Light Rail and Trolley Videos by Transit Gloria Mundi

Transit Gloria Mundi
What's New as of 27 June 2007

Raleigh D'Adamo's Washington Streetcar Films

The Washington streetcar films shot by Raleigh D'Adamo's have provided the source material for our major recent project, Raleigh D'Adamo's Washington Streetcar Films. Raleigh covered every line running in Washington during the last five years of service, end to end, in both directions. With massive editing, we pared it down to 2 3/4 hours! Our production makes full use of the DVD format's capabilities: you can choose to watch any route in either direction, there are SynchroMaps^TM for every route, and you can choose from four audio mixes (full mix, no narration, no music, or sound effects only). More details are here.

Catenary interurban DVDs

We are pleased to have added the entire high quality line of interurban titles from Catenary Video Productions:

Pacific Electric - Remembering the Red Cars:

Volume 1, covering the Southern District,
Volume 2, the Western District, and
Volume 3, the Northern District,

Take a Ride on the North Shore Line, and

Sacramento Northern.

All DVDs All the Time

Oh, yes, we also converted our entire line to DVD. Every DVD has additional content and/or features not present in the VHS version:

a catalog of all our titles (browsable with your DVD player and a remote control - no computer necessary),
a short version of TROLLEY: The Cars That Built Our Cities formatted as a visitor orientation video for trolley museums,
our Digital Magic Demo showing how we process archival film to clean up its act (more details here),
and of course menus and chapter points so you can jump to particular places quickly.

The other DVD features that vary from title to title are listed in the individual descriptions.

During the conversion process, we dropped some titles from our line. We also consolidated our three Transit Archives offerings - all of Transit Archives 1 and 2, plus the Chicago Surface Lines movie from Transit Archives 3, are now available as Transit Archives DVD 1. The other three movies on Transit Archives 3, all covering the North Shore Line, are now included as extras on Take a Ride on the North Shore Line. We didn't convert SUBWAY: Empire Beneath the Streets because Arts & Entertainment has already done so - you can find it here.

Take a Ride on the North Shore Line and Raleigh D'Adamo's Washington Streetcar Films are both molded (or pressed) DVDs, and are thus compatible with all DVD players, even very early ones. All our other DVDs are recorded on DVD-R blanks; there have been compatibility issues reported with DVD-Rs and early (pre-1999) DVD players. If you have concerns that our DVD-Rs may not play on your DVD player, there are a couple of options:

1) You can go here and see if your player is listed, and if it has been tested with DVD-R discs.

2) You can request a free copy of our Catalog-on-DVD and see if it plays in your DVD player - if it does, our other DVDs will as well.

Issues about compatibility with players outside the US are addressed here.

Now that the DVD conversion process is complete, we are phasing out VHS entirely. We no longer have VHS copies of many of our titles, and will not be reordering. If you want a VHS copy of any of our shows, please inquire about availability immediately, as the remaining ones will be gone soon.

Our Links Page

We have added a page of links to some of our favorite transit-related web sites. WARNING - this can be a real time-eater! You will also find relevant links on many of the pages describing our individual DVDs.

Do you have films?

If you have (or know about) films you would like to see in an upcoming TGM video, click here to learn about our arrangements for working with photographers and film collectors.

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