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Our catalog of international tapes
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Intense, heavy duty coal train action on QR
National's Blackwater System in Queensland,
Australia. Big trains powered by a pair of head
end diesel or electric locomotives, with up to
three mid train helpers. In addition, you'll see
some passenger trains, including Australia's
fastest, the Tilt train and some regular
freights.
Two hours $35.95 FULLSCREEN QLB OR WIDESCREEN QLBW
Join us for a walk around Vienna's inner ring
road, where we'll see lots of tram action.
Conventional trams, new, slinky trams, historic
trams and the interurban-like street railway.
60 mins $24.95 FULLSCREEN DVD VITR OR WIDESCREEN VITRW
The Harz Mountains in Northern Germany, formerly
East Germany, is home to the largest steam
powered meter gauge system in Europe. Chunky
2-10-2 tank engines are the mainstay of the three
line system (Harzquerbahn, Brockenbahn and
Selketalbahn) and power all service trains up the
3% 12 mile climb up to the Brocken. Charming
0-4-4-0 Mallet tanks and an 0-6-0 tank are used
in regular service as well as enthusiasts
specials, and a 2-6-2 tank is also available for
enthusiasts specials. Youíll see double headers,
spectacular side by side departures and a variety
of regualar and secial trains. Some awesome stack
talk!
Narration on/off feature. 2 hours $24.95 FULLSCREEN DVD HARZ OR WIDESCREEN HARZW
The Darjeeling - Himalayan is totally charming, and once out of the frenetic lower portion,
so are the people, especially the children. We start our journey at Siliguri, not quite the
start of the railway, but the site of the engine shed, and an Indian Rail station, so there
are 3 gauges, broad gauge, meter gauge and the two foot Darjeeling. During the journey,
the railway crosses Hill Cart Road 177 times, and rises 6874 feet to the summit at Ghum.
Kanchenjunga, the second or third highest mountain in the world (depends on who's figures you use)
at over 28,000 feet was visible from near Darjeeling, it's mostly not! You'll take a ride on the
train, and see some of the scenery and the people as well as seeing the trains in action. The
D-H is now a UNESCO world heritage site, and a truly outstanding, delightful little railway.
And for a bonus, you'll see the sugar mill at Riga in Bihar province, it's 0-8-0T, an odd
critter, ox carts and kids!
1 hour 40 minutes
$24.95 DHR FULLSCREEN DVD, DHRW WIDESCREEN DVD
WELSH STEAM 1
TWO GREAT STEAM PROGRAMS ON ONE DVD!
BLANCHE AND THE EARL
A steamy story about Wales' Ffestiniog Railway and two of it's locomotives. We take a cab ride on Blanche, and see both Blanche and The Earl out on the line. In addition we'll take a brief tour of the shops at Boston Lodge and a slate mine. Blanche makes a lot of noise for such a little engine, loads of fun! The Earl is a double Fairlie, with a central cab and two boilers!
GARRATTS UNDER SNOWDON
Take a acb ride on an ex South African 2' gauge Beyer-Garratt on the Welsh Highland Railway, and see two Garratts in action from the lineside, plus ride the train and see some scenery. The garratts are enormous machines for 2' gauge, and what a noise they make! Thoroughly enjoyable!
Almost two hours of Welsh steam action on one DVD!
WELSH STEAM 1 only $24.95 FULLSCREEN DVD-R or WIDESCREEN DVD-R
VIENNA'S COLORFUL TRAINS
Austrian, German, Hungarian and Czech power at Vienna's Sudbahnhoff, Westbahnhoff and Meidling, Austria's
busiest railway station. Then it's off to the main line west to Saint Polten, with international and long
distance trains, locals and freights. We spend some time at Saint Polten after seeing trains along the route,
where in addition to the bustle of the main line trains we see the narrow gauge Mariazellerbahn. Finally we
follow the main line south over scenic Semmering Pass. Includes a brief look at the control room at Semmering.
Narration On/Off feature!
2 hours VCT $35.95 FULLSCREEN DVD or WIDESCREEN DVD.
CALCUTTA'S COLORFUL TRAINS
Over 300 trains and 1,000,000 people use Howrah Station, across the Hoogly
River from Calcutta, every day! 5' 6" gauge trains, with people hanging from
the doors, EMU's and both diesel and electric hauled passenger trains, from
locals to Rajdhani Expresses. The trains are colorful and full of character,
the diesel locomotives are Indian built Alco models, delightfully smokey,
in a variety of types and colors. Howrah, with swarms of people everywhere,
is India's largest station. We also visit Kamarkundu Junction and Kolaghat
Junction for more passenger trains and some freight trains.
CCT 2 hours $35.95 FULLSCREEN DVD CCT OR Widescreen DVD CCTW
STEAM TO JANAKPURDHAM
Tipong Coal Mine is located in Northeast India, on the border with Burma,
and for the moment runs the oldest steam locomotive in regular service in
the world, and a Darjeeling B class.Living on borrowed time, this 2 foot
gauge railway takes coal from the mine through the jungle to a truck loading
facility. Far from tourist destinations, this seldom visited little line is
full of charm and character! As soon as they have the money, two bridges
will be rebuilt, the coal will move by truck and this delightful little
railway will die. The Janakpur Railway runs from Jaynagar, India to
Janakpurdham, Nepal. This 2' 6" gauge line has now dieselized, but we
rode and taped a chartered steam train, with an 0-6-2 Hunswell Clarke
side tank, built in 1930. We were only allowed to stay in Nepal for one
night because of terrorists! The festival of Rama Sita was going on in
Janakpurdham during our visit, and there were thousands of people on the
station waiting for the diesel train, many of them rode on the roof and
sides, and on flat cars on our chartered train. Runby's, the ride from
the train (and the roof) and a look at the people. An entertaining look
at a charming little railway!
100 mins $24.95 FULLSCREEN DVD JANA OR Widescreen DVD JANAW
CALCUTTA'S TRAMS
You've never seen anything like it! Ancient trams ply the crowded streets of amazing Calcutta,
India's largest city. Mixed up with street vendors, rickshaws, insane taxis, demented speeding
mini-busses, nerveless pedestrians and the odd sheep and goat, the battered trams continue much
as they have for more than one hundred and twenty five years, clanging and clanking through the
teeming streets of this incredible city. You'll see rainbow colored trams, porters with huge loads
on their heads, street vendors, inquisitive kids and the crowded, bustling streets of old Calcutta.
Experience the culture shock, don't miss Calcutta's incredible trams!
Two hours! $35.95 Full Screen DVD and Widescreen DVD
THE IRON ROAD TO THE ISLES
Join us for a magical journey through the highlands of Scotland aboard the Jacobite steam train, on the famed
West Highland Line from Fort William to Mallaig. You'll see the train in the magnificent highland scenery, the
lochs and the glens and the curved viaduct at Glenfinnan (Harry Potter movie train scenes were filmed on the West
Highland Line, the viaduct appears in the flying car scene.) Full musical score written especially for this program,
and the narration tells of the often bloody history of the region, and about Bonnie Prince Charlies uprising.
Bonus feature - ride the ferry over the sea to Skye, and take a scenic tour of this beautiful island.
70 minutes RA03 $19.95
BEIJING'S COLORFUL TRAINS
Colorful indeed, with a wild variety of colors, including some very strange schemes indeed. We take you to Fengtai,
on the outskirts of the city for diesel freights and passenger trains, and electric hauled passenger and freight trains.
Fengtai station is at the end of a hump yard, so we also see DF7's switching (a Fairbanks-Morse lookalike, sort of).
Next it's off to Dahuichang for diesel hauled freights and a few passenger trains, and the famed limestone railway,
with it's 2' 6" gauge 0-8-0's. We visit an unidentified junction for electric freights, and after being sent away
by the police and China Rail officials we visit a more friendly grade crossing for the double unit 8K electric
locomotives and a variety of industrial type units. Then it's off to the Beijing City Wall for an overlook at
Central Station, and finally we visit a yard, where the staff invited us in and showed us where to set up! Impressive
railroading!
2 hours 20 minutes 2 DVD set $35.95
TOKYO'S COLORFUL TRAINS
Incredible volume of trains, variety and colors. See the trains in Tokyo, Shinagwa, Shinjuku, Yono, Kawasaki and Ueno. See
the Shinkansen, the bullet trains in a variety of futuristic styles and color schemes. A wild variety of emu's and electric
freight locomotives.
105 mins TYCT $35.95
AMSTERDAM'S COLORFUL TRAINS
We start our look at the trains of Amsterdam, in the Netherlands, at the central station, with electric loco hauled
passenger trains, and mu's, and the light rail near the station. Then it's out to a local park to see the trains on
the main line, then we visit the area around Dordrecht and Lage Zwaluwe for electric passenger and freight trains,
deisel freight and Belgian electric loco hauled freights and passenger trains, former East German/Soviet diesels,
private operators and the Thalys high speed train to Brussels and Paris.
105 mins AMCT $35.95
CHINESE STEAM AT WORK
Steam doing what it was designed to do, in regular service. First we visit the Fengshuigue Coal Mine Railway,
with a JS 2-8-2 on a passenger train at a very crisp dawn, then JS's shuffling cars. Next we visit the Benxi
steel mill with SY 2-8-2's shuffling hot metal cars and slag cars, continuous action often with several trains
moving at once. We even got a peek into a section of the mill where they were pouring moulten steel and slag.
Next, it's off to the totally charming Weihe Forestry Railway with it's delightful, tiny 0-8-0's hard at work
hauling logs. We caught a passenger train chartered by a Japanese group, and several trains with helpers, the
workshops, and generally marvelled that something so small, with such tiny drivers could sound so good. Then
we visit the huge Anshan steel mill for more SY's, and lastly the Puhe mine railway with SY's. 2 hours of hard
working steam.
2 Hours CSAW $35.95
COLOGNE'S COLORFUL TRAINS
Visit the main station in Cologne, Germany for intensive passenger train service under the superb arched
glass roof. Lots of ICE trains of both styles, plus electric hauled intercity and local services, both
emu's and dmu's and a diesel hauled passenger train. Then it's off to trackside to see trains at speed,
then we visit busy Cologne West for passenger and freight trains, both electric and diesel, with a variety
of different power and operators.
TWO HOURS COCT $35.95
HONG KONG'S TRAMS
Bright and colorful, Hong Kong's trams are the last fleet of all double deck trams in the world.
Ride the clanking, swaying trams from the Chinese market at North Point through the city to Whitty Street,
stopping off along the way to see the trams in action on the crowded roads and through bustling market places.
Ride a tram at night through Hong Kong's famed neon, and see the trams in the street at night.
95 minutes HKTR1 $29.95
HONG KONG'S TRAINS AND BOATS AND....
Colorful, vibrant, exciting Hong Kong! Busses that run in packs, trains on a 3 minute headway, the
steepest funicular railway (50% grade!!) In the world, the world famous Star Ferries in one of the
busiest and most beautiful harbors in the world, light rail trains running yards behind each other.
It's all here in this exciting program!
95 minutes HKTB2 $29.95
SPECIAL
Take both Hong Kong programs for only $39.95. You save FIFTEEN BUCKS!
HKB 2 tape/disk set $39.95
SYDNEY'S COLORFUL TRAINS
The trains of Sydney, Australia. We first take a look at Enfield Yard and the locomotive facility.
Next is a visit to the Botany Goods Line, followed by an interlude at Sandown, where Freight Australia
units take a tank train out, we get a brief ride on a T class switcher, and a pair of ancient Alco's,
one a PA look alike, start up and drag their intermodal away. Sydney has a high density suburban service,
and we also take a look at the light rail and the monorail. Next it's off to Cowan for a freight and a
work train, and finally we visit the Hunter Valley for high density coal train drags with Class 90's and
elderly dmu's. We also see the Indian Pacific and XPT passenger trains. Lots of action and color.
1 hour 45 minutes SYDC $35.95
BIG STEAM'S LAST STAND
Winter on Jingpeng Pass
China's Jitong Railway is the last big steam hauled main line in the world, with double headed
QJ 2-10-2's taking trains over Jingpeng Pass. We visited Jingpeng Pass in Mongolia in February, 2003 to
take in the sights and sounds of big steam working hard, and what a trip it was. We visted the shops at
Shenyang to see QJ's being overhauled, the sheds and shops at Deban (it's like travelling back in time
50 years) then watched the action over Jingpeng Pass, visited the CTC room at Shangdian, watched servicing
at Jingpeng and had a cab ride over the pass. What an experience being on the second engine working hard
upgrade through a tunnel! Awesome big steam action!
2 hours JING $35.95
ZURICH'S COLORFUL TRAINS
Spend Sunday afternoon on the main station in Zurich, Switzerland, with 64 trains in one hour, including French and Italian.
Then we head down to the Gotthard Line for a look at both passenger and freight trains. Amazing action, and they run to time!
2 hours ZCT $35.95
LONDON’S 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, including a steam excursion. Lots of different
companies, incluing Gatwick Express, First Great Eastern, Connex, First Great Western, Great North Eastern, Midland
Trains, Silverlink, Freightliner, Virgin Trains and lots more.
LOND 2 Hours $35.95
BLACKPOOL'S TRAMS
Blackpool was the first town in Great Britain to have an electric tramway,
opening in 1897. Trams still run in Blackpool today on the same basic route
it all started on, along the coast to Fleetwood. See and ride the trams of
Blackpool, single and double deckers, old and new, colorfull and
traditional. A must for any traction enthusiast.
TWO HOURS TRAM $35.95
Wisconsin Central's ENGLISH, WELSH & SCOTTISH
Wisconsin Central took over most of Britain's freight railroad in 1996, forming the English, Welsh & Scottish Railway. Join us as we visit in October, 1998 for a look at operations. We visited 6 of Britain's hot spots, Milford Junction for coal and EMD class 59s, Warrington on the electrified west Coast main line, Peak Forest for stone, Barnetby with its magnificent arrays of semaphores and one of the busiest spots in the country, Colton Junction, where the Leeds line joins the electrified East Coast main line. and Newport for steel and new EMD class 66s. Exciting high density railroading, with freights mixed up with 125 mph passenger trains.
Two hours EWS $35.95 DVD
RAILWAY PANORAMA #4 ALCO’S AT WORK
Another tape from Rowlingstock productions of Australia, we take a look at Alco (actually MLW) diesels in action in New
South Wales, Australia on both passenger and freight trains. Older segments are from 8mm film, some 16mm film and some
Betacam. Includes the 44 class that look like PA’s, signal box interiors, multiple unit consists and helpers in the Great
Dividing Range and the Blue Mountains
One hour RP4 $29.95
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