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Below is a listing of all of our products. When using the search function, hold CTRL to select multiple railroads or states. Contact us directly about discounts available for dealers, stores, and historical societies.
The Transcon in Eastern New Mexico
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
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| Transcon in Eastern New Mexico streaming video_Custom2.wmv | 7.67 MB |
The Trains of Northern New England 2009
“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
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| Trains of Northern New England 2009 streaming video_Custom2.wmv | 7.22 MB |
Pan Am Railways in Northern New England 2009
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
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| Pan_Am_in_N_Nor_New_England_streaming_video.wmv | 9.63 MB |
BNSF Red River Valley Subdivision
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 narration.
Price: $30.95
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| BNSF Red River Valley sub streaming video_Custom2.wmv | 8.07 MB |
BNSF Fort Worth Subdivision
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
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| BNSF_Fort_Worth_Sub_streaming_video_Custom2.wmv | 8.93 MB |
Flatonia - Texas Hot Spot
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
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| Flatonia_Texas_Hot_Spot_streaming_video_Custom2.wmv | 9.53 MB |
UP's ex-T&P Main west of Abilene, TX
One of the real success stories in railroading today is the former Texas and Pacific, now Union Pacific, west end from Fort Worth to El Paso. Originally conceived as this country’s second transcontinental railroad, this line ended up as a 611 mile long branch line to El Paso when Southern Pacific arrived in El Paso first. The takeover of the SP by the UP in 1996 changed everything as UP completely rebuilt this part of the former T&P and began routing traffic from Memphis and Dallas-Fort Worth bound for southern California via the former T&P. Today this line handles more trains and much more tonnage than anytime in its history including World War II. This program shows over 24 hours of action on the former Texas and Pacific between Abilene and Sweetwater in west Texas in May of 2009. “UP’s ex-T&P Main west of Abilene, TX” is 65 minutes long and sells for $30.95 plus $5 for S&H. This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $30.95
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| UP's ex-T&P Main streaming video_Custom2.wmv | 7.55 MB |
BNSF Big Horn Sub east of Sheridan, WY
Everywhere West was the motto of the famed Burlington Route. And no Burlington line exemplified that motto better than the 476 mile line between Alliance in northwest Nebraska and Billings, Montana. Today, the Burlington is part of western rail giant BNSF and the eastern part of the Alliance to Billings line is laced with coal mines as it bisects the northern part of the Powder River Basin. 333 miles northwest of Alliance lies the crew change point of Sheridan, Wyoming. Sheridan, which today still personifies the West in American culture, is the midpoint of BNSF’s Big Horn Subdivision, which stretches from Gillette to Billings. Coal from mines in the Powder River Basin and from mines in southern Montana has transformed the Big Horn sub from a sleepy secondary line in CB&Q days to a big time main line railroad. Just east of Sheridan is Ulm Hill, which has ten mile long, one and a quarter percent helper grades for loaded coal trains on both sides. Loaded coal trains with radio controlled distributed power and manned helpers run both ways up and down Ulm Hill. This program shows over 24 hours of, at times, earsplitting action on and around Ulm Hill in northern Wyoming in September of 2009. “BNSF Big Horn Sub east of Sheridan, WY” is 64 minutes long and sells for $30.95 plus $5 for S&H. This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $30.95
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| BNSF Big Horn Sub streaming video_Custom2.wmv | 8.76 MB |
Montana Rail Link on Mullan Pass
Since its inception in 1987, Montana Rail Link, which handles BNSF Railway trains between Laurel, Montana and Spokane, along with its own trains, has always been one of the largest and most interesting of the new crop of regional railroads. And today it is the favorite Regional in a Trains Magazine poll. Twenty-two years since its inception fans still flock to the MRL to see the venerable SD40’s still used in helper duty and the four year old SD70ACes in spectacular mountain and forest scenery. And thanks to the growth in grain and coal traffic provided by BNSF, Montana Rail Link today handles more tonnage than predecessors Burlington Northern or Northern Pacific ever ran through the Rockies on this track. This program shows two and half days of action on the former Northern Pacific and Burlington Northern, now Montana Rail Link main line on both sides of spectacular Mullan Pass west of Helena in September of 2009. “Montana Rail Link on Mullan Pass” is 86 minutes in length and sells for $32.95 plus $5 for S&H. This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $32.95
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| MRL on Mullan Pass streaming video_Custom2.wmv | 7.75 MB |
BNSF Creston Sub in Western Iowa
The former Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy line from Chicago to Denver, now BNSF’s Chicago to Denver main, was the heart and sole of the Burlington Route. Often referred to as “the way of the Zephyrs”, this line in western Iowa where this program was videotaped, once hosted the Burlington’s Denver and California Zephyr passenger trains, the famous Fast Mail, the Chicago to Denver hot shot freight trains, and the eastbound meat trains out of Omaha and Lincoln. In spite of the favoritism shown it by Burlington officials, the CB&Q’s Denver line in western Iowa was never a major freight route and hosted almost as many passenger trains as freight trains as late as the early 1960s. Today this line still hosts Amtrak’s California Zephyr but low sulfur coal out of the Powder River Basin bound for Midwestern power plants is what has allowed this line to flourish as it carries more freight tonnage today than ever. This program shows a day and a half of action on the west end of BNSF’s Creston Subdivision west of Red Oak in western Iowa in October of 2009. “BNSF Creston Sub in Western Iowa” is 94 minutes in length and sells for $34.95 plus $5 for S&H. This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Price: $34.95
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| BNSF Creston Sub streaming video_Custom2.wmv | 7.5 MB |
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