Railroad Books and Videos

Authored by David C. Goss

This book documents the rich and colorful history of our organization from its beginning before World War II to 2003. The volume contains over one hundred and fifty photos of club activities through the years as well as eight full pages of color photos.

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The Fifties Express - Video & DVD

From the Irving E. August 16mm Film Collection by an exclusive arrangement with the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club.

Throughout the Fifties, rail fan Irv August filmed in color the daily activities of North America's railroads. Those sights are gone forever. Now, you can see them again as often as you wish in your own living room. Climb aboard The Fifties Express for a trip to a time when Steamers and First Generation Diesels roamed America's railroads! You'll see Central Vermont steamers at the White River Roundhouse, the Canadian National west of Montreal, Western Maryland freight and passenger trains between Elkins, West Virginia and Cumberland, Maryland, freight and passenger trains of the Baltimore & Ohio and steam on the Pennsylvania Railroad's famous Horse Shoe Curve. You're trackside on the New York Central, the Nickel Plate, the Boston & Maine and at Edaville the two-foot gauge tourist line. On the New Haven follow a steam fantrip in 1953. Massive Y-6 compound articulated 2-8-8-2's are featured on the Norfolk & Western along with the sleek "J" engines on the "Powhatan" and "Cavalier." Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range articulateds move ore to the docks at Two Harbors, Minnesota. A huge Northern Pacific articulated is serviced at Bozeman, Montana. Milwaukee Road Electrics live again as the "Olympian" pulls out of Three Forks, Montana. A pair of "Little Joe's" arrives with a freight. The Grand Finale ... The scene shifts to the North where the Canadian Rockies form a grand backdrop for the steam and diesel powered rains of the Canadian Pacific. Announcer-rail fan Rege Cordic narrates this high quality color production, which includes synchro-dubbed sound. 52 minutes.

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Colorado & Southern Narrow Gauge - Video & DVD

In the 1940's, Rocky Mountain Railroad Club member, Otto Perry, and railroad photographer, Woodrow Gorman captured the last remains of the once vast Colorado & Southern narrow gauge system on film. Scenes on the dramatic Clear Creek Line cover teh Idaho Springs and Black Hawk branches. Current footage of teh rebuilt Georgetown Loop is included and vintage photos add another dimension to this program. The last remnant of the South Park Line from Leadville to Climax is shown just prior to standard gauging. Some of the standard gauge steam trains and the rotary plow are also included. Available in VHS and DVD.

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Otto Perry's Rio Grande San Juan Express - Video & DVD

The Denver & Rio Grande San Juan Express that ran between Alamosa and Durango, Colorado, was a favorite subject for Otto Perry. He photographed and rode the train from 1941 to the end of operation in 1951. Travel over the line with us in all seasons, zigzag across the Colorado & New Mexico border and over Cumbres Pass. As we pass through the small railroad towns of Chama, Monero, Dulce, Navajo, Gato, Ignacio, La Boca and Florida, enjoy the rich Southwestern culture preparing us for arrival in Durango, narrow gauge paradise. An added bonus is a rare film from the Rio Grande's Santa Fe Ranch. You will see the narrow gauge mixed train during its last year of operation on the Chili Line in 1941. Available in VHS and DVD.

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Richard Luckin's Super Chief - Video

The complete story about America's premiere train hosted by television star Micheal Gross. From Chicago to Los Angelos there was no better way to travel. Climb aboard the Super Chief, the showcase train of the Santa Fe Railway. For speed and comfort, the Santa Fe set the standard for all western passenger trains. The Super Chief was the supreme American passenger train by one of America's great railroads which will go down in history as a great monument to our rail industry. Available in VHS and DVD.

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Otto Perry's Moffat Route - DVD

You will see photographs of the Denver, Northwestern, & Pacific, film from the 1920's of rotary snow plows battling on Rollins Pass. Rio Grande era with steam and Diesel freights as well as passenger trains pulled by steam and first generation diesels such as the Exposition Flyer, the Prospector, the Mountaineer, the California Zephyr, the Ski Train, and the local train to Craig.

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Otto Perry's First Generation Diesels - Video

Enjoy long gone passenger trains and freights pulled by classic Diesel locomotives from Fairbanks-Morse, Electro-Motive Division, Alco, GE, Krauss-Maffei, and more including an EM-1, AB5, FTs, F3s, F6s, F7s, E6s, E8s, Centipedes, Eries, & PA-2s. Railroad throughout the United States are seen in this unique film footage including "Fallen Flag" and pre-merger roads.

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Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge East of the Sierra - Video

The Carson & Colorado

A superb evocation of the fabled Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge line that ran in the Owens Valley of California. Both Wilbur Whittaker and Mac Owen combined their talents to bring you this famous line. In 1880 the buccaneers of the Comstock Lode pushed a narrow gauge line into the mineral laden areas of central Nevada from their standard gauge Virginia and Truckee Railroad. Perhaps not as colorful and never as rich, the Carson and Colorado held perhaps greater intrigue. For 300 lonely miles it stretched south across the deserts. Seeking the end of the rainbow in California, it climbed higher than Donner Pass itself, more than 7000 feet above the desert floor and tunneled under the summit of Montgomery Pass. It then went skating down 3.2% grades into the Owens valley and came to rest in the waiting arms of the Southern Pacific at Owenyo. The tracks across the high mountains were abandoned in 1938. This tape will show you the entire length of the line that survived from then until the ultimate abandonment in 1960. It paces freights from Owenyo (Lone Pine) both South to Keeler and North to Laws (Bishop). The mighty Sierras tower almost two vertical miles into a crystal blue as the diminutive trains chuff softly out of Owenyo in late Fall.. Stations, bridges, water tanks, transfer docks and turntables en route are brilliantly lit against the highest mountain peaks in all America, already white with the First of winter. Glorious color 20 minutes.

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Otto Perry's Rio Grande Articulateds, Parts I &II. Part I - La Veta Pass & The Moffat Line - Video

Starts on a beautiful November day from La Veta aboard the daily passenger and climbs grades of 3-1/4% into a blizzard on top. It descends into brilliant sunshine and is paced along the crystalline white of the Sangre de Cristo Range to Alamosa. 3400 class mallets. All Color. The Moffat Line shows D&SL Mallets and every class of D&RG articulated thru the 3800s working up hill, but concentrates on the 3600, the world's largest and most powerful locomotive when it was built. Shows opening of the Dotsero Cut Off, freights across the Colorado Desert and glimpses of Soldier Summit. Ends with the final days of articulated steam as 3 3600s per train blast away at the 2% from Tabernash to the tunnel. Has the Fire Clay run away. Part II - The Joint Line, The Royal Gorge & Tennessee Pass. Follows almost every class of articulated south from Denver as they surmount the 52 miles of unrelieved 1.42% grade to Palmer Lake. Views The Royal Gorge from Cliff Tops above and at river level below. Breathtaking panoramas of the Arkansas Valley, walled by the highest peaks in North America, follow as the 3600s work their way up a steady 1.50% to the 10,200-foot summit of Tennessee Pass. The big show begins when the direction is reversed at Minturn, the bottom of the eastbound 21 mile 2-1/2 to 3-1/4% grade. From there the camera follows freight and passenger back to the same summit - a rise of some 2400 feet. Has landslides in the Royal Gorge and the boiler explosion at Louviers. Some black and white. No super 8. No talking heads. Both RGA-1 and RGA-11 Rio Grande Articulateds Parts I and II - 78 minutes.

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Rio Grande of the Rockies - Video & DVD

From the Irving E. August 16mm Film Collection of the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club

In the mid-50s motive power on the Denver & Rio Grande Western was a fascinating mixture of huge standard gauge steam engines, first generation diesels and narrow gauge steam engines ... some built before the turn of the century! Standard Gauge Rio Grande 3600 2-8-8-2's blast up Tennessee Pass, while on the grade up to Moffat Tunnel, first generation F-9's are assisted by 2-8-8-2's. There is also a run-by of the California Zephyr with PA power. Narrow Gauge operations include long two-engine gondola trains on the Monarch Branch with its unique switchback. At Durango, you'll see K-27 #453, K-28 #473 in yellow paint scheme and K37 #497. The "Silverton Mixed" pulled by 478 leaves with 3 coaches, caboose and business cars B-2 and B-7 ... still in Pullman Green paint. 2-8-0 #318 makes a run-by with a freight train south of Montrose. There's an historic sequence at Gunnison of 2-8-0 #268 just in from the last run on the Sapinero Branch. K-36 2-8-2 #487 plows through deep snow on a flanger-ore train from Gunnison to Crested Butte. Then you're on board the last train over Marshall Pass with 2-8-2's 483 and 489. An authentic hi-fi sync soundtrack has been added and Irv August himself tells the story. This one hour program (standard gauge-24 min., narrow gauge-36 min.) is yours now to enjoy as often as you wish on high quality videocassette.

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Rio Grande Southern - Video

From Sunday River

Rio Grande Southern 90 min. version. A new 90-minute version of the Rio Grande Southern, the famous two-hour tape made from Otto Perry's films in 1988. Every single one of the hundreds of run pasts has been preserved in their entirety. Stills, foliage, narrative and static scenes have been shortened. Narrated by the men and women who worked for, rode on and dedicated their lives to maintaining this important link thru a chaos of 13,000' mountain peaks. It stretched 4% grades to the fabled cities of gold and silver: Telluride, Rico and Ophir. At Placerville it loaded more cattle than any other online Rio Grande station. It carried more happy sightseers thru the golden aspens of autumn aboard its famed Galloping Geese than a years worth of regular passengers. In war it hid the ingredients of the atomic bomb - an ore so heavy it was seldom noticed between the doors of the freight cars. For many, particularly in winter, it was the only way across the mountains to civilization.

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Steam Over Sherman - Video & DVD

From the Irving E. August 16 mm Film Collection by an exclusive arrangement with the Rocky Mountain Railroad Club

Prepare for a journey to a time when the ultimate in steam power stormed westward out of Cheyenne, Wyoming bound for Sherman Hill! Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boys were the largest steam locomotives ever built and you'll see them in regular service as they pound up to the summit of Sherman. Challenger 3959 puts on a grand show as we pace the sister engine of Union Pacific's present day excursion engine 3985. Then trackside, watch her drivers slip as the giant 46-6-4 slowly moves by. The huge 3- cylinder 4-12-2- 9000's are there, along with the 48-4 800's, sister engineers of another famous excursion steamer of today ... 8444. First generation E8's lead the Union Pacific's "City of Los Angeles," "City of San Francisco" and the "Overland Limited" over Sherman but sometimes with steam helpers! The unusual veranda turbine puts in an appearance and then take a tour of the Cheyenne Yard in 1954 with an obvious abundance of steam. This steam classic will be a favorite in your Railroad Video Library. Narrated by Irv August. Color and synchro-dubbed sound. 54 minutes.

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Gunnison - DVD

The Rocky Mountain Railroad Club has opened their archives of the works of Otto Perry and Irv August, noted rail photographers, to give us a glimpse in and around the Town of Gunnison, Colorado in the 1940s and 1950s. Gunnison was a division point on the Denver &Rio Grande Western original narrow gauge mainline to Salt Lake City. Marshall Pass is located to the east of Gunnison, Crested Butte and Baldwin Branches to the north, and Black Canyon and Cerro Summit are to the west. This show highlights D&RGW's biggest to smaller narrow gauge locomotives from Class K36 and K37 to C-16s ... Mudhen K27s and Outside Frame 2-8-0 C-21 s.

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From the Machines of Iron: The Uintah Railway - Video

The Uintah Railway was a 75-mile railroad that operated from 1904 to 1939. It ran in northwestern Colorado from Mack, Colorado, to Watson, Utah. Featuring the original film footage of the new 3-foot narrow gauge articulated locomotive in 1926 on the 7.5% grades of Baxter Pass. Our video combines the historic motion picture film from the Lucian Sprague family and the Colorado Railroad Museum archives with vintage photographs from the collections of several avid Uintah Railway enthusiasts. Modelers, Historians and photographers will all want to add this video of one of Colorado's most unique narrow gauge railroads to their collections.

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Around the Narrow Gauge Circle - Video & DVD

Travel Colorado's Narrow Gauge Circle through the 16mm films of Otto Perry and Irv August from the archives of The Rocky Mountain Railroad Club. From Salida we follow the Denver & Rio Grande original mainline over Marshall Pass then west of Gunnison through the Black Canyon to Cimarron where the challenge of Cerro Summit greets us. Traveling south from Montrose on the Ouray Branch to Ridgway, we pick up the Rio Grande Southern's Silver San Juan Route to Durango. Then we ride Rio Grande's San Juan passenger train to Chama over Cumbres Pass to Alamosa. The trip ends as we travel up the seldom photographed Valley Line over Poncha Pass to Salida.

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Otto Perry's Santa Fe - DVD

The Rocky Mountain Railroad Club opens their archives to show you the works of Otto Perry, noted rail photographer of the Rocky Mountain region. Enjoy long gone Santa Fe Passenger trains pulled by mighty steam locomotives and classic diesel types including an EM-1, FTs, 173s, F6s & PA-2s. All of these diesels are in Warbonnet colors. The Super Chief, the Chief, the El Capitan, the Scout, the Grand Canyon, and the Centennial State trains are featured. Giant wartime 28-8-2s steam locomotives are seen in rare scenes on Raton Pass. There are also plenty of classic Santa Fe steam and diesel locomotives powering freight trains to watch and enjoy.

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This book continues the Moffat Road history after its 1913 reorganization during the railroad's most difficult years. It contains many fine old photographs and is printed on high quality paper. It also features a photo tribute to Otto Perry; William Gibson's 1926 trip to Corona; ninety year history of private car Marcia and a history of chapel car Emmanuel.

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Rio Grande Zephyr - Video & DVD

This fast-paced program features the Rio Grande Zephyr gliding along its entire 565-mile spectacular route. Shot between 1971 and 1983 in all seasons and weather conditions, this vintage footage was taken from the Zephyr as it wound its way through 28 tunnels climbing out of Denver along the Front Range to the 6.4-mile-long Moffat Tunnel. 64 minutes, color.

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Rio Grande Narrow Gauge DVD

It's the 60's again and railfan Jim Marcus is filming in 16mm color some of the last trains over the Rio Grande Narrow Gauage. Lots of Steam, smoke and spectacular scenery await you in this nostalgic and historic program. Follow doubleheadded #498 and #487 from Alamosa to Chama. Next day #498 picks up 3 loads of lumber and loads sheep into double deck stock cars. You follow the trains up Cumbres Pass. You're trackside as the last Rocky Mountain Railroad Club's Fall 'Kolar Karavan' steams from Alamosa over Cumbres Pass to Durango and Silverton. There is much more, including action on the Farmington branch.

This Program features an informative narrative and a musical background has been added to the orginal 16mm silent films.

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Wedges, Rotaries and More DVD

The railroads battle with snow is legendary. Machines of Iron brings you action shots of wedge plows, both steam and diesel rotaries and a modern day Jordan spreader. The railroads represented are: burlington Northern, Union Pacific, Denver & Salt Lake, Southern Pacific, Wyoming Colorado, Cumbres & Toltec, andKyle. Enjoy these seldom recorded views fo the railroads battle with Mother Nature's snow.

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Excursion to the Thirties DVD

In the mountains West of Denver.. a Colorado & Southern freight follows narrow gauge track through Clear Creek Canyon.

The Denver & Rio Grande Western luxury narrow gauge passenger train "San Juan" leaves Durango and the "Shawano" heads West to Gunnison.

A mixed freight makes the run between Durango and Silverton. The "Chili Train" arrives at Santa Fe, New Mexico. A Rio Grande Southern freight crosses one of the magnificent trestles at Ophir.

From Denver the Colorado and Southern is running train s , to Golden, Idaho Springs, Georgetown, Black Hawk, Central City, Como, Fairplay, Leadville and other famous towns of the mining era.

Let's go back now to the years before World War II as we take an Excursion to the Thirties aboard the last Narrow Gauge Railroads of Colorado.

From rare 8mm color films taken 1937 to 1941 by Richard B. Jackson. With narration and railroad sounds. 50 minutes.

Cover photo by Richard Kindig

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