UP in Meadow Valley Wash DVD

Meadow Valley Wash, which begins fifty miles north of Las Vegas, is the defining feature of Union Pacific’s historic, 102 year old, Salt Lake Route between Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. This defile, together with adjacent Clover Creek Canyon, was the only reasonable route for a rail line from Salt Lake City to Southern California through the many mountain ranges in southern Nevada. This program shows 28 hours of action in the most rugged part of Meadow Valley Wash, the eastern or geographically northern end of the canyon between Caliente and Lyman Crossing, in June of 2007. Train lengths have increased and UP’s newest high tech diesels get down on their knees on the one and a half per cent grade and eight degree curves in this most picturesque and flood-prone part of Meadow Valley Wash.