Who We Are Action Train Videos is an independent video company that specializes in books and videos on the subject of railroading.
These videos have appeared on Railroad Video Quarterly, a quarterly video magazine based out of Tallmadge, Ohio, and on Pikes
Peak Library Channel 17 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Action Train Videos has been filming since 1985. All videos are recorded
individually on high-quality, professional grade VHS videotape in hi-fi stereo sound. ATV produces narrated, documentary-style
history and railroad videos, and also unnarrated, digitally restored videos of trains from the 1980's and 1990's.
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Winter Park Ski Train Final Season February 28, 2009
On February 28, 2009 the westbound Ski Train to the
Winter Park Ski Resort left Denver Union Station on time at 7:15AM, and crossed the 80th Avenue crossing in Arvada, CO before
ascending into the Rocky Mountains. Three former Amtrak F40PH diesels, numbered 242, 283, and 289, pulled former Canadian
National Tempo cars, purchased for the Ski Train in 1988. Three private cars which typically ran on the end of the train were
the Utah, dome car California, and observation car Kansas. After passing the target signal at Leyden siding in Arvada, the
train crossed Gross Reservoir Dam Road at Crescent siding, high in the tunnel district. This would be one of the last videos
taken of the Winter Park Ski Train, which was sold to the Algoma Central Railroad in Canada at the end of the 2009 ski season.
Note the snow capped Continental Divide in the background of the final shot.
Trains & Trolleys of the 20th Century
A compilation of 8mm films highlighting
the Action Train Videos 58 minute production Trains & Trolleys of the 20th Century. The full-length DVD includes black
& white and color films between 1929 and 1984. Steam locomotives pull passenger and freight trains on the Burlington,
Colorado & Southern, Illinois Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Norfolk & Western, Missouri Pacific, Southern and Pennsylvania
railroads. Also see PCC electric streetcars in San Francisco, Cleveland, and Washington, D.C.
Northbound Rail Runner Express commuter train number 512 and
southbound number 509 pass one of the few remaining semaphore signals at the Sandia Pueblo Indian reservation on Friday, August
14, 2009. One shot of the 512 and two shots of the 509 were taken on a rare rainy day in New Mexico, just east of Highway
Route 313. The 512, being pushed by an MP36PH-3C, arrived on time into the Downtown Bernalillo station at 11:01 am. An on-time 509, pulled by MP36PH-3C number 104, departed Downtown Bernalillo
at 12:34 pm, just before passing the semaphore signal at Sandia
Pueblo.
Union Pacific freight meets diverted Amtrak "California Zephyr" at
Tie Siding, WY on July 19, 2009
Amtrak's "California Zephyr" was diverted by the Union
Pacific off its regular Moffat Tunnel route to Union Pacific's Overland route through Wyoming. On July 19, 2009, the westbound
Zephyr met an eastbound Union Pacific double stack train near the Hermosa Road crossing in Tie Siding, WY. Pulling Amtrak
train no. 5 were P42DC units 184 and 29.
Union Pacific Cheyenne Frontier Days Special in Brighton, CO July 18, 2009
Union Pacific Northern Class 4-8-4
steam locomotive no. 844 pulled the Denver Post Cheyenne Frontier Days Special in celebration of this Wyoming western event.
No. 844, built in 1944, is the last continually operating steam locomotive that has never been retired. Behind the steam locomotive
was Union Pacific Centennial Class DDA40X 6936, the largest class of diesel locomotive ever built. The Frontier Days train
left Denver Union Station on time at 7:00am on Saturday, July 18, 2009. The return trip departed Cheyenne, WY at 5:30pm for
an 8:00pm arrival back in Denver. Presented are both the northbound and southbound passings of the passenger train at Bush
Street crossing in Brighton, CO.
S UP Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus Train in Carr, CO on June 8, 2009
The Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Red Unit Circus
Train was en route over the Union Pacific Railroad after finishing a show the previous night in Omaha, NE. It had crossed
the transcontinental mainline westbound and was heading south down the Denver Pacific line en route to Colorado Springs, CO.
The train was powered by UP SD70M 3823 and UP SD70M 4534. After the show in Colorado Springs, the circus train left northbound
at 4:15AM on Monday, June 15, 2009.
BNSF with Santa Fe and EMD power at Baptist Rd crossing, Monument, CO on June 19, 2009
A northbound local BNSF freight train crossed Baptist
Road just south of Monument, CO on Friday, June 19, 2009. On the point was BNSF GP35u 2521. It was built as Santa Fe GP35
1321 in March 1964. It was later renumbered Santa Fe 3321. Then it was rebuilt and renumbered Santa Fe GP35u 2821 in July
1982. This was its final Santa Fe number before the BNSF merger. Electro-Motive Diesel GP38-2 798 was built as Penn Central
7998 in July 1972, then renumbered Conrail 7998 before becoming an EMDX lease unit.
Click to see the Winter Park Ski Train on specials to Cheyenne, WY and Glenwood Springs, CO in 1997
Click to see three westbound Union Pacific trains in the fog and snow in Tie Siding, WY on 4/10/2009
Click to see N BNSF (CN) freight traverse the horseshoe curve in Folsom, NM on January 31, 2009
Click to see the Southbound BNSF Sulfur Train at Larkspur, CO on December 30, 2008
Click to see video of Amtrak Southwest Chief with Private Car December 29, 2008
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