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Trains Unlimited, Tours has been cleaning out our vast storeroom of railroad items which includes videos, books, photos, hats, tickets, timetables, paper items, and much more. If you like to collect railroad historical items you need to check out this page from time to time as we will continue to add items over time. We are making a number of our tour DVD programs shot during our tours available for your collecltion. Also we are having the vast collection of sound movie railroad programs shot by Chris Skow going back to the 1960's transfered to DVD for your enjoyment.
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TOURS OPERATED BY TUT AND MORE!
DURANGO PHOTO SPECIAL 2005. Join us for a fantastic mixed charter steam train Experience on the Durango & Silverton Railroad out of Durango, Colorado for this two day journey September 26-27, 2005 which features many photo run-bys and all equipment lettered for the RIO GRANDE. This tour spends the night in Silverton and returns to Durango the next day. 80 MINUTES SOLD OUT FALL COLORS EXPRESS 2005 . Enjoy a spectacular private rail car journey during the colorful fall colors between Emeryville, California and Denver, Colorado and return October 15-19, 2005. Our four private rail cars are coupled onto the rear of Amtrak's California Zephyr both directions running over the High Sierra, Wasatch Range and through the heart of the Rockies. On our westbound journey we are detoured over the mainline of the Union Pacific across Wyoming. Private cars used were: SILVER SOLARIAM, SILVER LARIAT, SILVER IRIS and SILVER RAPIDS 165 MINUTES SOLD OUT SNOWFLAKE EXPRESS 2006. Take a ride onboard the ex-California Zephyr dome car Silver Lariat coupled onto the rear of Amtrak between Emeryville and Reno-Sparks, Nevada running over Donner Pass during a High Sierra blizzard on February 18-20 2006. Enjoy the first class onboard service and gourmet meals that we serve in the dome car. 90 MINUTES SOLD OUT GREAT WESTERN RAIL ADVENTURE 2006. This is the pre 2006 National Garden Railway Convention tour that operated June 25-July 2, 2006 visiting railroad museums, workshops and riding many interesting trains in Northern California and Northern Nevada. An added bonus is included with some footage of some of the Garden model railroads featured at this convention. 85 MINUTES SOLD OUT DOMES DOWN THE VALLEY 2006. This is yet another pre 2006 National Garden Railway Convention excursion on July 3, 2006 onboard the ex-CZ dome cars Silver Solarium and Silver Lariat on a day trip from Oakland to Bakersfield and return. 25 MINUTES $8.95 TRAINS UNLIMITED, TOURS-23 YEARS OF ADVENTURE. Lets look back over the past 22 years and take a whirlwind tour of the highlights of operating hundreds of tours all around the world with over 1000 charters. This two DVD set includes past tours run in South America, Central America, Mexico, United States and Canada. The first 60 minute DVD covers North America and the 2nd DVD covers Latin America including Mexico. 120 MINUTES $19.95 SNOWFLAKE EXPRESS 2007. Onboard the ex-CZ dome car Silver Lariat coupled to the rear of Amtrak from Emeryville to Reno-Sparks and return February 17-19, 2007 running over Donner Pass. 59 minutes $9.95 GREAT SOUTHWEST TRAIN SPECTACULAR 2007. In July 2007 Trains Unlimited, Tours ran an 8 day official post 2007 National Garden Railway Conventon tour through Nevada-Arizona-New Mexico-Colorado-Utah which includes the Verde Canyon Railroad, Grand Canyon Railway, Cumbres, Durango, Nevada Southern, Maricops Live Steamers, Santa Fe Southern plus scenic points of interest and national parks of this region 131 minutes SOLD OUT THE DENVER & RIO GRANDE WESTERN 315 RIDES AGAIN! This program touches on the seven-year restoration process, test runs, and features her first revenue trip in 58 years! Trains Unlimited, Tours teamed up with the Durango Rail Historical Society and the Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad for the 315's first ever trip to Silverton over the former Silverton Branch of the Denver & Rio Grande Western 56 minutes $29.95 Chris Skow, founder of Trains Unlimited, Tours started shooting sound color movie film of trains and railroading from all around the world back in 1968. He now has over 100 sound movie programs with a combined running time of more than 3000 minutes. All of this footage was shot between 1968 and 1988. Chris has been showing these programs to clubs and groups all around the United States since the early 1970's. After each program railfans would ask about making them available on video. It has taken many years, but finally these programs are slowly be transferred to DVD format at very high professional quality and offered to the railfans. It is taking the professional photo lab around two months to complete each full hour off footage. This is a very slow process and over the next year we will release some of the most popular titles. LOGGING RAILROADS OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST. This footage was shot by Chris Skow in 1976 and 1977 in color sound movie film and has been transfed to high quality digital format and computer enhanced by a professional lab. This program covers almost all of the logging railroad lines and mainline log hauling operations in Oregon, Washington, Idaho and British Columbia. Included is private roads such as Simpon Timber Company, ITT Rayoineer, Canadian Forest Products, Crown Zellerback, Potlach, Oregon, California & Eastern, Curtis, Milburn & Eastern plus Weyerhauser's Longveiw-Vail-Cascade-Moawk and Sycan Divisions. Then log hauling common carriers include: BN, Milwaukee, Camas Prairie, Oregon & North western, Esquimalt & Nanaimo, and Tacoma Belt. We then end this program with a wild and fast ride on a track car speeder over an abandoned logging line. 50 MINUTES $29.95
WESTERN PACIFIC-THE FINAL YEARS. Chris Skow worked as a breakman and conductor for the Western Pacific Railroad between 1969 and 1995. Union Pacific took over control of the Westenr Pacific In 1983. This film covers the final years of the Western Pacific between the years of 1969 and 1983. Chris was based out of Portola but he made it a point to work over the entire WP system between the San Francisco Bay area to Salt Lake City and up on the Hiline towards Oregon. He always carried his sound movie equipment with him when he went to work so was able to capture some very unique footage that most railfans could never get. This is a very interesting program from the lens of a working conductor 70 MINUTES $39.95
WORKING THE SPERRY CAR ON THE WESTERN PACIFIC. This is more footage Chris Skow shot while on duty as a conductor. In 1980 and 1981 Chris agreed to work the Sperry Rail Detector Car over the entire Westen Pacific system. During these two years he worked a total of eight sperry rail testing runs over the system as a conductor pilot with the Sperry crew. Each Sperry rail test took about 30 days to cover the WP system including the Tidewater Southern, Hiline and Reno Branch. This program is packed with railroad action and has many exciting meets with WP freight trains over the system and includes interesting facts about testing the WP. Included in this program is many of the train derailments and wrecks that Chris worked using Western Pacific's Oroville and Elko big hook derricks, plus a rare look at the famous wreck of the Oroville Derrick between Quincy Junction and Keddie and the emergency use of the old Nevada Northern steam derrick on the WP mainline. The testing of the system by the Sperry Car was done to try and find some of the rail defects that caused many of these train wrecks that you will see on this program. Again, as always, Chris carried his camera gear on all of his assignments. Again, Chris always took his sound movie equipment with him and made this very interesting program. 65 MINUTES $29.95
OUT OF PRINT PROFESSIONAL RAILROAD VIDEOS PRODUCED BY BERKSHIRE VIDEOGRAPHY, INC. MORE THAN 20 YEARS AGO !! We have been doing more cleaning in the Trains Unlimited, Tours storeroom and found several boxes of brand new professional railroad VHS videos made by Berkshire Video- graphy, Inc. taped and produced between 1984 and 1991 by Grant G. Geist. All tapes are in their original dust covers with photo description program inserts, most in color and have never been played. This is a wealth of historical railroad programs that are no longer available. We only have one copy of each video program listed below. Prices below include postage and handling.
Odds and ends found in the Trains Unlimited, Tours storeroom when we cleaned house. We have no use for the books listed below. Many titles we only have one copy in stock. All prices below include shipping and postage.
LATIN TRACKS. The leading railfan and railroad industry magazine in Latin America. Printed in English and Spanish with full color cover and many pages in full color. This is the Latin American Railway Digest. Each issue is about 50 pages and is packed with information, history, maps, rosters, photos, drawings and much more covering all of Latin America. Printed in Buenos Aires, Argentina. We have several back issues in stock. Each issue is only.........................................................................................................$2.00
ISSUE 7 2001 SOLD OUT ISSUE 8 2002 ISSUE 9 JUNE 2002 SOLD OUT ISSUE 12 AUGUST 2003 ISSUE 13 NOVEMBER 2003 SOLD OUT ISSUE 14 MARCH 2004 SOLD OUT ISSUE 15 SEPTEMBER 2004 ISSUE 16 JANUARY 2005 ISSUE 17 APRIL 2005 ISSUE 19 NOVEMBER 2005 ISSUE 20 MARCH 2006 ISSUE 21 JULY 2006 ISSUE 22 SEPTEMBER 2006 ISSUE 23 DECEMBER 2006 ISSUE 24 FEBRUARY 2007 ISSUE 25 APRIL 2007
We are still cleaning up our storeroom and just found a pile of full color lab 8 x 10 prints taken over the past 20 years. These prints were made for promotional purposes and we no longer have any use for them. We have made up sets of prints. Each set has 5 high quality professional photo lab produced color prints.
Each set of 5 color prints...............$3.98
INTERNATIONAL PHOTOS NORTH AMERICAN PHOTOS
CHILE UNION PACIFIC
Set 1 Steam Set 1 Early diesels
Set 2 Diesel Set 2 Steam excursions
Set 3 Electric Set 3 Steam excursions
Set 4 Mixed Set 4 Steam excursions
BRAZIL SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Set 1 Steam Set 1 Early diesels
Set 2 Diesel Set 2 4449 excursions AFT colors
Set 3 Mixed Set 3 4449 excursions Daylight colors
BOLIVA SANTA FE
Set 1 Steam-diesel-railcar Set 1 Early diesels
ARGENTINA SOUTHERN
Set 1 Steam Set 1 Steam excursions
Set 2 Diesel
Set 3 Railcar AMTRAK
Set 4 Mixed Set 1 Early diesels
GUATEMALA BURLINGTON NORTHERN
Set 1 Diesel Set 1 Diesel
ECUADOR BRITISH COLUMBIA RY
Set 1 Mixed Set 1 Budd cars
COLOMBIA LOGGING RAILROADS
Set 1 Mixed Set 1 Oregon & Washington
Set 2 Oregon & Washington
CHINA
Set 1 Steam MINING RAILROADS
Set 1 Utah-Wyoming-Arizona
Set 2 Utah-Wyoming-Arizona
RIO GRANDE (DRGW)
Set 1 Mixed
SHORTLINES (WEST)
Set 1 Oregon-California-Arizona
ALCO PA DIESELS
Set 1 ATSF & D&H
VARIOUS ROADS
Set 1 East & Midwest (10 photo set)
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