Over Sherman Hill [Union Pacific's Laramie Sub]

Originally released on DVD in 2013, This program takes a look at Union Pacific's legendary main line between Cheyenne and Laramie, Wyoming.
In Southeast Wyoming, the Laramie Mountains mark the division between the Great Plains and the Rockies. Rising to over 9,500 feet above sea-level, the transition from prairie to mountains is subtle, except for the Sherman Granite rock outcroppings which dominate the landscape. Three sets of steel rails twist and wind through this remarkable setting with a history dating back to the First Transcontinental Railroad.
0:00 Intro
2:12 Map
3:38 Cheyenne
9:23 Wycon
11:54 Borie
17:17 Otto and Emkay
20:00 Granite
27:16 Buford
31:17 Sherman
34:11 Ames Monument
34:59 Dale
37:37 Dale Junction
53:40 Hermosa Tunnel
1:02:00 Hermosa
1:05:43 Tye Siding
1:11:36 Colores
1:14:45 Forelle
1:17:03 East Speer
1:18:08 Speer
1:21:07 Harriman
1:24:10 Perkins
1:29:27 Dale Cut
1:35:34 Hermosa Junction
1:38:24 Red Buttes
1:39:26 Laramie

[@ourlifeinwyoming4654]

This is incredible. I've combed much land around Harriman and Buford. It's always nice when a train rolls thru.

[@hartmutlorentzen9659]

Your videos are the best I have ever seen, and I have seen many: history , quality of pictures and narration, sound and no music etc. Thanks from Germany

[@randypeddle9699]

Thanks from Newfoundland Canada 🇨🇦

[@mattanderson6336]

Always love to hear to roar of those locomotives even after working 40 years in the roundhouse for BNSF. Blessings from Wisconsin USA. 🇺🇸

[@zulfione]

Watching it, is Hypnotising. My Word!

[@davidstrawn9272]

Merry Christmas, 7idea Productions Aaron Benston! Thanks for sharing!

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Tyler Mac happy holidays

[@switchitarailroad]

Quality at its finest.

[@charliebrooks2570]

Great video! I love the UP trains!

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Expertly done, says it all. I enjoyed this immensely! Great work!!

[@davidstrawn9272]

1:09:30 Great catch of the unpatched Southern Pacific AC4400CW 309, Aaron Benston! my favorite diesel of the Espee while Daylight 4449 is my favorite steam of the Espee!

[@oblio10]

These are such great videos with great explanations! I can't believe this video only has one thousand likes. THESE VIDEOS ARE SO GOOD!

[@johnrockstone]

Wonderful video!🙂🎅🎅🎅

[@TheRailfanDan]

So I enjoy spending a lot of time on maps checking different sections of rail lines in detail. Sherman Hill is one I've never really done that with but this evening I sat back and enjoyed this while also checking out many of the locations on the map as I watched. Now I can picture it in my minds eye pretty well. Always great Aaron!

[@matthewsturm9170]

What an incredibly great Christmas Present. Thank you!

[@geomodelrailroader]

Sherman Hill today. This is the eastern reaches of Big Boy's domain. From Steam Shop to Laramie these rails defined Big Boy. Every story of Sherman Hill has to begin somewhere and that place is Steam Shop Yard in Cheyenne where Big Boy and #844 are maintained before they head to the mountain.

[@asullivan4047]

Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job/detailed maps. enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. Has always been a soothing sensation hearing a distant train 🚂 whistle late at night 🌙. At times late night 🌙 I vaguely hear the t🚂 whistle along the Banana 🍌river in Melbourne Florida.🐊🐊. Wishing viewers and R.R. Employees a safe/healthy/prosperous ( 2024)🌈🎉😉.

[@FEROMODELISTAS]

Excelent video from Argentina

[@scooty54221]

Happy New Year and much love greetings for You. Thank you for this interest Video.

[@EntertainmentWorldz]

Another great video. Happy New Year❤❤

[@user-kj4wq5ok9c]

No way dude you're Aaron betson narrating these videos on KZbin you are a living legend man sweet and wicked cool bruh

[@dalelaurent9883]

Your productions are fantastic

[@RailFanRob]

Amazing footage!! I may never get there but thanks for taking us there in this video!!

[@user-po8bl7kx9g]

I am a big fan of union pacific and I love those union pacific EMD SD9043macs and tier 4s with ace's and sd70ms

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[@user-po8bl7kx9g]

You know what if the union pacific big boy 4004 is back to life in operation and be in front of the union pacific big boy 4014 to have enough horsepower for pulling passenger cars that would be so awesome man sweet

[@HutchinsonKansasFirefighter179]

Merry Christmas 7idea productions 😊

[@geomodelrailroader]

6:05 Steam Shop Yard itself Home of #844 and Big Boy. It is here where Ed and the boys get the steamers ready before they make their trips.

[@amtrakfan619]

Very interesting. I always wanted to go there.

[@taylorbaggarleyunionpacifi3409]

Marry Christmas 7idea productions Aaron Beeston enjoy your new year I hope see u soon on the rails

[@7ideaproductions]

Thank you Merry Christmas to you too!

[@taylorbaggarleyunionpacifi3409]

@@7ideaproductions thank you

[@sojourning7]

So appreciated, thank you!

[@Frank.Germany]

Excellent video Aaron. Great trains and landscapes. I always enjoy very much the videos you upload on KZbin. Happy New Year.

[@user-po8bl7kx9g]

Thank you

[@swagzoneus]

Great Video!!

[@Nicola636128]

Outstanding video, awesome scenery!

[@user-po8bl7kx9g]

You're the best

[@blairterry9435]

Funny thing. I toured the Laramie Subdivision with my grandparents when we went to see 4014 on its return run to Cheyenne from Laramie to Cheyenne.

[@OutdoorsSC]

We love our trains in Clemson SC, Go Tigers!

[@GEVOlutionCPKC]

Amazing hunting 🔥

[@geomodelrailroader]

6:22 at the time of this production UP owned several pieces of equipment in storage or owned by Wasatch Contractors who use to operate the shop west of the turntable until UP evicted them in 2019 and retook the property. Caboose 25740 given to RRHMA in 2022 as part of a trade currently being restored. UPY 1996 traded to Doyle McCormick at Oregon Steam for parts for #844 their previous locomotives donated to the Utah Railroad Museum and to the Nevada Southern Railroad Museum and to Steam Town. E9 401 donated to the Kate Shelly Railroad Museum in Boone Iowa who intends to restore it. B Unit 966B donated to RRHMA who plans to restore it as a generator car. Rio Grande Generator Car 9047 Returned to the Roseville Service Unit and used as a slug on their snowplows. Coach Selma sold to RRHMA to be renumbered to it former name Feather River. Baggage Car 5746 to be renumbered to Baggage Car Bob Kruger. And Dining Car 5016 to be renumbered to Dining Car St. Paul. When this video was made all of it was sitting on the turntable. When Wasatch got sued Ed sold the equipment with the last moved in 2022 to Silvis where it is being restored. Also included was DD40X 6936, #3985, #5511, and UP's support cars which were dropped off in Omaha for repairs before being returned to Cheyenne which is their home.

[@CoenOinkeyTrains]

How do you even get to these places?? This is all private property now, guess it wasn't back then? Great video as always!

[@BobSmith-mj7ik]

Merry Christmas aaron

[@PCBill0622]

Great stuff-I visited Sherman Hill many times during my years residing in Colorado. In the small world category I met a pastor in Minot, ND that was raised on a ranch on Sherman Hill. He and his brother climbed the Ames Monument on several occasions lol. (What else was there to do after school?)

[@mikehudsonrocks9585]

Thanks

[@Wolfgodmak]

Doing this route in Train Sim is no joke, you gotta add weight, grade and gravity while driving up and down the hill.

[@jonathonmp1]

In the beginning the narrator said June 24th 2013. Did he mean to say June 24th 2023 or was that footage really over 10 years old?

[@austinmorrow2714]

The description says that this was originally a movie released in 2013. Not sure on when it was filmed.

[@mountainmanwannabe9495]

This is from 2013.

[@arthurschipper8906]

You can definitely tell it's 2013 by all the EMD's still at work.

[@Kente9011]

can you pls post "snow" train videos because its therapeutic" for insomnia and more spectacular""

[@formerfarmer1718]

Any significance to the trains blowing two longs a short and another long with the Morse Code letter “Q”? Or just coincidence?

[@7ideaproductions]

Good question! Q = Queen. As I understand (at least from what I read online), it goes back to when the Queen of England would travel by ship. The whistle pattern LLSL would warn other ships the Queen was approaching. So all these years later (at least in North America) when you hear the LLSL whistle pattern it means one of two things: Either the Queen of England is approaching, or a train. It is safe to assume the latter. 😁

[@HarryKang-tg2ti]

I'm a Korean interested in your video and I have one quick question abot MP. Why don't you explain the meaning and role on the railroad?

[@trainman1ish]

what kind of locomotive was the red one - No. 1030 - at the head of the eastbound manifest entering Hermosa tunnel (58:03)? Interesting film in a great landscape!

[@CoenOinkeyTrains]

It's an HLCX GP38-2, a leaser unit.

[@oubrioko]

1:40:44 Anyone know the purpose of the blue-greenish extensive gantry system seen on the right in Laramie yard?

[@aquaspire7671]

It's the rail welding facility

[@oubrioko]

Oh, got it. Thanks, @@aquaspire7671 👍🏿

[@user-kj4wq5ok9c]

Aaron benston my bad

[@truckinpoppop6777]

Why is an intermodal called a Z train?

[@philbob99]

These are generalities: Z indicates the highest priority trains. The UP charges higher prices for faster service. Not all intermodals are Z. Dispatchers have to give a Z train preference over lower priority trains to meet faster schedule that the customer pays for.

[@johannessilver8653]

Why these trains have to toot so plenty in every place where, however, are fixed warning signals and turning bars? That is not so international habbit. Noise is emission as well as is the black exhaust of fossil fuel powered diesels. In more civilized railroad countries silent el locos go smoothly and without constant noise plus black cancer causing smoke. They have much better energy efficiency as well. I understand that some people like the sound of HD bikes (awful noise to some other and for all hearing animals) and these locos too...but still... Nice scenery anyway if not smoked by locos into blue/gray clouds 50:00.

[@ToiletsofArizona]

I have autism. I like trains

[@jesstill7833]

👍👍👍👍❤️🦘🇦🇺

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[@aquaspire7671]

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[@SuperTech199]

Watching it, is Hypnotising. My Word!