Producer: Highball
Location: Gary, IN.
Length: 90 minutes
Source: Crook
The featured hotspot is Pine Jct. at Gary, Indiana. Three lines converge here. CSX, Norfolk Southern, plus EJ&E. This is the third of the Highball Hot Spots being reviewed. The previous two shows reviewed were disappointments.
A single DVD-R. No Chapter Menu. Hidden chapter advance. An area map/ diagram. Timestamps are displayed on-screen for trains.
75 trains in about 12 hours were seen when they were filming. Too bad that the results are mindless runbys. Unidentified Amtrak trains, as well. No Amtrak trains are identified.
This is well filmed. Live environmental audio. Again, advertised as a narrated show. Barely, any narrative is present. I mean, one can find this style on YouTube all day long, for free!
Another Hot Spots which lacks a standard Narrative.
Norfolk Southern GP50 7043 leads Union Pacific engines with steel coil cars.
A DM&IR is an unexpected surprise on an overpass. Yes, we see 7:05. Some narration would have been helpful…
That’s enough.
Hot Spots 6 Gary
Another loser Hot Spots from Highball. Surely would NOT have bothered with yet another non-narrated show! Extremely dissatisfied…again.
Consider, there are plenty of Chicago area shows with complete narratives. Similar rail traffic.
A few blurbs as an introductory segment does not make for a fully narrated program. Straight to the junk heap.
Rating: Not Recommended
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