Video Screening: Trains Unlimited, Stokin the Fire: What Makes Trains Go September 20, 2008

"Trains Unlimited: Stokin the Fire: What Makes Trains Go" follows the growth of the railroads through dramatic footage, rare photos, and interviews with the people who have made their livelihood from them. Trace the evolution of the steam engine from the tiny Tom Thumb to the mighty Big Boy the largest and most powerful steamer ever built and see how diesels took over after World War II. Go onboard some of the most luxurious trains of all, and climb aboard for a ride in a modern locomotive. Produced by the History Channel, TRAINS UNLIMITED brings our railroading past alive with extensive action footage, thousands of photographs and interviews with trainmen, curators and railroad executives.

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