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For over one hundred years four separate railroads competed for passenger and freight traffic between the New York City metropolitan area and Chicago – the New York Central, Pennsylvania, Erie, and Baltimore and Ohio. Collectively these lines were known as the Eastern Trunk Lines or just Trunk Lines for short. Today there are only two Eastern Trunk Lines left – Norfolk Southern and CSX. This program shows over twenty-four hours of action in April of 2014 on one of these – the former New York Central and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, now part of NS’s Chicago Line, in northwest Ohio between the outskirts of Toledo and Oak Harbor, twenty-three miles east of Toledo. At Oak Harbor NS’s Bellevue to Toledo line passes overhead with some trains getting onto or off of the Chicago Line there through a new connection opened right after the Conrail split. This is at a time when trains were having a difficult time getting through Chicago in part because BNSF was in a major meltdown and wasn’t always accepting trains. NS had some congestion around their system at this time, especially further west when trains got close to Chicago. This DVD is a two disk set and is two hours and 33 minutes in length. It has the option of being watched with or without narration.
$40.95
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For over one hundred years four separate railroads competed for passenger and freight traffic between the New York City metropolitan area and Chicago – the New York Central, Pennsylvania, Erie, and Baltimore and Ohio. Collectively these lines were known as the Eastern Trunk Lines or just Trunk Lines for short. Today there are only two Eastern Trunk Lines left – Norfolk Southern and CSX. This program shows over twenty-four hours of action in April of 2014 on one of these – the former New York Central and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern, now part of NS’s Chicago Line, in northwest Ohio between the outskirts of Toledo and Oak Harbor, twenty-three miles east of Toledo. At Oak Harbor NS’s Bellevue to Toledo line passes overhead with some trains getting onto or off of the Chicago Line there through a new connection opened right after the Conrail split. This is at a time when trains were having a difficult time getting through Chicago in part because BNSF was in a major meltdown and wasn’t always accepting trains. NS had some congestion around their system at this time, especially further west when trains got close to Chicago. This DVD is a two disk set and is two hours and 33 minutes in length. It has the option of being watched with or without narration.
$40.95
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No railroad in the U.S. has a greater share of truck competitive traffic than does the Florida East Coast Railroad between Jacksonville and Miami, Florida. See more than 24 hours of action on the north end of this most intriguing railroad in the fall of 1993. 60 minutes. This DVD sells for $30.95 plus $5 for S&H.
$30.95
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No railroad in the U.S. has a greater share of truck competitive traffic than does the Florida East Coast Railroad between Jacksonville and Miami, Florida. See more than 24 hours of action on the north end of this most intriguing railroad in the fall of 1993. 60 minutes. This DVD sells for $30.95 plus $5 for S&H.
$30.95
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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.
$34.95
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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.
$34.95
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One of the most fascinating small town junctions on the far flung CSX system is Flomaton in southeast Alabama. Flomaton is just north of the Florida state line and 58 miles east of Mobile. In this town of 1600 where CSX still has a small yard, the CSX main line from Birmingham and Montgomery joins the CSX line from Jacksonville and Pensacola. All trackage here is former Louisville and Nashville. The CSX main line then continues west to Mobile and on to New Orleans. This program shows over twenty four hours of action on CSX’s M&M Subdivision between Flomaton and nearby Atmore in October 2006. It will also show how traffic on this line has rebounded since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and severed this line west of Mobile for nearly six months. This program was shot only seven months after through service was restored on this line west of Mobile. 70 minutes. The DVD on this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
$30.95
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One of the most fascinating small town junctions on the far flung CSX system is Flomaton in southeast Alabama. Flomaton is just north of the Florida state line and 58 miles east of Mobile. In this town of 1600 where CSX still has a small yard, the CSX main line from Birmingham and Montgomery joins the CSX line from Jacksonville and Pensacola. All trackage here is former Louisville and Nashville. The CSX main line then continues west to Mobile and on to New Orleans. This program shows over twenty four hours of action on CSX’s M&M Subdivision between Flomaton and nearby Atmore in October 2006. It will also show how traffic on this line has rebounded since Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and the Gulf Coast and severed this line west of Mobile for nearly six months. This program was shot only seven months after through service was restored on this line west of Mobile. 70 minutes. The DVD on this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
$30.95
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Fostoria, OH, Part I shows all of the incredible action at Fostoria in northern Ohio for 12 daylight hours in May of 2000. The Conrail split has brought more trains and congestion to Fostoria - as many as 115 trains in 24 hours, making Fostoria the busiest spot for freight trains east of Chicago. At Fostoria three main lines cross at grade - CSX's former C&O Toledo to Columbus line, CSX's former B&O Chicago line, and Norfolk Southern's former Nickel Plate Buffalo to Chicago line. 159 minutes. 2 DVD-R, 1 tape set
$36.95
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Fostoria, OH, Part I shows all of the incredible action at Fostoria in northern Ohio for 12 daylight hours in May of 2000. The Conrail split has brought more trains and congestion to Fostoria - as many as 115 trains in 24 hours, making Fostoria the busiest spot for freight trains east of Chicago. At Fostoria three main lines cross at grade - CSX's former C&O Toledo to Columbus line, CSX's former B&O Chicago line, and Norfolk Southern's former Nickel Plate Buffalo to Chicago line. 159 minutes. 2 DVD-R, 1 tape set
$36.95
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Fostoria, OH, Part II is a continuation of Part I and covers the busy nighttime action next to the Amtrak station in Fostoria where the former B&O and Nickel Plate lines cross, and a second night of action north of Fostoria to catch CSX trains that were missed the first night. 156 minutes. 2 DVD-R, 1 tape set.
$36.95
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Fostoria, OH, Part II is a continuation of Part I and covers the busy nighttime action next to the Amtrak station in Fostoria where the former B&O and Nickel Plate lines cross, and a second night of action north of Fostoria to catch CSX trains that were missed the first night. 156 minutes. 2 DVD-R, 1 tape set.
$36.95
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