GREAT AMERICAN SCENIC RAILROADS
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DVD3500
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Questar |
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Approximately 12 hours
6 Discs
Catch an unforgettable glimpse into America's stored past as you ride the rails on these rolling museums of steam and steel.
*DISC 1 - CONTINENTAL DIVIDE -
The Canadian Rockies have never been captured so beautifully as you ride through the vistas of Lake Louise and Banff on VIA's famous Canadian, DONNER SUMMIT - The treacherous and beautiful 8,000-foot summit of Donner's peak stands watch over Donner's Pass in the Sierra Nevada Mountains - one of the most difficult climbs in American railroading.
*DISC 2: THE SURFLINE - A whistle-stop tour of spectacular scenic stretches on sun-drenched Southern California coast that begins in Los Angeles and winds its way down to San Diego. CALIFORNIA Western - Redwood forests, the Pacific coastline, the Sierra Nevada Range and the infamous Donner's Pass - a once-in-a-lifetime whistle stop tour of the California Western Railroad.
*DISC 3: THE BLUE MOUNTAINS - The 200 hard miles of track cross Oregon's valleys, rivers and creeks, then climbs three summits - the toughest grades on any of Union Pacific's routes. MT. RAINIER - The logging railroads are re-lived in the forested Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest.
DISC 4: GREAT MISSISSIPPI - The Soo Line,
Burlington Northern, Chicago & Western Minnesota & Eastern and Dakota storm their way through the upper Mississippi Valley. SHENANDOAH - Visit Virginia's fabled Shenandoah Valley in diesel-powered workhorses that still punch a clock for the Winchester & Western Railroad.
DISC 5: DURANGO & SILVERTON - Chasms and curves, crevasses, gorges and perilous passes. Take a thrill ride on one of the most spectacular train lines in the country. CUMBRES & TOLTEC - Climb aboard Mikado Steam Locomotive No. 488 for a historic ride on the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad over the dramatic landscape of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado.
*DISC 5: RIO GRANDE - Cool trains, passenger trains, freight trains and winter ski trains - one of the most remarkable journeys in the u.s. on the Denver Rio Grande Western. UNION PACIFIC - Climb aboard Locomotive No. 3967, a coal-burning Challenger equipped with "elephant ear" smoke deflectors, on its 40th Anniversary Steam Excursion run from Denver to Laramie, Wyoming. |
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$23.99 |
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