September 2024 program: Fast Trains and Sugar Cane
Available on YouTube. Jim Kleeman presents a look at Florida railroading over the last 15 years. The video features Florida East Coast Railroad, Brightline, Tri-Rail, Florida Central, and U.S. Sugar Corporation.

August 2024 program: Sand Patch Action in the Late 1980s
Available on YouTube. Mike Yuhas, a noted photographer and former Director of Advertising for Trains magazine, shows images of trains on scenic Sand Patch grade on CSX west of Cumberland, MD. A variety of fallen flag color schemes are included.

July 2024 program: Railroading in the Old Dominion and Mountain States
Available on YouTube. Potomac Chapter member Alex Kohler shares images captured on the CSX Cumberland Sub, the RF&P Sub, and the NS Hagerstown line, also some pictures of Buckingham Branch motive power. Featured railroads are: CSX, Norfolk Southern, Amtrak, and Virginia Railway Express.

June 2024 program: The Newfoundland Railway
Available on YouTube. Tom Nemeth, editor of Railpace Magazine, takes us along for an in-depth look at the scenic and fondly remembered 547-mile narrow-gauge Newfoundland Railway in the 1970s and early 1980s.

May 2024 program: Western Railfanning in the 1980s
Available on YouTube. Chapter member Bill Kalkman's program covered rail operations in a variety of Western locations. The images were taken on trips to Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, Minnesota, Nevada and Arizona from the mid 1980's to 1990. Included are scenes of Burlington Northern, Union Pacific, Soo Line, Santa Fe, D&RGW, Amtrak, MKT, C&NW, and Mountain Diesel.

June 2023 program: Rodney Peterson's Erie-Lackawanna and New York Central Pt. 2
Available on YouTube. Jim Kleeman presents Rodney's photography from 1963 to 1970. Rodney was a project engineer in the B&O Division Engineers Office in Akron, Ohio. He spent time documenting the E-L and NYC operations from New York to Western Ohio. Part 2 focuses on the NYC. This video is an encore studio edit, (with Bob Kaplan providing additional commentary), of a Potomac Chapter NRHS program originally presented on June 20th 2023.

June 2023 program: Rodney Peterson's Erie-Lackawanna and New York Central Pt. 1
Available on YouTube. Jim Kleeman presents Rodney's photography from 1963 to 1970. Rodney was a project engineer in the B&O Division Engineers Office in Akron, Ohio. He spent time documenting the E-L and NYC operations from New York to Western Ohio. Part 1 focuses on the E-L. This video is an encore studio edit, (with Bob Kaplan providing additional commentary), of a program originally presented on June 20th 2023.

April 2024 program: The Colorful Norfolk Southern
Available on YouTube. George Hamlin presents a program covering the intriguing heritage paint schemes currently worn by Norfolk Southern diesels. The program also includes diesels from other railroads photographed leading NS trains.

March 2024 program: ALCO Shortlines & Regionals
Available on YouTube. Alex Mayes took us on a tour of shortline and regional railroads in the Eastern U.S., including several all-ALCO lines.

February 2024 program: Railroading in the Columbia River gorge
Available on YouTube. Bob Kaplan's program featured images from his visits to the gorge extends between 1978 and 2012. Included are freights in the Deschutes River Canyon and a couple of steam excursions.

January 2024 program: 40 years of Canadian Railfanning
Available on YouTube. Jim Kleeman's program includes Toronto yards, Kicking Horse and Yellowhead Pass, Thompson and Fraser River Canyons. Images from: CP, CN, VIA and the Rocky Mountaineer.

October 2023 program: Specially Painted Motive Power
Available on YouTube. Alex Koehler's program focused on the specially painted locomotives of Amtrak, CSX, and Norfolk Southern which honor the many former railroads which were merged to form the current Class 1 systems. The program begins in 2015 and includes the many attractive schemes up to 2023.

July 2023 program: NYS&W Railway in the 60s and 70s
Available on YouTube. Tom Nemeth provides a look at freight operations, before stack trains, on the heritage New York Susquehanna & Western between Little Ferry, Butler, and Sparta Junction along with action at Edgewater on the Hudson river.

May 2023 program: 50 Years of Photography
Available on YouTube. Mike Yuhas, noted photographer and former Director of Advertising for Trains magazine, highlighted 50 years of his photography. Areas covered included Long Island, Hudson Valley, Philadelphia, and Southeastern Wisconsin.

April 2023 program: Ten Years Before and Ten Years After Amtrak
Available on YouTube. May 1, 1971 represented the end of most privately operated passenger trains in the United States. Ira Silverman takes the viewer through the last years of the private passenger train and the first decade of Amtrak.

February 2023 program: NKP 765 videos
Available on YouTube. Alex Koehler showed two videos featuring Nickel Plate Road 2-8-4 Berkshire #765. In the first video #765 pulls excursions for Norfolk Southern employees between Enola and Harrisburg, PA, in August 2012. The second video highlights public excursions Memorial Day weekend 2013.

January 2023 program: Montana Rail Link
Available on YouTube. Jim Kleeman looks back at MRL over the last 30 years Their vintage EMD locomotives and the beautiful scenery drew him back to Montana at least a dozen times. When BNSF announced their acquisition plans, he headed west one more time to photograph MRL's last stand.

November 2022 program: Kansas City Southern - A Fond Look Back
Available on YouTube. Bob Kaplan took his first photos of KCS in 1979 and made several additional trips to photograph this colorful railroad (the last being in April and May of 2022). His program documents the changes he observed and depicts some KCS operations.

Anniversary banquet program: Potomac Railroading
Available on YouTube. Former Trains Magazine editor Kevin Keefe presented B&W images from the Kalmbach archive covering action of the Mid-Atlantic region from the late 1940s through the early 1980s. He presented via Zoom at the chapter's 50th Anniversary banquet October 15, 2022.

August 2022 program: Steam Extrusions in the Mid-Atlantic Region
Available on YouTube. Alex Koehler highlights steam excursion programs in the mid-Atlantic region between 2015 and 2022. Includes: Western Maryland 1309, New Hope and Ivyland 40, Reading and Northern 2102 + 425, Walkersville Southern, Stewartstown Railroad, and N&W 611.

May 2022 program: Rio Grande - Through the Rockies; Not Around Them
Available on YouTube. Jim Kleeman covers the fabled Denver & Rio Grande Western. Dipping into his slides going back to 1987, along with some additional material from the Rodney Peterson Collection, he visits most of the DRGW system prior to the UP takeover. Highlights include: The Moffat Line, Tennessee Pass, The Great Basin Desert, and Soldier Summit

March 2022 program: Eastern Shortline Steam Railroads in the Early 1960s
Available on YouTube. A program featuring 8mm films of chapter member Jerry Hott. Railroads included are: The Virginia Blue Ridge Railway, Ely-Thomas Lumber Company, Ft. Eustis Military Railroad, Buffalo Creek and Gauley, and The East Tennessee and Western North Carolina Railroad.

February 2022 program: Pursuing the Reading: One Man's Obsession.
Available on YouTube. Dale Woodland traces his interest in the Road of Anthracite beginning with his trips to Philadelphia in 1946 behind Reading Pacifics to his involvement railroads operating on former Reading trackage now. He is currently Director of Museum Operations at the Reading Railroad Heritage Museum in Hamburg, PA.

November 2021 program: Rodney Peterson's All Roads Lead to Chicago.
Available on YouTube. Jim Kleeman drew upon material from Rodney Peterson's extensive slide collection for a nostalgic look at passenger service in Chicago and the Midwest from the 1950s to the 1970s.

October 2021 program: Shortline and Mainline Photo Journeys: 2020 - 2021.
Available on YouTube. Bob Kaplan discussed how he went about railfanning during COVID-19, while trying to stay safe.

September 2021 program: Contemporary California.
Available on YouTube. Alex Mayes took us to the popular locations in the Golden State during visits in 2018 and 2021, including the Surf Line, Cajon Pass, Tehachapi Loop, Frost, Santa Susana Pass, and Donner Pass. Scenes of a few tourist lines and a whale watching cruise off the coast of Monterey are included.

August 2021 program: 2020 Railroading on Cape Cod.
Available on YouTube. Doug Scott showed a multimedia PowerPoint presentation set to music. Doug will talk only at the beginning and end of the presentation.Railroads covered will be Mass Coastal freight, Bay Colony freight, New Bedford, Cape Cod Central passenger trains and the summer Boston-to-Hyannis CapeFLYER weekend passenger service. The NRHS Cape Cod Chapter runs the former New Haven Railroad West Barnstable train station as an active station and museum.

July 2021 program: Wintertime Steam.
Available on YouTube. Alex Mayes starts with the Cumbres & Toltec line-clearing event with steam-powered snow blower OY February 29 and March 1, 2020. He follows with a Durango & Silverton excursion to Cascade Wye the next weekend. The program then segues to February 2008 with scenes from Winter Steam Spectaculars on the Nevada Northern Railway and the Heber Valley Railroad.

April 2021 program: City of New Orleans: A train, a song, a region.
Available on YouTube. Past Akron Rail Club President Craig Sanders presented a program documenting the origin of the classic song, its namesake train, and railroading in the deep South.

March 2021 program: Railfanning the Western Maryland in the 1970s
Available on YouTube. John King covered the final years of the railroad before it was dissipated by the Chessie System.

February 2021 program: Rodney Peterson's Pennsylvania Railroad
Available on YouTube. Jim Kleeman presented images of the Pennsylvania Railroad taken through lens of the late Rodney Peterson. The program covered scenes from the late 40s to the early 70s.