the last years of the D&H and the ushering in of CP Rail to the US. This was a very colorful era in the Northeast and dramatic changes were still in effect from ripples of the bankruptcy of the old Penn Central days. We cover the history of the D&H and its sad demise. Don't miss the parade of older and borrowed power that came from all over North"
YouTube Link 2024-11-11T14:00Z 18.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Conrail Hall of Fame DVD-The Study of Conrail This is the [----] to [----] story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a successful operation that surprised nearly everyone. Everyone that is except the committed employees and the leadership Conrail had during its four phases of existence. This was like a four act play -- with every element needed to make a great story that will be studied by business analysts"
YouTube Link 2023-09-12T03:45Z 18.1K followers, [---] engagements
"UNION PACIFIC'S EARLY STEAM AND DIESELS This is one section of a long production "Union Pacific Vintage West" on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below. Visit eight states and see Americas original line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people over decades. Learn about E. H. Harrimans dramatic life and how he eventually put an empire together that resembles todays merged UP line. Follow the Harriman [----] era to modern times from the phase out of steam to first"
YouTube Link 2025-04-11T02:08Z 22.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Full Movie "WESTERN PACIFIC STORY"- YouTube Premiere Length: [--] hr. [--] minutes "WESTERN PACIFIC VINTAGE WEST" Remember the WP from the late steam era into the eighties with film from [--] different sources. We bring the real WP to the screen with freight and passenger trains plus interchange with other roads. A Sacramento Northern section of electric freight along with other surprises will show the variety of WP business interests. Follow the Zephyr story from [----] to [----] with extra coverage of the WP's partners Rio Grande and CB&Q. Featuring California Zephyr Steam to Diesel FT to F7 Power"
YouTube Link 2025-08-13T22:38Z 24.8K followers, [----] engagements
"Full Movie "50 YEARS OF SANTA FE LOCOMOTIVES" Our one and a half hour movie "DIESEL POWER ON THE SANTA FE" celebrates [--] years of all the diesels on the AT&SF. The Original Santa Fe we knew is gone but the imprint it left on the west is celebrated here on brilliant color film that has been digitized and edited with care. A number of film sources show the late-great Sant This is a fine DVD and one that will appeal to the Santa Fe's many devoted fans.-C.S The Cast: GP20 GP30 & GP35 SD24 SD26 & SD45 CF7 FP45 & F-units ALCO PA - ALCO'S & RSDs U-boats & cabooses at all the great hot-spots Visit"
YouTube Link 2025-09-14T15:59Z 25.4K followers, [----] engagements
"RAILROADING THE SF & OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE THAT CHANGED LIFESTYLES Magical scenes from our full production "Key System Empire" www.cspmovies.com Learn the history from start to finish of the great East-Shore Empire. Visit all the lines and cross the bay by ferry and bridge-rails to San Francisco. Streetcars Bridge-articulated units and many surprises plus cameo appearances of early Muni and IER make this a transportation story.Featuring: Pre & Post WWII Action Street Car Lines [----] World's Fair Ferryboats Bridge Trains Color & Black and White.Relive history on the Eastshore Empire built by Borax"
YouTube Link 2025-06-08T02:55Z 23.1K followers, [----] engagements
"FASCINATING 1970'S FALLEN FLAG RAILROADING Beautiful color films of the RF&P Seaboard Chessie and early Amtrak in the 1970's into the 1980's The Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac or RF&P was a 113-mile long double-tracked bridge line that neatly linked northern and southern roads together. This presentation brings the last 20-years of that roads independence to your screen with GPs F-Units and E-units The 1970s became an especially difficult time for many railroads. The bankruptcies and little-known "could-have-been" mergers of that era are explained. This was the virtual "minefield" that"
YouTube Link 2025-04-01T20:17Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements
"ORIGINAL BN RAILROAD MERGERS 1970's Watch the legacy of the Burlington Northern and other railroad history unfold over the decades from the James Hill days to the [----] merger. The BN in its original form has climbed to a new level with the BNSF merger. The quarter century of BN green brought many fans who never saw the great predecessors that formed it. We bring that missing story to the screen Including coverage of Inside Gateway Chicago Area Iowa Washington Oregon Montana Idaho See the historic formation of the American giant of the North - Burlington Northern. We cover those great vintage"
YouTube Link 2025-04-02T16:45Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements
"Tehachapi: SP and Santa Fe Era Visit Tehachapi from the mid-60s to the mid-90s -- plus related regional locations such as Taylor Yard Barstow Yard Richmond Yard Colton Crossing Cajon Pass and the building of the SP Palmdale cutoff. Learn the intertwined history of all the featured locations that are all part of the greater Tehachapi story. See all the great power and vanished scenesof pre-merger railroading at its best. We trace the history of how and why two railroads used the same mountain pass and how the line was built. Don't miss the wonderful vintage views of how SP opened the "Palmdale"
YouTube Link 2023-09-11T18:43Z 18.1K followers, [---] engagements
"MILWAUKEE ROAD TRAIN WRECKS & SNOW FIGHTING A stunning chapter from our movie "Milwaukee Road Scrapbook" with amazing Maintenance of Way Forces Snow Fighting and Train Wreck clearing in the treacherous mountains of Idaho. www.cspmovies.com See the Milwaukee Road's "Electrification" on the old Pacific Extension. Remember the "Quills" Bi-Polars GE Box-cabs and GE "Joes". Additional coverage includes the Milwaukee Road's diesels and a nice review of Milwaukee Road's steam powered trains. This is Milwaukee Road's passenger and freight operations in its finest years. We also bring a good section"
YouTube Link 2025-07-09T22:12Z 23.8K followers, [----] engagements
"SEABOARD LINE RAILROAD- WHAT WAS IT This is a wonderful chapter of our long DVD production all shot of Kodak color movie film decades ago. Be sure to like and subscribe and then check into our extensive website at www.cspmovies.com The "Chessie & Seaboard Hall of Fame" DVD production was copyrighted by Charles Smiley Presents"
YouTube Link 2025-03-22T03:47Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"CANADA'S VINTAGE RAILROADS--CP CN AND MANY SHORTLINES To see the rest of this video "CANADIAN RAILS VINTAGE SCRAPBOOK" look for the DVD on our website www.cspmovies.com To quote Railfan & Railroad magazine Here is another in an extensive catalog of must-own vintage videos from Charles Smiley who is known for his excellent film transfers of often rare but always high-quality movie footage extensive historical research exquisite maps and excellent narration. In-cab and trackside action brings you great scenery and a nostalgic look of stations and even tracks that disappeared years ago. CANADIAN"
YouTube Link 2025-04-04T03:16Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements
"CANADA'S GREAT RAILROADS CP CN AND MANY SHORTLINES To see the rest of this video "CANADIAN RAILS VINTAGE SCRAPBOOK" look for the DVD on our website www.cspmovies.com To quote Railfan & Railroad magazine Here is another in an extensive catalog of must-own vintage videos from Charles Smiley who is known for his excellent film transfers of often rare but always high-quality movie footage extensive historical research exquisite maps and excellent narration. In-cab and trackside action brings you great scenery and a nostalgic look of stations and even tracks that disappeared years ago. CANADIAN"
YouTube Link 2025-08-19T23:20Z 25K followers, [----] engagements
"WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROAD'S EARLY YEARS Never before seen Color and B&W film of the early WP from our DVD "Western Pacific Vintage West" www.cspmovies.com Remember the WP from the late steam era into the eighties with film from [--] different sources. We bring the real WP to the screen with freight and passenger trains plus interchange with other roads. A Sacramento Northern section of electric freight along with other surprises will show the variety of WP business interests. Follow the Zephyr story from [----] to [----] with extra coverage of the WP's partners Rio Grande and CB&Q. Featuring"
YouTube Link 2024-12-09T18:06Z 18.7K followers, [----] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S INCREDIBLE LUMBER TRAINS These were some of SP's finest lumber hauling moments Witness [---] car lumber trains with Manned Helpers and Cabooses snaking around "S" curves in a stellar power show never to be repeated. Then we take an in depth look at the Huge Saw Mill Operations in Scotia CA . Watch the intensive wood processes not often seen as huge tree trunks are cut into fine clean lumber loads and Presto Logs This incredible film features the efforts of [--] contributors who read like a who's who of railroad photographers filmmakers and historians. These are Hidden treasures"
YouTube Link 2025-03-04T09:00Z 20.5K followers, [----] engagements
"SANTA FE'S ODD EARLY LOCOMOTIVES This is one section of our DVD production "Diesel Power on the Santa Fe". the full DVD features long -gone motion picture views of early diesel power and their development. www.cspmovies.com The late-great Santa Fe as shot on movie film. From Chicago to LA up to Stockton and out to Richmond. All the early diesels and the second-generation power too. Both passenger & freight. Enjoy the Santas various Chiefs and the speedy San Diegan. See street-running and yards. Remember the Super-C and the Chief at their best. Remember all the EMD F-units ALCOs U-boats and"
YouTube Link 2025-05-21T19:28Z 22.9K followers, [----] engagements
"WESTERN PACIFIC'S FAMOUS LOCATIONS From our full length [--] Hour DVD "Freight West" www.cspmovies.com Do you miss the Santa Fe SP WP and the old version on the UP This presentation brings it back with a fine display of older smoking power beautiful graffiti-free freight cars and trailers that are railroad owned. Four railroads are covered in the 1970's and 80's on beautiful "Kodak" color film with sound These priceless film images were captured by Tom Butterworth and other [--] other dialed in cinematographers of the era at locations that were some of the best in the world for this type of intense"
YouTube Link 2025-06-23T23:55Z 23.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Full Movie "CHESSIE AND SEABOARD HALL OF FAME" World Wide YouTube Premier CHESSIE AND SEABOARD HALL OF FAME Railfan Railroad Writes: Chessie and Seaboard Hall of Fame is a big winner. Railfans and model railroaders will find this movie a goldmine. The rare factor alone makes this a must have program. With hard to find beautiful color film maps and history once again Charles sets the standard for railroad shows. Have you wondered what ever happened to some of the railroads you grew up with This presentation could shed some light on those thoughts and at the same time bring back visions of many"
YouTube Link 2025-07-14T21:37Z 23.9K followers, [----] engagements
"BUILDING MODEL RAILROAD BOXCARS In our third volume of "Building Better Model Railroads" we have a variety of new projects to take on and skill up with.In this Volume we learn how to skill up using some basic new techniques skills and tools. Many of the models and projects that are shown are easy to build and at a lower cost. You can also learn how to handle and use low cost LED lights to brighten up your layout and most of these new bulbs will last up to [-----] hours We also learn how to build easy and low cost "Lumber Loads" that really look real. They are simple and easy Another super fun"
YouTube Link 2024-11-20T16:32Z 18.4K followers, [---] engagements
"EASTBAY KEY SYSTEM AND RICHMOND SHIPYARD RY. HISTORY The Key System from the early years of 500s and 600s plus the ferryboat pier. See the Keys new bridge units in their original striking orange and silver splendor. Also we bring supporting scenes of the IER Red Trains Muni Railway steam trains and the Keys small streetcars. Ride and watch beautiful ferryboats shot on some of the first early 16mm color film. Watch the construction and operation of the WWII Richmond Shipyard Railway by Keys staff. This line was built from Emeryville north to Richmonds Kaiser Shipyards to transport thousands of"
YouTube Link 2024-01-29T17:59Z 18.1K followers, [----] engagements
"1976 TO [----] CONRAIL RAILROAD STORY This 34-minute video is one chapter of a 2-hour and 20-minute DVD historic documentary of the forming of Conrail that made a success out of the chaos of eastern railroading in a troubled time. Scenes were shot by Tom Luckey Jack Kuiphoff and Tim Hosey in this project. This is the [----] to [----] story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a successful operation that"
YouTube Link 2025-07-22T02:29Z 24.1K followers, [----] engagements
"UNION PACIFIC KATY HERITAGE UNIT NEARLY STALLS ON TEHACHAPI PASS After sitting at Bealville for several hours due to engine problems the dispatcher finally gave this Roseville to West Colton freight the Highball to try and make it to Tehachapi Summit With maximum tonnage this train put on a great show as it blasted out of Bealville and thru the tunnel at Cliff The engineer could be heard calling the dispatcher saying he was really worried about stalling. The final two scenes at Cable show it grinding uphill at [--] MPH. Only right before the rear [--] DPU's pass towards the end did it gather enough"
YouTube Link 2025-10-07T17:29Z 26.1K followers, 11.1K engagements
"REMEMBERING CENTRAL NEW JERSEY RAILROAD A chapter from our full length DVD " THE HARD COAL ROADS: what went wrong" Railfan Railroad Magazine Writes: Much of the film has hard to find footage and is high quality. This collection surpasses anything that I have seen for the first three railroads. The colors are accurate and the images and the trains seem to jump off the screen. A meticulous producer location awareness is always a priority. Extremely interesting and has the rarity factor. In short this exemplary show is a must have This is [--] hour and [--] minutes of five featured railroads that"
YouTube Link 2025-04-09T22:26Z 21.6K followers, [----] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC Steam to Diesel Dont miss the Coast Daylight San Joaquin Daylight mail trains and commutes behind steam and early diesels. See diesels from the early tiger stripe Daylight colors black widow and finally scarlet & gray. To quote a review in Railfan & Railroad magazine Twenty-six photographers contributed to this program which is skillfully edited and narrated. I highly recommend this as a quality program.. This is a never before seen Kodak Color Film of an interesting period of freight and passenger steam and early diesel power at its best It's one chapter of a long DVD video"
YouTube Link 2024-08-12T22:18Z 18K followers, [----] engagements
"THE RAILROAD THAT HELPED WIN WAR II Scenes from our DVD "Key System Part 2" www.cspmovies.com Watch the construction and operation of the WWII Richmond Shipyard Railway by Keys staff. This line was built from Emeryville north to Richmonds Kaiser Shipyards to transport thousands of workers that built [---] Victory and Liberty ships for the war. Retired IRT elevated cars were rebuilt to make long and elderly electric trains. This is a fascinating look at Bay Area history. The Key System from the early years of 500s and 600s plus the ferryboat pier. See the Keys new bridge units in their original"
YouTube Link 2025-01-09T18:32Z 19.3K followers, [----] engagements
"IMPROVE HO BOXCARS - LOW COSTS From our "Building Better Model Railroad" series find them at www.cspmovies.com This is the history of model railroad HO scale kits and the prototype boxcars' development over the decades. The How-To techniques will give you motivation to try some or all of them. Check into our website for much more content to improve your modeling and your history of trains in general at www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2025-04-21T18:12Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"SP STEAM TRAINS IN SAN JOSE CA A super chapter on SP Steam in San Jose CA from our DVD "Historic SP Around the Greater Bay" Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the early 1950s. Many classes of SP steam diesels and FM Train Masters pulling commutes are shown when it mattered. We visit Niles Canyon Tower and then off to Altamont Pass and the greater East Bay area with stunning views of the area that have changed forever"
YouTube Link 2025-01-12T08:15Z 19.4K followers, [----] engagements
"UNION PACIFIC'S UNRIVALED POWER STORY Follow us back to the 1960s an 1970s when the UP was intent of [-----] horsepower produced by only three locomotives instead of the usual five units. This was hoped to bring greater efficiency and reliability. This is just one great story on our available full featured DVD tilted "RAILFANNING CAJON AND TEHACHAPI" (Item D-150). The full production is available on our website www.cspmovies.com and it features the UP SP and Santa Fe railroads decades ago"
YouTube Link 2025-03-30T16:42Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements
"Santa Fe Vintage West-40 Years of the ATSF This is a look into our DVD video "SANTA FE VINTAGE WEST" - A 1-hour and 34-minute major feature presentation. Look for the DVD item number D-129 on our website for further information"
YouTube Link 2023-09-12T04:12Z 18.1K followers, [---] engagements
""DO YOU MISS CONRAIL" This [--] hour and [--] minute journey "CONRAIL HALL OF FAME" brings the history and story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a successful operation that surprised nearly everyone. Everyone that is except the committed employees and the leadership Conrail had during its four phases of existence. This was like a four act play -- with every element needed to make a great story that will"
YouTube Link 2025-10-18T22:55Z 26.1K followers, [---] engagements
"THE CONRAIL STORY Brought back from 1980's is our "NORTHEAST RAILS REMEMBERED" movie is the Conrail story with material never before released. Conrail's former Reading line Allentown Reading and numerous scenic places through many small towns and splendid countryside. The scenic Southern Tier on the former Erie mainline brings lots of action with Conrail NYS&W and Delaware & Hudson trains - and more See some scenes from the early 1970s with a struggling Penn Central and its collection of old and eclectic diesels. Learn the Conrail story that saved the rail industry by merging many failed"
YouTube Link 2025-01-26T18:29Z 19.8K followers, [----] engagements
"MAKE BETTER FLATCARS - LOW-COST HO SCALE Upgrade inexpensive flatcars to rival the high-cost ones in HO scale with some easy tricks. watch the whole story here. Check into our website for much more content to improve your modeling and your history of trains in general at www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2025-04-16T21:57Z 21.9K followers, 10.8K engagements
"WHEN WESTERN PACIFIC BECAME UNION PACIFIC This presentation "FREIGHT WEST" brings it back with rare freight cars old smoking diesel power and colorful graffiti-free trains of the WP UP SP and Santa Fe railroads in the 1970's and 80's In this amazing chapter from our movie [--] hour [--] minute DVD "Freight West" we witness a long bygone era when there was no Grafitti on ANY freight cars. Most cars were still painted with logos from the past and many Fallen Flag railroads in brilliant colors not seen today. Corporate image was much more important in these days as cars were rolling billboards"
YouTube Link 2025-07-31T19:02Z 25.4K followers, [----] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC NORTHERN CALIFORNIA A chapter from our full movie "Donner Pass Thunder" www.cspmovies.com This is a time when SP was busy and action was packed with one last stand their form of iconic railroading. This final look at Sacramento and Roseville was years before Union Pacific changed everything forever The video is loaded with GP-9 and SD-7 and [--] action plus great coverage of old Sacramento Roseville and the Roseville hump yard before its demise. Older foreign and leased power on full display with visions you can no longer see today. The Yard in Roseville is the shell of what it"
YouTube Link 2025-02-07T20:21Z 20.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The Full "KANSAS CITY DIESEL POWER REVIEW" Movie World-Wide YouTube Premier Don't miss the last great stand for these fine American Railroads before everything changed forever Visit Kansas City and surrounding areas before all the great mergers of the 90's See trains from [--] different roads with detailed maps and narration on how trains moved thru the KC area. Visit Santa Fe Junction Airline Junction and the "Highline Bridge" View run down industrial backdrops with trains moving thru "the West Bottoms". Many transfers and locals are shown from Santa Fe Gateway Western Soo UP and KCS There is"
YouTube Link 2025-07-03T11:01Z 23.6K followers, [----] engagements
"UNION PACIFIC LA TO SALT LAKE CITY In this chapter follow us on a journey with incredible history across the UP thru the Cima Hill area. This whole video is a celebration of the original UP from the 1950s to its full size by [----]. See lots of early diesel power and vintage Cajon and California action. Then we explore the UP in the 1990s when it expanded rapidly to remain a competitive player in the rail business. This video is from movie film and early video shot years ago. D-130 UNION PACIFIC SCRAPBOOK Model Railroad News: This is a large helping of trains at 1hr and [--] minutes Charles"
YouTube Link 2024-09-17T01:46Z 17.9K followers, [----] engagements
"OLD CHICAGO: RAILROAD'S CENTER OF GRAVITY A superb chapter on railroading in Chicago from a variety of Fallen Flag Railroads. See the Milwaukee Road New York Central and their rivals from [----] to [----] covering the electrics diesels and some lingering steam. Plenty of run by and trackside views of a vanished way of life in the mountain districts. Marvel at the GE Boxmotors Bipolars and "Little Joes" and visit a number of locations. We review the history and technical aspects of the Milwaukee and how they fit in with their rivals and allies. The end of electric railroading and eventually the"
YouTube Link 2025-04-23T07:15Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"Full Movie "KEY SYSTEM RAILROAD SCRAPBOOK" YouTube Premiere For A limited time only we will feature on our YouTube Channel "TRACTION NIGHT" Every week we will be featuring one of our Traction Movies in it's entirety This week it is "KEY SYSTEM SCRAPBOOK VOLUME ONE" www.cspmovies.com This video has many animated graphical maps made just for video clarity and better understanding of the Key's lines streetcar lines and the SP-IER electric lines in the ferry and later bridge era. The Key System from the early years of 500s and 600s plus the ferryboat pier. See the Key's new bridge units in their"
YouTube Link 2025-08-07T02:16Z 24.6K followers, [----] engagements
"PROWLING SMOKING RIO GRANDE ENGINES ON THE SP Rio Grande Engines Prowling the SP in California and Colorado from our full length movie "Tennessee Pass: from Start to Finish" www.cspmovies.com THIS HISTORICAL ROYAL GORGE ROUTE WAS ABANDONED IN SEPTEMBER OF [----]. This movie was there to capture the last months of operation. Coal Manifest and merchandise trains all run by the two cameras on a journey from Pueblo to Dotsero Colorado where the line joins with the Moffat Route. We also show early the history of regional narrow and standard gauge development and explain the DRGW operating strategies"
YouTube Link 2025-03-22T01:34Z 21K followers, [---] engagements
"WESTERN PACIFIC REMEMBERED Visit the Western Pacific from both sides of the San Francisco Bay down to Niles Jct. and then on the San Jose branch and return to Niles Jct. for a ride through Niles Canyon. Then from Altamont Pass we run to Stockton Sacramento and all thegreat locations to Oroville. Oroville to Keddie brings more trains and great scenery. We run to Bieber on a freight and then return to Keddie to run to Portola. From Portola we ride locals to Reno and Loyalton. From there we review the run over the Great Basin Desert to Salt Lake City. See things that have been removed forever."
YouTube Link 2025-06-07T03:49Z 23.1K followers, [----] engagements
"SPECIAL PAINT LEADING NS TRAINS This is the second installment of our new series "21st Century Rails" brought to you by Dave D Dave was everywhere when NS Heritage Units were new and roaming around NY and PA. Here are "Home Run" hits of his with all the NS Heritage Leaders on the point when they were fresh and clean in mostly superb sunlight "We Bring the Trains" Charles Smiley Presents Videos more railroading at www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2024-01-21T12:00Z 11.7K followers, [---] engagements
"RIO GRANDE NARROW GAUGE FREIGHT TRAINS The Rio Grande still had hundreds of miles of Narrow Gauge Rail operations in [----] when Andy Payne became a steam locomotive Fireman then a Yard Hostler and later an Engineer. Andy filmed many hours of color movie film all during his career. This brings us a fresh insiders look at one of Americans all-time favorite railroads. Andy filmed all the great scenery and the working mans daily work life for many years. This leaves us a wonderful historical record of a place that still had steam locomotives and old wooden freight and passenger cars earning"
YouTube Link 2024-07-01T07:30Z 15.8K followers, [----] engagements
"THE CONRAIL STORY Full Movie "CONRAIL HALL OF FAME" This [--] hour and [--] minute journey "CONRAIL HALL OF FAME" brings the history and story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a successful operation that surprised nearly everyone. Everyone that is except the committed employees and the leadership Conrail had during its four phases of existence. This was like a four act play -- with every element needed to"
YouTube Link 2025-08-29T04:31Z 25.1K followers, [----] engagements
"UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD STORY: Steam Era Into Diesels A look back at old UP from our movie "Union Pacific Vintage West" www.cspmovies.com See some of the innovation and strategic successes of the UP from the WWII to 1960s -- as if the long reach of E.H. Harriman's influence was still in effect years after his untimely death. Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. See the phase-out of steam and the first and second"
YouTube Link 2025-05-12T02:52Z 24.7K followers, 12.6K engagements
"SP When the Empire was Intact: 3.6% Grades This incredible film features the efforts of [--] contributors who read like a who's who of railroad photographers filmmakers and historians. If it was Southern Pacific it is covered in this film. Plenty of SD-9's GP-9's clean SD-45's and all of the oddball power that made the SP such a fascinating and interesting railroad. Combine this action with all of the locations that made SP operations so difficult on a day to day basis. The rugged Siskiyou Mountains and there lofty 3.6% grades are a highlight as SP impressively moves [--] car lumber drags up to"
YouTube Link 2023-09-19T21:25Z 11.8K followers, [---] engagements
"SP Tiger Stripe Switchers Meet An SP Livestock Train meets a local in the countryside near Walnut Creek in [----] The "Tiger Stripe" Paint scheme on these both models preceded the Black Widow paint and lasted until the late 1940's Modeled by Charles Smiley www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2023-10-03T17:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Union Pacific Vintage West Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. See the phase-out of steam and the first and second generation diesels. The focal point is in the [----] to [----] period with the onslaught of mergers in the industry. Visit UP's new WP line for a great mix of trains. Featuring: E and F units Early Geeps SD24 and Uboats DD35 DD40 U50 Turbines Steam and More. This video will bring the viewer a good"
YouTube Link 2023-09-11T18:32Z 11.7K followers, [--] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S SUGAR BEET STORY A rare look at the SP Sugar Beet Story This was the Southern Pacific at work on the Yuma District of the Sunset Route. The best material with a wealth of newly discovered material to make this new DVD video. See mixed freights and intermodal trains as well as locals and transfer freights. We also bring lots of foreign and pool-power. Visit the Imperial Valley lines to remember the Sugarbeet trains of the SP. Learn how the beet cars were loaded and follow the beets to Betteravia where they were processed at the Holly sugar plant. Beet trains handed off to"
YouTube Link 2025-04-05T02:08Z 21.5K followers, [----] engagements
"LONDON & PORT STANLEY ELECTRIC TRAINS [----] "Canadian Electric Rails" 1950's DVD available at www.cspmovies.com Visit [--] classic electric railroads in Canada in the 1950's Brilliant color film of the Canadian people architecture and trains Peel back the years and relive the days of what it was like to ride and see the: LONDON AND PORT STANLEY RY NIAGARA ST CATHERINES & TORONTO TORONTO TRANSIT MONTREAL & SOUTHERN COUNTIES RY. QUEBEC RAILWAY LIGHT AND POWER Visit yards and stations Big cities and rural outposts Learn the equipment of each railroad with in depth coverage of the Peter Witt Cars and"
YouTube Link 2025-04-29T14:52Z 23.3K followers, 15K engagements
"THE REAL RIO GRANDE NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD FILMS The Rio Grande still had hundreds of miles of Narrow Gauge Rail operations in [----] when Andy Payne became a steam locomotive fireman then yard hostler and later an engineer This production has an emphasis on revenue freight trains in regions that no longer have tracks. Steam firing and helper operations with up to [--] locomotives are featured up close with real sound in all types of weather and extreme conditions Andy filmed many hours of movie film all during his career This brings us a fresh "insider's" look at one of America's all-time favorite"
YouTube Link 2024-01-17T16:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"CHESAPEAKE AND OHIO [---] STEAM SPECTACULAR This is a great American Steam Locomotive Story Shot by the master Richard Knox Chesapeake and Ohio [---] is a class "J-3-A" 4-8-4 "Greenbrier" (Northern) type steam locomotive built in June [----] by the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima Ohio for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway (C&O) as a member of the J-3-A class. See one of the great 4-8-4s built in the last years of any new steam power. A C&O beauty that had great speed and grace pulling passenger trains. Retired from active service in the mid 1950s No. [---] was preserved and placed on display at the B&O"
YouTube Link 2025-04-11T17:11Z 21.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Full Movie "PACIFIC ELECTRIC & LOS ANGELES RAILWAY" - World Wide YouTube Premiere This complete production outlines the history of both of these famous electric rail lines. They were both started by Henry. E. Huntington at the beginning of the 20th Century. For a time they were intertwined and created with a similar purpose. This program has a wealth of color movie film from [----] to the complete end in [----]. The accurate sound recordings accompanying these movie scenes bring back the auditory experience of living in those bygone years. Maps and graphics were specially created to enhance the"
YouTube Link 2025-07-19T16:12Z 24.3K followers, 11K engagements
"FINEST VINTAGE CAJON AND TEHACHAPI RAILROADING - FULL MOVIE This is the full "RAILFANNING CAJON & TEHACHAPI" movie shot on Kodak color movie film of the most interesting times. Look back at a grand era that featured three class one independent roads with first and second generation power. This big time mountain style of railroading will never be seen again-but this feature brings it back for your enjoyment. Don't miss the years of the UP Santa Fe and Southern Pacific as they all developed the need for more locomotive power to combat the longer trains faster schedules and heavy grades. See"
YouTube Link 2025-10-15T07:30Z 26.1K followers, [----] engagements
"FASCINATING WESTERN PACIFIC RAILROADING Journey back into time with never before seen films of the great Western Pacific Railroad. These are [--] year old images of classic Mountain and Smaller Switching operations. Much of the film was shot by Norm Holmes a WP engineer and WP Book Author for decades Journey back to never before scene films of the great Western Pacific Railroad. These are [--] year old images of classic Mountain and Smaller Switching operations rarely seen. The Western Pacific Freight Passenger and Interchange operations made them an interesting railroad Their "Highline" was also"
YouTube Link 2025-06-11T20:20Z 23.2K followers, [----] engagements
"American Freight Trains SP UP Santa Fe and WP Scenes from our DVD "Freight West" at www.cspmovies.com Do you miss the Santa Fe SP WP and the old version on the UP This presentation brings it back with a fine display of older smoking power beautiful graffiti-free freight cars and trailers that are railroad owned. Four railroads are covered in the 1970's and 80's on beautiful "Kodak" color film with sound These priceless film images were captured by Tom Butterworth and other [--] other dialed in cinematographers of the era at locations that were some of the best in the world for this type of"
YouTube Link 2023-09-19T16:57Z 11.8K followers, [----] engagements
"MILWAUKEE ROAD ROCKY MOUNTAIN MEMORIES This is one chapter from our full length DVD "MILWUAKEE ROAD SCRAPBOOK". See the Milwaukee Road's "electrification" on the old Pacific Extension. Remember the "Quills" Bipolars GE Boxcabs and GE "Joes". Additional coverage includes the Milwaukee Road's diesels and a nice review of Milwaukee Road's steam powered trains. This is Milwaukee Road's passenger and freight operations in its finest years. We also bring a good section on snow fighting MOW equipment and practices as well as the frequent wrecks that kept the MOW people far too busy in the"
YouTube Link 2025-10-14T02:52Z 26.1K followers, [----] engagements
"THE STORY OF UNION PACIFIC'S LARGEST LOCOMOTIVES THE DD40s A real treat are these scenes from our classic DVD "Union Pacific Vintage West" www.cspmovies.com The focal period is from [----] to [----] with the onslaught of rail mergers. See Steam GP9s E and F-units Turbines DD35 DD40s U50s SD24 and SD45s and many others with passenger and freights This is one section of a long production on UP in WWII and into the diesel era. These scenes were filmed by the late George Barnes and the late John Petros. For more on the rest of the video see below"
YouTube Link 2025-02-28T01:14Z 25.9K followers, 56.8K engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S EARLY TRAINS COLOR FILM This is a never before seen Kodak Color Film of an interesting period of freight and passenger steam and early diesel power at its best It's one chapter of a long DVD video "SP Vintage West" item D-125 available at www.cspmovies.com Dont miss the Coast Daylight San Joaquin Daylight mail trains and commutes behind steam and early diesels. See diesels from the early tiger stripe Daylight colors black widow and finally scarlet & gray. To quote a review in Railfan & Railroad magazine Twenty-six photographers contributed to this program which is"
YouTube Link 2025-03-21T15:42Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"RIO GRANDE POWER SHOW Rio Grande Engines Prowling the SP in California and Colorado from our full length movie "Tennessee Pass: from Start to Finish" www.cspmovies.com THIS HISTORICAL ROYAL GORGE ROUTE WAS ABANDONED IN SEPTEMBER OF [----]. This movie was there to capture the last months of operation. Coal Manifest and merchandise trains all run by the two cameras on a journey from Pueblo to Dotsero Colorado where the line joins with the Moffat Route. We also show early the history of regional narrow and standard gauge development and explain the DRGW operating strategies right to the end of"
YouTube Link 2024-10-01T15:41Z 18K followers, [----] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC STEAM TO DIESEL ERA Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the early 1950s. Many classes of SP steam diesels and FM Train Masters pulling commutes are shown when it mattered. See large steam Cab Forwards and other early diesels leading freight trains at Giant Oakland Berkeley and beautiful places to Crockett Marvel at the parade of early freight cars from around the US and SP cabooses and Passenger Cars"
YouTube Link 2025-07-30T07:30Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Full Movie "DIESEL POWER ON THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC" Movie World-Wide YouTube Premiere Celebrating [--] Years on the Southern Pacific Glistening vintage color film of Southern Pacific's world famous Coast Line Route. See Santa Barbara in the early forties with daylights and troop trains all pulled by steam. Huge cab forwards are also shown with long blocks of reefers. View the men and women of the SP over sixty years ago all pitching in for the war effort. Southern Pacific's transition from steam to diesel is well covered with plenty of F-units in both bloody nose and black widow liveries. Visit"
YouTube Link 2025-07-10T18:01Z 25K followers, 25.1K engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S LUMBER STORIES Scenes from our full DVD "Southern Pacific When" www.cspmovies.com These were some of SP's finest lumber hauling moments witness huge trains and even a trip to the saw mill in Scotia at (12:00 minutes) watch as huge tree trunks are cut into fine clean lumber loads. This incredible film features the efforts of [--] contributors who read like a who's who of railroad photographers filmmakers and historians. If it was Southern Pacific it is covered in this film. Plenty of SD-9's GP-9's clean SD-45's and all of the oddball power that made the SP such a fascinating"
YouTube Link 2025-07-22T19:02Z 24.2K followers, [----] engagements
"10000 FT ABANDONDED TENNESEE PASS RAILROAD One long chapter from our movie "Tennessee Pass Start to Finish" www.cspmovies.com Acclaimed by critics and fans alike this has been a best selling video featuring Southern Pacific and the Rio Grande. This was the highest main line in the US with 3% grades and [-----] HP trains. See plenty of manifests coal taconite and other trains. Colorful pool power helpers and great train pacing plus all the heavy colorful action in a beautiful mountain setting. See Power-heavy [---] car coal trains with [--] ACs battling the high altitude and steep grades like you'll"
YouTube Link 2025-04-12T07:30Z 21.7K followers, [----] engagements
"Espee Hall of Fame DVD Visit "Espee" locations that were in and around Sacramento CA in the early 1990s. See Elvas and Stockton Junction with the towers that have long ago been removed. Watch hours of great original Southern Pacific power that has been sent to the scrap yard since this material was shot. Learn much of the history of the SP and the area involved in this video. The emphasis here is on manifest trains transfer jobs and locals. We bring the kind of railroading that has been forgotten. See Davis and Suisun-Fairfield Junction and many trains on the Ione branch. Don't miss the sugar"
YouTube Link 2023-09-13T18:08Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"OLD RAILROAD FILMS: Santa Fe SP WP and the old UP Do you miss the Santa Fe SP WP and the old version on the UP This presentation brings it back with a fine display of older smoking power beautiful graffiti-free freight cars and trailers that are railroad owned. Four railroads are covered in this movie "Freight West" the 1970's and 80's on beautiful "Kodak" color film with sound These priceless film images were captured by Tom Butterworth and other [--] other dialed in cinematographers of the era at locations that were some of the best in the world for this type of intense railroad action. We"
YouTube Link 2025-03-31T03:17Z 21.4K followers, [----] engagements
"1950s TORONTO CITY STREETCARS ON PARADE Visit [--] classic electric railroads in Canada in the 1950's Brilliant color film of the Canadian people architecture and trains Peel back the years and relive the days of what it was like to ride and see the: LONDON AND PORT STANLEY RY NIAGARA ST CATHERINES & TORONTO TORONTO TRANSIT MONTREAL & SOUTHERN COUNTIES RY. QUEBEC RAILWAY LIGHT AND POWER Visit yards and stations Big cities and rural outposts Learn the equipment of each railroad with in depth coverage of the Peter Witt Cars and the Toronto Red Rockets. This movie has excellent maps music and"
YouTube Link 2025-05-02T00:51Z 22.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Southern Pacific Train with Caboose The Camera of Tom Butterworth brings us back to exactly what railroading was like in Central California in the 1984s as we get a good look at an SP train led by an SD-9 SW-1500 and GP-9 plus caboose pulling the Roseville to Stockton turn. The rolling stock is classic short line boxcars and PFE Reefers plus many Fallen Flag cars from all the railroads we loved. Lathrop was a super place to see trains of the SP and the UP. More of this type of railroading at our website www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2024-07-25T00:50Z 16.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Building Better Model Railroads Volume One his DVD features models of the steam to diesel transition era. Our time will mostly be spent outlining building techniques and using various tools and materials that you might be unfamiliar with. In this volume we will see and build flatcars boxcars and tank car models. Structures modeled include a Fruit to Reefer loading-complex a rail bridge a highway bridge plus simulating country road pavement. A central theme covers scene planning and also re-purposing models built over the years before your layout was started. Many of these models shown here"
YouTube Link 2023-09-12T04:00Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Full Movie "HARD COAL RAILROADS" World Wide YouTube Premiere This is a look back in time to the "Anthracite" roads that once made the eastern rail scene more interesting and colorful. These principal roads were the Lehigh Valley Jersey Central Reading D&H and the Erie Lackawanna Railroads. The common theme was their early success based on hauling anthracite coal from a unique area in Pennsylvania and the decline of that business. The last decade of these roads largely depended on a declining business in hauling "bridge traffic". The corporate history of these five roads is woven into a wealth"
YouTube Link 2025-07-28T00:58Z 25.3K followers, 18.8K engagements
"WESTERN RAILROAD MERGERS 1970'S A long chapter from our full movie "Burlington Northern: Empire of the North" DVD This is the real story of the forming of the Burlington Northern Railroad Find it at www.cspmovies.com To quote Model Railroad News The story is epic. plan to watch it several times.. To quote Railfan & Railroad This [--] and a half hour program like all others Smiley has done Contains a wealth of content requiring more than one sitting to digest fully. The maps are excellent the corporate story-telling first rate. These are unreal scenes to enjoy or model". See the historic 1970"
YouTube Link 2024-11-06T08:30Z 18.1K followers, [----] engagements
"LONGEST INTERURBAN ELECTRIC RAILROAD IN THE US This DVD production is available from our website at www.cspmovies.com. Below is the description of the full production. Three electric lines in one video. The Sacramento Northern SP Red Trains and the Peninsular Ry. We bring the SP ferry boats on the San Francisco Bay as well. This [----] to [----] history has been a favorite of rail-fans and historians. Our scenes in Oakland Berkeley and the Oakland Hills plus Sacramento Northern lines out to Contra Costa County are the essential Eastbay of a by-gone era. See the SNs ferryboat that linked the"
YouTube Link 2024-05-30T20:55Z 20.6K followers, 53K engagements
"Extreme Southern Pacific See SP "battle back to respectability" in the early 90's on the featured lines to the north and many other great locations. This video selected many choice scenes out of hundreds of hours of material to show a great variety of older power and scenic locations. Some of the material used is from film shot in the seventies to balance out the presentation This video has a parade of power with both old and new mixed with foreign power "smoking it up". The second half features many retired units cabooses and many other surprises Featuring: Modoc Line Shasta Line Donner Line"
YouTube Link 2023-09-11T18:03Z 11.8K followers, [--] engagements
"WHEN WESTERN PACIFIC BECAME UNION PACIFIC This presentation brings it back with rare freight cars old smoking diesel power and colorful graffiti-free trains of the WP UP SP and Santa Fe railroads in the 1970's and 80's In this amazing chapter from our movie [--] hour [--] minute DVD "Freight West" we witness a long bygone era when there was no Grafitti on ANY freight cars. Most cars were still painted with logos from the past and many Fallen Flag railroads in brilliant colors not seen today. Corporate image was much more important in these days as cars were rolling billboards Railfan Railroad"
YouTube Link 2025-01-29T06:28Z 21.1K followers, 15.6K engagements
"Tehachapi Trains: SP and Santa Fe [--] Years of The Classic Era Visit Tehachapi from the mid-60s to the mid-90s -- plus related regional locations such as Taylor Yard Barstow Yard Richmond Yard Colton Crossing Cajon Pass and the building of the SP Palmdale cutoff. Learn the intertwined history of all the featured locations that are all part of the greater Tehachapi story. See all the great power and vanished scenes of pre-merger railroading at its best. We trace the history of how and why two railroads used the same mountain pass and how the line was built. Don't miss the wonderful vintage"
YouTube Link 2025-04-27T22:28Z 22.1K followers, [----] engagements
"THE SEARCH FOR GREATER POWER - UNION PACIFIC 1960s and beyond This insightful chapter is on Union Pacific's early locomotive history A review of the UP's great quest for more capable diesel power of improved efficiency that involved EMD GE and ALCO products. Visit [--] states and see America's original and longest-standing line that helped build the west. Filmed by [--] different people this material has plenty of the unexpected Follow UP from the Harriman era to the modern times. Visit UP's new WP line for a great mix of trains. Featuring: E and F units Early Geeps SD24 and Uboats DD35 DD40 U50"
YouTube Link 2025-03-29T15:31Z 21.3K followers, [----] engagements
"SANTA FE RAILROAD EARLY HISTORY A long chapter from our movie "Diesel Power on the Santa Fe" www.cspmovies.com The Santa Fe we knew is gone but the imprint it left on the west is celebrated here on brilliant color film that has been digitized and edited with care. A number of film sources show the late-great Santa Fe through a variety of motive power changes that reflect the Santa Fe's ability to respond well to an evolving industry. This is a fine DVD and one that will appeal to the Santa Fe's many devoted fans.-C.S The Cast: GP20 GP30 & GP35 SD24 SD26 & SD45 CF7 FP45 & F-units ALCO PA -"
YouTube Link 2025-04-20T15:28Z 21.9K followers, [----] engagements
"FASCINATING 1970'S FALLEN FLAG RAILROADING Scenes from our movie "CHESSIE AND SEABOARD HALL OF FAME" available at www.cspmovies.com Beautiful color films of the RF&P Seaboard Chessie and early Amtrak in the 1970's into the 1980's The Richmond Fredericksburg & Potomac or RF&P was a 113-mile long double-tracked bridge line that neatly linked northern and southern roads together. This presentation brings the last 20-years of that roads independence to your screen with GPs F-Units and E-units The 1970s became an especially difficult time for many railroads. The bankruptcies and little-known"
YouTube Link 2025-08-10T22:15Z 24.7K followers, [----] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC & NWP STEAM & BLACK WIDOW LOCOMOTIVES From our "Railroad Treasure Vault" here is a chapter from our full length DVD "Historic SP Around the Greater Bay" Full movie available at www.cspmovies.com Look back to a great era with steam and early diesel trains filmed by the most prominent railfans of the time. We extensively cover Northern California and the San Francisco Peninsula to San Jose and Los Gatos in the early 1950s. Many classes of SP steam diesels and FM Train Masters pulling commutes are shown when it mattered. Marvel at the parade of early freight cars from around the"
YouTube Link 2025-08-23T22:50Z 25K followers, [----] engagements
"THE REAL STORY OF THE BN & WP HIGHLINE Here is a long chapter with the beautiful color film and real history of the Inside Gateway of the BN "High Line". An operation that was put together by the Great Northern and the Western Pacific in the Depression era to increase traffic flow by forwarding traffic from the Northwest to the Santa Fe Railroad whereby they could all compete better with the Southern Pacific Railroad. Western Pacific Vintage West-www.cspmovies.com"
YouTube Link 2025-04-17T04:13Z 21.8K followers, [----] engagements
"LOOKING BACK: THE LEHIGH VALLEY RAILROAD Never seen sparkling film from our "Hard Coal Roads" movie This is a look back in time to the "Anthracite" roads that once made the eastern rail scene more interesting and colorful. These principal roads were the Lehigh Valley Jersey Central Reading D&H and the Erie Lackawanna Railroads. The common theme was their early success based on hauling anthracite coal from a unique area in Pennsylvania and the decline of that business. The last decade of these roads largely depended on a declining business in hauling "bridge traffic". The corporate history of"
YouTube Link 2025-04-26T00:42Z 22K followers, [----] engagements
"SOUTHERN PACIFIC SAWMILL & SEMAPHORES These were some of SP's finest lumber hauling moments Witness [---] car lumber trains with Manned Helpers and Cabooses snaking around "S" curves in a stellar power show never to be repeated. Then we take an in depth look at the Huge Saw Mill Operations in Scotia CA . Watch the intensive wood processes not often seen as huge tree trunks are cut into fine clean lumber loads and Presto Logs This incredible film features the efforts of [--] contributors who read like a who's who of railroad photographers filmmakers and historians. These are Hidden treasures from"
YouTube Link 2024-11-08T08:15Z 20.3K followers, [----] engagements
"CONRAIL HALL OF FAME This is the [----] to [----] story of the Consolidated Rail Corporation widely known as Conrail. It was created from the bankrupt Penn Central and a number of other bankrupt northeastern roads in [----]. We bring the early years of rebuilding and the later years of a successful operation that surprised nearly everyone. Everyone that is except the committed employees and the leadership Conrail had during its four phases of existence. This was like a four act play -- with every element needed to make a great story that will be studied by business analysts and rail historians for"
YouTube Link 2025-06-02T22:00Z 23K followers, [----] engagements
"WESTERN PACIFIC'S OLD EMD'S & CABOOSES Do you miss the Santa Fe SP WP and the old version on the UP This presentation brings it back with a fine display of older smoking power beautiful graffiti-free freight cars and trailers that are railroad owned. Four railroads are covered in the 1970's and 80's on beautiful "Kodak" color film with sound These priceless film images were captured by Tom Butterworth and other [--] other dialed in cinematographers of the era at locations that were some of the best in the world for this type of intense railroad action. We make the case for watching freight car"
YouTube Link 2025-03-20T18:29Z 21.1K followers, [----] engagements
"MILWAUKEE RAILROAD'S PATH TO EXTINCTION One chapter from our full length DVD "Milwaukee Road West" available at www.cspmovies.com See the Milwaukee and rivals from [----] to [----] covering the electrics diesels and some lingering steam. Plenty of runby and trackside views of a vanished way of life in the mountain districts. Marvel at the GE Boxmotors Bipolars and "Little Joes" and visit a number of locations. We review the history and technical aspects of the Milwaukee and how they fit in with their rivals and allies. The end of electric railroading and eventually the Pacific Extension is"
YouTube Link 2024-11-25T09:00Z 18.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Burlington Northern Empire of the North-The forming of BN Watch the legacy of the Burlington Northern history unfold over the decades from the James Hill days to the [----] merger. The BN in its original form has climbed to a new level with the BNSF merger. The quarter century of BN green brought many fans who never saw the great predecessors that formed it. We bring that missing story to the screen Including coverage of Inside Gateway Chicago Area Iowa Washington Oregon Montana Idaho See the historic formation of the American giant of the North - Burlington Northern. We cover those great"
YouTube Link 2023-09-11T18:36Z 18.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Full Movie "THE MILWAUKEE ROAD" Western Extension Story This week we are featuring the complete "Milwaukee Road West" movie for everyone to enjoy. D-118 MILWAUKEE ROAD WEST Model Railroad News Writes: This DVD is good choice for Milwaukee Road fans and for those who want a primer on an important piece of railroad history between Chicago and Seattle As with all Charles Smileys videos there is a lot of added value that goes beyond just transferred film footage. Maps narration and history of rival roads like the NP Rock and GN There are some priceless scenes here. The history of the Milwaukee"
YouTube Link 2025-09-01T19:20Z 25.2K followers, [----] engagements
"CLASSIC OLDER NORTHEAST EMD AND GE LOCOMOTIVES A whole chapter from our movie "Northeast Rails Remembered Part One"-www.cspmovies.com See a great variety of diesel power and freight cars before the graffiti era. Learn the Conrail story that saved the rail industry by merging many failed roads into a first-class operation. Conrail was split up into parts of the NS and the CSX system in [----]. We bring it back to your Conrail's former Reading line Allentown Reading and numerous scenic places through many small towns and splendid countryside. The scenic Southern Tier on the former Erie mainline"
YouTube Link 2025-06-27T22:48Z 24.4K followers, [----] engagements
"W.P. S.N. & S.P. JUNCTION CROSSING This video outlines how to make a model railroad area benefit from incorporating a junction that allows viewing more than one railroad on your layout. The blending of scenery with matching backdrops can also expand the apparent scene's area without making things seemed too cramped for space on the layout. The illusion of depth is all you need. Be sure to visit our website at www.cspmovies.com that features many hours of vintage trains of the USA when the scenes were much different than today's handful of railroads parading marked up freight cars with graffiti"
YouTube Link 2025-05-23T01:14Z 22.8K followers, [----] engagements
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