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"China 2003" 
©2008 Machines of Iron

Jingpeng Pass was the world’s last great steam show! The cold January temperatures created billowing clouds of steam and smoker as the 2-10-2 QJ class locomotives challenged the stiff grades of Jingpeng Pass. Visit Daban Locomotive shed where the QJs were serviced and maintained, you will see the Jitong Railway’s steam hauled passenger train near Chabuga. Visit rural villages, pass through the crowded village markets, see the local people getting ready for the Chinese New Year and visit the “Great Wall”. Machines of Iron brings China steam to you in all its dynamic glory.

DVD Order No. CHINA03/DR - Approx. 60 minutes

Includes chapters and selectable audio tracks

(Note: /DR indicates DVDR format)

$24.95
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"Denver & Rio Grande Western Narrow Gauge" 
©2008 Machines of Iron

Come with Machines of Iron and enjoy these vintage views of the
Denver & Rio Grande Western narrow gauge freight trains on the
Alamosa to Durango, travel to Silverton by passenger train and see
the last regular freight train to operate on the Farmington branch.

You will go inside the Alamosa roundhouse, watch shop crews
rebuilding steam locomotives and see the Durango steam Facilities
and yard as they were during regular service. These film from the
1960s show the narrow gauge steam trains that carried pipe and
supplies to the Farmington oil fields, lumber that was cut along
the line and tank cars of oil from the Gramps loading facility at
Chama. Watch the two sections of an eastbound two engine freight
climb the 4% grade of Cumbres Pass.

This program will take you back to the time when steam powered
freight trains were in regular service on the Denver & Rio Grande
Western narrow gauge in Colorado and New Mexico.

DVD Order No. DRGNG/DR - Approx. 58 minutes

Includes chapters and selectable audio tracks

(Note: /DR indicates DVDR format)

$24.95
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"Steam in South Africa" 

The Drakensburg Farewell Rail Tour 1995
©2008 Machines of Iron

South African Railways was perhaps the most extensive narrow
gauge system in the world.  The steam locomotives that roamed
the rails here were big narrow gauge steam. Join Machines of Iron
as we go back to 1995 for a photo charter that traveled the
rugged railway lines of the Drakensburg region behind garratts, 4-8-2s, a 2-8-4 and an ancient 4-6-0. Then thrill to a run down the mainline with a 4-8-4. This was a great steam train adventure that can not be duplicated today.

DVD Order No. SA1995/DR - Approx. 75 minutes

Includes chapters and selectable audio tracks

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$24.95
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"Winter Charters" 
©2008 Machines of Iron

Three railroads in the West schedule steam photo charters for the rail enthusiast.  Featured are the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, the Heber Valley Railroad and the Nevada Northern
Railway Museum.  Steam trains are recreated as they were in the 1950’s.  Dramatic winter scenes in the Rockies and Wasatch Mountains blend with the remote Nevada Desert.  If you like steam locomotives charging upgrade with vintage equipment and billowing clouds of smoke, this program is for you.

DVD Order No. WINTER/DR - Approx. 50 minutes

Includes chapters and selectable audio tracks

Presented in widescreen format

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$24.95
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"Yolo Shortline" 
©2008 Machines of Iron

The Yolo Shortline is both a working freight railroad and an excursion railroad. Machines of Iron traveled along on one of Yolo's train and cruise excursions. Visitors board the train behind a former Southern Pacific steam locomotive for a trip through the beautiful Sacramento Valley. A train robbery is staged for the passengers and a great time is had by all. Those who desire can then board a steamboat traveling on the Sacramento River and enjoy a good meal and onboard entertainment.

DVD Order No. YOLO/DR - Approx. 35 minutes

Includes chapters

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$24.95
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"North Shore Line"
Passenger Service 
©2008 Machines of Iron

The Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad or as it was more popularly called, the North Shore Line is considered by most to be one of the finest examples of an electric interurban railroad ever constructed in North America. Starting from a side of the road trolley line, the North Shore went on to become one of the fastest railways ever built, whether electric or steam powered.

Passenger service of the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee was
without equal with service other could not hope to match. When autos sputtered along at 35 mph, the North Shore had billboards asking “Did you ever traveled 80 miles an hour?”.

Their two Electroliners were considered to be the zenith of streamlined  interurbans and to the very end of its service on a bitter cold January night in 1963, the North Shore Line operated its “Every Hour on the Hour” service as far more that just another advertising slogan.

DVD Order No. CNSMP/D - Approx. 70 minutes

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$24.95
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"North Shore Line"
Freight Service 
©2008 Machines of Iron

Freight service was never a big money maker for the North Shore Line but to their customers, it really was the “Road of Personalized Service” as the NSL counted their service in hours when other railroads counted their time in days. While the North Shore never had the success of its Insull sister, the South Shore Line, they did earn nearly $1 million a year in good times.

Even though they started out handling packages, the North Shore Line was soon a pioneer in intermodal service. They started operating piggyback trains between Chicago and Milwaukee in the 1920s and, at the peak, handled 18,000 trailers a year. They also developed mechanically refrigerated and heated cars before many other railroads did.

In the days of government regulation of railroad rates and routes, the North Shore would receive cars from one of their connecting railroads, haul them a few miles and give them back to the same railroad which explained coal moves received from the C&NW in Skokie and turned the cars back to them in Waukegan. Unfortunately, the North Shore was never able to locate more than 100 shippers and many were  lumber and coal yards.

Two of their locomotive, four truck behemoths, each produced nearly the
horsepower of GP-7 and they had two battery electric engines which allowed them to switch industries without having to string overhead trolley wire.
Even though the freight business was only modestly successful, the revenue earned helped keep the North Shore going much longer than many of its contemporaries and provided a fascinating  counterpoint to the passenger operation.

DVD Order No. CNSMF/D - Approx. 70 minutes

Includes chapters and selectable audio tracks

$24.95
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