The Union Pacific's main line to the Pacific Northwest around Glenns Ferry in southern Idaho is a scenic and tough piece of railroad with 1.45% grades in both directions out of the Snake River valley. Manned pushers are used on westbound grain, soda ash, coal, and beet trains, and on heavy manifest trains on these grades. This video shows a day and a half of awesome action between King Hill and Reverse in October 1999. 128 minutes.
$36.95
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The Union Pacific's main line to the Pacific Northwest around Glenns Ferry in southern Idaho is a scenic and tough piece of railroad with 1.45% grades in both directions out of the Snake River valley. Manned pushers are used on westbound grain, soda ash, coal, and beet trains, and on heavy manifest trains on these grades. This video shows a day and a half of awesome action between King Hill and Reverse in October 1999. 128 minutes.
$36.95
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Thrown adrift after the Rock Island went out of business in March of 1980, the Rock Island’s 429 mile long Twin Cities to Kansas City line known as the Spine Line was first leased and then acquired by the Chicago & North Western in 1983. Today this line is owned and operated by Union Pacific. UP calls the track between Des Moines and Sheffield, just outside of Kansas City where trains get onto the Kansas City Terminal, their Trenton Subdivision. UP uses this line in conjunction with the former Missouri Pacific Falls City Subdivision along the Missouri River between Omaha and Kansas City in a modified directional running operation. Most of the heavier southbounds use the Trenton Sub while most northbounds use the Falls City Sub. This program shows the trains and operations including a couple of DM&E trains on UP’s Spine Line between Allerton, south of Des Moines and the UP – Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern joint track north of Kansas City for three days and one night in June of 2011. “UP Spine Line south of Des Moines” is 59 minutes in length and sells for $30.95 plus $5 for S&H. This DVD can be watched with or without narration.
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Thrown adrift after the Rock Island went out of business in March of 1980, the Rock Island’s 429 mile long Twin Cities to Kansas City line known as the Spine Line was first leased and then acquired by the Chicago & North Western in 1983. Today this line is owned and operated by Union Pacific. UP calls the track between Des Moines and Sheffield, just outside of Kansas City where trains get onto the Kansas City Terminal, their Trenton Subdivision. UP uses this line in conjunction with the former Missouri Pacific Falls City Subdivision along the Missouri River between Omaha and Kansas City in a modified directional running operation. Most of the heavier southbounds use the Trenton Sub while most northbounds use the Falls City Sub. This program shows the trains and operations including a couple of DM&E trains on UP’s Spine Line between Allerton, south of Des Moines and the UP – Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern joint track north of Kansas City for three days and one night in June of 2011. “UP Spine Line south of Des Moines” is 59 minutes in length and sells for $30.95 plus $5 for S&H. This DVD can be watched with or without narration.
$30.95
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This program shows how the storied Sunset Route is faring in the summer of 2006 by showing all the trains around Willcox in the Sonora Desert in southern Arizona. Wilcox is 86 miles east of Tucson. The number of trains and congestion have both increased on this historic line in recent years. This program shows every train for nearly 28 hours on UP's Lordsburg Subdivision between Willcox and the summit of the Dragoon Mountains at Dragoon in late June of 2006, with many trains powered by UP's newest locomotives. 120 minutes. The DVD on this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
$34.95
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This program shows how the storied Sunset Route is faring in the summer of 2006 by showing all the trains around Willcox in the Sonora Desert in southern Arizona. Wilcox is 86 miles east of Tucson. The number of trains and congestion have both increased on this historic line in recent years. This program shows every train for nearly 28 hours on UP's Lordsburg Subdivision between Willcox and the summit of the Dragoon Mountains at Dragoon in late June of 2006, with many trains powered by UP's newest locomotives. 120 minutes. The DVD on this program has the option of being watched with or without narration.
$34.95
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One of the hottest places on Union Pacific’s Sunset Route, both in the pace of the operations and the ambient temperature, is on their Yuma subdivision between Indio and Niland in the Sonoran desert in Southern California. This high speed line traverses the northern end of the verdant Imperial Valley and the southern end of the Coachella Valley with much of it alongside the eastern shore of the Salton Sea. All of the Yuma sub where we videotaped is below sea level and most of it is table flat. This area is also known as the Salton Sink. Traffic from the Midwest and Texas to southern California has been growing and the Sunset Route has fully recovered from the Great Recession. This line is now the third busiest transcontinental in the country and much of it has been double tracked since UP took over operations from the Southern Pacific eighteen years ago. This program shows over 24 hours of fast paced action on UP’s Yuma Subdivision between Indio and Niland in October of 2014. This DVD is 1 hour and 28 minutes in length. It has the option of being watched with or without narration.
$34.95
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One of the hottest places on Union Pacific’s Sunset Route, both in the pace of the operations and the ambient temperature, is on their Yuma subdivision between Indio and Niland in the Sonoran desert in Southern California. This high speed line traverses the northern end of the verdant Imperial Valley and the southern end of the Coachella Valley with much of it alongside the eastern shore of the Salton Sea. All of the Yuma sub where we videotaped is below sea level and most of it is table flat. This area is also known as the Salton Sink. Traffic from the Midwest and Texas to southern California has been growing and the Sunset Route has fully recovered from the Great Recession. This line is now the third busiest transcontinental in the country and much of it has been double tracked since UP took over operations from the Southern Pacific eighteen years ago. This program shows over 24 hours of fast paced action on UP’s Yuma Subdivision between Indio and Niland in October of 2014. This DVD is 1 hour and 28 minutes in length. It has the option of being watched with or without narration.
$34.95
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One of the hottest places on Union Pacific’s Sunset Route, both in the pace of the operations and the ambient temperature, is on their Yuma subdivision between Indio and Niland in the Sonoran desert in Southern California. This high speed line traverses the northern end of the verdant Imperial Valley and the southern end of the Coachella Valley with much of it alongside the eastern shore of the Salton Sea. All of the Yuma sub where we videotaped is below sea level and most of it is table flat. This area is also known as the Salton Sink. Traffic from the Midwest and Texas to southern California has been growing and the Sunset Route has fully recovered from the Great Recession. This line is now the third busiest transcontinental in the country and much of it has been double tracked since UP took over operations from the Southern Pacific eighteen years ago. This program shows over 24 hours of fast paced action on UP’s Yuma Subdivision between Indio and Niland in October of 2014. This DVD is 1 hour and 28 minutes in length. It has the option of being watched with or without narration.
$34.95
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“UP’s Central Corridor in Eastern Iowa” shows over 24 hours of action on UP’s Clinton Subdivision both sides of Belle Plaine, Iowa in April of 2012. Part of UP’s Central Corridor between Chicago and Ogden, this former Chicago and North Western main line hums with activity in spite of the downturn in traffic due to the recent recession, the warm winter, and UP’s penchant for running longer trains. UP recently added centralized traffic control to this line along with double crossovers about every ten miles. Wayside signals were also added, doing away with the North Western’s left hand current of traffic running. Belle Plaine is 111 miles west of Clinton and 86 miles east of Boone. In contrast to most of the former North Western main across Iowa, the line east of Belle Plaine has several restrictive cures and grades as it heads into the Iowa River Valley at Belle Plaine. “UP’s Central Corridor in Eastern Iowa” is a two disk set and is 1 hour and 47 minutes in length. This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
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“UP’s Central Corridor in Eastern Iowa” shows over 24 hours of action on UP’s Clinton Subdivision both sides of Belle Plaine, Iowa in April of 2012. Part of UP’s Central Corridor between Chicago and Ogden, this former Chicago and North Western main line hums with activity in spite of the downturn in traffic due to the recent recession, the warm winter, and UP’s penchant for running longer trains. UP recently added centralized traffic control to this line along with double crossovers about every ten miles. Wayside signals were also added, doing away with the North Western’s left hand current of traffic running. Belle Plaine is 111 miles west of Clinton and 86 miles east of Boone. In contrast to most of the former North Western main across Iowa, the line east of Belle Plaine has several restrictive cures and grades as it heads into the Iowa River Valley at Belle Plaine. “UP’s Central Corridor in Eastern Iowa” is a two disk set and is 1 hour and 47 minutes in length. This DVD has the option of being watched with or without narration.
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This video documents the recent increase in trains on the former Chicago and North Western’s Twin Cities Line, the one-time route of the “400s”. This increase is due to the amazing growth in recent years of hydraulic fracturing or fracking for oil and gas in this country. Nearly seventy percent of the sand used for fracking comes out of Wisconsin and UP handles the largest share of that sand. This historic line is now the property of Union Pacific and until recently was really treated as a secondary line by UP. Today the Adams Line sees more freight trains and much more tonnage than any time since the end of steam in the 1950s. Experts argue that this line has been saved twice in the past decade – first by the addition of a Triple Crown RoadRailer, and then by the frac sand boom. UP has been gradually rebuilding this line and today it hosts a mix of sand and other unit trains, manifest trains, and the Triple Crown train. Although the sand business on this line has receded somewhat from its peak in 2014, UP still puts on quite a show with their long trains and distributed power. This program shows parts of three days and one night of action on UP’s Adams and Wyeville Subdivisions often referred to by railfans as the Adams Line between Wyeville and Ashippun, thirty-eight miles west of Milwaukee in April of 2015. This DVD can be watched with and without narration.
$32.95
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