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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.
BNSF around Savanna, Illinois Blu-Ray
Savanna, Illinois, 138 miles west of Chicago on the Mississippi River, was once one of the busiest railroad towns west of Chicago. Savanna was the first crew change and division point west of Chicago for two class I railroads, the Milwaukee Road and the Burlington. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, more transcontinental streamliners hammered the diamond crossing of the two railroads in Savanna than in any other small town west of Chicago. It was all too good to last. The Milwaukee Road became Canadian Pacific, then I&M Rail Link, Iowa Chicago and Eastern, and finally DM&E, with the shops, yard, and most of the trains gone. Burlington successor Burlington Northern closed the yard and eliminated their crew change in Savanna. Then traffic began to rise on BNSF. With the explosion in crude oil from the Bakken shale oil field, Savanna again became a busy crew base and forty to fifty BNSF trains a day now run through Savanna. BNSF was averaging around seven crude oil trains a day and the corresponding empties through Savanna during our visit in the fall of 2013. Just south of Savanna the BNSF main divides with trains heading east to Chicago and south to Galesburg. This program shows over twenty-four hours of BNSF action in October of 2013 in and around this railfan hotspot, including trains along the Mississippi River and ones viewed from the Palisades that line the east bank of the river north of Savanna. And with BNSF being power short this fall, just about anything can be seen on the head end of their trains. “BNSF around Savanna, Illinois” is a two DVD set and is two hours and 51 minutes in length. This DVD can be watched with or without narration.
Price: $42.95
Attributes
- Video Format: Blu-Ray
BNSF around Savanna, Illinois
Savanna, Illinois, 138 miles west of Chicago on the Mississippi River, was once one of the busiest railroad towns west of Chicago. Savanna was the first crew change and division point west of Chicago for two class I railroads, the Milwaukee Road and the Burlington. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, more transcontinental streamliners hammered the diamond crossing of the two railroads in Savanna than in any other small town west of Chicago. It was all too good to last. The Milwaukee Road became Canadian Pacific, then I&M Rail Link, Iowa Chicago and Eastern, and finally DM&E, with the shops, yard, and most of the trains gone. Burlington successor Burlington Northern closed the yard and eliminated their crew change in Savanna. Then traffic began to rise on BNSF. With the explosion in crude oil from the Bakken shale oil field, Savanna again became a busy crew base and forty to fifty BNSF trains a day now run through Savanna. BNSF was averaging around seven crude oil trains a day and the corresponding empties through Savanna during our visit in the fall of 2013. Just south of Savanna the BNSF main divides with trains heading east to Chicago and south to Galesburg. This program shows over twenty-four hours of BNSF action in October of 2013 in and around this railfan hotspot, including trains along the Mississippi River and ones viewed from the Palisades that line the east bank of the river north of Savanna. And with BNSF being power short this fall, just about anything can be seen on the head end of their trains. “BNSF around Savanna, Illinois” is a two DVD set and is two hours and 51 minutes in length. This DVD can be watched with or without narration.
Price: $42.95
BNSF around Savanna, Illinois DVD
Savanna, Illinois, 138 miles west of Chicago on the Mississippi River, was once one of the busiest railroad towns west of Chicago. Savanna was the first crew change and division point west of Chicago for two class I railroads, the Milwaukee Road and the Burlington. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, more transcontinental streamliners hammered the diamond crossing of the two railroads in Savanna than in any other small town west of Chicago. It was all too good to last. The Milwaukee Road became Canadian Pacific, then I&M Rail Link, Iowa Chicago and Eastern, and finally DM&E, with the shops, yard, and most of the trains gone. Burlington successor Burlington Northern closed the yard and eliminated their crew change in Savanna. Then traffic began to rise on BNSF. With the explosion in crude oil from the Bakken shale oil field, Savanna again became a busy crew base and forty to fifty BNSF trains a day now run through Savanna. BNSF was averaging around seven crude oil trains a day and the corresponding empties through Savanna during our visit in the fall of 2013. Just south of Savanna the BNSF main divides with trains heading east to Chicago and south to Galesburg. This program shows over twenty-four hours of BNSF action in October of 2013 in and around this railfan hotspot, including trains along the Mississippi River and ones viewed from the Palisades that line the east bank of the river north of Savanna. And with BNSF being power short this fall, just about anything can be seen on the head end of their trains. “BNSF around Savanna, Illinois” is a two DVD set and is two hours and 51 minutes in length. This DVD can be watched with or without narration.
Price: $42.95
Attributes
- Video Format: DVD
CSX in the Berkshires Revisited DVD
. CSX’s line over Washington Hill in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts was the first mountain railroad in the World. While the earlier Baltimore and Ohio used an inclined plane to surmount the one point two percent climb up Parrs Ridge, west of Baltimore in 1831, nine years later the Western Railroad of Massachusetts began laying track through the rugged Berkshires on grades up to one and half percent. At times this line has had its own unique motive power, while today CSX seems to like their ES44ACs with extra ballast referred to as “heavies” on this line. Long known as the Boston and Albany, this line became a full-fledged member of the New York Central system in 1960, and later part of Penn Central and Conrail. Today, CSX continues to put its own stamp on this busy railfan favorite. This program shows over twenty-four hours of action between Chester and the outskirts of Pittsfield in western Massachusetts on CSX’s line through the Berkshires in July of 2014, thirteen years since our last visit to this scenic and rugged line. “CSX in the Berkshires Revisited” is one hour and 15 minutes in length. This DVD can be watched with or without narration.
Price: $30.95
Attributes
- Video Format: DVD
CSX in the Berkshires Revisited
. CSX’s line over Washington Hill in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts was the first mountain railroad in the World. While the earlier Baltimore and Ohio used an inclined plane to surmount the one point two percent climb up Parrs Ridge, west of Baltimore in 1831, nine years later the Western Railroad of Massachusetts began laying track through the rugged Berkshires on grades up to one and half percent. At times this line has had its own unique motive power, while today CSX seems to like their ES44ACs with extra ballast referred to as “heavies” on this line. Long known as the Boston and Albany, this line became a full-fledged member of the New York Central system in 1960, and later part of Penn Central and Conrail. Today, CSX continues to put its own stamp on this busy railfan favorite. This program shows over twenty-four hours of action between Chester and the outskirts of Pittsfield in western Massachusetts on CSX’s line through the Berkshires in July of 2014, thirteen years since our last visit to this scenic and rugged line. “CSX in the Berkshires Revisited” is one hour and 15 minutes in length. This DVD can be watched with or without narration.
Price: $30.95
CSX in the Berkshires Revisited Blu-Ray
. CSX’s line over Washington Hill in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts was the first mountain railroad in the World. While the earlier Baltimore and Ohio used an inclined plane to surmount the one point two percent climb up Parrs Ridge, west of Baltimore in 1831, nine years later the Western Railroad of Massachusetts began laying track through the rugged Berkshires on grades up to one and half percent. At times this line has had its own unique motive power, while today CSX seems to like their ES44ACs with extra ballast referred to as “heavies” on this line. Long known as the Boston and Albany, this line became a full-fledged member of the New York Central system in 1960, and later part of Penn Central and Conrail. Today, CSX continues to put its own stamp on this busy railfan favorite. This program shows over twenty-four hours of action between Chester and the outskirts of Pittsfield in western Massachusetts on CSX’s line through the Berkshires in July of 2014, thirteen years since our last visit to this scenic and rugged line. “CSX in the Berkshires Revisited” is one hour and 15 minutes in length. This DVD can be watched with or without narration.
Price: $30.95
Attributes
- Video Format: Blu-Ray
Norfolk Southern's Port Road Blu-Ray
The former Pennsylvania Railroad and Conrail, now Norfolk Southern Columbia and Port Deposit Branch, a.k.a. The Port Road, between Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Perryville, Maryland on the Northeast Corridor is an engineering marvel as it follows the beautiful yet remote Susquehanna River to its mouth on Chesapeake Bay. Now owned by Norfolk Southern, this line serves as NS’s route to Baltimore, Wilmington, Delaware, and Delaware’s Eastern Shore from the rest of the far flung NS system. In the past two years crude oil trains from North Dakota bound for the PBF Energy Partners refinery in Delaware City, Delaware near Wilmington, have begun invading this line in earnest, raising the train count on the Port Road to levels not seen since the closing of Potomac Yard south of Washington, D. C. For two decades this line was almost entirely a nighttime railroad as Amtrak rarely allowed daytime trains on their congested Northeast Corridor which Conrail and NS trains had to utilize to get to Wilmington, Delaware or Baltimore. Recently Amtrak began allowing two or three trains a day onto the NEC, usually coal or the ever expanding crude oil trains, opening up the Port Road to daytime photography. This program shows a day and a half of continuous operations plus a third day of action on Norfolk Southern’s Port Road Branch between the outskirts of Columbia, Pennsylvania and Perryville in May of 2014. "Norfolk Southern's Port Road is one hour and 23 minutes in length. This DVD can be watched with or without narration.
Price: $32.95
Attributes
- Video Format: Blu-Ray
Norfolk Southern's Port Road DVD
The former Pennsylvania Railroad and Conrail, now Norfolk Southern Columbia and Port Deposit Branch, a.k.a. The Port Road, between Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Perryville, Maryland on the Northeast Corridor is an engineering marvel as it follows the beautiful yet remote Susquehanna River to its mouth on Chesapeake Bay. Now owned by Norfolk Southern, this line serves as NS’s route to Baltimore, Wilmington, Delaware, and Delaware’s Eastern Shore from the rest of the far flung NS system. In the past two years crude oil trains from North Dakota bound for the PBF Energy Partners refinery in Delaware City, Delaware near Wilmington, have begun invading this line in earnest, raising the train count on the Port Road to levels not seen since the closing of Potomac Yard south of Washington, D. C. For two decades this line was almost entirely a nighttime railroad as Amtrak rarely allowed daytime trains on their congested Northeast Corridor which Conrail and NS trains had to utilize to get to Wilmington, Delaware or Baltimore. Recently Amtrak began allowing two or three trains a day onto the NEC, usually coal or the ever expanding crude oil trains, opening up the Port Road to daytime photography. This program shows a day and a half of continuous operations plus a third day of action on Norfolk Southern’s Port Road Branch between the outskirts of Columbia, Pennsylvania and Perryville in May of 2014. "Norfolk Southern's Port Road is one hour and 23 minutes in length. This DVD can be watched with or without narration.
Price: $32.95
Attributes
- Video Format: DVD
Norfolk Southern's Port Road
The former Pennsylvania Railroad and Conrail, now Norfolk Southern Columbia and Port Deposit Branch, a.k.a. The Port Road, between Harrisburg, Pennsylvania and Perryville, Maryland on the Northeast Corridor is an engineering marvel as it follows the beautiful yet remote Susquehanna River to its mouth on Chesapeake Bay. Now owned by Norfolk Southern, this line serves as NS’s route to Baltimore, Wilmington, Delaware, and Delaware’s Eastern Shore from the rest of the far flung NS system. In the past two years crude oil trains from North Dakota bound for the PBF Energy Partners refinery in Delaware City, Delaware near Wilmington, have begun invading this line in earnest, raising the train count on the Port Road to levels not seen since the closing of Potomac Yard south of Washington, D. C. For two decades this line was almost entirely a nighttime railroad as Amtrak rarely allowed daytime trains on their congested Northeast Corridor which Conrail and NS trains had to utilize to get to Wilmington, Delaware or Baltimore. Recently Amtrak began allowing two or three trains a day onto the NEC, usually coal or the ever expanding crude oil trains, opening up the Port Road to daytime photography. This program shows a day and a half of continuous operations plus a third day of action on Norfolk Southern’s Port Road Branch between the outskirts of Columbia, Pennsylvania and Perryville in May of 2014. "Norfolk Southern's Port Road" is one hour and 23 minutes in length. This DVD can be watched with or without narration.
Price: $32.95
Union Pacific - Illmo to Dexter, MO Blu-Ray
For nearly 100 years the Missouri Pacific and the Southern Pacific’s Cotton Belt subsidiary competed for business between the St. Louis gateway and the Southwest, sharing each other’s track between East St. Louis and Dexter, Missouri. Today, Union Pacific owns both lines and traffic has begun growing again after dropping during the great recession, spurred on by unit trains of crude oil headed to refineries on the Gulf Coast. Trains are getting longer and heavier with some having radio controlled distributed power fore and aft. Foreign power abounds as UP and its eastern connections pool power on many trains. In addition BNSF has overhead rights on this line to East St. Louis. This program shows all the trains in October of 2013 for over twenty-four hours on the critical single track portion of UP’s Chester Subdivision south of East St. Louis between Illmo on the Mississippi River and Dexter in southeast Missouri. Dexter is where the lines divide and directional running to Texas begins. The traffic on this line is extremely varied with manifests toting chemicals from the Gulf Coast, trains carrying autos and auto parts for auto distribution centers and assembly plants in Texas and Mexico, the Texas and Mexico intermodal fleet to and from Chicago, and many types of unit trains clogging this single track section as you will see. This is the same stretch of track covered nineteen years ago in our program titled “River Wars I – the Mississippi River”. "Union Pacific - Illmo to Dexter, MO" is 2 hours and 24 minutes in length and is a two disk set. It can be watched with or without narration.
Price: $38.95
Attributes
- Video Format: Blu-Ray
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