Thank you for these awesome videos. Born and raised in Eugene and have always wondered what the remote parts of the Cascade line looked like so great to see.
How lucky one must be to get to experience these places in reality, and not just sit here and dream about it. Of course it's better than not at all though. : ) This is surely some of the most beautiful country on the planet. Thank you for posting this for us to see.
Doing a good amount of traveling for work. I had the good fortune to spend time in areas depicted in these different train 🚂 videos. Bringing back pleasantly relaxing memories viewing them😉
Aaron and the crew of 7idea Productions have given me a "Bucket List Bonus" that I didn't know that I needed! This was a Masterpiece of a video! A drone view of the Cascade Summit and O'Dell Lake would be amazing! An audo version of moderate Cascade rain and rail traffic is something that I would buy to lull myself to sleep with.😴 (minus the horns and speaking). The Willamette Forest and watershed are a gem of Oregon. I'm sure proud to be from the PNW!🌲🌧 THANKS, GUYS!😁👍
This video is outstanding! Will be watching this video again! To much enjoyment for one time watch! Thank you for this posting! Like all your videos fantastic!🙂🙂🙂
Quite a fun video. I spent over 20 years of my federal land management career - a while ago - working both sides of Pengra Pass between Oakridge and Chemult and watched freight and Amtrak trains lug up and down these grades (even did a round-trip Amtrak from Chemult to Seattle once, just for the heck of it). Most interestingly, I worked for several years early in my career with a coworker whose father was a railroad employee; they lived for a number of years in his childhood at the Fields siding and he had the most fascinating stories about traveling to school and to town (Oakridge) on the train... ...Tunnel 16 is quite a trippy experience on Amtrak westbound, btw, when you enter darkness looking at a cutbank and emerge from the darkness looking a few thousand feet down into the Salt Creek drainage...quite a dramatic change of views.
Watching yours and others videos, coming up from SAC to EUG on Amtrak 14 When I got to the Tunnels and shelters I was Cool I am in them ! Listening to the Eugene yard now lol
glad to see this a few years ago the Beech Mountain Landslide destroyed the tracks at Wicopee and Frasier. UP had to rebuild everything and replant 10,000 trees that were lost in the slide.
Interesting/ informative/entertaining. Excellent photography job enabling viewers to better understand what the orator is describing. 1st time seeing a water spout & tank. Used to fill water tank cars/for fighting forest fires 🔥🔥😥. Noticed much graffiti on box & tanker cars. Viewing this presentation from the comfort of my computer room. Along the " Space Coast " 🚀 of Florida 🐊🐊. Wishing viewers/R.R. Employees a safe/healthy/prosperous (2024)🌈🎉😉. Jimmy Rogers was a genuine break men. Till he switched to a singing career 🎸🎶🎶 known as the " Singing Break Men " . Till his untimely death from tuberculosis 1933 😇.
This is so awesome. My grandfather's brother was employed by Southern Pacific Railroad he worked the shasta division, and on occasion, the cascade line and those centerbeams and some of the wood chipper cars nowadays are owned by the albany and Eastern railroad coming from sweet home oregon via Portland and western at albany oregon
Magnificent catches of the trains coming by and pass,I like it 5 stars, keep up the great work, my friend, like 360, you earned a new subscriber, Greetings from Portugal to the USA.
Little bit of Tunnel #7 trivia: Back in June of 1969, the SP built and hung a large experimental canvas curtain to cover the opening of the west portal. It remained normally closed, then would open when its motor was triggered by track circuits / relays. The SP carried out this experiment as part of their early efforts at putting a stop to the overheating and de-rating of trailing locomotives in power consists. The experiment work marginally well at the tunnel, but was ultimately scrapped by the railroad, and the problem was solved when the SP finally went to EMD and charged their engineers with finding a solution. A scant couple of years later, that solution came in the form of EMD's "T-2" tunnel motors. Interestingly, today the UP is once again faced with this same de-rating problem on the Cascade Sub.
@@7ideaproductions Yeah, apparently a malfunction resulted in a torn curtain, and the end of the experiment. I learned about it on Joel Ashcroft's SP website. Wealth of great info on there for the SP Cascade and Siskiyou Subs. Thanks for sharing your videos, I've learned a lot about that line from watching them.
@@7ideaproductionswow, just looked it up! That's a serious bit of kit. Must get tricky at times hauling that thru the forest(and worrying with how expensive they are!)
@@7ideaproductionsthose look amazing and my uncle John was I think a porter or a conductor for SP years ago he has since passed away he worked the shasta division but he also was assigned to the siskiyou line when they needed help with man power ❤ best footage of the area
Signal question: at 0:55 and 2:09 the block signals lights are off and then when the train approaches, they light up. It seems that these lights have been on continuously in the past, but more and more they seem to light-up only when a train is near. Am I missing something?
