Lisa Hancock asked:
Not that I know of.
RFD-TV is a non-profit corporation that gets its revenue from advertising and viewer contributions ($30/year). Advertising is minimal: only at hourly breaks, but never during programs. The target audience is rural America, and the programming reflects it: agriculture, gardening, animal husbandry, farm equipment, horsemanship, country music, cattle auctions, FAA activities.
DirecTV (Channel 379) and Dish Network (Channel 9409) both carry RFD-TV. Judging from the posts I read on SCTE-list, many rural cable systems also carry it, but the larger urban systems don't.
The companies that provide the "Trains and Locomotives" programs are (typically) small outfits that cater to railfans; they provide the programs to RFD-TV at no charge as a form of advertising. The programs usually include end-of-program plugs to draw attention to their producers' other programs.
Commercial outfits like Travel Channel d> Unfortunately, most of the history of the old interurbans
PAT responded:
That's good news. One of these days, it might appear on RFD-TV. If so, I' ll let you know.
And later:
The aforementioned 'Midwest Trolley Tour' program (which started this tread) includes footage of the South Shore line (although it may have been Part 1 rather than Part 2). Both were produced by Mark 1 Video