Union Pacific over Cima Hill 

Kelso is a great place to get away from I-15 traffic and just watch the trains. Nipton is another great location on the other side of Cima Hill. Just watch out for turtles!

I agree. I am in Western Australia and this is fascinating for me to see the scenery and watch the trains in the US.

We filmed this after spending a week on BNSF's Needles Sub which was around 80 trains per day. Although UP traffic was a small fraction of that (like 12 -15 trains per day) we had pretty good luck. Several meets too!

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Santa Fe's (BNSF) climb over the Arizona Divide is only 1.4% compared to UP's 2.2% here and north of Las Vegas-and much less curvy. That's why UP purchased the SP in 1996 for its faster Golden State Route via El Paso, which sees most of its transcon trains rather than here.

Thank you Steve! You too!

@@7ideaproductions Your welcome and thank you also.

Welcome aboard!

Thank you for your kind words!

Thank you!

Thank you for watching!

Yea this past March, 2 locomotives and 55 cars passed Kelso doing in excess of 140mph. It left the tracks 5 miles west of Kelso at a speed of 157mph

Yes fortunately no fatalities this time.

@@7ideaproductions That’s lucky. Isn’t that lines used by UP’s old City of Los Angeles Streamliner between Chicago and LA to compete with Santa Fe’s Super Chief between the same two cities?

Thank you!

Yes there is a difference between taking pictures or video and taking a paint can and spraying a bunch of crap on things.

Yes indeed!

Yermo, then Las Vegas.

Remember that UP now owns So Pacific-Rock Island's Golden State route via El Paso, which is far superior to UP's mountainous route via Salt Lake. Most intermodals have migrated south.

To the best of my knowledge, UP doesn't run many Dash 9's.

@@7ideaproductions kind of what I thought I figured there all retired and in the process of rebuilding all of them into c44acms I believe hope I’m not wrong

That was shot with a Sony PXW X180.

@@7ideaproductions cool. I'm thinking about getting the Panasonic HC-X2 for my train videography. Do you know about that camera at all?

Yes I owned one for about 30 days and returned it. Good camera for the price. Shoots very nice looking footage in Vlog if you grade in DaVinci Resolve. Stock SDR colors ok too. Good audio if you use a good shotgun mic. Onboard mic is garbage, but that is the case with most camcorders. Other positives are: Long battery life Long recording time even when shooting UHD 60P at 10 bit. (HEVC) Good sturdy build that is well balanced when handheld. The big negative (and why I returned it) is the rolling shutter. If you are trackside, the picture will turn to jello when the train passes. Completely unacceptable in my opinion. The HC-X2 is advertised as having an "electronic global shutter" but I can tell you it is a gimmick. If you are interested in footage I shot with my HC-X2, check out my RU-vid video on the Durango and Silverton here. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K7iOs_7OaMc.html

@7ideaproductions thanks for the heads up. That's a bummer that it does that. Back to square one in the camcorder search lol. Are there any that you recommend?

@@7ideaproductions have you used the cannon C200?