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| 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 |
| Tehachapi Cab Ride Although it starts in a grey day in March, 1998, this is a fascinating ride from Bakersfield to Barstow over Tehachapi Pass. Eight units power the Z NBYWSP-9, BNSFÕs hottest train, with C40-8W #861 on the point. The view is straight ahead from Caliente to Mojave, but with many roving camera shots, ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: TECR 2 Hours 17 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. | HIGHBALL SKU: 611RTS 1 Hour 2 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 |
| Hot Spots 23 Kansas City, The Bottoms - BNSF, Union Pacific, Norfolk Southern, Kansas City Southern Kansas City is home to some of the most intense railroading anywhere, with upwards of 400 trains a day passing through. We take a look at the old industrial area of The Bottoms, with trains from BNSF, UP, NS & KCT, and spend time at BN Crossing, with trains on three levels and continuous action ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: HOT23W 2 Hours 37 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 |
| Rails To the Sunshine - The Florida East Coast Railroad The Florida East Coast in action on the north end of the system, between the yard at Jacksonville and Melbourne. Manifests, locals, intermodals and rock trains ply the well ballasted main line of the FEC. The new SD70M-2ís are much in evidence, paired with ex Union Pacific SD40-2's and GP40-2's sti ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: FECW 1 Hour $24.95 |
| Tennessee Pass Cab Ride - Union Pacific Southern Pacific Ride on board KCOAT, a 5600 foot autorack train with clean SP power, on a sunny December day, over Colorado's Tennessee Pass, from Pueblo to Minturn. See the Royal Gorge from the lead SSW GP60's walkway, the Arkansas River Gorge, and the steady climb to the deep snow at the summit. On the way, meet ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: TPCR 1 Hour 30 Mins $24.95 |
| Rails & the Mother Road - A Route 66 Rail Adventure Well, this one's a bit different. Elrond Lawrence's book "Route 66 Railway" convinced me that I should go take a look and see what was left of Route 66's artifacts. Disc 1 takes a look at California, from San Bernardino, over Cajon, through Victorville to Barstow, and across the Mojave to ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: RA09 3 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Connie Close Up Ride the flightdeck of not 1, but 2, Lockheed Constellations! Start with an explanation of the engineeers panel, then we see startup, taxiing and take off from both inside the aircraft and airside. You are riding in the MATS Connie, owned by the Constellation Group, restored and doing the show circu ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: CONN 1 Hour $19.95 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Santa Fe across Arizona The Santa Fe, pre merger, in 1994. Lots of warbonnets speeding across the desert, from Topock on the California border to the New Mexico border. Highlights include a glorious early morning in the snow at Williams Junction and a meet in dirty weather on the plateau above Kingman. We got snowed on, ha ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: SFAA 1 Hour 40 Mins $19.95 |
| 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 |
| Mountain Sub Cab Ride - The Rocky Mountaineer, Revelstoke To Field A Railfan's dream come true! Ride the cab of the Rocky Mountaineer's ex CN GP40-2L's through the stunning scenery of British Columbia's Selkirk and Rocky Mountains and see the engineers view of inaccessible Kicking Horse Canyon and the interior of the Connaught Tunnel. The main view is straight ahea ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: RMCR 4 Hours $29.95 |
| Along the New River - The CSX New River Sub CSX coal trains on the New River Sub, deep in West Virginia. We start our visit at Hinton, then follow the tracks through Prince, with it's Art Deco depot, over the mountain to Thurmond, and along the gorge to Montgomery. You'll see the trains far below from the overlooks, and up close and personal ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: ATNRW 1 Hour 30 Mins $24.95 |
| Cajon Pass Cab Ride Join us for a March, 1998 legal cab ride over California's Cajon Pass on board BNSF C44-9W #1018, on train ZLACMEM. The BN-ATSF merger is young, and most of the power seen is warbonnet or bluebonnet. The view is straight ahead with some roving camera shots, and you'll hear radio chatter and conversa ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: CPCR 1 Hour 55 Mins $24.95 |
| 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 |
| BC Rail - North Vancouver to Prince George This trip was the fulfillment of a long time personal ambition. We started at the yard at North Vancouver with a rebuilt RS18 and worked our way along the main line to Prince George. We got a brief look at the Royal Hudson along Howe Sound, then concentrated on the freights which are mostly led by t ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: BCRL 2 Hours $24.95 |
| Along the Feather River - BNSF and Union Pacific on former Western Pacific rails Nine days of charging up and down the Canyon went into this tape, they weren't running many trains! Sometimes it was hard to tell just who the railroad belonged to, BNSF has trackage rights and sent everything they had, and of course UP is a mix of UP, SP, and CNW, plus leased power, a veritable rai ...more | HIGHBALL SKU: ATFR 2 Hours $19.95 |
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