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
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!
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!
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.
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
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)🌈🎉😉.
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.
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?)
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. 😁
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!
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.
7idea Productions produces the best rail-fan videos. However, they have allowed RU-vid to run commercial segments of 5 - 6 commercials at a time making for an annoying interruption. Greed is not always a good thing. In the past, RU-vid had a good balance of commercials and video. Nothing annoying about that. Now things have changed, and it looks and feels like the commercial deserts of yesteryear. Sad. Perhaps 7idea has something to do with or say about that...?
Well with ads like this it allows 7idea to actually gain some revenue from everyone's views of videos which will help him to continue to bring you and others great content! It's a positive for him, which in turn is a positive for us fans.
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.
These trains are far superior in power and money making than any other in world. No other nation other than Canada(which uses same engines anyway) can compete in freight operations. Sure a European engine might run cleaner but it’s it’s a small country and will not pull 15,000+ foot 20k ton trains across an entire continent. Stop worrying so much about the environment and trains. These run way cleaner then most trucks and cars that goes for your country as well
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