The North Coast Limited Across The Rockies 41 Mins #SRP-NCLR $29.95 Have you ever wished you could go back, just once, and ride that sleek streamliner you always dreamed about? The one that sailed across the endless seas of wheat, followed great rivers through empty rangeland the exclusive property of cowboys and finally came smack against the widest wall of the rocky mountains faced by any Western Railroad? We locked that final segment away in a genie’s magic bottle almost a generation ago on stunning Ektachrome Commercial with colors so bright and real they will take your breath away. You can sit in the Vista Dome all day with your nose pressed to the glass or listen at the trackside as that lonely cry of the Nathan Three Chime blows far away for tracks and trains and crossings that are gone forever - except from history books. For 400 Miles from Bozeman to Pasco you’ll be engulfed by Montana’s highest mountains: a westbound trip in Summer and Eastbound in February. Both East and Westbound over the Butte Short Line in summer. You’ll climb every 2.2% grade at least twice: Butte Hill, Evaro, and Mullan Pass. You’ll follow the Northern Pacific from the headwaters of the Missouri to the Columbia and catch up with Lewis and Clark along the way. Vignettes in steam along the edge of the famed Cabinet Gorge now drowned behind the dam. Excerpts from the NPRHA tape, “Jim Frederickson Remembers” of steam on Evaro Hill and the Timken Roller Bearing 4-8-4 “Four Aces” - The first locomotive of its kind. The Mainstreeter, an almost identical train, without domes, is used to cover the Helena Line, and wherever the North Coast Limited was obscured by darkness. back