Big "E" Newsletter
Big “E” Productions
P.O. BOX 75
GREENLAND, NH 03840
Our DVDs show the whole train!
Our web page is at www.trainvideos.com, email us at bigeee@trainvideos.com.
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Frequency – twice a year Issue #181 December, 2024
May all of you have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Remember, our DVDs make great Christmas gifts for the railfan in your family. This Newsletter begins our 33rd year of selling train videos. As long as both my wife and I are in good health we intend to continue selling old videos and I still have some hope to do a few new programs. We will not be attending the Big Train Show in West Springfield, Massachusetts anymore.
Again no new programs. I had my first knee replacement in July. The recovery is going well but more slowly than I had hoped for. My wife is still recovering from having both knees replaced and knee surgery. At this time, she is not walking and using a wheelchair. She is getting physical therapy so there is some hope for her to gain mobility in the future. I am planning for the other knee to be replaced in March. I would still like to do more videotaping but this is looking less and less likely. Things could be a lot worse – no life-threatening issues that we know of for any of us. I still plan on selling existing DVDs for another year or two as long as customers still want them. We won’t make much money on them anymore but fortunately we don’t need to. Still enjoying the grandkids – a granddaughter’s volleyball team in Illinois got second place in their class in the state tournament. Through the magic of streaming, I was able to watch her games. I am looking forward to attending the girls state basketball tournament in Illinois beginning in 2025. We hope that all of you are safe and sound. Our next newsletter will be in June of 2025. Railfan Depot in Indianapolis still carries a few of our videos.
No other train video producer shows and explains railroading like we do and our catalogue includes programs on fallen flags ATSF, SP, BN, CNW, IC, Wisconsin Central, and Conrail. We almost always show the whole train and most of our videos show all of the action – day and night. Our newest program is “PSR on CSX’s Chicago Line in Northern Indiana”, part of our look at PSR on eastern railroads. This is our 49th program to be released in both Blu-ray and in regular DVD. You need to specify what type of DVD you are ordering with programs available in both DVD and Blu-ray. All of our DVD’s have chapters and menus and around half – everything videotaped from 2004 on plus a few programs from 2003 - have a choice of being watched with narration and without narration by using the menu or audio and language buttons on your DVD player controller. 321 programs are available in DVD (49 in Blu-ray) and all are listed in the flyers. No other train video producer shows and explains railroading like we do and our catalogue includes programs on fallen flags ATSF, BN, SP, CNW. IC, Wisconsin Central, and Conrail. Our shipping and handling charge on orders remains $5.00 with no charge on orders over $100. We offer year-round discounts on large orders. See flyers for details. These discounts are available only by mail and phone. If you have questions and get our answering machine, please leave your name and number and we will call you back as soon as possible. You can reach us by email at bigeee@trainvideos.com or on our webpage at www.trainvideos.com.
If we are able to videotape again, the focus will be on changes on the western railroads due to PSR.
Dick and Barb Eisfeller
