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| Tracks Ahead Series III - DVD
Tracks Ahead is an award winning, critically acclaimed series that has aired on Public Television since 1990. Hosted by Spencer Christian, its magazine-style format and unique topics appeal to audiences of all ages and interests.
Series 3 features: the history and future of container shipping; a look at Gunderson Corporation, the Santa Fe Railroad, and the TTX Corporation; the modeling skills of an HO scale railroad enthusiast; a ride through California's Napa Valley on the Napa Wine Train; pen and ink artist Herschel Scot; the Wisconsin Central Railroad, a short line success story; modular model railroads, highlighted by a visit to an Orlando modular club; artist Larry Fisher, who paints details with a number one brush and a magnifying glass; a visit to the Hawaiian Historic Railroad Society; Clarke Dunham, a nationally known theater set designer who demonstrates building train layouts; the Miller Family model railroad; the successful Boone & Scenic Valley tourist line; Santa Fe artist Ted Rose; the Little Joe electric locomotives used in Chile, where they work side by side with steam locomotives on scenic lines throughout this South American country; former CSX Railroad photographer John Corns; the Great Smoky Mountain Tourist Railroad; a look at Warren Frost's outstanding collection of American Flyer trains; the narrow gauge Cumbres & Toltec Railroad in Northern New Mexico; a visit with an Amtrak's chef; the large G scale layout at the Dallas Children's' Hospital; the large scale layout of a man who raised the roof of his house to accommodate his model railroad; the Alaska Railroad; tinplate Marx trains from the 1950's; the Baltimore railroad museum; and the photography of calendar artist Don Wood.
The Transportation Test Center for the American Association of Railroads; a ride to the top of Pikes Peak on the Manitou and Pike's Peak rack railroad; a man whose love of trains and film photography allowed him to capture images from the 1940's; a showplace Southern California garden railroad that is a family hobby; steam train in Paraguay, South America; two women who recall their days of working on the Southern Railroad; a rebuilt Milwaukee Road steam locomotive that now runs excursion trips through West Virginia; a visit to MicroTrains Corporation, builder of N and Z scale locomotives and rolling stock; a visit to the oldest model railroad in the country is at Renssalaer Polytechnic Institute; the North Shore Electroliner; a visit to the New Hope and Ivyland Railroad, a Pennsylvania tourist line where the train wreck from "The Fugitive" was filmed; a visit with a man who has built a scale model of the Lincoln funeral train; the Apalachicola Northern, a railroad built in Northern Florida to compete with the Panama Canal; a visit to McKinney Avenue, a restored section of old Dallas which has an added attraction of streetcars; American Flyer Bob Board; a nostalgic look at railroad advertising; a visit to a freight line in central Iowa which is an offshoot of interurban passenger service; the amazing Tunkhannock Viaduct, the largest poured concrete span in the world; the Flagler Museum in Palm Beach; the Browning Plantation, a Texas bed and breakfast that has a special attraction - an extensive 7½ inch gauge live steam operation; a behind-the-scenes look at one of the oldest streetcar lines in the United States, the St. Charles Line in New Orleans; a ride through rugged southern Brazil on 1950's Budd Rail Diesel Cars; railroad photographer John Gruber; the Columbia Gorge Model Railroad Club in Portland, Oregon; the garden railway exhibit at the Milwaukee Mitchell Park Conservatory; a look at Morrison and Knudsen, one of the few remaining railroad locomotive and railcar builders left in the United States; artist Angela Trotta-Thomas, whose nostalgic paintings capture childhood memories of the 1950's; a restored portion of the Denver and Rio Grande narrow gauge route through the Rockies on the Georgetown Loop Railroad; and a visit with Dr. Nicholas Muff, an avid collector of American Flyer and Kansas City Southern memorabilia who has has constructed a Pullman car as a guest room and a full F7 locomotive cab complete with lights and horns. Color, 6 hrs. 30 min.
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