Santa Fe Salute-DVD

Santa Fe's passenger trains were legendary. Relive those glorious days with scenes filmed aboard the San Francisco Chief and the Super Chief Trains. Ride inside the cabs of warbonnet F-Units and FP-45's pulling both trains at 90mph.

Grab your grip and swing aboard the Super C, Santa Fe's first high-speed, cross-country piggyback train on an eastbound trip from Los Angeles to Belen, New Mexico and return. Ride the cab of the F-45 locomotives and cabooses of the Super C, forerunner of the modern intermodal train.Z

Part 1, 56 minutes. Color and some black & white, informative narration and exciting natural sound.

Part 2. We continue our tribute to one of America's best-known railroads. In part 2 we'll visit the busy desert mainline near Klondike, where trains climb the grade to Ash Hill. Ride the cab of a mainline manifest train. Savor the view on the rear platform of the caboose on the fast 199 intermodal train. Visit a west coast CTC dispatching center. Ride the cab and caboose of a branchline freight over trackage that is now gone.

Part 2 60 minutes. Color with stereo audio and informative narration.