CP Binghamton to Scranton DVD
The former Delaware and Hudson, now Canadian Pacific, line between Binghamton, New York and Scranton, Pennsylvania that contains the two largest reinforced concrete railroad viaducts in the world over Tunkhannock and Martin’s Creeks, was originally part of the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western’s main line between northern New Jersey and Buffalo. The center portion of this line, the Clarks Summit-Hallstead cutoff that contains the massive concrete viaducts, two-thirds of a mile long Nicholson Tunnel, and many deep cuts, was built as a low-grade super railroad with no grade crossings by the DL&W between 1912 and 1915. That this line is still in use is something of a miracle as it has had several close calls with abandonment and five owners since the Erie – Lackawanna merger in 1960. Today, thanks to complex trackage and haulage rights agreements between CP and Norfolk Southern, the former Lackawanna and EL line between Binghamton and Scranton is still part of the CP system and is the busiest line on the former Delaware and Hudson system. “CP Binghamton to Scranton” shows all the trains for three days and one night on CP’s Sunbury Subdivision between Binghamton and Scranton in August of 2008. “CP Binghamton to Scranton” is 69 minutes in length. The DVD version of this program has chapters and menus and the option to be watched with or without narration.
Price: $30.95
GTW And CSX At Wellsboro DVD
This DVD shows over 24 hours of action at Wellsboro, in Northern Indiana, where the former B&O line to Chicago, now CSX, crosses the main line of the Grand Trunk Western. 45 trains pounded the diamonds in 24 hrs in August of 1994. 115 minutes.
Price: $34.95
NS around Horseshoe Curve DVD
What railfan has not heard of Horseshoe Curve. Located six miles west of Altoona in central Pennsylvania, Horseshoe Curve is just one part of what Trains Magazine once called “the busiest mountain railroad in the world”, the 37 miles of three track main line over the mountain, the former Pennsylvania Railroad’s crossing of the Allegheny Mountains and the Eastern Continental Divide. Norfolk Southern’s line over this mountain today may not be the steepest grade in the country, or even the busiest any more, but this is big time railroading and even more tonnage squeals around Horseshoe Curve today than when it was Conrail’s or the Pennsylvania’s main line across Pennsylvania. Horseshoe Curve and its environs are still one of the seven wonders of the railroad world, and one of the pilgrimages all railfans must take at least once in their lifetime. This program shows all the trains for 24 hours west of Cresson on the more accessible west slope which is still quite a challenge for the long trains that NS likes to run over the mountain, and trains shot at Altoona, the top of the hill at Tunnel Hill and Gallitzin, and at the Curve itself in August of 2008. “NS around Horseshoe Curve” is a two DVD, two tape set and is 2 hours, 53 minutes in length. The DVD version of this program has menus and chapters and the ability to be watched with or without narration.
Price: $42.95
Callahan, Florida - CSX Hotspot DVD
See 24 hours of action at one of the best railfan hotspots in the southeast in the fall of 1993. The CSX trackage from Callahan north is one of the busiest lines on the whole CSX system. Callahan has been featured as a Trains Magazine Hotspot. 106 minutes.
Price: $34.95
Union Pacific's Encina Hill DVD
This tape shows 24 hours of action on the UP's busy line through the Blue Mountains on Encina Hill between Huntington and Baker, Oregon. Pushers help a stream of trains up 2.2% grades. Videotaped in May of 1994. 65 minutes. Regular VHS price = $25.95.
Price: $30.95
NS Roanoke to Norfolk Main DVD
Between Abilene and Burkeville, just west of the crew change point of Crewe in south-central Virginia, all Norfolk Southern trains bound for Norfolk run on the same single-track line. Crewe is midway between Roanoke and Norfolk and this section of track is part of the original Norfolk and Western main line. West of Abilene, loaded coal trains take the former Virginian line between Roanoke and Abilene while other trains take the former N&W main to Roanoke. This line between Crewe and Abilene hosts some of the heaviest trains on this continent – export coal trains bound for Norfolk Southern’s Pier 6 at Lamberts Point in Norfolk. Besides coal, this line sees an increasing amount of intermodal traffic headed to Norfolk. This program shows over 24 hours of action between Crewe and Abilene in August of 2008. “NS Roanoke to Norfolk Main” is 68 minutes in length. The DVD of this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $30.95
NS Across Northern Indiana DVD
This DVD covers nearly 30 hrs. of action near Argos, IN, on Norfolk Southern's line from Fort Wayne to Chicago in Aug. of 1994. Traffic on this line has grown from 3 or 4 trains to 15 trains each way per day in the last 12 years. 86 minutes.
Price: $32.95
Wisconsin Central, now CN, Revisited DVD
Wisconsin Central was the largest, the most successful, and arguably the most popular of the new breed of regional railroads. Has it really been seven years since the WC disappeared? On October ninth, 2001, Canadian National took over the Wisconsin Central. This program shows how the Chicago to Superior main line and a couple of secondary lines of the former WC have fared over the intervening seven years since the WC takeover. Only about thirty of the Wisconsin Central’s diesels survive in WC paint and these have been scattered all over the far-flung WC system. Even though not many miles of the former WC have been sold or abandoned there have been many changes since CN took over, particularly in the number and size of the trains and traffic. This program shows the trains and operations on the main line of the former Wisconsin Central and trains on two secondary lines in October of 2008. “Wisconsin Central, now CN, Revisited” is 1 hour and 51 minutes in length. The DVD of this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $34.95
Flatonia - Texas Hot Spot DVD
Flatonia is home to the only train watching platform or pavilion aimed at railfans in the state of Texas. Flatonia is 119 miles west of Houston and 89 miles east of San Antonio on the former Southern Pacific, now Union Pacific, Sunset Route. When we were there the trains of four railroads – Union Pacific, Kansas City Southern, BNSF, and Amtrak - ran past the Flatonia Photo Pavilion as the railfan platform is called on the west side of town. In addition, Tower 3, which used to control the crossing of UP’s Glidden and Cuero subdivisions near the photo pavilion, and a former Southern Pacific caboose have been preserved in the Flatonia Rail Park in downtown Flatonia just south of the Glidden sub. UP’s Glidden subdivision between the outskirts of Houston and San Antonio is part of their busy Sunset Route while the north-south Cuero sub that crosses the Glidden sub at Flatonia is best known for being part of SP’s Dalsa Line and for hosting the Blue Streak Merchandise until the BSM was transferred to a routing via Kansas City and the former Rock Island Golden State Route. This program shows 24 hours of action at Flatonia in May of 2009. “Flatonia – Texas Hot Spot” is 96 minutes in length. This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $34.95
Canadian Pacific's Line to Portal DVD
The 549 mile long, former Soo Line main line between Minneapolis and a connection with Canadian Pacific on the border at Portal in western North Dakota, is certainly one of the lesser known main lines in the western U. S. Yet traffic has tripled in the past 30 years on this line that is the center portion of CP’s transcontinental main line between western Canada and Chicago. Only the easternmost part of this line has signals, so the western part of CP’s line to Portal is one of the busier rail lines in this country dispatched by track warrants. Intermodal, potash, grain, and Canadian chemicals have driven the growth on this line and CP has added heavy rail and thick ballast, transforming this line west of Glenwood from a long branch line with relatively light rail and ballast into the heavy duty main line that it is today. This DVD shows three days and a night of action on the western part of CP’s line to Portal – their Carrington and Portal subdivisions, in October of 2008. “Canadian Pacific’s Line to Portal” is 77 minutes long and sells for $30.95 and the usual $5 for S&H. This DVD has menus and chapters and the option to be watched with or without narration.
Price: $30.95
