Very Rare Gateway City Steam Trains St. Louis Missouri VHS Southern 4501 & More For Sale

For almost 70 minutes, you’ll enjoy a variety of mainline steam in the late 1970s & even 1980 on these historic Super 8mm sound films which includes southern railway 2-8-2 mikado number 4501 built by Baldwin in 1911 that is still owned by the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum in Chattanooga which also includes a ride on the coaches, Turning on the wye at the Mt. Vernon scrap yard, & getting a look in the cab before 4501 was upgraded with a mechanical stoker in 2014, Chesapeake & Ohio 4-8-4 greenbrier number 614 built in Lima Ohio in 1948 as it operates the Chessie System safety express in 1980 & 1981 only as the engine is under restoration to operational condition at the Strasburg railroad in Lancaster county Pennsylvania after it last ran in 1998 on the New Jersey transit commuter rail & later on display at Clifton Forge Virginia at one time, & before those 2 segments: the American freedom train with newly restored southern pacific daylight 4-8-4 number 4449 built in Lima in 1941 which is still operating in & out of Portland Oregon.

These sound films are extremely hard to come by which during those years (1975-1983), portable videocassette cameras with built-in microphones are starting to make their debut to retail stores as everyone is trying to upgrade their home movies since the invention of film as they want memories to capture sound on their footages at the same time.