Lasting Impressions VHS 1987 Very Rare Norfolk & Western 1218 Southern Style N&W

Description

This recently turned 35 year old videotape covers some of the highlights of the 1943 Roanoke Virginia built class A 2-6-6-4 itself on the route of the southern railway which is part of today’s NS system. One from Cincinnati to Danville & back on the weekend of September 12, & 13, followed by a trip from Lexington to Chattanooga on the 19th & 20th the following week, & in October from Birmingham to Chattanooga.
Locations include ludlow Kentucky in the greater Cincinnati Ohio area, crescent springs, Erlanger grade & depot, Walton, Sherman, eagle creek trestle at sadieville, Delaplain, Donerail, Burgin, the overpass at curdsville road, Danville, Wilmore, Jessamine junction (note the helicopter flying overhead offscreen), Hinton (not the town in West Virginia’s new river gorge), Blanchet, Florence junction, tateville, Pine Knot, Winfield Tennessee, Emory Gap, Bakewell, Chattanooga, Soddy hill, Pennine, a birds eye view at rockwood which is taken from Mt. Roosevelt, mountain gap through the famous rathole, Parker’s lake Kentucky, burnside cliff, south fork, valley head Alabama, wild wood Georgia, pacing alongside 1218 between wild wood & cloverdale, & more pacing between cloverdale & Caldwell, where the program ends in a lovely sunset at Cladwell.
On the September 12, & 13 trips, noteworthy railroad video producer & future famous America By Rail creator Greg Scholl was also on the exact same trip as this journey was captured in Greg’s other titles: Cincinnati 1218 (yet to be either converted and/or re-edited to DVD), & Steam cab rides from 2017.
All of these scenes in this 40 minute program were covered by Ken & Ron Durham who have also appeared in a couple of other GSVP titles from 1992: Union Pacific’s caliente subdivision, & Santa’s challenger with Union Pacific 3985 as clinchfield 676.
I also have 2 copies of this item for sale: the T-60 minute big wheel version which you’re looking at, the other being recorded on a T-120 TDK brand tape that comes in a brown case.