Yard Goat Images, LLC

Specialties

Yard Goat Images produces entertaining video DVDs featuring mostly North American steam locomotives operating in mainline excursions, at museums, and at special events. Experience the beauty and thundering sound of these powerful locomotives!

Our DVDs are chaptered, with minimal narration. We use multiple tripod-​mounted HD cameras to capture more action. We pay close attention to the sound so you hear these machines with little wind noise or other interference.

We also do custom production for railroad museums, attractions, clubs, and individuals. Contact Yard Goat Images for all of your video requirements.

History

Established in 2009.

Steve Mitchell is a lifelong rail enthusiast. He has been a photographer for 40 years and a videographer for more than 10 years, with railroad subjects being a large part of his collection. He has also developed a passion and talent for video editing and creating custom DVD’s.

After viewing hundreds of commercial railroad videos, Steve wanted to produce programs a little bit different: without nonstop narration, without endless scenes of the same train passing one railroad crossing after another. Other improvements include several shorter programs on each DVD instead of one long program about one steam engine, adding occasional still photos and interesting effects.

This formula seems to have struck a chord, with many customers returning to buy additional titles.

Meet the Business Owner

Steve M.

Business Owner

«I’m old enough to remember Great Northern steam engines pass my boyhood home in Robbinsdale, Minnesota. As steam became more rare in the late 1950’s, my Dad would call out to me when he could hear one coming, and we’d run out to the front yard to watch it pass. (Mom wasn’t too happy when the soot fell on the clothes hanging on the backyard clothes line, though.)

After steam disappeared, railroading was still interesting to me but something was missing. Finally, in the early 1990’s I found that Milwaukee Road 261 had been restored and moved in just blocks from my home in northeast Minneapolis! I became a member of the Friends of 261 (261​.com) and I was hooked. I have taken many rides behind her and followed trackside with video and still cameras.

I also discovered a whole new world of recording steam railroading from coast to coast and around the world. I am particularly fond of the Cumbres & Toltec in Colorado and New Mexico (cum​brestoltec​.com) as an example of narrow gauge steam r