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| Tracks Ahead Season I - 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.
Volume 1 of Season 1 (1990) includes: the history and present operations of the Cleveland Rapid Transit system; an HO scale layout which models the Chicago and Northwestern railroad in the 1950's; an amazing wood carver, David Warther, whose talents created remarkable railroad models; the collection of former Lionel Corporation owner Richard Kughn; toy collector Ed Green's tinplate trains; a premier train collection at the Indianapolis Children's Museum; a visit to a radio controlled live steam garden railroad in California; a photo essay on America's continuing love of trains and railroading; a visit to the Northern Railcar wheelshop to investigate how maintenance on railroad car wheels and trucks is performed; artist Gil Reid; Horseshoe Curve and the Railroader's Museum in Altoona, Pennsylvania; an N gauge layout that models the famous Tehachapi loop; the Amtrak Midwest repair facility in Chicago; railroad photographer Wendell Murphy; an exemplary American Flyer layout; circus trains; an O gauge traction layout; railroad artist Russ Porter at his home in a converted Chicago, Joliet and Elgin private coach; a visit to the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento, California; a look at an historic Pennsylvania landmark, Roadside America; the Roaring Camp & Big Trees Railroad in California; the Chicago Elevated System; railroad author Jim Scribbins; and a turn of the century HO scale layout. Color, 4 hours.
Volume 2 of Season 1 includes the Denver and Rio Grande's Moffat Tunnel; the Train Collector's Association Museum in Strasburg, Pennsylvania; railroad author Bob Baker; a model live steam club operation in Wisconsin; renown railroad collector and former Walt Disney animator, Ward Kimball; a model railroad set in logging country; an operating interurban museum at Trolleyville, USA; a profile on the Milwaukee Road; a premier railroad dining experience on Scenic Rail Dining; a Lionel layout at The Train Barn in Kalamazoo, Michigan; railroading publisher Don Heimberger; a visit to the William K. Walthers manufacturing company; the Chicago & North Western intermodal yards; the Santa Fe Piggyback operations in Chicago; a look at an operating railroad museum in North Freedom, Wisconsin; the Milwaukee Model Railroad club; one of the oldest railroad clubs in America; a visit to the Lionel factory to see how toy trains are made; railroad historian David Myers; the Cuyahoga Valley Model Railroad club in Cleveland, Ohio; a close look at a 15 inch gauge live steam railroad circling the Milwaukee Zoo; a visit with Stan Roy, who can operate twenty-seven trains at the same time on his Lionel layout; railroad historian J. David Ingles, a historical profile of the Milwaukee Electric Railroad and Light operation; visits the Pennsylvania State Railroad Museum; the O gauge layout at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry; an operating session on the old Kalmbach layout; the Milwaukee, Racine and Troy Railroad; a profile on the Minneapolis Commercial Railroad; and a talk with authors and publishers Tom McComas and James Touhy. Color, 3 hours.
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