No More Mindless Runbys
Below are the ten newest releases from Big "E" Productions in both DVD-R and VHS format.
Eastern Canada Regionals 2007 DVD
This program shows many of the trains and operations on four regional railroads in eastern Ontario and western Quebec – The Ottawa Valley Railway, Quebec Gatineau, Montreal, Maine, and Atlantic, and last but not least, Ontario Northland, in the fall of 2007. The first three of these were spun-off by the Canadian Pacific in the mid 1990s. Ontario Northland has always been an independent regional railroad and was built and owned by the Province of Ontario from the beginning. With its remote services and friendly employees, the nearly 700 mile long ONR is arguably the most fascinating regional Railroad in North America. “Eastern Canada Regionals 2007” is 106 minutes long. The DVD on this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
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- Video Format: DVD
Canada's Corridor in Eastern Ontario
This powerful program shows all the action on the busiest rail line in eastern Canada - the Canadian National and Via Rail Corridor between Montreal and Toronto. This line, known in Canada simply as the Corridor and owned by CN, is at least two tracks with CTC throughout and currently hosts twenty Via passenger trains on weekdays along with at least twenty CN freight trains. And these are not just any freight trains. CN is the most efficient railroad in North America and runs some of the longest and heaviest mixed carload and intermodal trains on the planet on this high-speed and superbly engineered 334-mile line between Montreal and Toronto. We caught over twenty-four hours of action in September 2007 on the Corridor around Gananoque in southeast Ontario where the limit for passenger trains with LRC cars is a cool 100 miles an hour. Length = 78 minutes. This program in DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
Canada's Corridor in Eastern Ontario DVD
This powerful program shows all the action on the busiest rail line in eastern Canada - the Canadian National and Via Rail Corridor between Montreal and Toronto. This line, known in Canada simply as the Corridor and owned by CN, is at least two tracks with CTC throughout and currently hosts twenty Via passenger trains on weekdays along with at least twenty CN freight trains. And these are not just any freight trains. CN is the most efficient railroad in North America and runs some of the longest and heaviest mixed carload and intermodal trains on the planet on this high-speed and superbly engineered 334-mile line between Montreal and Toronto. We caught over twenty-four hours of action in September 2007 on the Corridor around Gananoque in southeast Ontario where the limit for passenger trains with LRC cars is a cool 100 miles an hour. Length = 78 minutes. This program in DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
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- Video Format: DVD
CP's Expressway in Eastern Ontario DVD
Canadian Pacific’s main line between Montreal and Toronto is their busiest line for freight traffic in eastern Canada. Just west of Perth, Ontario, CP’s Montreal to Toronto main runs through the southern end of the rocky Canadian Shield. In 1996 CP started new piggyback trains between Montreal and Toronto that they initially named Iron Highway trains. The moniker for these trains was later changed to Expressway trains when new flat cars were received. Thus a fitting name for CP’s Montreal to Toronto main is their Expressway. “CP’s Expressway in Eastern Ontario” shows over 32 hours of continuous action on the most scenic part of CP’s Montreal to Toronto Belleville Sub main west of Perth in October of 2007. Length = 58 minutes. The DVD on this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
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- Video Format: DVD
CP's Expressway in Eastern Ontario
Canadian Pacific’s main line between Montreal and Toronto is their busiest line for freight traffic in eastern Canada. Just west of Perth, Ontario, CP’s Montreal to Toronto main runs through the southern end of the rocky Canadian Shield. In 1996 CP started new piggyback trains between Montreal and Toronto that they initially named Iron Highway trains. The moniker for these trains was later changed to Expressway trains when new flat cars were received. Thus a fitting name for CP’s Montreal to Toronto main is their Expressway. “CP’s Expressway in Eastern Ontario” shows over 32 hours of continuous action on the most scenic part of CP’s Montreal to Toronto Belleville Sub main west of Perth in October of 2007. Length = 58 minutes. The DVD on this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
UP in Meadow Valley Wash DVD
Meadow Valley Wash, which begins fifty miles north of Las Vegas, is the defining feature of Union Pacific’s historic, 102 year old, Salt Lake Route between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. This defile, together with adjacent Clover Creek Canyon, was the only reasonable route for a rail line from Salt Lake City to Southern California through the many mountain ranges in southern Nevada. This program shows 28 hours of action in the most rugged part of Meadow Valley Wash, the eastern or geographically northern end of the canyon between Caliente and Lyman Crossing, in June of 2007. Train lengths have increased and UP’s newest high tech diesels get down on their knees on the one and a half per cent grade and eight degree curves in this most picturesque and flood-prone part of Meadow Valley Wash.
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- Video Format: DVD
UP in Meadow Valley Wash
Meadow Valley Wash, which begins fifty miles north of Las Vegas, is the defining feature of Union Pacific’s historic, 102 year old, Salt Lake Route between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. This defile, together with adjacent Clover Creek Canyon, was the only reasonable route for a rail line from Salt Lake City to Southern California through the many mountain ranges in southern Nevada. This program shows 28 hours of action in the most rugged part of Meadow Valley Wash, the eastern or geographically northern end of the canyon between Caliente and Lyman Crossing, in June of 2007. Train lengths have increased and UP’s newest high tech diesels get down on their knees on the one and a half per cent grade and eight degree curves in this most picturesque and flood-prone part of Meadow Valley Wash.
BNSF in California's Central Valley DVD
Not only is California’s Central Valley the greatest agricultural area in this country, but it is also the home to some big-time railroading – BNSF Railway’s Bakersfield Subdivision between Bakersfield and Fresno. This high-speed line through the razor-flat San Joaquin or Central Valley of California, is home to a growing number of transcontinental intermodal, manifest, and unit trains headed to and from the Bay Area or BNSF’s terminals around Stockton, along with six pair of state-supported Amtrak San Joaquin service passenger trains that run between Bakersfield, and Sacramento and Oakland. This neat program shows all the trains on BNSF’s Bakersfield Sub between Wasco and Hanford for twenty-four hours in June of 2007. “BNSF in California’s Central Valley” is 68 minutes long.
Attributes
- Video Format: DVD
BNSF in California's Central Valley
Not only is California’s Central Valley the greatest agricultural area in this country, but it is also the home to some big-time railroading – BNSF Railway’s Bakersfield Subdivision between Bakersfield and Fresno. This high-speed line through the razor-flat San Joaquin or Central Valley of California, is home to a growing number of transcontinental intermodal, manifest, and unit trains headed to and from the Bay Area or BNSF’s terminals around Stockton, along with six pair of state-supported Amtrak San Joaquin service passenger trains that run between Bakersfield, and Sacramento and Oakland. This neat program shows all the trains on BNSF’s Bakersfield Sub between Wasco and Hanford for twenty-four hours in June of 2007. “BNSF in California’s Central Valley” is 68 minutes long.
UP's I-5 Corridor around Redding, CA
Union Pacific’s spectacular trackage around Redding in Northern California, is part of their so-called I-5 Corridor which stretches from Los Angeles to Seattle. Once part of Southern Pacific’s Shasta Division, the UP main around Redding covers a variety of terrain – the winding and deep Sacramento River Canyon, high bridges, and some high speed running through the foothills south of Redding, for the lumber drags headed to Southern California and the intermodal trains to traverse. This program shows how traffic on UP’s I-5 Corridor is doing since the UP takeover of the SP eleven years ago by showing all the trains for over 30 hours both sides of Redding on UP’s Valley Subdivision in June of 2007. “UP’s I-5 Corridor around Redding, CA” is 62 minutes long. The DVD on this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
