Articulateds in Appalachi 38 Mins #SRP-AA $29.95 Features Fred McLeod’s sync sound footage from the early 1950s of 2-8-8-4 “Yellowstone” type locomotives on the Baltimore & Ohio, the last and most efficient Main Line articulateds built in America. For a stunning comparison we have added what is generally agreed to be the world’s most powerful steam locomotive, the rigid frame 2-6-6-6 Allegheny types of the Chesapeake & Ohio. They even outweighed the Union Pacific “Big Boys.” Plus a sprinkling of President Class 4-6-2s on the crack B&O limiteds: “The Cincinnatian” and “The Washingtonian." Also C&O Streamlined Hudsons with “The Sportsman” and “The George Washington." A single 2-6-6-6 westbound from Covington with 100 loaded hoppers creeps to the summit at barely 5 MPH. But the speeds of the fast freights thru White Sulphur and Hinton equal and probably exceed anything today. The B&O articulateds are shown pounding thru Confluence and racing by New Castle, PA. Opens with brief scenes of B&O M-1 Mallets and the C&O 2-6-6-6s taken from our tape: “Baltimore & Ohio Steam." Closes with Archie Julian’s “Battle For the Blue Ridge” - a mixture of Norfolk & Western branch line Pacifics, class A and Y articulateds, plenty of streamlined, J class Northerns on the Powhatan arrow and the Pocahontas and, even, the experimental coal turbine “Jawn Henry." The latter from our 1218 tape “The Big A." Mixed color and Black & White. A definitive study of the monsters that ruled the rails in Eastern America for the better part of a generation. Color back