I noticed that some of the PBS stations will be showing a 90 minute program this Thursday evening on steam locomotives. In the New York City metro area this program is listed as being on WLIW channel 21 from 8:30pm to 11PM.
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I don't want to be contrary, but a check of the WLIW website shows the start time tonight as 8pm.
Is this program new to TV or has it previously been shown?
Ed Rappe
The show to air on PBS's WLIW:
Celebrating North America's Steam Railways
CELEBRATING NORTH AMERICA'S STEAM RAILWAYS explores the impact the steam engine had on North America, by visiting 17 of the continent’ s most historic and scenic tourist steam railroads. This special takes viewers from the frozen tundra of Alaska to the vast high desert of Arizona, and from the rolling hills of New Hampshire and the Black Hills of South Dakota to the prairies and vast mountain ranges of Canada. The program also visits Steamtown National Historic Site, provides a first-hand lesson on how a steam engine works, and shows why millions of people each year are drawn to visit and ride steam railways.
WLIW Air dates: 6/5, 6/6, 6/7 and 6/15
Is not on during my local PBS's fund-raising session.
Tonight at 8pm we have "The Grateful Dead - Dead Ahead" which might also be interesting or at least have one train reference with the song "Casey Jones".
Alas, not on either WYCC or WTTW, in Chicago.
Here is the June schedule: http://gsrj.com/broadcasts.html
You can also order the DVD for $25 from PBS online and get a 20% fathers day discount to boot! 
Sounds like it's pledge time.
Originally Posted by sinclair:
Sounds like it's pledge time.
Actually, Daffy Duck would call it Foreverthon Season on PBS!
WLIW at Midnight tonight and 3pm tomorrow afternoon, 3pm tomorrow instead of a nap is my plan :-)
I put the title in "search" on our local KPBS. "No results found".
My local newspaper The Westchester County, NY Journal News listed this program in their Thursday tv section as 8:30-11:00pm. The Cablevision service I have did list the program as 8:00-11:00pm. Just to be sure I tuned in at 8:00pm and that is when I started. 3 hours with lots of breaks for fundraising. I contributed and ordered the Blu-Ray /dvd disc set and the guide to tourist railroads. They featured 17 railroads and having been to and ridden many of them I enjoyed the show over again.
Ollies bargain Outlet has a DVD tin called Railroad Tracks Across America. It is a two DVD set containing 36 documentaries. The Glory Years; Wheels of Progress; A great Railroad at work; Desert Empire; the Big Train; New Horizons; Troop Train; The Passenger Train; This is my Railroad; At this Moment, Big Trains Rolling; Mainline USA; Beet Rings the Bell; Safe Roads; 3rd Ave El; Operations Fast Freight; The Modern Coal Burning Locomotives; Flight of the Century; Disk 2: The Steam Locomotive; Railroads and the Westward Expansion 1845-1865; The Nickle Plate Story; End of an Era; The California Zephyr; Return of the General; The Freight Train; Railroad Man; The Railroad Story; Son of the Pioneer; Rolling the Freight; Snow on the Run; The Power Behind the Nation; Clear Track Ahead; A Railroad at Work; Last of the Giants; Progress on the Rails; Wheels of Steel; and Opening a new Frontier. It only cost $5.99 + tax.
