Dallas Fort Worth International 2000 Dallas Fort Worth is a major American Hub and a Delta Hub. With over 860,000 aircraft movements, DFW is a busy and exciting place. Just about everything American and American Express owns makes an appearance, together with Delta, America West, TWA, United, Continental, Vanguard, Sun Country, Kitty H ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: DFW 2 Hours $19.95 | |
Dusseldorf International 2006 Dusseldorf is one of the few international airports with observation area's, from where you will see airlines from all over Europe, including Eastern Europe, plus airlines from North Africa, North America and the Middle East. Tupelov's from Russia make several appearances, including one wearing Aero ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: DUSW 2 Hours $19.95 | |
East Broad Top Fall Spectacular What an absolutely fabulous place the EBT is. One of the things I enjoyed most was being able to wander around the shop complex and just soak up the atmosphere and imagine how it must have been in its heyday. Largely unspoiled and unchanged in decades, with four narrow gauge Mikes in steam over the ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: EBTS 1 Hour 30 Mins $19.95 | |
Frankfurt 2001 Taped in late August of 2001 at the home of Lufthansa, with heavy action with B747's, A300's, A340's, the historic Junkers and cargo MD-11's. Several Russian aircraft make appearances, including Yak 42's and TU134's, plus a wide variety of European, North American, Middle Eastern and Asian carriers, ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: FRA01 2 Hours $19.95 | |
Highball Across the Mojave - The BNSF Needles Sub Needles to Barstow on the newly formed BNSF ex-Santa Fe mainline. This is one tough route, 30 miles of 1.4% From Needles to Goffs, rising over 2000 feet for westbounds and 40 miles of 1 %+ for eastbounds, plus the 25 mile drag up Ash Hill. Brand new SD75's to freshly painted GP30's and 35's. ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: HATM 1 Hour 30 Mins $19.95 | |
Highball Along the Columbia - BNSF and Union Pacific UP and BNSF along the highly scenic Columbia River between Washington & Oregon in the Pacific Northwest. We covered the line from Cape Horn Tunnel to west of Pasco, and from Troutdale to Hinkle. We were really pleased to find cabooses on the BNSF trains that cross the Columbia at Wishram and on UP's ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: HCOL 3 Hours $19.95 | |
Highball Down the Yazoo - The Illinois Central Railroad Illinois Central's Yazoo District from Jackson MS to Memphis TN through the flatlands of the Mississippi Delta. GP10's with ox-yoke air filters, black SD40's and shiny new SD7O's with the death star on the nose. We didn't expect to like it but we did! The crop dusters antics amused us so I put a bit ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: HYAZ 1 Hour 10 Mins $19.95 | |
Highball Over Cajon - BNSF and Union Pacific in Southern California Another tape on Cajon? Yes indeed. I'd never been and the railroads involved have merged. Because of El Nino everything was green, I had bright blue skies (no smog!) and there was snow on the mountains. Combined with hard working trains and power in a rainbow of paint schemes, models from GP9's thro ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: CAJN 1 Hour 30 Mins $19.95 | |
Highball Over Rich Mountain - Kansas City Southern We had a delightful couple of days on KCS's fourth sub of the Gulf division. This is the north-south main line on the Arkansas-Oklahoma border over Rich Mountain. 6 axle power is the rule here, we saw SD40-2's, SD45's SD4OT-2's and SDSO's, plus some BN and Oakway run-through power on coal trains, al ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: RICH 50 Mins $19.95 | |
Highball Over Silver Zone - Union Pacific on former Western Pacifc rails UP over the former Western Pacific between SaIt Lake City and Winnemucca, including the paired track with SP (pre merger) through Palisade Canyon. The "Trains" article called this line "Trains in a desolate landscape" and it sure is. We got out and about on the salt Flats, Wendov ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: HBSZ 2 Hours $19.95 | |
Highball Over Tehachapi - BNSF and Union Pacific in Southern California Pre merger SP and SF on this world famous location in December 1995. The loop is impressive, we had a very nice morning sitting in the sunshine on the hillside overlooking the loops, a long Santa Fe pig train draped around the loop has to be one of the most spectacular sights available. We got in to ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: HBOT 2 Hours $19.95 | |
Highball Through the Heartland - The BNSF Marceline Sub BNSF's Marceline sub between Kansas City, MO and Fort Madison, IA. BNSF & NS share tracks for 35 miles east of KC, and UP has trackage rights for plenty of variety. Lots of new "Premium Heritage" units, still a decent amount of Warbonnets, and the trains are moveing right along (mostly ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: HART 1 Hour 45 Mins $19.95 | |
Highball Through the Rathole - Norfolk Southern on the CNO&TP Infamous in the days of steam for its long, tight tunnels and tight curves, the Rathole has been modernised and daylighted, but is still a great show. We covered the line from Oakdale TN to Danville KY, we really enjoyed the area, especially the huge rock cuts at Tateville, we even hiked through the ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: HBRH 2 Hours $19.95 | |
Houston George Bush Intercontinental 2000 Houston's George Bush Intercontinental is a major Continental hub, and sees just about ecerything Continental owns, together with Continental Express. Foreign carriers include British Airways, Air France, Luthansa, Aerolittoral, KLM Asia, Aeromexico and Canadian. One of the highlights is Continental ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: IAH 2 Hours $19.95 | |
In Search Of ALCOs The products of Schenectady and Montreal are our favorite form of motive power, so we look them up whenever we can. We've seen RS1l's and an RS3 on the Winchester and Western, these guys were working REAL hard, immaculate C420's (pretty) and an RS36 on the Apache, M630's on the CP (smoke), C424's, R ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: ISOA 2 Hours $19.95 | |
In Search Of the Fs EMD F units - THE classic American locomotive. We searched out some of the last remaining F's in 1992. We start the program with BAR's beautiful F3 in excursion service, MBTA F10's in their last year of service then in Cape Cod's pretty orange and green, MARC F's and an E and CSX F's in Baltimore. L ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: ISTF 1 Hour $19.95 | |
KCS & Kudzu - Kansas City Southern We followed Kansas City Southern's E-W Transcontinental Division from Meridian MS to Shreveport, LA in August, 1996 Power is mostly 4 axle, the CN wide nose GP4OL's are out and about, looking spiffy in their new paint, there is some 6 axle power, we caught some SD40's, SD45's and a tunnel motor. KCS ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: KCSK 1 Hour 30 Mins $19.95 | |
Las Vegas McCarran International 2000 Las Vegas McCarran is a Southwest Hub and their fleet of B737s, and home to National Airlines, with a good showing of their B757s. In fact, McCarran is an exceptional place for both B737s and B757s, with planes from lots of carriers making appearances. DC10s from United, Northwest, Sun Country and H ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: LAS00 2 Hours $19.95 | |
London Heathrow Is the busiest in the world for international traffic, with aircraft from all over the world making appearances. Loads of widebodies, aircraft from Europe, Canada, the United States, North and South Africa, Australia, the Mediteranean, the Near East, Middle East and Far East, the Balkans, Russia and ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: LHR 2 Hours $19.95 | |
Londons Colorful Trains Since Britain’s railways privatised there are now lots of colorful paint schemes. we checked out London’s main line stations to see what was new, including Eurostar, the Channel Tunnel train, and spent a day at Clapham Junction, Britain’s busiest railway station, with loads of non stop action, ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: LOND 2 Hours $19.95 | |
Los Angeles International 2000 Los Angeles International ranks number four in the world for aircraft movements and is an extraordinarily busy place. Loads of B747s, many from the Pacific Rim make LAX a colorful and excitimg place. Lots of big birds takeing off and landing, such exotics as an Air tahiti Nui A340 and an Egyptair B7 ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: LAX00 2 Hours $19.95 | |
Manchester International 2000 Visiting Manchester after Heathrow was interesting, I expected it to be the same on a smaller scale. Not So! Looking through the tape I counted over 50 airlines, many not seen at LHR. MAN is a single runway airport (at the moment, a second is being built) and can be pretty wild, being the busiest Br ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: MANW 2 Hours $19.95 | |
Manchester International 2006 Now that the second runway is in place, there are a number of great locations on the sunny side of the new runway. Since our last visit in 2000, airlines have gone, new airlines have shown up, liveries changed and airlines changed aircraft types. A wide variety of aircraft, from regional props and j ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: MAN06 2 Hours $19.95 | |
Marias Pass - BNSF crosses the Rocky Mountains Fall 97 on magnificent Marias Pass, BNSF's mainline through the Rockies. I had some perfect weather and caught lots of the new Heritage C44's, which look terrific against the mountains and fall foliage I started at Shelby and worked through Cut Bank, Browning, Grizzly, Two Medicine Bridge, the snows ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: MARI 2 Hours $19.95 | |
Miami International Stunning, exciting rush hour with several streams of aircraft converging, big planes passing little planes, little planes passing everybody, outstanding fast paced action. Lots of South & Central American carriers, European and Caribean, plus USA & Canada. Cargo B747's,DC-10's, DC-8's and a ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: MIA00 2 Hours $19.95 | |