Pentrex Movies

The Union Pacific Railroad produced its classic documentary film Last of the Giants in 1959 as a fitting tribute to the world's largest steam...

Climbing gently from the tidewater ports near Portland, Oregon is the Columbia River Gorge'a wide, flat-water river passage that provides access to...

Volume I is based on the films of noted rail photographer Emery Gulash. It showcases the famous locations, trains, and equipment of the Santa Fe and...

Big steam power, vintage diesels, classic interurbans, and Chicago's finest commuter railroads ... featuring the 1993 National Railway Historical...

From the archives of Pentrex Media Group comes the second in a series of vintage railroading films from the 1940s and 1950s. Volume 2 contains five...

Cheyenne was a bustling hub for UP steam in the 1950s. It"s where the Big Boys were based during their last years of operation powering freights over...

From headwaters in Canada, the Columbia River flows over twelve hundred miles to the Pacific Ocean and for many of those miles it marks the boundary...

Presents a behind-the-scenes look at the work and engineering required to put traveling shows aboard railroad cars. The World Circus Museum at...

In the decade they were operated, Union Pacific's 8500-series Gas Turbine Electric Locomotives earned two nicknames: UP dubbed them the "Super Fleet"...

Donner Pass – the name evokes daunting obstacles with good reason. Steep grades and seven months a year of winter weather put a railroad's...

In August of 2002, former Santa Fe steam locomotive 3751 returned to the rails for a thrilling excursion from Los Angeles to Williams, Arizona and...

Tracing the eastern banks of the upper Mississippi River is BNSF’s St. Croix Subdivision, a mostly double-tracked route providing access for a...

Pentrex takes you through Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin to discover mainline and regional railroading Midwestern style! I&M Rail...

Travel the last frontier aboard the passenger train between Anchorage and Fairbanks. Then drive your auto aboard the Whittier Shuttle for a car/train...

The Grand Canyon Railway is a tourist railroad in northern Arizona. This film follows the daily Williams Flyer excursion to the canyon.

Empire Builders to Milwaukee takes you back to the six months preceding and following the start of Amtrak service in Milwaukee. You'll view the...

Experience the Auto Train - one of the most unusual trains on the entire Amtrak system. Passengers on this train not only bring their luggage, they...

See zebra-striped switch engines and GP9s. Warbonnet and blue & yellow F-units, GP9s, U-Boats, GP35s, SD45s, and F45s in this fantastic collection of...

Documents electric railroad operations in the Chicagoland area from 1900 to 1990.

This is steam railroading at its best! A new generation of rail fan photographers, equipped with digital video cameras, has captured nine different...