Southern Pacific freight trains climb the steep grades of Tennessee Pass with Hobos 1995

[@rogergusty1802]

So much scenery to enjoy today.....definitely no time to counts the cars!! BUT first

[@travelingtom923]

Yes late video today. Upgrading the computer.

[@larrycashion752]

I hopped them back in the 70s and really saw the southwest! mostly on the SP. Wouldn't dream of it nowadays

[@kens.3729]

Colorado is the Most Beautiful State for Railfans & Tourist. Estes Park is still the # 1 Destination.👍

[@JustinHTrainvideos]

Fantastic Southern Pacific action, excellent shots

[@martinross5521]

Thank you TT for these great catches, hobos on car 28 of train #2. So pleased there’s a new owner for this route. Looks like a very hard climb, a ride’s better than walking

[@travelingtom923]

Yes some places are 3% grade. Will be good to get video that isn't 25 years old.

[@martinross5521]

@@travelingtom923 are you confined to base? We are due to new variant now in our village and out of control across the UK. Hoping for vaccines by mid Feb

[@martinross5521]

@Foamer Points hi, hope it’s a virus way better than we one we bred in Little England. I enjoyed watching your inauguration event yesterday, you guys do ceremony really well

[@charlesritchey964]

It looks so beautiful, so much open country. I would love to live out there

[@darrellborland119]

Thanks, Tom...you are prolific!

[@silicon212]

Those AC4400s were so filthy, yet when this was recorded they were also so damned new. SP sure knew how to get every inch out of those units.

[@spacecalander]

80 cyls, of EMD 645 music, just awesome!

[@Emdsd45T]

Loved seeing BO’s on that train I Caught that line in 96&97 favorite mountain line

[@Cnw8701]

Everytime I watch these old videos, I can't help but play "Alive" by Pearl Jam. Kind of suits the fallen flag survivors well!

[@kens.3729]

Great News about this Line. Some times Money, Leverage and Arm Twisting gets the Job Done.👍

[@SouthernPacific-bu3kv]

This SD40s and DARSH 9s of Southern Pacific is my colleagues!

[@rangermarsh7510]

Ah ha. There's the Hobos. When you hop a freight I always bring some water and a simple thing to snack on. Blanket ain't a bad idea either. They don't beat you up anymore like they used to. I hope.

[@hamstirrer6882]

6:21 Spotted them, maybe in another life I would have been a freight hopper, but at least there's plenty of videos of people doing it so I don't have to!

[@ethanmorel2746]

That’s what I was going to point out.

[@trevormaxwell3480]

wow awesome power awesome background

[@HachiViper]

I wonder if there's any videos that we're filmed in 1990s and uploaded to KZbin, that would be cool, its like found footage.

[@erikharmon4773]

been ther, rode that!

[@ABALLAM3]

I drove through Tennessee Pass in May 2016. It is pretty beautiful there. The fact that it is reopening to freight traffic is incredible and sounds like deja vu just with Stampede Pass on BNSF in Washington. It was shut down to traffic from 1984 to 1996 and then resurrected and rehabilitated.

[@ethanbowles5773]

This first shot looks like where they shot the opening for the movie Sons of Katie Elder

[@steveib724]

I want one so I could mod it to the max 80.000 hp thanks for video's at this time I like the vid of you doing the loco peace by peace ✌

[@DomAZ]

Hobos at 6:21. The scenery was so nice, I didn't count the cars.

[@ethanmorel2746]

That’s what I was going to point out. I feel like they are enjoying the scenery while the train is climbing up the mountain.

[@camsmith7651]

That 3rd engine has a bit of a smoking problem. Still looks great

[@kens.3729]

I Agree the Units on SP & D&RGW Railways were the Dirtiest. Canadian Pacific now Owns Title.😬

[@Cnw8701]

Man, that poor GP60 on that first train wasn't having any of it!

[@jamesburnside3023]

Awesome job

[@JungleYT]

*Q: Is that whine the sound of Dynamic Braking??? - **8:40*

[@JohnnysTrainVideos]

WOW.... hobos...

[@joankamp2319]

Wow!

[@colinmiller5502]

The old knacker at the back needs a decoke!!

[@georgematthews2877]

Good Morning Tom!🍵When was that video filmed? I remember my first foaming of that pass. I naively ran down to a rock outcrop to tell a guy a train was coming down the pass. His greeting had to be to shush me because he was getting ready to film it!!😀

[@travelingtom923]

This was Fall of 1995.

[@georgematthews2877]

@@travelingtom923 Wow, Tom, you have been at it a long time!! Maybe that disgruntled video taker was you!!😊

[@georgematthews2877]

@@travelingtom923 You may already know that where Highway 24 crosses the pass, there is a narrow gauge roadbed. If you go about a quarter mile west on it, you will find some honeycomb coke ovens, one of which was collapsed when I saw them!😊

[@travelingtom923]

@@georgematthews2877 I was 21 in 1995 but I actually starting photographing and filming trains in 1985. My mother was a huge fan of video recording and had tons of 8mm silent films of us growing up. She gave me a camcorder in 1986 and naturally I started filming trains. I had 8 hours of my early stuff on one VHS tape and I don't know what happened to it. I had a great relationship with the BN and they let me hang out in their Denver shops as much as I wanted to and even let me ride on their trains. I was only 13 back then but was there so much they thought I worked there. I have tons of photographs. Maybe one day I will do a video of what is was like in the BN shops with narration and photos.

[@travelingtom923]

@@georgematthews2877 No I didn't know that. Was mostly just driving though that area and if I was lucky to see a train I would stop and film it.

[@kens.3729]

I Wonder 🙄 how many Gallons of Oil the SP # 2 Unit went through on each Trip it made ? 🧐👎

[@tcp3059]

Well, thanks to a few of the counties involved whining, the expedited application has been denied; the lease will have to undergo full environmental review.

[@thetexasrailfan]

I'm taking a Rail speeder down that line soon

[@travelingtom923]

That is actually important. Showing any type of rail activity on that line keeps it off the abandon list for at least another year. Union Pacific will run Hi rails up and down periodically so people know it is still be used.

[@thetexasrailfan]

@@travelingtom923 yeah

[@thetexasrailfan]

@@travelingtom923 sadly it is officially abandoned now

[@SuperAWaC]

don't really see hobos riding so openly these days, they seem to try and stick to box cars or hopper cars now

[@Jleed989]

Like the no graffiti look

[@trevormaxwell3480]

how many pine trees

[@travelingtom923]

Will be a lot more when I come back to that same location.