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No More Mindless Runbys
Below are the ten newest releases from Big "E" Productions in both DVD-R and VHS format.
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
- Video Format: DVD
| Preview Clips | Size |
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| Flatonia_Texas_Hot_Spot_streaming_video_Custom2.wmv | 9.53 MB |
BNSF Fort Worth Subdivision DVD
The north end of BNSF’s Fort Worth Subdivision between Gainesville, Texas and Alliance Yard, BNSF’s large intermodal, auto, and carload classification yard serving the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, is one of BNSF’s busiest lines in Texas. Part of the former Santa Fe main line between Kansas City and Houston, this track handles a lot of intermodal, grain, and mixed carload traffic between the Midwest and the great state of Texas. The UP takeover of the Southern Pacific in 1996 gave BNSF access to more chemical plants along the Gulf Coast, and much of this new traffic flows north on the Fort Worth sub. In spite of the current recession, this line is still handling near record levels of traffic, especially when export grain is moving to ports on the Gulf Coast. This program shows all the trains for over 24 hours on the north end of BNSF’s Fort Worth Subdivision including what fans call the “Metro pig dance” in May of 2009. “BNSF Fort Worth Subdivision” is 79 minutes in length. This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $32.95
- Video Format: DVD
| Preview Clips | Size |
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| BNSF_Fort_Worth_Sub_streaming_video_Custom2.wmv | 8.93 MB |
BNSF Red River Valley Subdivision DVD
The former Burlington Route’s Fort Worth and Denver Railway line between Amarillo and Wichita Falls used to be a lightly used secondary main line. Today this heavy duty line known as the Red River Valley Subdivision is part of BNSF’s main line between Denver and Dallas-Fort Worth via Amarillo. This line is a roller coaster as it crosses the Texas plains while paralleling the upper Red River Valley through northern Texas and the Texas Panhandle. In the spring of 2009 the Red River Valley sub was hosting around twenty or more trains a day, including many coal trains with distributed power fore and aft and hot intermodal trains between the West Coast and Dallas-Fort Worth. This program shows the trains and operations for over 24 hours on BNSF’s Red River Valley Sub between Wichita Falls and Childress, in May of 2009. “BNSF’s Red River Valley Subdivision” is 63 minutes long and sells for $30.95 plus $5 for S&H. This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narratoin.
Price: $30.95
- Video Format: DVD
Pan Am Railways in Northern New England 2009 DVD
In March of 2006 Guilford Rail System, the operator of what is left of the Boston and Maine and Maine Central lines in northern New England, changed its name to Pan Am Railways. This program shows the trains running during the summer of 2009 on Pan Am’s main line into northern New England. It shows what has become of the Maine Central and Boston and Maine railroads that were the bastions of railroading in northern New England and includes the route of Amtrak’s recently expanded Downeaster in New Hampshire and southern Maine. Many boxcars and nine locomotives have been repainted into two versions of Pan Am Railways blue paint scheme. Many of these boxcars and a couple of the locomotives are shown in this program along with Pan Am’s eclectic mix of older, un-rebuilt motive power that draws fans from far and wide. “Pan Am Railways in Northern New England 2009” is a two disk set and is one hour and fifty-four minutes in length. It sells for $34.95 plus $5.00 for S&H. Thie DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $34.95
- Video Format: DVD
The Trains of Northern New England 2009 DVD
“The Trains of Northern New England 2009” covers the trains and operations on all of the regional railroads except Pan Am Railways and some of the short lines in Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine in the summer of 2009. It shows what has become of the Bangor and Aroostook, Central Vermont, Rutland, and CN and CP lines in northern New England and is a sequel to our highly acclaimed programs showing the trains of northern New England in 1997, 2000, and 2004. This program also shows how the railroads of northern New England are coping with and faring in the economic storm that has swept our country in the past year. Guilford Rail System, now known as Pan Am Railways, and Amtrak’s Downeaster are covered in a companion program titled “Pan Am Railways in Northern New England 2009” that will be released early in 2010. “The Trains of Northern New England 2009” is 1 hour and 26 minutes in length. This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $32.95
- Video Format: DVD
The Transcon in Eastern New Mexico DVD
If you like to see the high cars rolling at speed, there are few better places on this continent to be than in eastern New Mexico alongside BNSF’s main line between Chicago and Los Angeles known as the Transcon. All of BNSF’s freight trains from Chicago, Kansas City, Memphis, and Texas to and from Northern and Southern California charge across the Llano Estacado or staked plain as the high plains west of Clovis are called. The hot “Z” trains with their power in a kaleidoscope of colors thunder across the rolling plains one after another. Until the recent recession this line was seeing as many as 100 trains a day on peak days of the week. The increase in stack trains and premium trailer traffic on this line in recent decades has been nothing short of phenomenal. If you like to see the high cars rolling at speed this is still “the greatest show on earth”. This program shows over twenty-four hours of awesome action on BNSF’s Clovis Subdivision between Clovis and the crossing of the Pecos River at Fort Sumner in May of 2009. “The Transcon in Eastern New Mexico” is a two DVD set and is two hours, 46 minutes in length. This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $40.95
- Video Format: DVD
Kansas City Southern on Rich Mountain DVD
The Kansas City Southern line across Rich Mountain astride the Arkansas – Oklahoma border is arguably the toughest mainline grade in the Midwest when both length and gradient are considered. Trains heading south out of the crew change and refueling stop at Heavener face a five mile, 1.45% climb up Stapp Hill at the base of Rich Mountain, a half a mile breather to Page, then the track climbs thirteen more miles on a gradient of 1.1% to the summit of Rich Mountain. Rich Mountain is part of the Ouachita Mountain range which stretches for nearly 150 miles in an east-west direction from southeastern Oklahoma to Hot Springs in south-central Arkansas. With most of the southbounds being heavy unit trains this is quite a show. And many of the KCS units are in the new heritage paint scheme that railfans refer to as the Southern Belle or retro-belle scheme. This underdog in the land of giants currently uses distributed power on their trains and some have power at three points in the train. This program shows a day and a half of action on and around Rich Mountain in May of 2009. 69 minutes. The DVD of this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $30.95
- Video Format: DVD
| Preview Clips | Size |
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| KCS on Rich Mountain streaming video_Custom2.wmv | 9.46 MB |
BNSF's ex-CB&Q Denver Line DVD
The former Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy’s line to Denver west of Lincoln, Nebraska, now part of BNSF’s Chicago to Denver line, was the heart and sole of the Burlington Route. Always a favorite of Burlington executives, this line hosted the Burlington’s famous Denver and California Zephyr passenger trains and the Chicago to Denver hot shot freight trains, and was among the first lines on the Burlington to get centralized traffic control over sixty years ago. In spite of the favoritism shown it by Burlington officials, the CB&Q’s Denver line west of Lincoln was never a major freight route and hosted as many passenger trains as freight trains as late as 1960. Today this line still hosts Amtrak’s California Zephyr and carries more freight business than ever. More freight trains traverse this line today than anytime since at least World War II. This program shows all the trains for 24 hours and then some on BNSF’s Denver line between Hastings and McCook in southwestern Nebraska in November of 2008. 65 minutes. The DVD of this program has the option of being watched with and without narration.
Price: $30.95
- Video Format: DVD
| Preview Clips | Size |
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| BNSF's ex-CB&Q Denver Line streaming video_Custom2.wmv | 7.49 MB |
Northern Plains Regionals DVD
The northern plains, where the wind seems to never stop blowing and the winters can be brutal, are also the home to several fascinating regional railroads. Thanks to the importance of agriculture there, this is one part of the country where the presence of railroads is perhaps more appreciated and indeed more necessary than the rest of the country. For the northern plains are a long way from the coastal ports and navigable rivers that bounties of the land usually need to get to customers in Europe and Asia. Just like the rest of the country, the large railroads operating on the northern plains began to sell off or abandon their maze of branch lines in the 1980s and early 1990s. This left the northern plains with a number of spin-offs from the larger roads that seemed to have neither the traffic nor the resources to rebuild their worn-out track and survive the harsh climate and the vicissitudes of the weather on crops. Yet some of these smaller railroads have not only survived but seem to be thriving as they are in far better condition than that which they were left with by their class I parents. This program shows the trains and operations on four northern plains Regionals – the Northern Plains Railroad, the Dakota, Missouri Valley, and Western, the Red River Valley and Western, and the Twin Cities and Western in November of 2008. These four railroads between them operate over 1700 miles of track in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, and Montana. Length = 76 minutes. Price = $30.95 plus $5.00 for shipping and handling. This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $30.95
- Video Format: DVD
| Preview Clips | Size |
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| Northern_Plains_Regionals_streaming_video_Custom2.wmv | 8.45 MB |
BNSF North Dakota Funnel DVD
The twenty five miles of track between Moorhead Junction, Minnesota, just across the Red River from Fargo, North Dakota, and KO Junction Switch, west of Casselton, where the former Great Northern and Northern Pacific lines split, is as busy as any section of track on BNSF’s main line between the Twin Cities and the Pacific Northwest. All trains on BNSF’s main line from Chicago to Portland and Seattle and all trains on the former NP main to Montana traverse this strategic section of track. At KO Junction Switch, the transcontinental main line, often referred to as the Hi Line because much of it is close to the Canadian border, heads northwest towards Minot and the West Coast on former Great Northern track, while the former Northern Pacific main, now part of BNSF’s northern coal corridor, heads straight west towards Jamestown and Bismarck. This funnel also sees a lot of grain headed to ports in the Pacific Northwest. A manned tower that was taken down shortly after the Burlington Northern merger, used to control the grade crossing of the two main lines at Casselton. Today, all of this track including the junction is controlled by BNSF’s network operations center in Fort Worth. This program shows all of the trains for 24 hours on the BNSF’s North Dakota Funnel around Casselton and KO Junction Switch in October of 2008. Length = 2 hours and 23 minutes. Price = $38.95 plus $5.00 for shipping and handling. This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $38.95
- Video Format: DVD
| Preview Clips | Size |
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| BNSF ND Funnel Steaming video_Custom2.wmv | 6.78 MB |
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