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2009 CALENDARS

view extra pics Colorado Narrow Gauge 2009 Calendar	view extra pics Howard Fogg 2009 Calendar	view extra pics Pennsylvania Railroad 2009 Calendar
A rail fan favorite, Colorado Narrow Gauge features photographs of the trains that once traversed the narrow gauge rails that served the state's mountain-bound mines and communities in the 1800s. Images come from the Colorado Railroad Museum, established in 1959 to preserve a tangible record of Colorado's flamboyant railroad era. £ 10.95 (FREE UK p&p)	Considered the all-time master of railroading art, Howard Fogg painted the power and majesty of the steel wheel on the steel rail. After rail fans discovered Fogg's artistry, he spent the next 50 years as a freelance artist reinventing the steam age. Howard Fogg's Trains commemorate the great age of railroading £ 10.95 (FREE UK p&p)	Chartered in Pennsylvania in 1846, construction of the Pennsylvania Rail Road began in 1847, and the first all-rail line reached Pittsburgh in 1852. Eventually PRR connected Chicago with Washington, D.C. . Pennsylvania Railroad recalls the unique engines and trains of “The Standard Railroad of the World.” £ 10.95 (FREE UK p&p)


view extra pics R. Allison's Passenger Trains 2009 Calendar	view extra pics Milwaukee Road 2009 Calendar	view extra pics Santa Fe 2009 Calendar
Recalling the era of superlative trains, Richard Allison's American Passenger Trains presents a selection of American icons ranging from New York Central's 20th Century Limited, and the The Grand Canyon Limited, to The Katy Flyer, and Santa Fe's Super Chief. An award winning painter, Allison's work has been widely collected and exhibited at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. £ 10.95 (FREE UK p&p)	Chartered in 1849, the Milwaukee Road eventually extended its tracks across the northern tier of the U.S. to the Pacific Ocean. Noted for its passenger service and innovative electric trains, the line's successes were overshadowed by weak management and strong competition. Absorbed into the Soo line in 1986, CP Rail and other lines now run on former Milwaukee Road tracks. £ 10.95 (FREE UK p&p)	Chartered in 1863, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway's first trains rolled the next year, and the line reached Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1880. By 1929, at its peak, the Santa Fe had over 13,000 miles of track. Santa Fe captures images of steam and diesel across this vast system. £ 10.95 (FREE UK p&p)


view extra pics Those Remarkable Trains 2009 Calendar	view extra pics Trains at work 2009 Calendar	view extra pics The Art of Model Railroading 2009
14 x 11 Charles Ditlefsen Trains Wall Calendar: This year's edition of the world's best-selling train calendar features spectacular images of steam, electric, and diesel locomotives across the United States and Canada. £ 10.95 (FREE UK p&p)	Spectacular scenery and hardworking trains appear year-round in full-color photos £ 10.95 (FREE UK p&p)	This beautifully illustrated calendar reveals the most interesting and most realistic model layouts to be found. £ 10.95 (FREE UK p&p)

New Book From MBI

Burlington's Zephyrs
Author: Karl R. Zimmerman

This authoritative, illustrated history of the Zephyr fleet examines the trains, their motive power and landmark streamlined designs, rolling stock (including the Vista-Dome, generally considered the first successful dome car), and services. Dozens of black-and-white archival images and period color photographs depict Zephyrs along routes throughout the Midwest, Rocky Mountains, Pacific Coast, and Texas, as well as Burlington uniforms, dinnerware, stations and terminals, and interior views of cars. In the process, the book provides a dramatic visual account of train travels decline throughout the century. Also featured are period advertisements, and route maps, timetables, and menus.
Hardcover - 8.87" x 11.25" - 128 pp - 50 color, 75 b/w

£ 25.00 (Incl. UK p&p)

New Books From

Canadian Trolleys In Color Vol. 2: Western Canada
by Robert Halperin

Visit the trolley systems of Calgary, Edmonton, Lethbridge, Nelson, Regina, Saskatoon, Vancouver, Victoria and Winnipeg in more than 250 rare color photographs. Author Halperin gives detailed accounts of these long forgotten systems.

£ 39.00 (Incl. UK p&p)

Rio Grande In Color Vol. 4: Late Steam & First Generation Diesels
by Timothy Morris

Examine the last of Rio Grande steam in main line freight and passenger service followed by a down the roster look at everything from FT’s to SD9’s. Detailed by a former D&RGW employee.

£ 39.00 (Incl. UK p&p)

New Book From WITHERS

The Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide - 2008 Edition

When it first appeared in 1967, the Diesel Spotter's Guide by Jerry A. Pinkepank brought much-needed organization to the sport of diesel spotting in North America. Subsequent guides have covered the evolution of the diesel-electric, including Diesel Era's The Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide, 2000 edition. Now, more than 40 years after the original guide was published, authors Louis A. Marre and Paul K. Withers have teamed again to update The Contemporary Diesel Spotter's Guide, putting a Diesel Era "spin" on the newest edition. The year 2008 edition will help you identify diesel locomotives from such spotting features as hood shape, truck type, and the location and number of fans, louvers, and doors. Offered in our standard 6" x 9" size for easy carrying in the field, this 248-page perfect-bound book contains more than 500 color photographs. It is a must for railfan and model railroader libraries alike.

£ 19.50 (Incl. UK p&p)

DVDS

Winter on the Arizona Divide
by Highball Productions

Big time winter railroading across the Arizona Divide. Heavy snow in the San Francisco Mountains, Arizona’s highest point, north of Flagstaff brought snow to the BNSF Railway’s transcontinental main line. This busy route is now home to new GE “GEVO’s” and the new paint scheme. Many favorite locations on the Seligman Sub, including Darling, Maine, Chalender, Williams Junction, Doublea and Eagle Nest. Heavy big railroad action.

WIDESCREEN ONLY
90 mins colour Features narration On/Off
Regular price £21.00
NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 29th August 2008 - £20.00 (free UK & European p&p)

CSX ACROSS OHIO
by Highball Productions

CSX on the former B&O main line, now CSX's Chicago Line, across the Buckeye State between State Line and Greenwich. Includes Deshler, Fostoria, Attica Junction, Willard and Greenwich.

WIDESCREEN ONLY
90 mins colour Features narration on/off
Regular price £21.00
NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 29th August 2008 - £20.00 (free UK & European p&p)

Steam Over La Veta Pass
by Highball Productions

Ex Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 #18 struts her stuff on a photo freight over Colorado’s La Veta Pass in May, 2008. You’ll see the locomotive being serviced, some awesome runby’s and some of the ride from the caboose. Exciting steam action

WIDESCREEN ONLY
75 mins colour Features narration on/off
Regular price £21.00
NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 29th August 2008 - £20.00 (free UK & European p&p)

Key System Scrapbook Part 2
by Charles Smiley Presents

See the Key System forward from 1945 and the end of WW II that brought the National City Lines ‘buy-out’. See the last 13 years of a great transit line that struggled to maintain quality service in a world of change. We review the NCL and compare its new control of the Key System to the LA Railway and others. See the last few years of the Key’s subsidiary streetcar lines that were all ripped out after 1948.
Visit the Transbay Terminal in San Francisco and ride the Bay Bridge.
Visit and ride through the Bridge Yard and recall the Key’s great fleet of Bridge Units connecting the greater East Bay with San Francisco. Run through the Emeryville Yard and watch trains spill past Tower Two. See great trains in a wealth of locations in a bygone era on all the Bridge Lines A through F. Don’t miss the action with freight trains down 40th Street from Sacramento Northern’s connection to the C Line and the Oakland Terminal Railway.
The F Line’s “City Of Berkeley” Key train of former SN Ry cars is just one of the delights to see on the Berkeley Line. Watch the stunning B Line trains around Lake Merritt and on up to Underhill. The C Line to Piedmont and Oakland Avenue offers the beauty of the East Bay. Sixteen people shot film that made this video possible for you to see! Their efforts allow us to relive those
wonderful days. The Key has now been gone for 50-years!

66 mins colour Narration
Regular price £20.00
NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 29th August 2008 - £19.00 (free UK & European p&p)

Virginia and Truckee
by Sunday River Productions

Completely revised Double in Length

In the first part,shot by Arthur E LaSalle in 1949, the westbound Overland Limited arrives Reno behind a cab forward and The Virginia and Truckee daily mixed departs from the opposite side of the station for a three hour run the entire length of the line. Next, Wilbur C. Whittaker captures the highlights of an NRHS special: Reno to Carson City. Finally, from the Otto Perry collection, the last passenger train and the final official train, each from Reno to Minden in May 1950.
The V and T was built to serve:the Comstock lode. This is the railroad that carried more than the combined weight of all its rails and stock in pure glistening silver from the richest hill on earth.
It includes a visit to the 17 stall sandstone round house in Carson City, eyeball to eyeball pacing at a thunderous 45 MPH and lonely shots of a tiny train against the snow capped peaks that frame the desolate Washoe valley.

44 mins colour Narration
Regular price £19.00
NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 29th August 2008 - £18.00 (free UK & European p&p)

Narrow Gauge East of the Sierra
by Sunday River Productions

This visually stunning feature chronicles the fabled narrow gauge steam trains of the Southern Pacific which once crossed the desert reaches of California’s Owens Valley. Against a backdrop of soaring snow-capped peaks, the trains make their way to and from lonely mining operations at the foot of the mountains in the sparkling clear days of late Autumn.
The entire line as it still survived in 1960 is covered, including stations, bridges, water tanks, and turntables. Narrow gauge gondolas run up a specially-built trestle to dump into standard-gauge cars below. Enormous bars of silver, too heavy to steal, are piled at trackside to wait the train's arrival. The road’s quaint and unique caboose/ combine brings up the rear of the train as a Native American from the local reservation, according to official company policy, hitches a ride on a boxcar roof. All this, as the highest peaks in the lower 48 stand watch under the crystal-blue dome of the desert sky. A jewel of a show!

31 mins colour Narration
Regular price £18.00
NEW RELEASE OFFER UNTIL 29th August 2008 - £17.00 (free UK & European p&p)

TRACKS AHEAD SERIES

After the success and popularity of the release of Series 6 in the last newsletter, we have been asked for the other
5 programmes of the series.
As always, the magazine-style series explores every aspect of the railroads of the world. You'll see railroad prototypes, models, personalities and lore covering not only the railways and modelers of the past, but of the present and future.

TRACKS AHEAD SERIES 6

Season 6 is on a three disk set, with added features, and 5.1 surround sound audio
Disk 1
Program #601 Alco PA1
Program #602 Wisconsin & Southern Railroad
Program #603 Digital Command Control
Program #604 Ireland Steam Tour
DVD Extra - China Rail Trip, Music Video
Disk 2
Program #605 Amusement Park Trains
Program #606 The White Creek Railroad
Program #607 Grand Canyon Hotels
Program #608 Holiday in Cincinnati
Program #609 Carpathian Logging Railroad
Disk 3
Program #610 Miniature Wonderland
Program #611 The Great Train Story
Program #612 Rügen Island Railway
Program #613 Empire Builder
Program #614 G Gauge in Mesa