Pentrex Movies

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

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...

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

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...

For nearly 47 years, the Southern Pacific Railroad relied upon its massive AC-type steam locomotives to haul freight and passenger trains throughout...

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...

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

Streamliners! The look captured the imagination of the nation. The name represented luxury, glamour, and mobility. Streamliners epitomized a new...

With just six days remaining before Santa Fe was to be merged with the Burlington Northern, Pentrex set out to do something special to mark the...

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

Pentrex takes you to South Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, and Wisconsin for more of the best in Midwestern railroading! We visit...

Produced by the Union Pacific during the 1970s, these films bring you a nostalgic view into the day-to-day workings of a railroading icon. These...

Doublestack containers have revolutionized the railroad industry. You can see them everywhere across the nation. Yet one of America's most famous...

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...

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

Savor images of Conrail action across the Pittsburgh Line, the very soul of this once mighty transportation giant, as captured during the late 1990s....

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

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

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

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...