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Newsletter - MARCH 2008
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SPV has been bringing you the best of American Railroading now for 25 years! To help celebrate this we have designed a t-shirt with American Steam and Diesel locos! These high quality t'shirts are available in sizes Medium, Large, XLarge and XXLarge.
If you would like one of these and show your love of American trains they are for sale for just
£ 10.95 inc. of UK p&p
WITHERS
This nice book traces the history of Alco's 6-Axle Century models: Chapter headings: C-630 vs SD40 vs U30C; Century 628; Century 630; Century 636; Centuries in Color; Alco Six-Axle Century Roster (by model); and Alco Six-Axle Century Roster (by builder's date). List price $40.00, softcover, color and b&w photos, 208 pages. Book Produced by Withers Publishing
£ 20.00 (Incl. UK p&p)
New Books From
Lackawanna RR Facilities In Color Volume 2: Dover to Scranton by Robert J. Yanosey
Out of the suburban zone and out into the countryside of NJ and eastern Pennsylvania to see “Mile for Mile the Most Highly Developed RR in America.”
£ 39.00 (Incl. UK p&p)
Canadian Railways Color Guide to Freight/Passenger Equipment, Vol. 2: Manitoba & West by John Riddell
Shortlines and Regional roads of western Canada – but no CP or CN!
Trackside in the Heartland 1946-1959 with John Knauff and Vincent Purn by Kevin Holland and Robert J. Yanosey
Up the Mississippi River into St. Louis, Chicago, Minneapolis-St.Paul, Denver and many lesser locations in the late steam – early diesel years.
New Books From Kalmbach
Mid-Size Track Plans for Realistic Layouts
Features 26 innovative model railroad track plans in Z, N, HO, O, and G Scales and fit spaces from 8'x10' to a 20'x20' G Scale garage layout. Based on such interesting prototype lines as Western Maryland – Thomas Subdivision, White Pass & Yukon, Norfolk Southern's Shirley Industiral Park, Chesapeake & Ohio's Chicago Diviso, Denver & Rio Grande Western's Craig Branch, Erie/LTV Mining Railroad, Utah Railway, and New York City's Bush Terminal.
Softcover; 8.25 x 10.75; 112 pages; 100 color photos; 50 b&w photos; 14 illustrations;
£ 12.95(Incl. UK p&p)
Steam Today
This all-new 100-page special issue from Trains magazine will take you trackside and in the cab of the amazing machines of yesterday that keep rolling today. Steam Today, the special issue from Trains magazine - Remarkable photos of the great steam engines still running today - The debate about rebuilding or reboilering steam engines - The men and women who keep steam alive today - Traveling steam: The fun and frustration of intinerant.
£ 4.50 (Incl. UK p&p)
How to Build Realistic Layouts 4
How To Build Realistic Layouts: Towns & Cities focuses on the towns and cities along railroad lines. This issue brings you how-to stories on modeling telephone and power lines, prototype drawings of storefronts, exciting photography, and much more! Don’t miss this all-new special issue from the editors of Model Railroader!
£ 4.25 (Incl. UK p&p)
WESTLAKE PUBLISHING
CONTENTS: Chapter 1 The Camino, Placerville & Lake Tahoe Railway Chapter 2 A Three Truck Shay Chapter 3 The Degulbeef & Cradding Railroad Chapter 4 West Side Lumber Company Shay Number 10 Chapter 5 The Foss Landing Diorama: Ruminations On The Art Of Trial And Error Chapter 6 Build A Four Wheel Industrial Caboose And Tank Car Chapter 7 A Brick Building Diorama Chapter 8 Rolling Stock For The Rock Creek & Dilligaf Chapter 9 Selected Pages From The 1918 Gregg Company Catalog OUR COVER: The Camino, Placerville & Lake Tahoe’s second side door caboose as it appeared in 1951. (Photo from the Mallory Hope Ferrell collection) PLANS Modifications To A Precision Scale Company Shay
£ 13.95 (Incl. UK p&p)
DVDS
"BNSF's Triple Track" C. Vision's tour of railroads in and around the Chicagoland area continues in Windy City Rails, Volume 4. In this program, videographer Marshall Beecher takes his cameras to several locations along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe's Triple Track Main from Chicago to Aurora. This ex-Chicago Burlington and Quincy main line does double duty as it hosts trains traversing to and from the Twin Cities on the Aurora Sub and Galesburg on the Mendota Sub. Numerous high priority intermodal, coal and general freight trains share these rails with Amtrak and Metra. Run-through trains from the Canadian National and Union Pacific also operate on the Triple Track. At the east end near Union Avenue, witness several of Union Pacific's 'Z' trains which cross the Triple Track, and see U.P. movements with several of their Heritage locomotives! All this movement makes the Triple Track one of the busiest main lines in the Chicago area. Just about every kind of locomotive that the BNSF rostered in 2007 can be seen in this program! Add in all that variety along with over 150 trains featured in this show and you have one of the best BNSF programs anywhere!!! DVD Narration on/off feature.
112 mins colour Narration Regular price £21.00 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 25th May 2008 - £20.00 (free UK & European p&p)
C. Vision Productions invites you to our favorite railroad location, Newcastle, Wyoming. This old coal mining town sits on the east central edge of Wyoming and borders the western slopes of the beautiful Black Hills. It is here that the ex-CB&Q main line from Alliance, Nebraska to Billings, Montana weaves its way through Newcastle. Many scenic spots along this line include long sweeping curves and an original depot that still looks as good today as it did in the steam era. This line is BNSF's Black Hills Subdivision. It handles numerous coal trains on a daily basis. In this production, C. Vision captures images from 1990 thru 1994 in the Burlington Northern years. SD-40 dash 2's, C-30 dash 7's and SD-60M's take charge of coal trains in the BN era. There are also several LMX B-39 dash 8's and B.N. B-30 dash 7A's in charge of general freights. These historic trains are combined with SD-70 MAC's, SD-70 ACe's, Dash 9-44AC's and ES-44AC's that were captured in 2006 and 2007 in the BNSF years. Don't miss this show as it captures two different time frames and documents the progression of the BNSF in "Newcastle"!
117 mins colour Narration Regular price £21.00 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 25th May 2008 - £20.00 (free UK & European p&p)
It’s one of the roughest, toughest mountain passes, where heavy tonnage trains battle 2.2 percent grades and up to three sets of helpers are needed for the haul. It’s a line of repeated horseshoe curves, with two long trestles, and a 3,896-foot long tunnel that crosses the Continental Divide. It’s located in the Big Sky country of Montana, where endless vistas of mountains and cloud-filled skies create a scenic backdrop for trains of 100-plus cars. It’s a place where two railroads juggle nonstop traffic over 29 miles of partially single-tracked mountain rails. Welcome to Mullan Pass! Burlington Northern and Montana Rail Link shared the line when Video Rails captured the excitement on this legendary Pass in 1990. Starting at Helena Junction, we see BN and MRL trains depart for the steep climb to the summit. Every westbound train needs helpers and MRL’s heaviest power is assigned to its helper pool. SD40-2s and SD45s make up the bulk of the power seen here. 15,000-ton coal trains with 45,000 HP grind their way up the 2.2 percent grade, past Iron Ridge, Greenhorn Trestle, and Skyline Trestle to Mullan Tunnel, Blossburg Siding, and Elliston. Huge clouds of diesel exhaust billow out of the tunnel, making it easy to see why it’s called the “Black Fog of Blossburg.” A special treat is a cab ride across the Pass in the lead helper engine of BN Train 195, a daily mixed freight. Whether you’re viewing the line from the crews’ perspective, from trackside, or through vast panorama views, railroading on Mullan Pass is an awesome experience you’ll want to enjoy again and again! Produced by Video Rails 1998.
60 mins colour Narration SPECIAL PRICE £10.00 (free UK & European p&p)
I don't know if it is the bright sunny day, the beautiful city of vienna or the trams themselves that makes the views around Vienna's ring road so delightful. We see a lot of trams in action. Conventional trams, new, slinky trams, historic trams and the interurban-like street railway. On the wide uncongested streets bendy trams are no problem and we get excellent views of all the trams.
AVAILABLE IN REGULAR OR WIDESCREEN FORMAT 90 mins colour Narration on/off Regular price £18 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 25th May 2008 - £17.00 (free UK & European p&p)
Sunday River Productions
Here we are highlighting the first four DVDs from Sunday River Productions. They will gradually bring more programmes on to DVD and we will be highlighting others on our next newsletter. We are stocking ALL DVDs that are available but here are four great programmes to start with!
Every kind of steam locomotive ever conceived to haul logs: Shays, Heislers , Climaxes, Articulated rod and Rigid frame Engines. You'll see the Feather River Shays high on S-curved trestles, getting a run at a 5.5% grade with 25 degree curves, and the fireworks pin-wheel of Climaxes tackling 6% grades on the Hillcrest. Heislers dance around the log dump like daddy long legs spiders. Climb in to the cab as Rayonier Mallet #8 heads for tall timber and returns with logs of Bunyan size. Two versions of the McLeod operation: first, a double-headed fan trip with an SP daylight consist and - in the 10 foot drifts of February - a sparkling vignette in brilliant sunshine with Mt Shasta towering behind.
54 mins colour Narration Regular price £18 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 25th May 2008 - £17.00 (free UK & European p&p)
Gorre and Daphetid (Gory and Defeated) is the most famous model railroad built in this century. Two weeks after the death of it designer and builder, John Allen, it was destroyed by fire. All recordings were believed to have been destroyed. Thanks to recent discovery of the films, this tape, remastered, offers you the ultimate of model railroading: a vast network of standard, narrow gauge and mixed gauge- even a trolley line. More than 100 bridges, no two alike, some soaring 5 feet above the floor, others crawling the labyrinthine canyons of the Akinback Mountain range, complete with working cable cars and water wheels. Includes the saga of the notorious Sore Feats Gang and their terrible but richly-deserved final demise. We've used John's own slides to magnify his exquisite detail, from snow capped peaks to ocean car ferry, and bring to life to the thousands of miniature people and working railroad artifacts that surprised and delighted so many- even non- modelers.
113 mins colour Narration Regular price £22 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 25th May 2008 - £21.00 (free UK & European p&p)
The whole story of one of the world's most famous streamlined trains, from birth to burial. The whole trip from Dearborn Station, Chicago to Union Terminal, Los Angeles, with particular attention to the Great Bridges across the Mississippi and Missouri and the Great Passes: Raton, Glorieta and Cajon. Above Raton the Sangre de Cristo peaks sparkle in the breathtaking white of early winter against a diamond blue New Mexico sky. The Super Chief squeezes onto the sinuous single track hung in the slot canyon above Apache Creek as it squirms toward Glorieta Pass ( as high and more spectacular than Raton, but rarely photographed). Feel the suction of air as the train roars past on the prairie. See inside the luxury consist, and glimpse the rest of the Santa Fe's streamlined fleet in action, including the San Francisco Chief, The Texas Chief, The Grand Canyon, The El Capitan, and Alco PAs leading The San Diegan along the Pacific surf.
73 mins colour Narration Regular price £22 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 25th May 2008 - £21.00 (free UK & European p&p)
GLENN BEIER"S EXHAUSTIVE COVERAGE This shows you the West Side Flume and Logging Company Railroad when it was really a working railroad. You see dozens of narrow gauge trains with empty log skeletons battling better than 5% grades to the high camps and then loaded with logs of garganuan size, the retainer set, the hand brakes tied down and the wheels smoking as the whole crew sweats to keep the train from getting away. The spindly trestles towering above the canyon walls, the dramatic, airborne ballet at the reloads, with ten ton logs poised for feather light placement, the explosive water dumps. Even the very last train ever to run on The West Side! This is a work of devotion by a motion picture professional, Glenn Beier. It is not a collection of film scraps scrounged from the some cutting room floor. This is the ultimate source for information and dramatic, color photography of the West Side.
80 mins colour Narration Regular price £22 NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 25th May 2008 - £21.00 (free UK & European p&p)
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SPV 25 YEARS SPV has now been going for 25 years and we have brought to you all the best programmes of American Railroading in that time. We started in the early 80s with videos as the American NTSC system wouldn’t play outside of North America. Initially we were not sure if there would be a market outside of the U.S. for the amazing power and might of the American scene. Over the last 25 years we have shown this subject off and have grown to supply other products including our own published North American Railroad Atlases compiled and drawn by Mike Walker. These have become the industry standard with many railroads now using them and have now started to cover Canada and have completed Western Canada with three more areas to cover. We are also now the distributors of books from all the best American publishers and supply other items such as magazines, t-shirts, sweatshirts, seasonal cards and calendars. We couldn’t bring these all to you without your support and we hope to continue to do so for many more years to come.
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