BNSF's Stevens Pass

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Жыл бұрын

Travel to scenic Washington State and visit
one of the toughest mountain grade on the
entire BNSF: the former Great Northern
line over Stevens Pass.
Enjoy the scenery
and mainline diesel action as we sample
trains in a variety of scenic locations from
Gold Bar to Wenatchee.
Experience hot stack trains crawling up the
2.2 percent grade between Skykomish and
Scenic.
We've taken our cameras to several
remote locations so you don't have to.
Enjoy the action as the railroad crosses
rushing rivers, travels past lofty peaks and
runs through a variety of tunnels, including
t he eight mile long Cascade Tunnel.
This was shot immediately after the BN merger with the Santa Fe, so the line still had almost a completely Burlington Northern flavor.

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@Bryanja81 7 ай бұрын

The distant sound of that SD40-2 horn almost brought me to tears. When i was a kid, i spent a lot of time at my grandparents house and i remember laying in bed at night and hearing that horn in the distance. It just brought back so many memories and reminded me how much i miss my grandparents. 😢

@RailwayProductions Жыл бұрын

Yes it was one of my favorite programs to shoot

@Railfan-uf9mw Жыл бұрын

Railway productions I wish you guys would do the trains of Galesburg 2 or the trains of Lafayette Indiana 2

@zacharylucisbecker2352 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your generosity

@andrewcrumb8027 Жыл бұрын

3:59 Fun Fact: At Spokane, WA., the westbound Empire Builder splits into two trains, with this half going to Seattle over Stevens Pass, and the other half going to Portland, Oregon along the Columbia River Gorge on the Washington side of the river.

@BradFalck-mn3pc 11 ай бұрын

Nice video, I live up in B.C. so it's nice to see a little bit of the American side of the Cascades

@whitemountainproductions Жыл бұрын

Awesome I own this dvd and it’s amazing

@g-manonthego6678 11 ай бұрын

Burlington Northern must've loved the SD40-2's, because they used to roster a lot of them.

@dknowles60 11 ай бұрын

that is because they are better then Ge and out last Ge

@AbelG8781 11 ай бұрын

@dknowles60 that's no longer the case these days

@NSBlack_Stallion 11 ай бұрын

@@AbelG8781 Yes it is. You’re just new to Railfanning. Hang in there and over time you might figure things out. Good luck!

@haroldbenton979 11 ай бұрын

Why then were the SD70ACEs retired but the oldest C44-9Ws rebuilt into AC4400Ws then. Just look at what the NS is doing rebuilding every dash 9 they can find but selling off the EMD fleet as fast as possible. It comes down to fuel efficiency the EMD burns 10 to 15 percent more than that GE does. With diesel fuel over 3 bucks a gallon without fuel taxes and at full throttle an EMD burns over 200 gallons an hour compared to 175 for the GE engine which one are you keeping around.

@dknowles60 11 ай бұрын

@@haroldbenton979 Ns quit rebuilding ge's because they are junk

@Spek1212 Жыл бұрын

I’m a local in the area. Thank you for coming out to this truly beautiful location. I love seeing those cascade green locos in their final days before the merger.

@RailwayProductions 11 ай бұрын

It was kind of a sweet spot in time. The corporate merger was in effect, all the crews used “BNSF” on the radio, but the two railroads were still being run separately.

@indycar101 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing and doing this important story of our country's most northern rail road, and its progress over the years!

@stuartadamsrailfanningvideos Жыл бұрын

I have this one on DVD! Thanks for streaming it!

@everettrailfan Жыл бұрын

Pretty cool to see my home route in a time years before I was even though of. I wish I had seen more of those SD40s.

@ericurbane99 Жыл бұрын

3:57 above the river for whatever it is crossing. The train is crossing below using the bridge. Above, below.

@hudsontrainguy1217 Жыл бұрын

The only dvd version I have is the one licensed by Topics Entertainment but I’ll get the regular dvd in the future

@garyjackson1218 11 ай бұрын

My grandfather had the telegraph station at Meritt winter 1910, according to my grandmother, with a baby and no running water.

@hideri87 Жыл бұрын

This is one of your DVD’s i’ve never owned, thanks for posting!

@RailwayProductions Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@katierydermaurer3415 Жыл бұрын

I love this movie good job railway production I saw some of these clips on lots and lots of trains

@andrewcrumb8027 Жыл бұрын

I have that route as an add-on to the Train Simulator Classic game on Steam.

@kevinsharp6323 Жыл бұрын

Nice video.

@andydickson5400 6 ай бұрын

Great video, it brought back many fond memories of railfanning this area back in the late '70's.

@keonikaig9247 11 ай бұрын

WELL DONE....THANK YOU glad i found you...

@Brianrockrailfan Жыл бұрын

great video 🚅🚅👍

@RailwayProductions Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@reevefritchman 11 ай бұрын

This video was shot in 1996.

@janeordway4841 11 ай бұрын

Fp45s and those Burlington B units are way cool. To bad the camera technology wasn’t like it is today.

@SuperLanyard 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for all your work!!!!

@trainguy7261 11 ай бұрын

The best days of railroading for sure... go EMD!

@douglasskaalrud6865 11 ай бұрын

Yay! Rah rah!

@Railroadracer49 Жыл бұрын

I hope to go film there some day It’s the most scenic route In Washington state imo 😊

@brucybabyy7355 11 ай бұрын

beautiful country.

@BradFalck-mn3pc 11 ай бұрын

James J. Hill one of Canada's favorite sons 🇨🇦

@jacksalvin364 Жыл бұрын

On the former Great Northern Railway.

@erikmorgenstern8039 3 ай бұрын

thanks for sharing the historical vid - Skykomish is a really neat little community. You can walk much of the older high line through the area used before the opening of the lower tunnel .

@cabincreek1692 11 ай бұрын

Fabulous videography. I very much enjoyed this video.👍

@jacobdolman3831 11 ай бұрын

31:36 here comes the Intermodal

@glennscott9693 10 ай бұрын

Good Video! Train 604 @ 10m to Trail. I suspect that train is carrying lead and zinc concentrates from the Red Dog mine in Alaska. Trail has nothing to do with aluminum; just lead and zinc. Last I heard BNSF has since lost that contract and these days it is done by the CPR through Vancouver.

@harrisonofcolorado8886 Жыл бұрын

3:58 Was the Empire Builder one of the last holdouts for the F40PH until more of the Genesis locomotives arrived on Amtrak?

@Brad-.-.-.-.howitzer 11 ай бұрын

Excellent video!!!!!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😁😁😎

@RailwayProductions 11 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

@hazardousstufftolookat9136 Жыл бұрын

The trees have grown up there so much many of these shots are no longer possible...

@railfanrahn 10 ай бұрын

man look at those lashups!

@RailwayProductions 10 ай бұрын

Things have certainly changed!

@railfanrahn 10 ай бұрын

@@RailwayProductions for sure! I Railfan this line just before it gets to the Twincites and man it’s changed

@MJMYouTuber Жыл бұрын

But in the future just like the BNSF merger it will now merge Canadian pacific and Kansas City southern merger just like BNSF merger in 1995

@arthurschipper8906 10 ай бұрын

Love seeing that EMD power

@RailwayProductions 10 ай бұрын

Yeah, it was really something when I climb the Rock Mountain Trail and could hear all of these SD40-2's roaring beneath me!

@andrewdiesel487 Ай бұрын

Stevens Pass looks nice

@ericurbane99 Жыл бұрын

5:35 1 2 3 4 5 6 7. They're all diesels.

@jacobdolman3831 Жыл бұрын

I Like Burlington northern Railroad

@roejogan292 8 ай бұрын

48:40 Boeing plane parts and fuselage.

@craigcanterbury7233 10 ай бұрын

13 :12 amazing

@Doobie1975 11 ай бұрын

How often do the trains go through Stevens Pass?

@railroad1970 11 ай бұрын

I’ve seen as many five a day… during daylight hours.

@ConrailNKP587Brony Жыл бұрын

Any Conrail Films

@RailwayProductions Жыл бұрын

Sorry, I reallyy don't have much in the way of Conrail

@ConrailNKP587Brony Жыл бұрын

@Andrew Diesel true

@railfandepotproductions 11 ай бұрын

@@ConrailNKP587Brony Andrew diesel?

@hazardousstufftolookat9136 Жыл бұрын

But the airhorn echoes haven't...

@awvr777cpAC44 Жыл бұрын

So you're pulling a CvisionProductions. I like it, though I wonder why this is? Eh who cares let's just enjoy this.

@MJMYouTuber 2 ай бұрын

So, the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy. Northern Pacific. And the Great Northern merged together to become the Burlington Northern

@NSBlack_Stallion 11 ай бұрын

33:16 How in the world can they start pulling that much weight against the 2.2% slope?

@AbelG8781 11 ай бұрын

You must be new to railroading

@NSBlack_Stallion 11 ай бұрын

@@AbelG8781 What does that have to do anything? Jerk. I sincerely hope that real railfans aren’t a Karen like you. If they are then I have no use for them.

@haroldbenton979 11 ай бұрын

@BlueDays_BlackKnights steel on steel has some of the lowest rolling resistance out there. The SD40-2 produces roughly 120k pounds of tractive effort each that is the pulling force. Now on flat terrain that would be around 100 cars on a 2.2 percent grade it drops to around 25 cars or so. AL Krug a retired railroader has a blog if you can find it that explains the math.

@michlo3393 11 ай бұрын

@@haroldbenton979 120K is way too high. An SD40 puts out around 70 - 80K tractive effort from a standstill.

@zachdebuhr6347 9 ай бұрын

@michlo3393 he said sd40-2 not sd40, the -2 has 130k while the 40 has around 90k

@TNRailProductions_01 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful Program! Over how many days was this filmed?

@RailwayProductions Жыл бұрын

Spent about 10 days there.

@TNRailProductions_01 Жыл бұрын

Oh wow, that’s more than I expected. Once again, great program!

@mmandmcb14 Жыл бұрын

An ATSF FP45 is in it.

@andrewcrumb8027 Жыл бұрын

And in the Warbonnet paint scheme, no doubt.

@g-manonthego6678 11 ай бұрын

@@andrewcrumb8027 it is weird though to see a red and silver FP45 with a sunshade over the windows. The F45's had them, but not the passenger variants.

@andrewcrumb8027 11 ай бұрын

@@g-manonthego6678 A little.

@haroldbenton979 11 ай бұрын

@@g-manonthego6678they got them after they had their major overhaul in the late 80s when they became the SDFP45 in nomenclature on the Santa Fe. They definitely had them when Haverty had them repainted from Blue and Yellow warbonnet back into the Super Fleet Red and Sliver. As he said before the merger and before he was forced out by Krebs if possible the only thing I want leading on anything hotter than the local on this railroad from now on better be Red and Sliver.

@charleshaggard4341 11 ай бұрын

I thought Santa Fe had the best paint scheme. Red and silver.

@CoreyLahey-ic9is 11 ай бұрын

BN had the ugliest paint scheme of all time, puke green.

@andrewcrumb8027 10 ай бұрын

@@CoreyLahey-ic9isHow dare you call Burlington Northern Cascade green UGLY!?!

@mabybee 10 ай бұрын

@@CoreyLahey-ic9isyou take that back

@ConrailNKP587Brony Жыл бұрын

BN and ATSF is there to

@LondonTransportL92 11 ай бұрын

What year was this video(s) takin

@RailwayProductions 11 ай бұрын

This was shot in 1996.

@WilliamCreator57 Жыл бұрын

Hey Les how come you didn't narrate this?

@Spacething7474 Жыл бұрын

why the changed thumbnail?

@RailwayProductions Жыл бұрын

I liked this one bettet

@jacobdolman3831 4 ай бұрын

3:56 5:28 The Alphabet train 1998

@ZakScarlato-mg9dj 4 ай бұрын

Durango and silvrton

@ironhorsethrottlemaster5202 11 ай бұрын

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@wesleyhymbaugh1450 4 ай бұрын

This Is BNSF's Stevens Pass With SD 45s Painted In The Cascade Green 🚂🚂🚂 This Is Great Watching This Program 😊😊😊

@colingarner6175 11 ай бұрын

It’s not pronounced “rowt” it’s actually pronounced “root “ spelt “ route”

@Brad-.-.-.-.howitzer 11 ай бұрын

Both pronunciations are correct, the more common oneis actually rowt

@indowneastmaine 11 ай бұрын

It’s regional.

@AbelG8781 11 ай бұрын

In the south, (deep south) we say rowt.

@davids6533 11 ай бұрын

Roots usually grow in the ground.

@douglasskaalrud6865 11 ай бұрын

Look for BNSF to hook up with a Mexican railroad by the end of 2024. You read it here first. CP+KCS will not go unanswered.

@kq2799 10 ай бұрын

But maga won't let them in...

@archimedesxxicentury 11 ай бұрын

😢 The transport infrastructure Disaster. 😢🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🆘🐝. Archimedes XXI century 😇.

@douglasskaalrud6865 11 ай бұрын

Don’t know much, do you?

@joelnordstrom8049 3 ай бұрын

Horrible filming

@raritanbayrailfan2558 Ай бұрын

It was the 1990’s you little-

@Railfan-uf9mw Жыл бұрын

So back in the 90s of Burlington Northern they used to call the trains #s or do they still do them still on today's BNSFs

@RailwayProductions Жыл бұрын

They quit using train numbers not long after this release

@Spek1212 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, the train #3 is now operated as Z-CHCSHE. Also, #3 was the hottest train on the BN system.