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VHS Lot of 8 Sunday River Productions
VHS Lot of 8 Sunday River Productions
3- Logging Series
Feather River Route & The Hillcrest 49 min. Color
FEATHER RIVER
by Glenn Beier
>SHAY.
S PAT. OFFICE
Flooding behind the Oroville Dam eventually drowned the Feather River Railway and it's magnificent canyon scenery, but not before Glenn Beier had the chance to commit almost the entire line to film. This includes the 90 ton monster Shays numbers 2 and 3 barreling across an S curved trestle above the awesome gorge of the South Fork to tackle the famous 5.3% grade. Even has a scene of the two triple heading with diesel 102. The refurbishing and delivery of their surplus shay number 1 to Oroville for permanent exhibition follows, including the special train of invited guests. This is an in depth, full length coverage of California's last surviving steam operated common carrier.
HILLCREST
Climax
More than 25% of all logging locomotives in British Columbia, including rod engines, were Climaxes. Here you'll see the company that specialized in Climaxes, The Hillcrest, and their number 10. The engine works the mill yards at Honeymoon Bay and Lake Mesachie and then takes off on the main line to Lake Cowichan winding between the dramatically lit lakes and mountains of Vancouver Island. With it's cylinders canted at a rakish 45 degree angle a Climax in action resembled nothing so much as a fireworks pin wheel, but the men who worked them in the woods swore they were the world's best geared locomotives.
COMOX
A brief look at the rod engines of the Comox Railway working at Headquarters and Ladysmith.
The Complete West Side Railroad 53 Min Color
GLENN BEIER'S EXHAUSTIVE COVERAGE FROM TUOLUMNE TO CAMP 45
This shows you the West Side Flume and Logging Co Railroad when it really was a working railroad. You see dozens of narrow gauge trains with empty log skeletons battling better than 5% grades to the high camps and then, loaded with logs of gargantuan size, the retainers set, the hand brakes tied down and the wheels smoking as the whole crew sweats to keep the train from getting away. The spindly trestles towering above the canyon walls, the dramatic, air-borne ballet at the reloads, with ten ton logs poised for feather light placement, the explosive water dumps. They're all here including the log ponds, water tanks, donkey engines, track speeders, log camps, mess halls and, of course, your choice from an endless parade of shays and heislers. Even the very last train ever to run on The West Side!
This is a work of devotion by a motion picture professional, Glenn Beier. It is not a collection of film scraps scrounged from some cutting room floor. No talking heads. No black and white. No super 8. This is the ultimate source for information and dramatic, color
photography of the West Side. 53 mins.
3 Gears In the Woods
11 DIFFERENT STEAM LOGGING RAILROADS FROM ARIZONA TO BRITISH COLUMBIA
South West Forest Industries
West Side Flume and Logging
The Feather River
The Klickitat (St. Regis)
Rayonier (Both Callam and Gray's Hbr. Lines)
MacMillan-Bloedel
Hillcrest Lumber
Osborne Bay Wharf
Yreka Western
McLeod River RR
The Pickering/Sugar Pine RR
Every kind of steam locomotive ever conceived to haul logs: Shays, Heislers, Climaxes, Articulated Rod and rigid frame Engines. You'll see the Feather River Shays high on S-Curved trestles, getting a run at a 5 1/2 grade with 25 degree curves and the fireworks pin-wheel of Climaxes tackling 6% grades on the Hillcrest. Heislers dance around the log dump like daddy long legs spiders. Climb into the cab as Rayonier Mallet #8 heads for tall timber and returns with logs of Bunyan size. Two versions of the McLeod operation: first, a double-headed fan trip with an SP Daylight consist and - in the 10 foot drifts of February - a sparkling vignette in brilliant sunshine with Mt. Shasta towering behind. 88 mins.
#4- The Complete Sierra
The Sierra portrayed in mid-century at the Zenith of Steam operations. Locomotives 34, 36 and Articulated 38 with freights that stretch to the horizon. And, of course, 3 and 28 in different colors and road names as each served the movie industry. Dozens of Double-headers and two different Triple-headers.
It covers the foundations on which The Sierra was built: Gold, Timber and Hydro-Power and continues through the period when the railroad became a holy grail for makers of Hollywood Westerns and the Mecca of railroad enthusiasts world-wide. The final steam run is shown and the arrivals of the three famous S-12 diesels. It closes with the 104 year old Number 3 as she appeared in 1995 to celebrate Modesto's 125th Anniversary.
The Yosemite Valley Railroad, the Hetch-Heichy, and the Yosemite Short Line are presented in archival black and white stills and elaborate 4 color maps. Their relationship to the Sierra and other rivalries are highlighted.
#5- John Allens Gorre & Daphetid
Richard Reynolds and Glenn Beier each committed the famous Gorre and Daphetid (Gory and Defeated) to motion picture film: Reynolds covered the original layout in Monterey, California and Beier the culmination of Allen's brilliant model building career, the final Gorre, in his second home. Both used everything from extreme close-ups of running gear to sweeping vistas of his mountain ranges to capture John Allen's extraordinary talent.
Two weeks after his death in 1972, fire destroyed John Allen's model railroading masterpiece - a project to which he had devoted almost his entire life. It was believed that only Allen's slides had survived the fire and that the films had been turned to ashes.
Thanks to the recent discovery of the films, this tape offers you the ultimate display of model railroading: a vast network of standard, narrow and mixed gauges even a trolley line. More than 100 bridges, no two alike, some soaring more than five feet above the floor, others crawling the labyrinthine canyons of the Akinback Mountain range, complete with working cable cars and water wheels. We've used John's own slides to magnify his exquisite detail, from snow capped peak to ocean car ferry and bring life to the thousands of miniature people and working railroad artifacts that surprised and delighted so many - even non-modelers. 36 mins
#6- Across the top!
In the 1930s:
Watch the ore trains descending from the Blackhawk Mine on the Colorado Central to Clear Creek. The South Park Line is shown with quadruple headers battling upgrade through South Platte Canyon. The last passenger train from Leadville. Scenes at Buffalo, Pine Creek and detail shots of Como. En route to Boreas Pass and Fairplay.
In the 1940s:
Ride the "San Juan" from Toltec to Durango; watch the freights and the Silverton mixed. Ride over Marshall Pass and down the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. Scenes of the "Shavano", the Transcontinental Express of the thirties, at Gunnison and the Colorado Museum's 346 as it really used to be are included. Finally, climb aboard and pull the throttle on the climb from Leadville to Climax.
Includes early 1400 class Mallets doubleheading and the monster 3400 series, the last steam built for D&RG. All color except scenes from the thirties. 53 minutes.
#7- Alamosa to Durango
PASSENGER OPERATIONS
This tape puts the narrow gauge in South-West Colorado back together again just as it really used to be: passenger operations on the 170 missing miles between Alamosa and Durango plus the Farmington line are shown with trains that cover almost every mile of the way: climbing out of Wilson Gulch eastbound, snaking along the bottom of Canyon Amargo photographed from the canyon rim, Arboles before it disappeared beneath the flood behind the Navajo Canyon Dam, the Continental Divide - West of Cumbres. Double heading up the 4% to Cumbres Summit and racing down the dual gauge across the table flat San Luis Valley. A short piece is devoted to a mountain rescue on the Silverton and closes with scenes of a mixed train in the snow, the last train that ever ran from Alamosa and Durango. Photographed by Herb Craig and Mac Owen.
#8- Everywhere West
The Burlington Zephyrs
Burlington Route
This is the story of the passenger train that changed the face of America. Railroading was never again the same after Ralph Budd, the president of the Burlington Railroad, sent his pioneer Zephyr hurtling down the rails, non-stop from Denver to Chicago, 1017 miles in 785 minutes.
This is not only the story of that run, photographed from the ground, the air and on board, but also the story of Burlington's all stainless steel fleet: The Twin Zephyrs, The Denver Zephyrs, The California Zephyrs and another dozen Zephyrs.
It shows the beginnings of internal combustion passenger trains and includes Budd's only major competitor The Union Pacific all aluminum M-10,000.
The final scenes of the California Zephyr on Soldier Summit and in The Feather River Canyon include some of the best color footage we have.
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