Z-Train Wrote:
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> This show was awful. I've watched many PBS shows
> over the years and was appalled by this show's
> sloppiness. In addition to the errors pointed out
> above, there were images of Northeast Corridor
> Amtrak trains when the discussion was about
> Chicago area railroads and a view of a BNSF train
> was shown when the Transcontinental Railroad was
> mentioned. Really PBS? - would have it been
> really that difficult to get images from the Union
> Pacific?
>
> Otherwise, I feel that PBS has covered public
> transportation and railroads much better than any
> of the major commercial networks. A couple of
> years ago, PBS aired its Blueprint series. Here
> is link to the Blueprint program about light rail
> in Charlotte North Carolina which I feel is a much
> higher quality program: PBS Blueprint - Charlotte
> WARNING: Those who are offended by biased TV
> programming are warned that this is a pro-public
> transit program.
>
> Other past PBS transit and railroad programs which
> were well done
>
> American Experience on the building of the New
> York City subway (also presents public transit as
> a good thing)
>
> An American Experience program on streamlined
> passenger trains.
>
> Rio Grande Zephyr program
>
> Tracks Across the Sky - about the Kinzua Railroad
> Bridge in Northwestern Pennsylvania
>
> Murder on the Orient Express and companion show
> about the making of the Murder on the Orient
> Express
>
> Tracks Ahead magazine style program about
> railroads, public transit and model railroads
> (later episodes were the best)
>
> "Things that aren't there anymore" - a program of
> Pittsburgh nostalgia which included the Fineview
> trolley line, the last remaining trolleys in
> 1989/1990 and the experimental Westinghouse Skybus
> in Allegheny County's South Park.
>
> A History Detectives segment discussing the Denver
> & Intermountain Railway (now there's something you
> will never see covered on FOX!)
>
> By contrast, I have NEVER seen any real
> transportation programming on any of the other
> major non-cable networks (i.e ABC, CBS, FOX & NBC)


I am really impressed that you have taken the time and effort to take notes and catalog all this stuff---------------wow---------I just watch a program and fluff it off and don't keep notes on all of the above--------- I would hope that you have other things you do in your life besides chronicle all of this stuff. :-)
C.