steam across america is another great video trains magazine has done this video shows the history for the preservation with the steam locomotives operating for mainline excursions and tourist railroads across the united states and what started the movement for steam operations to preserve the history and a look at the diffrent types of steam engines there's a lot of many of the popular steam engines that have a number of fans there's too many to name but the many names include norfolk & western 611 milwaukee road 261 both southern 4501 & 630 reading & northern 425 pere marquette 1225 the geared type locomotives (mostly the engines of the cass scenic railroad) the strasburg railroad engines (great western railway 90 norfolk & western 475 and canadian national 89 there's also vintage footage of the reading camel back steamer and canadian national 7312 which was the first steam engine for the railroad when it became a tourist attraction) the engines at dollywood iowa interstate 6988 santa fe 3751 grand canyon railroad 4960 and 29 the engines of the cumbres and toltec scenic railroad and so forth there's also footage showcasing many other engines that are shown such as soo line 1003 and new hope & ivyland 40 now there's so many engines to discuses that's seen but this is another excellent video from trains magazine you'll enjoy this video for anyone who loves steam engines it's like a steam paradise enjoyment

Additional remarks by chris collins:
Narration: Just enough.
Would kids enjoy this? Maybe.
Image quality: Excellent!
DVD Value: Good Value
Recommend to others? Definitely.

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In this recent Sequel/Companion to 2017's big steam is back, there are lots of locomotives both big & small. The stars that appeared in order are:

1. LS&I 734 at the Western Maryland Scenic Railroad

2. Wilmington & western 98 & 58

3. Southern 630 & 4501

4. Union Pacific 4014 & 844

5. Georgia Agrirama 1

6. Knox & Kane 58 as New Haven 3025 on the Valley railroad

7. Norfolk & Western 611

8. D&RGW 473 on the Durango & Silverton

9. Tweetsie 12 & 190

10. D&RGW 482 on the D&S

11. White Pass & Yukon 70 at Dollywood

12. A highlander Heisler in the '60s

13. Still images of Edaville & Steamtown USA

14. The Strasburg Railroad with Canadian National 7312, CN 89, Great Western 90, & N&W 475

15. East Broad Top

16. Western Maryland Big 6 at the Cass Scenic Railroad

17. Graham County Shay 1925

18. Edison 1 at the Henry ford museum

19. Clover Valley lumber 4 at Niles Canyon Railway

20. Virginia & Truckee 22: the Inyo

21. Steam Into History 17: the York

22. Eureka & Palisades 4 on the D&S (Error alert: Listed as engine number 1)

23. The golden spike national historic site with UP 119 & CP 60

24. A replica of CP 63 the Leviathan at the North Carolina Transportation Museum

25. Detroit & Lima Northern 7 at the Henry Ford Museum

26. Southern 154

27. Gulf Mobile & Northern 425 on the Reading & Northern

28. Pennsylvania 643 at Williams Grove

29. Mt. Emily Lumber shay 1

30. Boothbay Railway Village

31. Flagg Coal 75: Hank the Tank

32. Viscose 6

33. Little River Railroad 1

34. a 1940 built 0-4-0 at the Hesston Steam Museum

35. Lehigh Valley 126: Sadie

36. White Mountain Central 1

37. Georgia Agrirama 5

38. Handy Dandy 9 at Denton Farm Park

39. New Hope Valley 17

40. Poway Midland 3

41. Pioneer Tunnel coal mine 1

42. J.E. Henry 42 at Loon Mountain in Lincoln New Hampshire

43. Western Minnesota Steam Threshers RR 353

44. Jersey Central 113 on the Reading & Northern

45. CN 7470 at the Conway Scenic Railroad's Steam in the snow event

46. Granite Rock 10 at the California state railroad museum in Old Sacramento

47. Jeddo Coal 85 at Spencer

48. Cass Scenic Shays 5 & 11

49. Moore-Keppel & company Climax 3 at the Durbin & Greenbrier Valley

50. Silver creek & Stephenson 2

51. Rayonier 2 at the Since been closed Mt. Rainier Scenic

52. Locust Heights & western 1

53. Mt. Washington Cog Railway 9: the Waumbek

54. White Mountain Central Climax 6

55. Cass Scenic Railroad Heisler 6

56. Oregon Trunk Lumber Shay 7 at Hesston

57. W.H. Eccles 3 at Stumpter Valley

58. West Side lumber 10 at the Yosemite Mountain Sugar Pine railroad

59. Roaring Camp & big trees 1: the Dixiana

60. Disneyland Railroad 3

61. White Mountain Central 5

62. Hesston Railway 242

63. A Carson & Tahoe Lumber & Plumbing 2-6-0 named the Glenbrook

64. Everett 11

65. Surry Sussex & Southampton 6 at the Midwest old threshers reunion at Mt. Pleasant Iowa

66. Tavares Eustis & Gulf 2 on the Short lived Orange Blossom Cannonball in Florida

67. V&T 25

68. Alaska Railroad 2 as 152 at the Huckleberry Railroad

69. Nevada Northern 40

70. Laona & Northern 4 on the Lumberjack train

71. Mason County Logging 7

72. Santa Cruz Portland Cement 2

73. Black Hills Central 104

74. Ventura County 2 at the Orange empire railway museum.

75. Quincy Railroad 2 at Niles Canyon

76. McCloud 25 at Oregon Scenic

77. Kahaluii Railway 12 at both Georgetown loop & Mt. Pleasant

78. Santa Fe 3415 on the Abilene & Smoky Valley

79. Canadian Pacific 2317 at Steamtown

80. Louisville & Nashville 152 at the Kentucky Railway Museum

81. Little River 110

82. Southern Pacific 2472 at Niles Canyon

83. US army 610 at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum

84. Washington & Lincolnton 203 in Knoxville

85. Southern 401 at Monticello Illinois

86. DM&IR 332 as Duluth & Northeastern 28

87. Lancaster & Chester 40 on the New hope & Ivyland

88. GW 60 at Black River & Western

89. V&T 29

90. Georgetown loop 111

91. US Army 1702 at the Great Smoky Mountains Railway

92. D&RGW 315 on the Cumbres & Toltec

93. LS&I 29 At the Grand Canyon Railway

94. LS&I 18 at the Short lived Rio Grande Scenic

95. SP 18 on the D&S

96. Nevada Northern 93

97. Texas State Railroad 300

98. Fillmore & Western 14

99. Rio Grande Southern 41 at Knott's Berry Farm

100. Tremont & Gulf 30

101. Burlington 4960 on the Grand Canyon Railway

102. Hammond Lumber 17

103. McCloud 18 on the V&T

104. Crossett Western 10 on the Chelatchie Prairie

105. Soo line 1003

106. California Western 45

107. Polson Lumber Company 2

108. Sumpter Valley 19

109. D&RGW 489 on the C&TS

110. D&RGW 464 at the Huckleberry railroad

111. D&RGW 463 on the C&TS

112. D&RGW 478 on the D&S

113. D&RGW 483 on the C&TS

114. D&RGW 491 at the Colorado Railroad Museum

115. Susquehanna 142

116. Boone & Scenic Valley 8419

117. Frisco 1630 with a cab ride

118. RJ Corman 7040 as 2008

119. Iowa Interstate 7081 (Error alert: listed as 7010)

120. Iowa Interstate 6988

121. Pere Marquette 1225

122. Nickel Plate Road 765

123. Milwaukee Road 261

124. Santa Fe 3751

125. SP Daylight 4449 while visiting 1225's home in Owosso Michigan for Train Festival 2009

126. Spokane Portland & Seattle 700

127. Columbia River Belt line 7: the Skookum

128. Black Hills Central 110

And Moore & Keppel 9 at Cass. Error alert: Listed as number 6

Additional remarks by Steamboy:
Narration: Just enough.
Would kids enjoy this? Definitely!
Image quality: Excellent!
DVD Value: Good Value
Recommend to others? A "Must Have"!

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