The Kansas City Southern line across Rich Mountain astride the Arkansas – Oklahoma border is arguably the toughest mainline grade in the Midwest when both length and gradient are considered. Trains heading south out of the crew change and refueling stop at Heavener face a five mile, 1.45% climb up Stapp Hill at the base of Rich Mountain, a half a mile breather to Page, then the track climbs thirteen more miles on a gradient of 1.1% to the summit of Rich Mountain. Rich Mountain is part of the Ouachita Mountain range which stretches for nearly 150 miles in an east-west direction from southeastern Oklahoma to Hot Springs in south-central Arkansas. With most of the southbounds being heavy unit trains this is quite a show. And many of the KCS units are in the new heritage paint scheme that railfans refer to as the Southern Belle or retro-belle scheme. This underdog in the land of giants currently uses distributed power on their trains and some have power at three points in the train. This program shows a day and a half of action on and around Rich Mountain in May of 2009. 69 minutes. The DVD of this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
$30.95
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The Kansas City Southern line across Rich Mountain astride the Arkansas – Oklahoma border is arguably the toughest mainline grade in the Midwest when both length and gradient are considered. Trains heading south out of the crew change and refueling stop at Heavener face a five mile, 1.45% climb up Stapp Hill at the base of Rich Mountain, a half a mile breather to Page, then the track climbs thirteen more miles on a gradient of 1.1% to the summit of Rich Mountain. Rich Mountain is part of the Ouachita Mountain range which stretches for nearly 150 miles in an east-west direction from southeastern Oklahoma to Hot Springs in south-central Arkansas. With most of the southbounds being heavy unit trains this is quite a show. And many of the KCS units are in the new heritage paint scheme that railfans refer to as the Southern Belle or retro-belle scheme. This underdog in the land of giants currently uses distributed power on their trains and some have power at three points in the train. This program shows a day and a half of action on and around Rich Mountain in May of 2009. 69 minutes. The DVD of this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
$30.95
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Few railroads have undergone as many changes in the past dozen years as has the Kansas City Southern. During that time their Meridian to Dallas Line has become part of a major transcontinental corridor, and KCS has acquired full ownership of the largest Mexican Railroad and access to Mexico via Laredo. Today the 316 mile Meridian to Shreveport line known as the Meridian Speedway is poised to become part of the busiest corridor between the Southeast and the Southwest and Norfolk Southern recently paid three hundred million dollars for part ownership of the Speedway. This program documents the growing traffic on the Speedway by showing all of the trains on Kansas City Southern’s Vicksburg Subdivision between Monroe, Louisiana and Vicksburg, Mississippi in October of 2006. “KCS Meridian Speedway in 2006” is 71 minutes in length. The DVD on this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
$30.95
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Few railroads have undergone as many changes in the past dozen years as has the Kansas City Southern. During that time their Meridian to Dallas Line has become part of a major transcontinental corridor, and KCS has acquired full ownership of the largest Mexican Railroad and access to Mexico via Laredo. Today the 316 mile Meridian to Shreveport line known as the Meridian Speedway is poised to become part of the busiest corridor between the Southeast and the Southwest and Norfolk Southern recently paid three hundred million dollars for part ownership of the Speedway. This program documents the growing traffic on the Speedway by showing all of the trains on Kansas City Southern’s Vicksburg Subdivision between Monroe, Louisiana and Vicksburg, Mississippi in October of 2006. “KCS Meridian Speedway in 2006” is 71 minutes in length. The DVD on this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
$30.95
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This is not a videotape. This is a typed log of the producer's trip notes, covering his train trips between March 1974, when he lived in the Chicago area, and June 1977, when he lived in New England. Logbook #2 consists of 66 pages of notes, an index, and a list of abbreviations. The price for a copy of this is $19.95 plus $5.00 shipping and handling.
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This is not a videotape. This is a typed log of the producer's trip notes, covering his train trips between March 1974, when he lived in the Chicago area, and June 1977, when he lived in New England. Logbook #2 consists of 66 pages of notes, an index, and a list of abbreviations. The price for a copy of this is $19.95 plus $5.00 shipping and handling.
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This is not a videotape. It is a typed log of the producer's trip notes, and notes from consists and lineups, covering trips to the western U.S., Midwest, East Coast, and eastern Canada between July 1977 and August 1979. Logbook #3 consists of 138 pages of notes, an index, and a list of abbreviations. $29.95 plus $5 for S&H.
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This is not a videotape. It is a typed log of the producer's trip notes, and notes from consists and lineups, covering trips to the western U.S., Midwest, East Coast, and eastern Canada between July 1977 and August 1979. Logbook #3 consists of 138 pages of notes, an index, and a list of abbreviations. $29.95 plus $5 for S&H.
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Come with us as we experience 24 hours of action in the fall of 1993 on Conrail's busiest line across northern Indiana. Videotaped around Waterloo where the lighting at the Amtrak stop makes for excellent night viewing. See Conrail's intermodal fleets meet during the night. 116 minutes.
$34.95
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Come with us as we experience 24 hours of action in the fall of 1993 on Conrail's busiest line across northern Indiana. Videotaped around Waterloo where the lighting at the Amtrak stop makes for excellent night viewing. See Conrail's intermodal fleets meet during the night. 116 minutes.
$34.95
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Come with us as we experience 24 hours of action in the fall of 1993 on Conrail's busiest line across northern Indiana. Videotaped around Waterloo where the lighting at the Amtrak stop makes for excellent night viewing. See Conrail's intermodal fleets meet during the night. 116 minutes.
$34.95
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When the main lines of four railroads crossed at Marion in the 1970's, fans there called their town "The Trainwatching Capital of Ohio". Today three busy lines of CSX and Norfolk Southern still cross at grade in Marion and with the Conrail split, the number of trains is nearly as many as in 1970. The busiest line in Marion today is the NS line from Columbus to Bellevue which crosses CSX's Toledo to Columbus line and the former Conrail Indianapolis Line from Cleveland to St. Louis, now owned by CSX. This video shows all the NS and CSX trains through Marion for 24 hours in August of 2000. Three DVD, two tape set. Four hours, 10 minutes.
$50.95
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