The Long Grade | Union Pacific's Cascade Line | Part 2

[@upchessbyabzolute]

Only 2 minutes deep max but this video is already amazing.

[@davids6533]

How lucky one must be to get to experience these places in reality, and not just sit here and dream about it. Of course it's better than not at all though. : ) This is surely some of the most beautiful country on the planet. Thank you for posting this for us to see.

[@7ideaproductions]

You are welcome! Truthfully, these videos do not do the Cascades justice. Thank you for watching and leaving a comment!

[@asullivan4047]

Doing a good amount of traveling for work. I had the good fortune to spend time in areas depicted in these different train 🚂 videos. Bringing back pleasantly relaxing memories viewing them😉

[@steverudder3321]

Aaron and the crew of 7idea Productions have given me a "Bucket List Bonus" that I didn't know that I needed! This was a Masterpiece of a video! A drone view of the Cascade Summit and O'Dell Lake would be amazing! An audo version of moderate Cascade rain and rail traffic is something that I would buy to lull myself to sleep with.😴 (minus the horns and speaking). The Willamette Forest and watershed are a gem of Oregon. I'm sure proud to be from the PNW!🌲🌧 THANKS, GUYS!😁👍

[@drewdoneit5578]

Sweet !!❤

[@johnrockstone]

This video is outstanding! Will be watching this video again! To much enjoyment for one time watch! Thank you for this posting! Like all your videos fantastic!🙂🙂🙂

[@7ideaproductions]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.

[@GrumpyForester]

Quite a fun video. I spent over 20 years of my federal land management career - a while ago - working both sides of Pengra Pass between Oakridge and Chemult and watched freight and Amtrak trains lug up and down these grades (even did a round-trip Amtrak from Chemult to Seattle once, just for the heck of it). Most interestingly, I worked for several years early in my career with a coworker whose father was a railroad employee; they lived for a number of years in his childhood at the Fields siding and he had the most fascinating stories about traveling to school and to town (Oakridge) on the train... ...Tunnel 16 is quite a trippy experience on Amtrak westbound, btw, when you enter darkness looking at a cutbank and emerge from the darkness looking a few thousand feet down into the Salt Creek drainage...quite a dramatic change of views.

[@neilpearson157]

I couldn't agree more. The grandeur of the scenery far beyond anything we can experience in the UK. The silence between trains is equally magnificent.

[@bibledefinedbymartycozad]

Loved the mud slide story and info. We would never had seen it.

[@richardreid6377]

I would have thought the 1987 flood washouts in Feather River Canyon were worse than the slide.

[@bibledefinedbymartycozad]

good point. but I was NOT on computer at that time. LOL do you have any videos of that ? thanks again for a great video. @@richardreid6377

[@aramcartozian6084]

Great video. Back when SP was running the line my kids and I would camp up by the tracks at Odell Lake.

[@7ideaproductions]

Great times back then!!!

[@BrianHanscom0790]

Another amazing upload to watch on the big screen 📺 b4 bed. Thank you, watching from Pahrump Nevada 🇺🇲

[@LukeRobinson]

Your videos are amazing. Thanks!

[@johnnyjones2255]

Good work! I have been to most of those places, but this is the way to see and hear the trains, in my older years! Thank you!

[@CharlesHarpolek4vud]

You said it brother seeing amtrak! Amtrak anywhere is unusual!

[@Oregontrailblazin]

Watching yours and others videos, coming up from SAC to EUG on Amtrak 14 When I got to the Tunnels and shelters I was Cool I am in them ! Listening to the Eugene yard now lol

[@robinmathews2446]

Man, Those containers only just fit in tunnel 2 at Wicopee? (about 3:10) .

[@eugeniustheodidactus8890]

*Visually stunning !*

[@royzug2847]

The scenery in this video is spectacular. A great job in capturing it for us to enjoy.

[@jeffreyhunt1727]

Thanks for posting these!!!

[@dutchman2414]

Amazing video and narration what natural beauty

[@Dannyedelman4231]

This is so awesome. My grandfather's brother was employed by Southern Pacific Railroad he worked the shasta division, and on occasion, the cascade line and those centerbeams and some of the wood chipper cars nowadays are owned by the albany and Eastern railroad coming from sweet home oregon via Portland and western at albany oregon

[@NormanSilv]

A day at Oak Ridge is a real adventure

[@mychalkeeney260]

Thank you for these awesome videos. Born and raised in Eugene and have always wondered what the remote parts of the Cascade line looked like so great to see.

[@Nicola636128]

Fantastic, outstanding program in two parts!!

[@whiskeymike5154]

Beautiful!

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/ informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. 1st time seeing a water spout & tank. Used to fill water tank cars/for fighting forest fires 🔥🔥😥. Noticed much graffiti on box & tanker cars. Viewing this presentation from the comfort of my computer room. Along the " Space Coast " 🚀 of Florida 🐊🐊. Wishing viewers/R.R. Employees a safe/healthy/prosperous (2024)🌈🎉😉. Jimmy Rogers was a genuine break men. Till he switched to a singing career 🎸🎶🎶 known as the " Singing Break Men " . Till his untimely death from tuberculosis 1933 😇.

[@boerje8154]

Appreciated part 1 and was waiting for part 2, and here it is! The long winding track. Thank you very much. 😀

[@LisbonRailProductionsandF1]

Magnificent catches of the trains coming by and pass,I like it 5 stars, keep up the great work, my friend, like 360, you earned a new subscriber, Greetings from Portugal to the USA.

[@7ideaproductions]

Thank you and it is good to hear from Portugal!

[@LisbonRailProductionsandF1]

@@7ideaproductions oh yeah, mate

[@LisbonRailProductionsandF1]

​@@7ideaproductionsit would be nice to have you as my new subscriber, what do you think.

[@geomodelrailroader]

glad to see this a few years ago the Beech Mountain Landslide destroyed the tracks at Wicopee and Frasier. UP had to rebuild everything and replant 10,000 trees that were lost in the slide.

[@Brad-.-.-.-.howitzer]

Awesome video!!¡Thank you

[@bobtrevorah2305]

Another outstanding video! Thanx for all your time and effort!

[@memberofamreg676]

Thanks, great Pics👍

[@gangstasl0]

What an amazing movie…I Love the awesome shots all over and in different places and different trains…great job filming

[@andrewcrumb8027]

The parlor cars on Amtrak's Coast Starlight were retired a long time ago.

[@motionsick]

These videos are so fun.

[@WMRRFIREBALL]

Wow the smoke coming out of the tunnel at ~1:00 is massive. For sure the steamers needed to be cab forward.

[@blairterry9435]

That’s for sure like 4294.

[@EntertainmentWorldz]

Fantaliscious Vlog...💖💖💖💖💖💖

[@natejackson8213]

Great video!!

[@pflqr]

The best! Thank yo

[@dannywilliamson3340]

Wow....excellent work!! You guys really work your butts off to get the shot. How do you get permission to use UPs service roads?

[@brettany_renee_blatchley]

Signal question: at 0:55 and 2:09 the block signals lights are off and then when the train approaches, they light up. It seems that these lights have been on continuously in the past, but more and more they seem to light-up only when a train is near. Am I missing something?

[@NGH99999]

Little bit of Tunnel #7 trivia: Back in June of 1969, the SP built and hung a large experimental canvas curtain to cover the opening of the west portal. It remained normally closed, then would open when its motor was triggered by track circuits / relays. The SP carried out this experiment as part of their early efforts at putting a stop to the overheating and de-rating of trailing locomotives in power consists. The experiment work marginally well at the tunnel, but was ultimately scrapped by the railroad, and the problem was solved when the SP finally went to EMD and charged their engineers with finding a solution. A scant couple of years later, that solution came in the form of EMD's "T-2" tunnel motors. Interestingly, today the UP is once again faced with this same de-rating problem on the Cascade Sub.

[@7ideaproductions]

I've seen pictures of that curtain. Seems to me there was at least one time where it didn't open and the train went through it.

[@NGH99999]

@@7ideaproductions Yeah, apparently a malfunction resulted in a torn curtain, and the end of the experiment. I learned about it on Joel Ashcroft's SP website. Wealth of great info on there for the SP Cascade and Siskiyou Subs. Thanks for sharing your videos, I've learned a lot about that line from watching them.

[@7ideaproductions]

@@NGH99999 Yes Joel's site is a fantastic source. He put a lot of work into it.

[@denisetindall1487]

I like train videos on KZbin 👍

[@aquaspire7671]

What cameras do you guys use? They shots are really crisp, especially in the rain!

[@7ideaproductions]

That program was shot mostly with Sony camcorders. Most of the footage was shot with A PXW X180. Thanks for asking!

[@aquaspire7671]

​@@7ideaproductionswow, just looked it up! That's a serious bit of kit. Must get tricky at times hauling that thru the forest(and worrying with how expensive they are!)

[@7ideaproductions]

I get a good workout. Nowadays my preferred kit is the Sony Z280 and a drone.

[@Dannyedelman4231]

​@@7ideaproductionsthose look amazing and my uncle John was I think a porter or a conductor for SP years ago he has since passed away he worked the shasta division but he also was assigned to the siskiyou line when they needed help with man power ❤ best footage of the area

[@brentbrown51]

Is this the route that was taken by SP’s Shasta Daylight (numbers 9 & 10, I think)?

[@TedFerguson-k4h]

I just got 2 disks about the mrl today

[@zacmoore6209]

Can u do a CPKC Kamloops to Field BC in the snow?

[@7ideaproductions]

That would be a fun project!

[@BobSmith-mj7ik]

Awesome

[@megansland8920]

does Amtrak go through all of this?

[@7ideaproductions]

Yes the Coast Starlight.

[@rafterman3712]

short duration signals ? not much of a warning