Product Details
- Starring: Trains Unlimited
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- Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- EAN: 0733961403961
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- Format: Color, NTSC
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- Label: A & E Home Video
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- Manufacturer: A & E Home Video
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: A & E Home Video
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- Release Date: 2001-08-20
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- Studio: A & E Home Video
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- Title: Steam Engines/When Giants Roamed
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- UPC: 733961403961
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Product Description: From the first Iron Horse until the coming of the diesel in the late 1940s, trains and steam power were synonymous. Even today, when only a handful of steam locomotives remain, the allure of these majestic machines is undeniable. STEAM TRAINS is the definitive history of the most celebrated and perhaps the most important vehicles in history. Get up-close with some of the survivors from the glory days of the railroads, including Union Pacific locomotive #3985, the largest operating steamer in the world, and see extensive footage from the golden age of steam. Go into the cab and under their steel skin to see how these massive machines work, and see stunning photographs from renowned railroad photographer O. Winston Link, whose images of "big steam" capture the romance and majesty of these vanished giants. And railroad historians detail the many factors that combined to bring the age of steam to an end. WHEN GIANTS ROAMED journeys back to the golden age of steam for an up-close look at these legendary locos. See the Union Pacific's famed Big Boy in action and ride the rails of the Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Western, eastern coal-hauling railroads with an unquenchable thirst for power. Meet the men who drove engines like the Allegheny and Yellowstone, and visit the museums and yards where the largest steamers ever built are preserved today.
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