The Trains of Beaumont Hill 1999

Beaumont Hill, with long, nearly 2.0% grades on both sides, is part of the historic Southern Pacific, now Union Pacific Sunset Route.  Today, UP, SP, and CNW power is mixed on The Hill, and the UP uses manned helpers on many of the heavy stack and manifest trains over Beaumont.  Recently several new hot "Z" trains were added to the Sunset Route, and additional trains moved off of the Central Corridor to the Sunset and Golden State Routes over Beaumont Hill.  This video shows all of the trains for a day and a half between Redlands and West Palm Springs in late April of 1999 when Beaumont Hill was seeing the most freight trains in its long and storied history.  Two DVD/one tape set.