At 4:00 pm ET, the Voyages programs on History International will be showing Trains Unlimited: Trains at War. It is the story of the role of railroads in wartime. Beyond that, I don’t know squat about it. I’m sure this has probably aired before but it will be new to me.
I will have to check it out. Direct Tv channel is 271.
Thanks. I have it programmed into the VCR. SuddenLink channel here is 201 for History Channel International. Today I’ll record ‘Trains Unlimited’ (201 HCI) and ‘It Takes A Thief’ (25 DISC) back to back.
EERRRGGHHH Mom changed pacakges, We don;t get HCI any more And yet the listing is there taunting me.
I was getting a free preview of that channel for about a month and it stopped last week.[banghead] Grrrrrr!!
Cool…I wish I saw this post earlier. I was watching Jerry Springer!
Rotor
I just finished watching this program and found it to be riveting (pun intended). It combined two of my passions, railroad and military history. It covered the role of railroads from the American Civil War through Korea. It spoke of the movement of men and materials to the front lines. Although he was not mentioned by name in the program, Ike’s area of expertise was in logistics and I think it was this trait more than any other that made him the ideal choice as Supreme Commander of the European theater.
One of the more fascinating facts I learned from this progam is that gauge matters. The German army’s siege of Leningrad was delayed because their trains were the standard 4’ 8.5" gauge while Russia’s railroads were 5’ gauge. The delay in regauging the Russian tracks proved to be decisive in the battle.
Although it was just mentioned briefly toward the end of the program, the piece about the Korean War had special significance for me. My Dad had entered the Marine Corps late in 1944 and his unit was in Hawaii training for the invasion of Japan when the bomb was dropped so he never saw combat. Because of this, he felt an obligation to re-up when the Korean War broke out but with two small children and me on the way, Mom put her foot down and killed that idea.
I’m sure many of you missed this program but History Channel and History International tend to re-run these programs on a fairly regular basis so you should get another chance before too long. It might even run again sometime overnight so check your guide to see if it is going to be repeated. It is worth recording by whatever means you have available.
This is a re-run of a History Channel Trains Unlimited episode that was shown in the U.S. nearly 5 years ago.
Didn’t he steal a kid’s locomotive in one episode?
The Trains Unlimited shows only had about 6 episodes. I think I’ve seen all of them 20 times. Then there’s the Modern Marvels “Freight Trains” episode which was on earlier this week. DirecTV recievers can search the listings for keywords, so I check for train and rail just about everyday.
I enjoyed the Trains Unlimited series when it first came out and the Freight trains episode of Modern Marvels, however, I really wish that the History channel would produce some new shows, those train episodes get sooo much airplay and after ten times seeing them you don’t even bother to watch them.
I’d like to see a repair shop episode, a manufacturing episode and a MOW episode.
Perhaps a nicely worded email would help to encourage them to give us some new stuff to watch.
If you’re looking for some commercial free train videos, try RFDTV , Mondays at 6pm, they show some pretty good videos.
Shhh…dem dere cityfolks with dere fanct schmancy cable Tv don’t git dat dere Ar Eff Dee Tee Vee. Its fer us farmers ya know.
(DirecTV channel 379) They also run “I Love Toy Trains” and “The Train Show” and a show with some guy in Chicagoland. Their schedule changes every few months, but Trains and Locomotives has been on at 6pm Monday and at 9am Saturday’s for the past few years already. The other shows come and go seemingly at the whim of the programmers.
Unfortunately, I have cable at the house. No RFD-TV. [V]
I had Direct TV at my hobby shop, and did watch the train shows. I enjoyed the shows.
Rotor
Actually, some of the more rural Comcast service regions are now carrying RFD. Pity the city folk who miss out on the bee keeping show and especially, “Training Mules and Horses”!