D-155: Historic SP Around the Greater Bay (Freight and Passenger)

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D-155: Historic SP Around the Greater Bay (Freight and Passenger)Length: 2 hr. 1 minutes 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

The older vintage UP power ranges from GP9s

before everything changed forever

we have that on vintage film

Visit the old Third & Townsend Station where the SP Coastline really begins

DD35 and DD40X models with a great variety of early and late GE units

Maybe you’ll just watch this for an hour and 35 minutes instead of broadcast TV

At one time

and the later bridge era

SD-9s and FM trainmasters

Learn the history of the Beckwourth Pass that was founded by the west’s toughest ‘mountain-man’

SD24 and SD45s and many others with passenger and freights

“Twenty-six photographers contributed to this program which is skillfully edited and narrated