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This is the World's longest Alpine Coaster (3.535km - approx 2.2 miles) and I rode this just a couple of hours before riding the very scary single ...

Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes writer Glenn Greenwald for a discussion of his new book, "With Liberty and Justice for Some." Greenwald ...

An edited clip of a vintage Frigidaire vertically pulsating washer.

Zenith 21 inch model 6061 was introduced during the fall of 1963 in the new 1964 lineup. This model has remote control called Space Command 400. Th...

A short clip from Mission Impossible, which is rcv'd via a Magnavox DTV converter, then relayed via a small UHF transmitter to the TV which picks i...

Table Model FF-557B

On Sept 18, 2008 the RDC Chinese QJ's doubleheaded and pulled a record setting freight of 6252 tons on the Iowa Interstate Railroad from Iowa City ...

UP 3985 topping Archer Hill with 143 freight cars at 35mph.

Scene from "Heavy Freight and Union Pacific 3985" by WB Video Productions. Ranks as m...

Union Pacific Railroad's "Challenger" No. 3985, the world's largest operating steam locomotive, will be on a six-state, 2,200-mile tour from Cheyen...

Union Pacific 844 from Blalock, OR followed into Portland's Albina Yard on September 13, 2010.

Chasing UP 844/The Portland Rose - Part 3

[Portland, OR to Boardman, OR]

In September of 2010, Union Pacific 844 (ALCo FEF-3 4-8-4) returns to th...

Union Pacific 844 April 2 2010 Preparing to depart Cheyenne, WY on its way to South Texas, to celebrate the railroad's history and heritage. The to...

SP 4449 eastbound from Carson area to Wishram, July 3rd 2009

Chasing UP 844/The Portland Rose - Part 1

[Arlington, OR to Portland, OR]

In September of 2010, Union Pacific 844 (ALCo FEF-3 4-8-4) returns to th...

Here is some video taken from Conrail diesel #1647 as PRR K4 #1361 commenced her shakedown run on April 12, 1987.

From "PRR K4s #1361 Shakedown R...

Part 2. SP&S 700 and SP 4449 returning to Portland after doubleheading to Wishram, WA for NRHS's convention. July 6th, 2005. Copied from VHS.

Steam Locomotives SP&S 700 an SP 4449 head for the Columbia Gorge pulling 19 vintage rail cars. BNSF tracks near Vancouver, Washington. July 2005.

844 Eastbound from The Dalles to somewhere near Boardman. This was originally almost one continuous shot from near the Dalles to John Day. It was p...

Dmitry Orlov, engineer and author, warns that the US's reliance on diminishing fuel supplies might be sending it down the same path the Soviet Unio...

I dare ya :-)

A Video about the wonderful vintage automatic washers we collect and restore as well as a few other fun vintage electric items.

In this fourth video in the series "Peak Oil and a Changing Climate" from The Nation magazine and On The Earth Productions, James Howard Kunstler d...

On DVD April 21st, pre-order now at the Cinema Libre Studio Store http://store.cinemalibresto...

This feature length do...

Check out our new film series American Makeover at www.AmericanMakeover.tv.

"Built to Last" won first place in The Congress for the New Urbanism C...

The last of St. Paul Lutheran Church in Lakewood, Ohio. The 97 year-old church is being razed to make room for a CVS Store. The church has been emp...

http://www.ted.com In James Howard Kunstler's view, public spaces should be inspired centers of civic life and the physical manifestation of the c...

Skinner Steam Engine Electricity Generator at the Allegany County Fairgrounds has been in service until 1991 at the Babcock Ladder Co. in Bath, NY....

v6 Steam engine; the latest version. Foward and reverse gears have been added. And the timing made more reliable. No hoses inside; drilled hole...

Steve Landesberg is one funny dude.

J.S. Bach

Fuge in g-minor BWV 578 from the Little Organ Book transcribed and played by Olga Samaroff (1882-1948).

Recorded June 1930

Olga Samarof...

discover the basics of the calculus

Michael S. Schneider explains how the Ancient Egyptians (and Chinese) and modern computers multiply and divide

CNN: "A lot of people in New York with phones, with cameras -- or just cameras, so we received a lot of I-Reports from people who experienced the b...

A post-explosion geyser of steam on New York City's East Side.

July 19, 2007 - People running away from a gigantic explosion when ConEd's pipe burst underneath the ground.