Train Action Hot Spots, Volume 1
Original price was: $24.95.$19.95Current price is: $19.95.A dozen great railroads, at three great locations: Dayton’s Bluff, Minnesota • Clinton, Iowa • Nopeming, Minnesota.
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A dozen great railroads, at three great locations: Dayton’s Bluff, Minnesota • Clinton, Iowa • Nopeming, Minnesota.
In the months right after the merger with the Santa Fe, Hal Pantti explored Burlington Northern’s “Coal Country”. Beginning at Lincoln, Nebraska, Hal traveled to Alliance. Then he followed a loop, traveling over the Angora, Valley, Canyon, Orin, Black Hills, Edgemont and Butte Subdivisions, finally arriving back in Alliance for the return trip home.
In the months right after the merger with the Santa Fe, Hal Pantti explored two of Burlington Northern’s most important main lines, the ex-Northern Pacific from Eastern Montana into Minnesota, and the ex-Chicago, Burlington & Quincy from Galesburg, Illinois to Lincoln, Nebraska.
Famed rail photographer Emery Gulash once said “to be a railfan in the mid 1950’s in or near Chicago was a double barrel dream”. If that’s the case, being a Chicagoland railfan in the early 1990s meant capturing the great railroads before they were gone. Dennis Jenko caught these soon to be fallen flags: ATSF, BN, CCP, CNW, CR, CSX, EJ&E, IHB, SOO, and WC.
Emery Gulash once said “to be a railfan in the mid 1950’s in or near Chicago was a double barrel dream” Being a railfan in the early 90’s meant capturing all the great railroads of Chicagoland before they disappeared.
The Sand Hills Subdivision was once a quiet backwater of the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy system.
The western shore of the upper Mississippi River has Canadian Pacific’s River Subdivision, a busy main line that supports a non stop flow of traffic. The eastern shore hosts BNSF’s St. Croix Sub, a mostly double-tracked route providing access for a nonstop parade of traffic from La Crosse, Wisconsin to Minneapolis/St. Paul. Get both great lines in two shows with the third show in this combo getting back to the roots of the same area with winter action on the rails of the Soo Line; Burlington Northern; Chicago & North Western; Chicago Central; Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern; and the Green Bay & Western. Three shows, three discs, one case and one great combo price.
Over an hour of some of the most dramatic action sequences from our collection of vintage railroad subjects.
The Green Machine fallen flag travels across the former Great Northern Railway’s Minnesota ore lines.
The Burlington Northern Railroad was formed out of three large and three smaller roads in 1970. It was a success for 25 years. This DVD brings back all the great BN power and clean cars of those years that led up to the merging with the Santa Fe Railroad to create the BNSF system today!…
Burlington Northern, early Amtrak and the home of high hood SD units – the Duluth, Missabe and Iron Range. The Northlands call!
Not everything is freight. See business trains, inspection trains, dinner trains, commuter trains, and excursion trains from the Midwest to the Southwest in glorious 1990s action.
Go West young man! (And see First & Second Generation Diesels filmed between 1965 and 1971.)
A first for Herron: An all diesel video. And Chicago is, of course a great place to catch a variety of diesels.
Go back to 1988 and railfan railroads in the Cornhusker State of Nebraska.
Classic late-80’s action at two classic locations.
Two programs in one.
Just before and first years after the creation of BNSF, as the railroad began to find its identity.
Indiana, Michigan, Ohio & Missouri. Mike Bednar narrates.
The Railroads of the Black Hills.
A legendary hot spot in steam and diesel years, Grand Island.
C. Vision Productions returns to the Burlington Northern Santa Fe’s Hinckley Subdivision! We last visited this line in 1998. Several things have changed since our last video and in late 2005, we decided to revisit this fascinating line in all four seasons!
The “Belt” interchanges with every railroad through Chicago, it’s Clearing Yard is one of the largest yards in the country. The “West End” sees all the western roads, and of course the BRC itself. Lots of varied action!
One of the best kept railroad secrets is Crawford Hill. Let’s go back to the days when Burlington Northern used their latest power to get over this obstacle. Spectacular scenery, intense action and sheer locomotive power!
Great railroad action in and around the Twin Cities of Minnesota from 1979 to 1988! You will be amazed at the sights and sounds of classic railroads that no longer exist.
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