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Below are the ten newest releases from Big "E" Productions in both DVD-R and VHS format.

The Santa Fe at Lebo, Kansas DVD

This tape shows over 24 hours of awesome action in Oct. of 1994 at Lebo, KS, 93 miles west of Kansas City.   If you like hot trains, the SF main line is the greatest show on earth.  Nobody runs them faster than the AT&SF.  90 minutes.  Regular VHS price = $29.95.

Price: $34.95

Attributes

  • Video Format: DVD

Union Pacific's Encina Hill

This tape shows 24 hours of action on the UP's busy line through the Blue Mountains on Encina Hill between Huntington and Baker, Oregon.  Pushers help a stream of trains up 2.2% grades.  Videotaped in May of 1994.  65 minutes. 

Price: $30.95

Union Pacific's Encina Hill DVD

This tape shows 24 hours of action on the UP's busy line through the Blue Mountains on Encina Hill between Huntington and Baker, Oregon.  Pushers help a stream of trains up 2.2% grades.  Videotaped in May of 1994.  65 minutes. 

Price: $30.95

Attributes

  • Video Format: DVD

GTW And CSX At Wellsboro

This tape shows over 24 hours of  action at Wellsboro,  in Northern Indiana, where the former B&O line to Chicago, now CSX, crosses the main line of the Grand Trunk Western.  45 trains pounded the diamonds in 24 hrs in August of 1994.   115 minutes.

Price: $34.95

GTW And CSX At Wellsboro DVD

This tape shows over 24 hours of  action at Wellsboro,  in Northern Indiana, where the former B&O line to Chicago, now CSX, crosses the main line of the Grand Trunk Western.  45 trains pounded the diamonds in 24 hrs in August of 1994.   115 minutes.

Price: $34.95

Attributes

  • Video Format: DVD

UP-SP River Wars I - The Mississippi River

This DVD shows 24 hrs. of action along the Mississippi River around Illmo, MO, on the storied UP-SP joint line south of St. Louis in Oct. 1994.  This line has seen many changes since the May, 1988, Trains article  about it.  More than one customer has said that this is the best of our older videos.  105 minutes.

Price: $34.95

UP-SP River Wars I - The Mississippi River DVD

This DVD shows 24 hrs. of action along the Mississippi River around Illmo, MO, on the storied UP-SP joint line south of St. Louis in Oct. 1994.  This line has seen many changes since the May, 1988, Trains article  about it.  More than one customer has said that this is the best of our older videos.  105 minutes.

Price: $34.95

Attributes

  • Video Format: DVD

NS and CSX at Leipsic Junction

At Leipsic Junction the former Nickel Plate, Chicago to Buffalo main line of NS crosses the  former B&O Toledo to Cincinnati main line of CSX.  This videotape covers 24 hrs. of action on both lines.  Traffic was at its peak when this was taped in Oct. 1994.  111 minutes. 

Price: $34.95

NS and CSX at Leipsic Junction DVD

At Leipsic Junction the former Nickel Plate, Chicago to Buffalo main line of NS crosses the  former B&O Toledo to Cincinnati main line of CSX.  This videotape covers 24 hrs. of action on both lines.  Traffic was at its peak when this was taped in Oct. 1994.  111 minutes. 

Price: $34.95

Attributes

  • Video Format: DVD

Northeast Corridor At Speed

See all the trains on the Northeast Corridor at Newark, DE, from 6:00 am to 10:30 pm at speeds up to 125 mph in Aug. of 1994.  Every Amtrak train was taped in at least one direction, also CR trains and even a circus train.  67 minutes.

Price: $30.95
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The producer, Dick Eisfeller, and his better half, his wife Barbara at the Big Train Show in West Springfield, MA in January of 2017

The newsletter and new programs are several weeks late again.  I was still catching up from being gone the whole month of May when the hard drive on the computer that I use for editing failed.  Recovery took about 2 ½ weeks.  Anyway we have two new programs out - “Union Pacific in the Blue Mountains” and “BNSF in the Columbia River Gorge”.  These are our 38th and 39th programs 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 nearly 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.  311 programs are available in DVD (39 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, SP, Wisconsin Central, and Conrail.  Our shipping and handling charge on repeat 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.  We are also on the internet at www.trainvideos.com.

 

Welcome to Big "E" Productions at trainvideos.com. All of our programs are now available in DVD format (39 in Blu-ray).  VHS is no longer available.  

 

 311 programs in DVD (39 of these available in Blu-ray)

 

2 copies of Logbooks

 

Our programs show the whole train

  • Most programs show all trains for 24 hours or more
  • Train symbols, origins, history, and operations covered in narration
  • No train video producer does a better job of explaining railroading than we do
  • Our programs are truly documentaries of railroading
  • Years 1992 to present

Our mission is to document the incredible changes going on in today's railroading. Our programs are aimed at customers interested in operations and fans and modelers that want to know what is truly going on in railroading and to see the whole train. We are the only train video producer who makes every effort to identify and show complete trains. Expert commentary tells about the changes in operations over the years, schedules, and what a particular train is carrying and where it is going. Most of our DVDs and videos show 24 hours of action on a particular line or at a given point. These programs give a 24 hour "look" at today's railroading that is unprecedented in the train video industry and will become more valuable as time goes on.  Our programs are documentaries that cover contemporary railroading from 1992 to the present and were shot in locations all over the United States and Canada. These DVDs and videos are not simply a collection of runbys of locomotives and a few head end cars taken at different places. We are recording history!  That is why original slogan was "No More Mindless Runbys."