All images on these pages are taken directly from Highball's tapes.
Cab rides on Montana Rail Link and the Arizona & California regional railroads. Montana Rail Link carries BNSF trackage rights trains from the midwest to the
Pacific northwest. You'll ride a westbound intermodal train from Helena, Montana to Garrison, then an eastbound manifest back to Helena. You'll then ride an
Arizona & California RR manifest from Parker, Arizona to the BNSF interchange at Cadiz, California, on BNSF's transcontinental main line, and back to Parker.
This is not a straight ahead view, you'll see and hear the crew, and views of the train from various locations on the power.
1 hour 45 minutes RRCR1 $29.95 FULL SCREEN DVD ONLY
A re release of one of our very first programs, unavailable for a number of years. Re edited, with some never before seen footage,
Guilford on the B&M is perhaps a misnomer, as the program includes a chase north of Portland with GP35's. You'll see Bluebird GP9's
and GP40's, shabby ex Santa Fe SD26's in gray and orange, high hood SD45's, MBTA F units and Bud cars, U28B's and U33C's. Lost of
action at Lawrence, MA & East Deerfield. Taped mostly in 1988 and 1989 with very early equipment, the quality is obviously not as
good as from our latest high definition cameras. A blast from the past! Originally sold at $39.95!
1 hour 40 minutes. $29.95 GBAM FULL SCREEN DVD.
OHIO CENTRAL
Where else can you find a GP30/ox-yoke GP10 lashup ambling through bucolic countryside? Or chase top and
tailed coal trains with SD40-2's, squeaky clean in their attractive maroon, gray and yellow paint? Ohio
Central has to be one of the most attractive regionals around, with a wild variety of power. We spent
some time chasing the OC in May, 2005, Zanesville, Columbus, Newark, Coshocton, coal trains and locals
in the Ohio countryside.
90 minutes OHCE $29.95
WINTER ON THE WISCONSIN CENTRAL
Winter action on the Wisconsin Central in January, 1999. We visited a couple of hot-spots, Junction City and Byron Hill for all the action. Lots has changed since our visit in 1996, welded rail is now in place, train speeds are higher and CN has trackage rights. WC, CN, CP, NS, CSX and Conrail in fair weather and foul, everything from bright sunny and frigid days to heavy snow, and raw ugly rain.
60 minutes WWIS $24.95
BUFFALO & PITTSBURGH
The B&P runs between its namesake cities using orange SD45s for power. Hauling coal and manifest traffic through the scenic hills and valleys of Pensylvania and New York, these ex SP monsters put on a great show. Taped in July, 1998, mostly between Salamanca and Punxsutawney, with a side trip to the Allegheny RR between Warren and Erie, with a 3 unit GP38/40 lashup.
75 MINUTES BUFF $29.95
C420-ALCOS ON THE APACHE AND ARKANSAS & MISSOURI
One of our favorite locomotice builders is the American Locomotive Company of Schenectady, New York, and our favorite Alco is the Century 420. Two railroads roster fleets of C420s, Arizona's Apache, and Arkansas' Arkansas & Missouri. We visited both railroads in 1998 for the pure pleasure of it, and this tape is the result of our journeys. See these pretty locomotives doing what they do best, lugging freight. Both roads keep thier locomotives in immaculate condition.
60 minutes C420 $24.95
The MRL SD70ACe show! Taped in late April 2007 between Livingston, MT and Elliston, west of Mullan Pass.
Features MRL's new SD70ACe's in both road and helper service, plus BNSF run through trains. Heavy action
on Bozeman Hill and over Mullan Pass to Blossberg Tunnel. Narration on/off feature.
2 hours $35.95. DVD-R FULLSCREEN OR DVD-R WIDESCREEN
WINTER ON THE MRL
Montana Rail Link in February, 1997. We worked our way from Huntley over Bozeman Hill, Winston Hill and Mullan Pass, along the Clark Fork with its semaphores to the famous causeway near Sand Point. We had lots of snow, blowing around in the sunshine on Bozeman, sunshine and heavy snow on Mullan, and got out to the old Milwaukee Trestle at Lombard (what a drive on snow covered dirt roads that was). We caught just about all the power MRL has to offer including F45's, GP9's and a caboose, BN power including the new C44's in Heritage paint, and even an 11 unit lashup in heavy snow. Awesome railroad with older power in the depths of winter.
TWO HOURS MRLW $35.95
BC RAIL
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 the C40-8CM cowls, which we thought were handsome units. The scenery was just magnificent, especially the Fraser Canyon north of Lillooet, making for some stunning views of the trains clinging to the mountainside. We were thrilled to find a pair of C-420's switching at Prince George, and couldn't resist a quick trip to Tacheeda to catch CN handing a coal train over to the electrics This is a fascinating and unique railroad, you'll Iike it as much as we did.
TWO HOURS BCRL $35.95
SAINT LAWRENCE AND ATLANTIC
One of the bright spots of New EngIand railroading, the St. L & A runs from Danville Junction ME to Island Pond VT. We chased up and down during the winter of 1991-2 braving snow, ice and some bitter cold to bring you some splendid footage. In addition to ex CV GP9's, GATX MP15's and GP4O's we see CN GP4OL's in the splendid winter scenery of Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont.
80 MINUTES STLA $29.95
CENTURIES & SUPER 7'S, THE ROBERVAL SAGUENAY
A little known Canadian shortline 135 miles north of Quebec City, running ex Long Island high hood C420's, GE Super 7's and a pair of unique MLW M42OTR's. The line's primary function is to move aluminum ore between the port of La Baie and the smelter complex at Arvada. These guys run hard and it was tough to keep up, but keep up we did to bring you this entertaining tape.
80 MINUTES CAS7 $24.95
THE GREEN MOUNTAIN
The Green Mountain runs through scenic Vermont farm country on former Rutland tracks, using the last Rutland locomotive, an Alco RS 1 on passenger trains in the summer. We see the passenger trains and freight trains of the GMRR from trackside and in the cab. Green GP9's, a black ex NS GP9 and a red Vermont RR geep in summer, fall and winter.
80 MINUTES GMRR $29.95
SPRINGFIELD TERMINAL
An affectionate look at the ST on the old B&M in 1990/91. We see elderly, grimy, run down second hand power, including high hood SD45's, ex Santa Fe SD26's, SD39's, SD40-2's, GP9's and GP4O's in lots of locations, plus Conrail run through power and CP and GATX on the Bow Coal trains, plus some MBTA.
TWO HOURS HBST $29.95
THE NEW ENGLAND CENTRAL
New England's newest. We chased the southbound job south out of Palmer the weekend after startup, in February 1995, then again a couple of weeks later in some fairly brisk weather. We chased the northbound job out of Brattleboro in December and January, the latter being somewhat frigid at 20 below, but it made for some excellent photographic conditions. NEC's blue and orange units look great in the snow, and there are some earlier scenes of CV to show how it was.
75 MINUTES TNEC $29.95
MULLAN PASS
Montana Rail Link's Mullan Pass is the crossing of the Rocky Mountains in Southern Montana on the old Northern Pacific route. This short section of railroad has two horseshoe curves, two spectacular trestles and Mullan Tunnel. MRL uses older, rebuilt power, SD4O's, SD45's, SD45-2's SD19's, GP9's, some in MRL's dark blue and some still in the original RR's colors, while BNSF uses anything they own. Taped in fall, 1997.
90 MINUTES MULL $29.95 plus $3.00 S&H
IN SEARCH OF THE F'S
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. Long Island has ex F unit "power packs," PATRAIN on the last day of service then as Shore Line in New Haven paint. Both Amtrak and Metro North unique double powered FL9's along the Hudson, GO's control cars, VIA and Montreal commuter F's all make an appearance.
60 MINUTES ISTF $29.95
WISCONSIN CENTRAL
One of our favorite locomotive types is the SD45 and it's variants, so since WC has lots of SD45's and some F45's, it seemed like a natural to shoot. WC was very nice to us, we got tours of the dispatchers office and shops at Stevens Point, and a tour of the shops at Fond du Lac. We caught a GP3O and SDL39 on Byron Hill, a taconite train on the hill with 2 SP AC's and 2 WC units, DM&IR SD9's, UP run through trains, lots of SD45's, some SD24's and an SD35, F45's and boy d0 they look good in WC paint, and a Saturn getting nailed by the local in Black Creek. Our best selling tape ever!
TWO HOURS HBWC $35.95
IN SEARCH OF ALCO'S
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, RS18's, M630's and an RS36 on the D&H (lots of smoke) M630's on the Cartier, an RS3 on the Lamoille Valley, RS1's on the Green Mountain, an ex P&W M420 on the Mass. Central, C424's on ST, C420's and M42OTR's on the Roberval Saguenay, an S1 on the Maine Coast and ex FA "powerpacks" on the Long Island.
TWO HOURS ISOA $29.95
REGIONAL RAILWAYS CAB RIDES-MRL & ACR
GUILFORD ON THE B&M
MRL 2007
