Features visits to railroads throughout the world, including Indian steamers and the Japanese bullet train.
Ride the rails through history with the Tom Thumb, General and other famous trains.
The definitive filmed history of these incredible machines.
From the thunderous approach of a grand steamer to the woosh of the Japanese Bullet train, this set captures the visceral appeal of trains with unmatched clarity and fidelity, thanks to DVD technology.

In 1825, transportation was revolutionized by a clumsy little locomotive in England that chugged along at 12 miles per hour. Within a few years, train tracks crisscrossed the planet. LOCOMOTION hurtles down a track of discovery to trace the impact of rail travel on society. It's an epic ride aboard the Iron Horse, with changeovers to the Twentieth Century Limited and Japan's Bullet Train. Archival footage and expert interviews bring the history of trains to life in four exciting programs.
 

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In the first half of the 20th century, America's railroads were transformed by the coming of giants. Pushed by the need to haul ever longer and heavier trains, the nation's locomotive works responded with the awe-inspiring articulated engines. Delivering up to 7,500 horsepower, these steel giants could haul trains a mile long and weighing over 15,000 tons. WHEN GIANTS ROAMED journeys back to the golden age of steam for an up-close look at these legendary locos. See the Union Pacific's famed Big Boy in action and ride the rails of the Chesapeake & Ohio and Norfolk & Western, eastern coal-hauling railroads with an unquenchable thirst for power. Meet the men who drove engines like the Allegheny and Yellowstone, and visit the museums and yards where the largest steamers ever built are preserved today. It's a historic excursion sure to set any railfan's heart pounding.
 

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On a somber day in Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln ended his famous address with a promise that the war-torn nation would be reborn. The greatest symbol of that rebirth had already begun, hailed as an engineering feat to rival the pyramids the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad.

Its construction was an engineering marvel and a technological nightmare. The Union Pacific built westward from Omaha, and the Central Pacific eastward from Sacramento, hoping they would someday meet. The work crept inch by grueling inch across the forbidding continent and the treacherous Sierras. Here is the epic tale of the struggle to forge an iron link across the untamed West, and the only engineering feat to spawn an American folk tale: the legend of John Henry. After a decade of work, on May 10, 1869 at Promontory, Utah, as the last symbolic spike linking the two railways was driven, a nation was united and forever transformed.
 

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The railroads took a young nation and helped it grow into an international power. They helped win the West, they tamed the vast distances of the continental country, and they became an essential part of America's commerce, economy and folklore. STOKIN' THE FIRE is the definitive history of America's railroads. From their role in the Civil War to the heyday of the Pullman Car to today, follow 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.

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