"Thunder From The Wild West
is great all-family entertainment. Captures life on the high
desert and the impact of a railroad with a destiny."
Model Railroad News July 2007
"The two
DVD's are terrific. The railroad parts are fantastic AND you
really captured the majestic scenery beautifully. Your shots
of the Grand Canyon are about the
best I've ever seen!"
"Thanks
for producing superior
videos. It is most appreciated."
Ed
Oregon
"Thanks
for great and outstanding videos!"
George Virginia
"Thanks very much for a brilliant
video." (STEAM-POWER SAWMILL)
--Stephan
Denmark
Like
so many of our fans, Stephan loves to build models of railroad
operations. Although from Europe he chose to model operations as seen
in Western Oregon. You can see pictures of his creativity at his
personal
website: http://www.stephan-besier.de
We
have friends all over the world. We truly appreciate
hearing from you. Thanks
to all for sharing your feedback and your
kind words of encouragement.
THE ROCK TRAINS is
one of our most popular films. It shows two old steam engines working
as hard as they can to deliver rock and gravel to the site of a bridge
washout.
Once people discover this show,
they just can't seem to get enough of it. Customers tell us they watch
it over and over and never get tired of it.
We wanted to let other people
(especially kids) see how much fun this show is. So we put a little YouTube video together with the entire first chapter from
THE ROCK TRAINS. If you would like to watch this now, just click on the
picture below.
(Requires Adobe
Flash Player - a plug-in for your browser).
(I must warn you, they had me
do a little 30-second introduction to the film...and I think I look a
little goofy on camera. Hopefully not too much! (lol) What
do you think?)
Rob Simpson
______________________________
We are always thinking...
What if
"Walt Disney" ...
or "Steven Spielberg" ...
or "George Lucas" were making
railroad videos
...just for the fun of it?
It
may sound funny, but WE think about that all the time...
Wouldn't every one be way more than an average movie...?
Would watching it be almost
like an adventure?
Would the images be stunning?
Would the sound be incredible in 5.1
Surround?
The story would
spring
right
out of the action so that you wanted to watch it over and over
again ...and share it with your friends.
Well,
even though we don't have the budget of a big studio, we
are guided
by the very
same principles.
Story...action...and
sound that
adds up a rip-roaring video adventure!
And here's
one thing the big studios never seem to do...
We
guarantee
your satisfaction with every film. Does
a major studio promise
this when we buy a
ticket to a show? Not that I can ever recall.
So, by
ordering
directly from us you have the assurance that if you think
it's
a "turkey," you can send it back and get a refund on the price of the
DVD.
You
may think we are a bit crazy to make an offer like this.
Crazy...well,
maybe.
But, we
are so confident you
are going to love whatever you order that we do this for
all our
on-line customers. And we trust you that you
would never betray a trust by making
copies and stealing what we do for you.
We
have always found our customers to possess a very high level of
integrity. We've even had customers call us when we
accidentally didn't process their credit card!!!
So,
I hope by now you can see that Golden Rail Video shows are not some
sort of cheap "best of a web-cam"
type of gallery of video clips. Or as someone once put it,
videos of " bunch of trains running around."
Far
from it.
Each
title is a complete documentary film. Each title
captivates all ages because
each show tells
a story.
Each DVD is like a feature film. One is like a sequel to the
other ...(or is it a prequel?).
Both shows were shot along the old Santa
Fe Railway line that is now known
as The
Grand Canyon Railway.
.
Volume 1 is called Thunder From
the Wild West. This show tells the often ignored story of
the early days of the
Grand
Canyon National Park and the railroad that made it all
happen, the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway.
Volume 2, Thunder in
the Canyons takes us behind-the-scenes to experience a day
in the life on a major steam railroad. 128 miles every day!
We almost subtitled this one 24-hours On a Steam Railroad.
We'll be getting more on-line for you soon. We'd love to have
you
sign our email list and we'll keep you posted about our train
activities. (See above left.)
Requires
the Windows Media Player or equivalent. To download the free Windows
Media Player, click here.
Greetings!
Here's a picture of me
"at
the
office."
People
ask, "How do you make such great steam train videos?" What a
fun question to answer. Yep.
That's me in the picture with a big old video camera strapped under my
arm on top
of a steam locomotive in Oregon
(Sumpter
Valley Ry #19) as it
barrels down the track.
Just "another day at the office?"
Well actually, not every day is as exciting as this.
But, that sure was a great day!
And I get to relive those days when I
work those long hours of post-production to get them ready for you.
I must not be the only one who loves steam trains. I get letters
all the time saying...."Yours are the only railroad videos my family
will watch with me."
They say, "You never fully recover from your first train set."
I believe it.
I not
only like to tell a story of steam railroading, but really convey what
it was like to be there.
It
always amazes me.
There on location is where the story to be told emerges from the
steam and smoke. By the time I am through shooting footage, it seems as
though a script for the production has been written in the clouds of
steam..
Such is
the exhilarating energy that surrounds the iron horse.
That's
why I love going to great lengths to get shots like these...so
the story can be told with pictures as well as words.
People of all ages can share together in the Golden Rail
Video experience.
You could say, "We're bringing the generations together with all the
bells and whistles"...but that'd be kind of silly, wouldn't it?
Rob
Simpson
Producer,
CEO
"Content and story are
unbeatable.
I have all
(your videos) and none has been a disappointment.
Even my wife watches
with me.
Keep making great videos!"
--Greg,
Michigan
We pride ourselves on making the kind of
shows you
want to watch and share again and again. We even have a quality pledge
guarantee we make to you.
I am always interested in customer feedback. Feel free to send us an
email if you have any suggestions ...for a future program ...or things
you'd like to see covered.
We really like producing programs about historic railroads with a lot
of character. We work exclusively with the railroad when doing a
production to present the story and the railroad in the best possible
light. If you are part of an interesting operation, please
drop me line.
What railroad ended up creating a
national treasure we
all enjoy today?
In 1881 the Santa Fe
Pacific was pushing West. Of course, the world would never be
the same.
This documentary tells the often ignored
history of the Grand
Canyon National Park and
how the Santa Fe Railway was a company with a vision that made
it all happen.
The
fascinating saga of the Grand Canyon Railway.
91 min. DVD in 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound
($24.95)
Watch
a new Video Preview.
Click on the box.
Check
out more details about the
history of the Grand
Canyon Railwayby clicking here.
Do you prefer MAIL or FAX?
To print an order
form click here.
Thunder
in the Canyons
24-hours on a
steam railroad.
The
journey to the Canyon.
A
day-in-the-life adventure you'll never forget.
Using the historic Grand Canyon Railway
operation
as a
backdrop you'll follow the steam crews as they take a steam
locomotive on a daily 128 mile journey.
104 min. DVD in 5.1 Dolby Surround Sound
($24.95)
Watch
a new Video Preview.
Click on the box.
Read
more
about this day-in-the-life
on a steam
railroad featuring the Grand Canyon Railway
by clicking here.
Do you prefer MAIL or FAX?
To print an order
form click here.
Shay:
Power Tour
Meet the Shay,
the most popular steam locomotive on North
America's rugged logging railroads.
Highly entertaining and informative. Discover the geared-locomotive
design that “won the woods.” Includes the famous
Shay Races
from Railfair Sacramento...at death-defying speeds of over 18 mph
!!! (You had to be there to understand...or the next-best
thing...Join us a SHAY: POWER TOUR.)
Do you prefer MAIL or FAX?
To print an order
form click here.
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Our only "diesel film" was a
collaboration with our friends at Machines of Iron
A forgotten yet fascinating look at the re-opening of this famous
stretch of Northern
Pacific track at the time of the merger with the Burlington Northern and the Santa
Fe.
That means lots of mixed colors and equipment you just don't get to see
any more. The beautiful vistas of Eastern and Western
Washington
State accent the action in this new chapter of the original Northern
Pacific mainline's story.
Includes a visit to Cargill grain operations to see unloading of grain
cars.
Glad
you stopped
by...
By
clicking the link you
can learn more about these 
Shay:
Power Tour
Santa Fe 3751 -
Canyon Rails 
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