Can anyone recommend a good DVD or vhs on Santa Fe steam, besides 3751? I would appreciate your input. It is easy to find Diesel era stuff, but steam other than 3751 seems more difficult. Thanks! :angel:
There is one out there by, I think, Vintage Rails, absorbed by Pentrex, about 3759's last run over Cajon, and a photographer rode on the tender filming over the engine as I recall. Let me check. Found it, and the photographer was J. Allen Hawkins. I don't know if this is still available through Pentrex, but check them out. :teeth:
It's still lsited on their web site. Also, check Green Frog. They have a lot of steam offerings. Boxcab E50
The company was Video Rails and it was a pretty good video, as I recall. Of course, I might be a bit biased as I wrote the narration for it . . . Regards, Paul
Paul, was that your career field? I have a lot of videos and most have very well done narration. Maybe I have others that you have done. Good job on the 3759 one, and yes, it was VIDEO rails. Good company. :teeth: Oh, and Welcome aboard Trainboard. I think you'll like it here.
Thanks for the welcome and the kind words, Jim, and it's nice to be here. (Seems to be a lot going on here, so I'm still finding my way around.) As far as Video Rails goes, I'm not sure just how many of their videos I scripted, but it would include virtually every one that was done between, say, November '89 (beginning with The Challengers) through the beginning of '92 (the so-called "Smithsonian Series," which basically recycled a lot of previous Union Pacific and Southern Pacific footage with new commentary). Oh, and you could throw in the uncredited but somewhat infamous Trainwrecks, which was issued under the "Landmark" label but was, in fact, a Video Rails project to raise some capital quickly. (None of us took a credit on that one, and I sometimes felt almost as though I'd taken part in a "snuff flick." But, last I heard, the darn thing's still out there and still selling!) I don't know whether I'd call it a "career field," but it was (mostly) fun. And somewhat lucrative, come to think of it . . . Thanks again for the welcome! -- Paul
