For the Best in Vintage Trains
Visit Our StoreAt Yard Goat Images, we don’t just feature the same handful of trains you find on other sites.
We’ve gone out of our way to cover trains and train subjects that have been ignored for far too long. We even take you to festivals, special events and museums that celebrate America’s long love affair with the historic steam train.
Browse our online catalog! Use the Sort by to find the DVDs you’re looking for. You can also Search products in the search box to your right by entering a word or number (frisco, 261, etc.) Click on the DVD covers for full descriptions and video preview. Some items are available in money-saving Combo Sets. We accept all major credit cards. Payment by check can also be made.
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Browse our online catalog! Use the Sort by to find the DVDs you’re looking for. You can also Search products in the search box to your right by entering a word or number (frisco, 261, etc.) Click on the DVD covers for full descriptions and video preview. Some items are available in money-saving Combo Sets. We accept all major credit cards. Payment by check can also be made.free shipping on orders over $35 US and over $45 for outside the US

The following video clips are excerpts from our DVD Collection. DVDs are available for purchase from our store. And now some of our stories are also available via Video On Demand!
To view an excerpt, click on a photo of your choice below. For more videos, subscribe to our YouTube and Vimeo Channels!
Custom DVD programs for railroad and trolley operating museums and attractions…
Custom DVD programs are more than just entertainment or something to sell. They can help inform casual visitors about the historical significance of your venue, the art of restoration and interpretation, and build awareness for the continuing need for volunteers and contributors to ensure future preservation.
Who can use custom DVD programs?
- Mainline excursion railroads
- Trolley operating museums
- Railroad attractions
- Live steam and garden railway clubs
- Commercial short lines
- Regional carriers
- Transit agencies
Custom DVD programs can be sold in your gift shop and on your website. What’s more, they can be used for promotional purposes such as contributor premiums, grant proposals, and marketing tools.
About our custom DVD services…
Custom DVDs are printed, packaged in a DVD case with full color graphics.
Video Editing
- If you already have quality footage, we can edit your material to produce a DVD.
How custom DVD programs will benefit your Museum, Attraction or Club
- Your customers are more likely to buy a DVD if it is about YOUR operation vs. a general railroad subject.
- A DVD retailing at your store for $20-25 will produce additional revenue for your organization.
- A custom DVD will showcase what you are doing:
- Restoring
- Operating
- Preserving
- Volunteering
- Entertaining
- Educating & interpreting
- Enhancing community
- Bringing visitors to the area
- Having fun
- Not only can you sell a custom DVD in your shop or online, but you can also offer it as a premium for contributing to your annual appeal or special fundraiser.
- A professionally produced custom DVD will enhance the image of your operation.
- High quality video with interesting shots in different lighting and weather conditions
- Tripod mounted cameras
- Special attention to sound quality and minimizing wind noise
- Tight editing
- Incorporation of still images into the video
- Interesting effects and transitions
- Narration and titles or titles only
- Chapters
- Licensed music
- We can also produce training and safety programs for your volunteers, or other video projects you have in mind.
- We can produce a master program or several unique programs for promotion, customer sales, investor information, employee incentives, safety, online sales, etc.
- A custom DVD about your operation could:
- Highlight your normal operations (and perhaps a few staged scenes)
- Demonstrate your core competencies, reliability, and safety
- Emphasize good management of facilities and equipment
- Clarify the mission of your operation
- Incorporate historic photos and film/video footage if available
- Provide contact information
- Call us with your ideas!
Commercial & Transit Benefits
- A custom DVD should retail for $20-25 and will produce income for your operation if you choose to sell copies to the general public
- A custom DVD will showcase the good things you are doing:
- Operating proficiently
- Providing good jobs
- Performing your functions safely
- Involving the communities you serve
- Showing your concern for the environment
- Promoting the benefits of rail transportation
- Creating an enjoyable program for the viewer
- A professionally produced custom DVD will enhance the image of your operation
- High quality video with interesting shots in different lighting and weather conditions
- Tripod mounted cameras
- Special attention to sound quality and minimizing wind noise
- Tight editing
- Incorporation of still images into the video
- Interesting effects and transitions
- Narration and titles or titles only
- Chapters
- Licensed music
- We can also produce training and safety programs for your employees, or other video projects you have in mind.
Video on Demand
Many of our programs are now available ON DEMAND!
Instead of ordering a DVD, paying shipping costs, and waiting patiently until the mail carrier arrives, you can now view select stories streamed directly to your internet-connected television or portable device. You could be watching one of your favorite locomotives in just a few minutes from right now!
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Yard Goat...funny name
A yard goat is an old rail term for locomotives that stay in the railroad yards, shuffling cars from track to track, and generally keeping things in order. Yard goats can be a specially made type of locomotive for this task, but often are re-purposed “road” engines with too many miles or simply too tattered for their former work.
When we think of steam or diesel locomotives, most people picture the powerful engines used to pull heavy freight trains, or streamlined beauties on the front of a fast passenger train. Few would remember the lowly yard goat that keeps things running smoothly, accurately, and on time.
Just as stagehands work in the dim light to move props or musical instruments when the stars have left the stage, the yard goatshuffles the cars behind the scenes in massive railroad yards.
Why we call ourselves Yard Goat Images…
We picked the name Yard Goat Images because we like what it stands for. We respect and admire those who work hard behind the scenes preserving, maintaining, and operating historic equipment. Many of these people are volunteers. Without them there would be no steam engines operating at museums, attractions, or pulling mainline excursions. There would be no streetcars or interurbans to ride.
We want you to see what they have accomplished, and the amazing work they continue to perform. Our aim is to celebrate what they do, and deliver a great program to you featuring this historic equipment.
So, I like to think we too are kind of like that humble railroad yard goat, not glamorous but working hard, making sure you can see a variety of operating historic railroad equipment courtesy of a bunch of pretty great people.


