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For a limited time, these DVDs are only $12 each, with free shipping in the US. You supply the snacks, and we'll take care of the entertainment. Tell-Tale Productions takes you there!
Experience New York & Ogdensburg Railroad's shortline operations
over the last surviving 25 miles, classic images from the past, and
reminders of yesteryear from every stop on the 118 mile line. You've
never seen the Rutland like this! (91 minutes)
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Experience Rutland Railroad's famous "Island Line" over four
drawbridges and three causeways. Breathtaking scenery, fascinating
interviews, narration, anecdotes, neighboring railroads, then and now
views create a colorful four-season adventure. See Northern New York,
Southern Quebec, and Vermont's Lake Champlain Islands like never
before. All aboard for Rouses Point, Alburgh, Noyan, Isle LaMotte,
North Hero, Abnaki, Grand Isle, South Hero, Colchester, Starr Farm
Beach, and Burlington! (90 minutes)
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All
the fun is getting there. Our most popular series transports you from
Burlington to Brandon with visits to every stop on the line. Side-trips
include Bristol’s short-lived railroad, “The Addison,” forgotten
Vergennes Branch and Beldens Branch roads, an honest-to-goodness 1848
farm, and vintage color movies of the Lake Champlain paddle-wheeler
Ticonderoga in action. Four seasons of stunning scenery, classic
bridges, captivating interviews, period music, countless unpublished
images and eyebrow-raising narration make Burlington, Brandon and The
Bridges of Addison County essential to your video library. Bonus
features and DVD authoring/chapters are icing on the rails!
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The
latest DVD in our critically acclaimed series transports you through
Vermont's marble country, then we'll pierce the heart of the Green
Mountains near Mount Holly before descending to Ludlow, Bellows Falls
and beyond. The usual ingredients are here: Vermont landscapes, covered
bridges, waterways, picture-perfect villages, anecdotes and
railroadiana past and present. (2 hours, with authoring and bonus
features)
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Experience
the emotional roller-coaster of the Rutland's glory years, decline,
near death, and rebirth under Vermont Rail System. A virtual "who's
who" of past and present employees, authors, photographers, and
historians guide you down the colorful "B&R." All aboard for
Wallingford, Danby, the Dorsets, Manchester, Arlington, and Shaftsbury
summit, with fascinating side trips to long forgotten places. BONUS
FEATURES include a half hour of vintage film and video from 1929 to
1999! (120 minutes)
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Celebrated photographer, author and historian Jim Shaughnessy leads a nostalgic adventure along the Rutland Railroad's fabled Corkscrew Subdivision though Bennington, Petersburgh, Berlin, Cherryplain, Stephentown, Lebanon Springs, New Lebanon, Brainard, Riders, and Old Chatham. Historians, railroaders and local residents add anecdotes to classic films and contemporary scenes. Explore rails, tales, history and mystery in Bennington, Rennselaer, and Columbia County with side trips to Eagle Bridge, Johnsonville, Troy and Niverville. Features B&M, Battenkill, CSX, NYC, Pan Am, RUT and VRS. (127 min.)
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Lack of transportation got Barre, Williamstown, Groton and Ryegate's granite industry off to a "rocky" start. With the advent of the railroad, access to a national market beckoned, creating expansion that attracted thousands of talented artisan immigrants. Experience this two century marriage of man and machine, punctuated with plenty of triumphs, hardships and quirks. Stunning videography captures the unique beauty of Vermont's four season complete with vintage images, interviews and eyewitness accounts from "The Granite Capital of the World." All aboard for this unforgettable odyssey (112 minutes). SUMMER SPECIAL ONLY $9.95, SHIPS FREE!
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All aboard for a memorable "then and now" adventure over former B&M and CP tracks to the colorful villages and picturesque landscape from White River Junction to St. Johnsbury. Vermont. Join the ride for side-trips on the Claremont Concord, Woodstock, Montpelier & Wells River, Lamoille Valley, Maine Central, Conway Scenic, and Fifteen Mile Falls Railroad. Local anecdotes from residents, historians, and railroaders complete this four-season adventure fit for a postcard collection Bonus feature: Mass Bay and 470 Club excursions. (120 minutes)
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All aboard for a memorable "then and now" adventure over former B&M and CP tracks to the colorful villages and picturesque landscape from White River Junction to St. Johnsbury. Vermont. Join the ride for side-trips on the Claremont Concord, Woodstock, Montpelier & Wells River, Lamoille Valley, Maine Central, Conway Scenic, and Fifteen Mile Falls Railroad. Local anecdotes from residents, historians, and railroaders complete this four-season adventure fit for a postcard collection Bonus feature: Mass Bay and 470 Club excursions. (120 minutes)
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Railroads
have hugged the scenic Passumpsic and Missisquoi Rivers since the
1850's. All aboard for a memorable "then and now" adventure over former
B&M and CPR rail from St. J to Richford, crossing the international
boundary twice. Vermont Rail System's Washington County Railroad and
the Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Newport Subdivision star in this 2
hour DVD. Sidetrips include Quebec Central, Orford Mountain, and Central Vermont Railway. (120 minutes)
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A
remarkable "then and now" adventure through the colorful communities
connecting St. Albans with Richford, Vermont and Quebec's Eastern
Townships to the Richelieu River. Historians Derek Booth, Robert C.
Jones and Jim Murphy guide us along former Canadian Pacific tracks and
Central Vermont Railway's Missisquoi Valley branch. Montreal, Maine
& Atlantic Railway's Newport, Adirondack, St. Guillaume, and
Stanbridge Subdivision's have never look better! (129 minutes) Bonus features: Behind The Lens, Snowplow To Stanbridge, H.K. Webster feed mill film circa 1970, Adios Richford Branch
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Celebrate the 20th century's last decade as BN cascade green decorates
the Alliance, Greeley, Lyons, and Cheyenne-Denver lines. See UP armor
yellow on the Julesburg, Fort Collins, Dent, Boulder Valley and
Cheyenne-Denver routes. Great Western; Nebraska, Kansas, and Colorado
Railnet, and Wyoming/Colorado "Coalmont Branch" are also featured.
Classic steam, first and second generation diesels power this
comprehensive tour. See what you've been missing! (2 hours)
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This volume of Colorado's most comprehensive DVD series begins with Denver's historic rail lines and continues over more than 1,200 miles of mountain and prairie routes including the Georgetown Loop, Henderson Mining, Deseret Western, LC&S, CLK, and Kyle. Experience BN's Chicago-Denver mainline, UP's Salina Sub, D&RGW Moffat Route, Craig Branch, Aspen Branch, and the Joint Line over Palmer Divide. See spectacular Western Slope scenery enroute to Grand Junction, Delta, Montrose and Somerset. Our extensive journey concludes at Colorado Springs with D&RGW, Santa Fe, Rock Island, Fort Carson, and the Manitou & Pike's Peak Railway. (2 hours, 19 minutes)
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This volume of Colorado's most comprehensive DVD series features steam, diesel, cab rides, rotary and cabooses on mountain and prairie routes. Experience Burlington Northern, Canon City & Royal Gorge, Cimarron Valley, Cumbres & Toltec, Durango & Silverton, Rock & Rail, San Luis Central and Santa Fe. See D&RGW branches to Antonito, Creede, and Leadville as well as awe inspiring La Veta Pass, the San Luis Valley, and the last trains over Tennessee Pass. (2 hours, 32 minutes)
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A two-hour celebration of the Green Mountain State's railroad renaissance celebrates the Vermont Railway, Green Mountain Railroad, Clarendon & Pittsford, Washington County, New York & Ogdensburg and their connections. Experience vintage film, photos, interviews, anecdotes, ephemera, and more. Jay Wulfson, Harold Filskov and a dedicated team created the first state-owned, privately operated railroad in the country. Top management, maintenance experts, train crews, rail customers, historians, and a former Vermont governor share fascinating rail tales you'll want to hear again and again. VERMONT RAILWAY: 50 YEARS was painstakingly created by Vermont filmmaker and railroad insider James R. “Jim” Jones during the past decade. This ambitious documentary spotlights the rebirth of former Rutland Railway mainline from Burlington, Vermont to North Bennington and White Creek, New York from 1964 to the present. All facets of the operation are explored, including steam excursions over the years. This real-life story of “the little engine that could” is the first of six documentaries in the “VERMONT RAIL SYSTEM SERIES.”
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A two-hour celebration of the Green Mountain State's railroad renaissance celebrates the Vermont Railway, Green Mountain Railroad, Clarendon & Pittsford, Washington County, New York & Ogdensburg and their connections. Experience vintage film, photos, interviews, anecdotes, ephemera, and more. Jay Wulfson, Harold Filskov and a dedicated team created the first state-owned, privately operated railroad in the country. Top management, maintenance experts, train crews, rail customers, historians, and a former Vermont governor share fascinating rail tales you'll want to hear again and again. VERMONT RAILWAY: 50 YEARS was painstakingly created by Vermont filmmaker and railroad insider James R. “Jim” Jones during the past decade. This ambitious documentary spotlights the rebirth of former Rutland Railway mainline from Burlington, Vermont to North Bennington and White Creek, New York from 1964 to the present. All facets of the operation are explored, including steam excursions over the years. This real-life story of “the little engine that could” is the first of six documentaries in the “VERMONT RAIL SYSTEM SERIES.”
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This celebration of Colorado's first standard gauge route south of Denver features John Evans' Denver & New Orleans, an unlikely 124-mile route built on the rolling hills of the High Plains- within the Shadow of The Rockies. Hold onto your seats, as the D&NO and its successors take you on a bumpy decade-long ride as the northern component of a through-route to the Gulf, before the famous 1899 Joint Line agreement with the Santa Fe left the old line in the dust. For the next 36 years, these demoted tracks were the Colorado & Southern Railway's Falcon Line-- a quaint country branch from South Denver to connection with the Rock Island at Falcon. The perfect companion to Jim Jones's long out of print prairie classic, this video spotlights the life and times of the people and places on the line, followed by a very special program featuring two railroad veterans who worked on the line during its final years. All the fun is getting there! This is the perfect companion to our Colorado & Southern Railway: Here Comes The Flood, There Goes The Train! video and Colorado & Southern Railway's D&NO Route BOOK.
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This entertaining, informative and comprehensive video adventures tracks every Union Pacific Railroad route in Colorado- large and small- during the last two decades of the 20th century. UNION PACIFIC, COLORADO SPECIFIC (TT-055) also documents "Uncle Pete's" acquisition and disposal of former Denver & Rio Grande Western lines, with rare scenes and anecdotes from those turbulent times. Railroad author, historian and videographer James R. "Jim" Jones' ground-breaking production features action scenes starring steam locomotives 3985 and 844, mammoth DDA40X Centennial diesel #6936, rotary snow thrower 900082, the E9 "covered wagon" trio, and everyday freights over all Colorado mainlines, branches and spurs. It's the perfect companion to RIO GRANDE FINALE (TT-053), SP ON THE D&RG (TT-054), DENVER & NEW ORLEANS: IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROCKIES (TT-051), COLORADO & SOUTHERN RAILWAY (TT-052) and the critically-acclaimed COLORADO COVERED series (TT-036, TT-037, TT-038). Collect them all! 115 minutes
This entertaining, informative and comprehensive video adventures tracks every Union Pacific Railroad route in Colorado- large and small- during the last two decades of the 20th century. UNION PACIFIC, COLORADO SPECIFIC (TT-055) also documents "Uncle Pete's" acquisition and disposal of former Denver & Rio Grande Western lines, with rare scenes and anecdotes from those turbulent times. Railroad author, historian and videographer James R. "Jim" Jones' ground-breaking production features action scenes starring steam locomotives 3985 and 844, mammoth DDA40X Centennial diesel #6936, rotary snow thrower 900082, the E9 "covered wagon" trio, and everyday freights over all Colorado mainlines, branches and spurs. It's the perfect companion to RIO GRANDE FINALE (TT-053), SP ON THE D&RG (TT-054), DENVER & NEW ORLEANS: IN THE SHADOW OF THE ROCKIES (TT-051), COLORADO & SOUTHERN RAILWAY (TT-052) and the critically-acclaimed COLORADO COVERED series (TT-036, TT-037, TT-038). Collect them all! 115 minutes
