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| Tracks Ahead Series II - 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 2 features: the Lake Superior & Ishpeming Railroad, a short line railroad running in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan between the ore mines and docking facilities at Marquette; country music singer Boxcar Willie; an American Flyer model railroad featuring Plasticville structures; the Verkershaus der Swiss, a transportation museum in Lucerne, Switzerland; the Krupp Mak locomotive building facility in Kiel, Germany for a look at the construction of diesel-hydraulic DE-1024 engines; the efficiencies of rail travel and the expansion of Amtrak; a discussion with Bill Volheim and Art Zirul, two men who worked on the 1940 Lionel showroom layout; the East Broadtop Railroad in Orbisonia, Pennsylvania, a profile of Chris Knapton, director of public relationsat the Metropolitan Transit Authority in Chicago; a visit to the Marklin Train factory and museum in Goppingen, Germany; the history of the Tehachapi Loop in the mountains north of Los Angeles; a profile of Richard Misunas, a conductor on the Milwaukee to Chicago Amtrak run, who offers a running commentary on the benefits of rail travel; a tour of the Lehmann Company in Nuremberg, Germany, which provides a behind-the-scenes look at the manufacturing process for large gauge trains; the Deutsche Bundesbahn's Inter City Express, a high speed electric train which connects major cities in Germany, and sustains speeds of 250 Kilometers per hour (about 160 mph); a profile of Bruce Moffat, the author of "40 Feet Below;" a visit to Chuck Brasher of Grass Valley, California, who displays his American Flyer cardboard station, along with other pieces in his collection; a historical look at the Lima Locomotive Works in Lima, Ohio; the history and present operation of the Mt. Washington Cog Railway in New Hampshire; Gion Caprez, a physicist who joined the Swiss Railroads after discovering he preferred working outside; a father and son garden railroad operation in Milwaukee; and the Red Car trolleys at the Orange Empire Railway Museum in Los Angeles.
Interurban railway vehicles; an old North Boston tower which was literally sawed below the roof-line and brought to a museum by barge; the Union Pacific Harriman Dispatch Center in Omaha, artist Howard Fogg, who demonstrates some of his train paintings and offers insight into how he picks a subject; a wonderful O Scale hi-rail layout in Moore, South Carolina; a tour of the Midland Railway Center in Ripley, England, where steam engines are displayed; a visit to the highest railway station in the world, the Jungfraujoch outside of Interlochen, Switzerland; artist Grif Teller, who created the artwork for the Pennsylvania Railroad calendars of the 1930s and '40; a look at four layouts at the San Diego Model Railroad Museum; and a 15-inch gauge operation at the Sandley Locomotive Works at Wisconsin Dells, which features scaled down buildings as well as shops with machinery driven by belts from a central line shaft; a behind-the-scenes look at Amtrak's major repair and maintenance facility in Beech Grove, Indiana; a trip on the Nostalgie Istanbul Orient Express Train Deluxe, a train comprised of 1930s vintage restored cars from various European railways and pulled by a German steam locomotive; a profile of model railroad legend John Allen, who built an HO scale train layout in the 1950s that became the de facto standard for scenery and mountain modeling for many years; a ride through Arizona aboard The Copper Basin Railroad, a short line railroad in north Central Arizona. This railroad uses heavy rail and EMD diesel locomotives to haul copper from the open pit mines to interchange points with the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe Railroads; the Santa Fe Railroad feeder line from Williams, Arizona to the south rim of the Grand Canyon in the early 20th Century; artist and photographer O. Winston Link, who captured striking vignettes of humanity framed by the harshness of the West Virginia hills; a railroad hot spot in Iowa; Trainland, USA; and the magnificent Texas layout of Lorell Joiner. Color, 6 hours.
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