![]() | Hot Spots 36, Barstow California DVD Barstow, California. Gateway to both Cajon Pass and the Mojave Desert. Barstow features a huge, and restored, former Harvey House/Santa Fe depot. It is also division point for three BNSF subdivisions: Mojave Sub, Needles Sub and the Cajon Sub. Union Pacific has trackage rights from Daggett through B ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: HOT36 1 Hour 30 Mins $24.95 |
![]() | Rails through the Hudson Highlands DVD We begin our run in Ossining, heading north to Poughkeepsie, pausing at many intermediate points along the way. Some locations visited are Croton North, Peekskill, Cold Spring and Roa Hook. FL9’s in Metro-North’s tasteful red, blue and silver scheme abound. Several Metro-North trains are even po ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: RTTHH-DVD 55 Mins $29.95 |
![]() | Chiles Colorful Narrow Gauge Mining Railroads See the colorful diesels of the Ferrocarill de Antofagasta e Bolivia hauling their heavy loads over totally barren Cumbre Pass, across the Atacama Desert and in to the Andes at the Bolivian Border. Next, we see elderly EMD's of the Ferronor Diego de Almagro Sector struggling up the 3.5% grade to the ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: CCNG 2 Hours 12 Mins $24.95 |
![]() | Hot Spots 35 Homewood & La Grange Illinois Chicago is a railroad town and there are a number of great hot spots here - some which Highball Productions has covered previously in our Hot Spots series, such as Blue Island and Roosevelt Road. La Grange and Homewood are two hot spots along the I-294 corridor of Chicago suburbs. The track arrange ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: HOT35 1 Hour 9 Mins $24.95 |
![]() | Union Pacific 844 Returns to the Mainline Union Pacific never retired 4-8-4 number 844, She became the first in a line of significant steam locomotives to be saved and restored to operating condition and then used as ambassadors for the UP. The public loves seeing and riding behind big steam! But steam requires a lot of care, and afte ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: 844RTM 1 Hour 10 Mins $24.95 |
![]() | Airliners at Work B757 Boeing's graceful twinjet 757 in action in North America and Europe, with a wide variety of world airlines and paint schemes, including fallen flags. Lots of landings, takeoffs, and in-your-face taxiing for maximum action! Running time 90 minutes. ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: B757 1 Hour 30 Mins $19.95 |
![]() | Illinois Joint Line CSX & UP on the Villa Grove Sub Union Pacific's Villa Grove Sub runs from the big city of Chicago to the small town of Villa Grove. It is a busy double-track main, jointly owned by CSX and UP. This North-South line crosses many of the busy East-West mainlines in the Chicago area. We’ll see Canadian National, Indiana Harbor Belt ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: IJL 1 Hour 40 Mins $24.95 |
![]() | 611 Returns to Steam After a year rebuilding, and 20 years as a static museum display, N&W 611 stormed back into steam, and the public's mind, in 2015. Crowds turned out to watch the J Class 4-8-4 as she took up the Queen of Steam mantle once again. Built by the N&W in Roanoke, the J Class was destined for greatness. ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: 611RTS 1 Hour 2 Mins $24.95 |
![]() | Utah Railway Over Soldier Summit The Utah Railway owns the only six MK50-3's built, and these together with five ex Australian SD50S's drag 15,000 ton coal trains up the 2.4% grade to Soldier Summit using all of the units roaring 38,500 horsepower creating an unforgettable spectacle. The line over Soldier Summit belongs to Union Pa ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: UTAH 1 Hour 42 Mins $24.95 |
![]() | Union Pacifics Bailey Yard Union Pacific's Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska is the largest railroad yard in the world, with constant activity twenty-four hours a day. Join us for a tour of the yard, with informative commentary by our guide, and a visit to the diesel shops. Take in all the action from the Golden Spike Tow ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: UPBY 1 Hour 50 Mins $24.95 |
![]() | 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 |
![]() | Hot Spots 34 Bathurst Street Toronto Canada Bathurst Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada is located one mile outside Toronto Union Station and is a very busy place indeed during the morning and afternoon rush hours, often with multiple trains in view. In addition to GO Transit, Bathurst Street sees trains from Via Rail Canada and Amtrak. ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: HOT34 1 Hour 45 Mins $24.95 |
![]() | Hot Spots 33, Pine Junction - Norfolk Southern and CSX in Gary Pine Junction at Gary, Indiana hosts 2 double track main lines, from CSX and Norfolk Southern. Joining that traffic is the single line from Canadian National (former EJ&E). We'll see Amtrak, CP, South Shore, UP, BNSF and Indiana Harbor Belt besides our host railroads at Pine Junction. It makes for ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: HOT33 1 Hour 15 Mins $24.95 |
![]() | 177 Cab Ride - Field to Revelstoke on a Canadian Pacific Priority Intermodal Train CP train 177 is a priority intermodal. We rode a GE AC44 on177 from Field to Revelstoke through the spectacular Rocky and Selkirk mountains, including the longest tunnel in the western hemisphere, the Mount Macdonald tunnel. Picture in picture shows different views of the train, the passing scenery ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: 177CR 4 Hours 30 Mins $29.95 |
![]() | 2 Geeps To Paradise - Montana Rail Link Follow Montana Rail Link's Gas Job with an SD45 and SD40-2 over Evaro Hill and the 4th Sub and chase the Paradise Local down the 10th Sub with two geeps. In addition, we see BNSF overhead traffic, with coal trains, double stacks and manifests. Taped between Missoula and Lake Pend Orielle. ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: TGTPW 1 Hour 25 Mins $29.95 |
![]() | 315 & the Mudhen - Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad C-18 #15 and newly restored K-27 "Mudhen" #463 team up in the fall Chama Steam charter on the Cumbres & Toltec. Some great stack talk, single and two engine run by's and in cab footage. ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: 315W 1 Hour 45 Mins $29.95 |
![]() | 734 Photo Freight - Western Maryland Scenic Railroad Ex Lake Superior & Ishpeming 2-8-0 #734 on a photo freight on the Western Maryland Scenic in fall foliage. Hear her barking exhaust, and see smoke and steam plumes in the cold air as the engine works hard on the grades. ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: 734W 1 Hour 5 Mins $29.95 |
![]() | A Living Legend, the DC-3 Join us for a look at the legendary DC-3, now in service for over 50 years! Meet the people who maintain them and keep them running, meet the pilots who fly them. Enjoy interviews, take part in the walkround, see engine start-ups, taxying, takeoffs and landings, and fly in the cockpit. We spent time ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: DC3 1 Hour 15 Mins $19.95 |
![]() | A Rhineland Journey - A German Rail Adventure Join us for a cruise down the Rhine, through the heart of Germany. Along the way, you'll see the splendid scenery, with fairy tale castles. You'll see the river traffic, including the historic paddle steamer 'Goethe', and of course you'll see the trains on both sides of the Rhine, from locals to ICE ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: RA08W 1 Hour 30 Mins $24.95 |
![]() | A Rocky Mountain Winter - Canadian Pacific in the Rocky and Selkirk Mountains Canadian Pacific through the magnificent scenery of the Rocky and Selkirk Mountains in February, 2008. New Gevo's are out and about, some in the new, simpler paint and some in the new 'Olympic' paint. Some superb winter weather compliments the action, which takes place bewteen Exshaw and Revelstoke, ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: ARMW 2 Hours $24.95 |
![]() | A Salute To Conrail A fond farewell to Big Blue. All new footage of an old favorite as it goes into merger. Exciting snow scenes on Charlton Hill (see if you can spot the snowmobile being buried), 80MAC's and C30's on Washington Hill, the OCS and MAC's at State Line Tunnel, action at Iona Island and Bear Mountain on th ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: ASTC 1 Hour 30 Mins $19.95 |
![]() | A Salute to the Southern Pacific The SP lives! At least in the hearts of it's fans, and here on DVD! SP power in action on Tennessee Pass in the winter before it closed, over the grades of Cajon Pass and Soldier Summit, and a GE powered local in Rosenberg, Texas. Power is AC44's, SD70M's, SD40-2's, SD45's, C40-8W's and SD40T-2 & ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: ASSP 1 Hour $24.95 |
![]() | A Salute To the Warbonnet - Santa Fe A tribute to the best loved paint scheme in America, the classic red and silver Santa Fe "warbonnet" passenger paint scheme, resurected in 1989 and applied to freight locomotives for fast intermodal service. We take a look at this spectacular paint scheme in current service at many favorit ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: WARB 2 Hours $24.95 |
![]() | A Yellowhead Winter - Via Rail The Canadian and Yellowhead Pass Ride Via's famed flagship train #1, "The Canadian" west from Edmonton through Canada's magnificent Rocky Mountains via Yellowhead Pass. Along the way you'll see the ride from the train, the train in the scenery, some CN freights, and the winter scenery and the wildlife. Full musical score ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: RA04 1 Hour 16 Mins $24.95 |
![]() | Action SP - Southern Pacifc at merger time Southern Pacific just before and just after the merger with Union Pacific. You'll see AC44's, C-40-8W's, SD45's, SD70M's, GP60's and B40-8W's in action at Tehachapi, including the oil cans, on Beaumont Hill, with helpers, Soldier Summit, the old Western Pacific, the Little Rock Sub and the Sunset Ro ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: ACSP 1 Hour 45 Mins $24.95 |