Southern California Live Steamers Presents
Really Cool Railroad Videos

Video Title: "Super Steam": Modern and Historic Examples of Steam Power
Date Added: 5/8/2013 3:42:16 PM

Pretty good video of all things steam.

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Video Title: STEAM TRAINS - Giants Of Steam - U.S.A
Date Added: 3/11/2013 7:07:40 PM

STEAM TRAINS - Giants Of Steam - U.S.A 45 minutes, very good film.

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Video Title: Steam Trains - Cab Forward Locomotives U.S.A
Date Added: 3/11/2013 6:33:33 PM

View the history of the Southern Pacific Cab Forwards. Great film very well done, over one and a half hours.

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Video Title: Steam Trains - Big Boy
Date Added: 3/11/2013 4:33:49 PM

An hour long film on the UP Big Boys and Cheyenne facilities. Excellent film.

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Video Title: Requiem for a Railway: A Job For Life?
Date Added: 12/6/2012 8:18:10 PM

Requiem for a Railway'

Watch three BBC West documentaries broadcast in the mid-1980s focussing on Swindon's Railway Works, prior and up to their closure in April 1986.

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Video Title: St. Pancras Junction Relaying 1947 - London, Midland & Scottish Railway Documentary
Date Added: 11/15/2012 12:11:33 AM

London, Midland & Scottish Railway documentary that shows the relaying of St. Pancras Junction with prefabricated trackwork, along with the associated changes to the signalling system.

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Video Title: Study In Steel - 1935 London Midland & Scottish Railway Documentary
Date Added: 11/15/2012 12:09:42 AM

The London Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS) takes us into the Crewe workshops to watch a Princess Royal Class steam locomotive being built. The locomotive seen during the film is no. 6207, named "Princess Arthur of Connaught".

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Video Title: The Railroad Signal - New York Central Railroad Educational Documentary 1948
Date Added: 10/18/2012 2:42:46 PM

New York Central Railroad Educational Documentary from 1948 that gives an overview of railroad signals and related safe working infrastructure used by trains, as well as the ongoing improvements to the signalling systems due to technological advances.

The film was released as part of the NYC's "Running the Railroad" series, and features many examples of different signalling systems in use by the New York Central Railroad, as well as lots of scenes of passenger and freight trains.

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Video Title: A Great Railroad at Work - 1942 American Railroads & Trains
Date Added: 10/18/2012 2:37:22 PM

Climb aboard the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad in the early 1940's and ride behind electric & steam locomotives and first generation diesels. This film also shows a wide range of buses, trolleys, ferries and other modes of transport owned by the railroad to help perform its core business of freight and passenger transportation.

There are scenes from inside the workshops, in the freight yards, views of the "Yankee Clipper" and inside the luxury passenger carriages. The railroad infrastructure is seen, including the large stations. You'll even see trains being transferred via barges along the rivers!

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Video Title: 3685 horsepower steam locomotive
Date Added: 10/18/2012 2:35:35 PM

Building a mamouth new locomotive in 1928. From pattern shop to the rails at the Angus Shops of the Canadian Pacific Railway in Montreal. The most powerful sream locomotive in the British Empire

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