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You have accomplished some things that are just about impossible to accomplish within the common standards of video and books. Your interviews are simply gold, and the intercutting is at times brilliant. To get those stories on tape or print for future generations is staggeringly important, and the participants talking in their own words and without script is a pure delight. I bow to your being able to elicit such candor and pithy stories. It speaks highly of your ability to connect with those people.
-Jerry C., Georgia
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RESEARCH IS A WONDERFUL TREASURE HUNT, best enjoyed with others. My wife, Marilee C. Jones, suggests I have “B&L on the brain” as I toot for imaginary trains when passing through B&L territory in our travels. For several decades, Jerry Fox and I have shared “B&L Brunches” to swap rail tales of our favorite phantom. We collaborated on the DVD documentary fourteen years ago—and the lonesome whistle for its book companion has grown louder with the passage of time.... READ MORE
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Union Pacific, Colorado Specific
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This colorful, comprehensive 154-page chronicle tracks all pre-merger Union Pacific routes in Colorado during the last decades of the 20th century, with rare scenes and anecdotes from those turbulent times. James R. “Jim” Jones’s ground-breaking publication stars steam locomotives 3985 and 844, mammoth DDA40X “Centennial” diesel 6936, rotary snow-thrower 900082, the E9 “covered wagon” trio, and everyday freights across all Colorado branches and spurs. You’ll visit the Denver Pacific and Kansas Pacific mainlines plus seldom photographed Julesburg, Dent, Fort Collins, Boulder Valley, Coalmont and Greeley East branches, Monfort and Boettcher Leads. See what you’ve been missing! FREE U.S. SHIPPING.
D&RGW Rio Grande Finale
AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER! Summer 2026 delivery expected.
Denver & Rio Grande Western was Colorado’s “home railroad” for twelve decades. This colorful, comprehensive 150-page chronicle tracks the Centennial State’s routes during their final years of black and gold. Catch SW1000s, SW1500s, GP30s, GP40s, GP50s, SD40T “tunnel motors,” nearly new GP60s and plenty of cabooses with rare scenes of vintage F9 “covered wagon” 5771 and her B-unit sisters enroute to their final Colorado Railroad Museum resting place. James R. “Jim” Jones documented trains in picture-perfect landscapes with trackside structures and equipment sure to please modelers. You’ll experience the Moffat Road, locals along the Joint Line, the Royal Gorge Route, Tennessee Pass, LaVeta Pass and the San Luis Valley, with the seldom photographed Craig, Monarch, Leadville, Aspen, North Fork, Montrose, Creede and Antonito branch lines. This ground-breaking publication was released on the tenth anniversary of its companion DVD documentary Rio Grande Finale. See what you’ve been missing! FREE U.S. SHIPPING.
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Copies of Vermont Rail System: A Railroad Renaissance book are disappearing! This colorful, hardcover fifty year tribute is the perfect companion to Tell-Tale Productions' critically acclaimed VRS video series. Destined to become a collectors classic. ONLY $24.95... an amazing deal at 70% off the original published price! Includes US shipping. Don't snooze and lose! Order yours today!
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