Sacramento Northern - Transit Gloria Mundi - Catenary Video Productions Sacramento Northern - Catch the interurban Experience in Action In 1940, long after most interurbans had degenerated into poorly maintained shadows of the pre-WWI prime, the Sacramento Northern was operating trains of heavy wooden arch-window cars looking fresh from the paintshop, rumbling slowly ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: SN1 50 Mins $29.95 | |
Take a Ride on the North Shore Line - DVD Transit Gloria Mundi Interurban Legends From the hustle of Chicago's Loop, along the shores of Lake Michigan to the streets of Milwaukee, The North Shore Line was a legend - for many, the very definition of the interurban railroad in America. Widely acclaimed as America's 'best known' interurban, the Chicago Nort ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: NS1 2 Hours $29.95 | |
This Was Pacific Electric - A Complete History on DVD by Sky City Productions This Was Pacific Electric tells the entire story of Southern California's famous RED CARS. Beginning in 1874 with the first horse car, this wonderful production follows the P.E. from its glory days in the 20's, into the depression of the 30's, through a resurrection in the war years and on to its fi ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: SCP-PACELE 1 Hour 30 Mins $29.95 | |
Don Olsens Pacific Electric Trilogy 3 DVD Set Get the complete 3 DVD volume for a reduced price! Note: Image is showing just Volume 1. This set contains 3 separate DVDs and cases containing Volume 1, 2 & 3. This set contains: Volume 1 - The Southern District Step back into ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: PET 3 Hours 30 Mins $74.95 | |
Trolley: The Cars That Built Our City - Transit Gloria Mundi TROLLEY: The Cars That Built Our Cities is our most popular video. It brings to life the history of the streetcar and its influence on urban life. With a fast-paced mixture of rare and unusual footage from the 1890s through the 1990s, it shows urban rail transit in all its forms: horsecars, cable ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: TRO 54 Mins $19.95 | |
Steel City Traction - The South Side Lines on DVD by Transit Gloria Mundi Steel City Traction: The South Side Lines tells the story of the lines that operated southward from downtown Pittsburgh, including routes 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 44, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, and 53, the interurbans to Washington and Charleroi, five of the inclines, the experimental Skybus line, and t ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: PSS 1 Hour 45 Mins $29.95 | |
Pacific Surfliner Head-End Cab Ride (2 DVDs) Experience the thrill of running Amtrak's Pacific Surfliner trains along the coast at 90 MPH! The perfect tool to help you get qualified on the Surfliner's "South End". This Double-disc DVD set includes every inch of territory between LA and San Diego, along with useful location information, signal ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: FPMPS10 3 Hours $29.95 | |
Raleigh D Adamos Washington Streetcar Films Pristine PCCs gliding gracefully with trolley poles down past the White House, ducking under Dupont Circle, cruising through the tree-lined streets of Georgetown - the streamliners of the world's last conduit-powered streetcar system were as much a part of the Capital City in the 1950's as the gleam ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: DWS 2 Hours 45 Mins $29.95 | |
Atlantic City Trolley Days on DVD by Transit Gloria Mundi For generations of Americans, Atlantic City is more than a place---it is a moment in time. The summers on the beach, the strolls along the Boardwalk and, of course, the trolleys. From Ocean City to the Steel Pier and back again, the trolleys that circled Atlantic City were an exuberant expression ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: ACT 42 Mins $29.95 | |
Steel and Ice The Trolley Days of Winter It's magic! Against snowy scenes of the city in winter, streetcars festooned with icicles emerge from the driving flakes. The sweepers come, whisking the snow in billowy clouds of crystal white. The cars seem to float past on tracks that are all but invisible in the glistening snow, gliding down n ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: SNO 50 Mins $29.95 | |
Steel City Traction 2 - West End Story on DVD by Transit Gloria Mundi Pittsburgh - a legend among American cities and once home to one of the world's greatest streetcar systems - rises from the point where two great rivers, the Monongahela and the Allegheny, join to form the mighty Ohio. The rugged hills and huge rivers give Pittsburgh an unmistakable topography and m ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: PWE 48 Mins $29.95 | |
Steel City Traction 3 - The North Side on DVD by Transit Gloria Mundi Pittsburgh's North Side was home to some of the Steel City's most-loved trolley lines. Route 21 Fineview had some of the steepest grades, tightest turns, and most spectacular views in the entire city. The West View loop (Routes 10 West View and 15 Bellevue) had one of the system's longest stretches ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: PNS 1 Hour $29.95 | |
Ed Millers Anthracite Traction on DVD by Transit Gloria Mundi Two medium-size city streetcar systems and the high-speed interurban which connected them are the subject of Ed Miller's superb motion picture camerawork. He began shooting just after World War II, and continued through the end of service, including scenes of track removal and car scrapping. Show ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: MAT 59 Mins $29.95 | |
Philadelphia Brill Bullet DVD In 1931, the Philadelphia and Western rebuilt their track for high-speed operation and took delivery of ten lightweight streamlined cars from the J. G. Brill Co. Quickly nicknamed Bullets, five of these legendary cars were still in service when we shot them in action during 1988 and 1989. We have ed ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: BUL 19 Mins $9.95 | |
Carvey Davis Baltimore Streetcar Films Carvey Davis's Baltimore Streetcar Films is a selection of this talented photographer's 16mm footage taken during the late 1940s and early 1950s. The program is arranged geographically, covering most of the major routes in operation during this period from end to end. Lots of Brill semiconver ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: CDB 59 Mins $29.95 | |
Baltimore Light Rail - DVD Transit Gloria Mundi Baltimore Light Rail is a lighthearted look at the first phase of Baltimore's new light rail line. The downtown segment is street running, while the bulk of the line to the North uses the right-of-way of the former Northern Central, a Pennsylvania Railroad subsidiary still used by Conrail for freigh ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: BLR 53 Mins $29.95 | |
Pacific Electric Vol 1 - Southern District - Transit Gloria Mundi - Catenary Video Productions Step back into a railfan's paradise - Los Angeles in the 1940's, where the world's largest interurban was scheduling 1,100 passenger trains a day. From thousands of Pacific Electric Logofeet of vintage film, producer-archivist Don Olsen has assembled an extraordinary record of this interurban empire ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: PE1 1 Hour 10 Mins $29.95 | |
Pacific Electric Vol 2 - Western District - Transit Gloria Mundi - Catenary Video Productions PE considered its Western District a "suburban" service. Although the Burbank, Valley and Venice Short Lines were certainly interurban in character, their equipment generally was not. Thus this Volume of the Western District focuses on 600 (5050) class cars, which ran on most of the Lines; ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: PE2 1 Hour 10 Mins $29.95 | |
Pacific Electric Vol 3 - Northern District - Transit Gloria Mundi - Catenary Video Productions Justifiably revered as the world"s greatest interurban, the Pacific Electric"s vast empire has required three video volumes to cover it in detail. Volume Three features the Northern District, plus Special New Year"s Day trains and RPO/ Box Motor operations. pe vol. 3The seven lines ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: PE3 1 Hour 10 Mins $29.95 | |
Ropes and Rails: San Franciscos Cable Cars Ropes and Railstells the story of the San Francisco cable cars in a way that is interesting to general audiences as well as enthusiasts. The history of the cable car is shown briefly using diagrams, maps, and historic stills and film footage, then all three routes of the present sys ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: RAR 45 Mins $29.95 | |
Transit Archives Series - Transit Gloria Mundi Over the years, various transit properties have produced films for public relations or employee training. They show fascinating aspects of transit operations, both behind the scenes and on the streets, interspersed with often painfully amateurish staged sequences which give them an unintended humoro ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: AD1 2 Hours 9 Mins $29.95 | |
One Mans Trolleys - George Krambles DVD DVD His remarkable narrative is a personal excursion through the heritage of electric railroading, from the twilight of the Indiana Railroad through today's Chicago Transit Authority and beyond. This video begins with Kramble's at the Illinois Railroad Museum, where he shows us some famous cars, ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: OMT 54 Mins $29.95 | |
Light Rail Panorama - DVD Transit Gloria Mundi Light Rail Panorama is an in-depth look at the new light rail systems in Calgary, Portland, and Sacramento. It follows each line in each system end-to-end showing samples of every type of right-of-way encountered, and all other major points of interest. Comparisons between light rail and rapi ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: LRP 55 Mins $29.95 | |
Mines Mills and Metro The Belgian Vicinal Mines, Mills, and Metro: The Belgian Vicinal shows highlights of the extensive network of country trolley and light metro routes once operated by the Belgian Vicinal in the vicinity of Charleroi. This system was popular among American trolley fans because of its incredible variety in operations and ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: MMM 1 Hour 30 Mins $29.95 | |
Everett White in the West Everett White was a prolific documentarian of the rails. In about 1940, he began traveling America and the world, capturing in still and moving pictures all manner of railroads, with an especially keen eye for electric lines.Transit Gloria Mundi is proud to present the first collection of White's tr ...more | TRANSIT GLORIA SKU: EWW 1 Hour $29.95 | |