The Long Grade | Union Pacific's Cascade Line

The Long Grade | Union Pacific's Cascade Line | Part 2

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Taken from our 2015 release "Through the Oregon Cascades Part 1," follow UP trains as they climb through remote tunnels and snow sheds to the summit of the Cascade Range.
The Cascade Mountains of western Oregon are thick with tall timber growing along steep slopes broken by waterfalls and streams. This is the setting for a mountain railroad that climbs from deep within the Willamette Valley to nearly 5,000 feet above sea level at Cascade Summit.
Part 2: The Long Grade, continues into the rugged remote back country between Wicopee and Cascade Summit. A forty mile 1.8% grade between Oakridge and Cascade Summit puts UP’s newest locomotives to the test and keeps train crews on their toes. The line wraps around horse shoe curves, crosses trestles, and disappears through numerous rock sheds and tunnels before reaching the top of the pass.
This program is available in its entirety (2 hours, 34 minutes) on DVD, HD Blu-ray and Digital Download with Vimeo on Demand. Visit 7ideaproductions.com to order!
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0:00 Intro
0:30 Wicopee
12:22 The Slide
16:11 Fields
18:53 2008 Frazier Slide
26:36 Tunnel 13
29:23 Rock Shed 12
33:56 Tunnel 11
38:11 Tunnel 7
43:56 Tunnel 6
46:21 Cruzatte
54:02 Tunnel 5
58:24 Diamond Creek Fill
1:03:06 Abernethy
1:05:38 Tunnel 3
1:14:16 Cascade Summit

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@upchessbyabzolute 10 ай бұрын

Only 2 minutes deep max but this video is already amazing.

@davids6533 9 ай бұрын

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.

@7ideaproductions 9 ай бұрын

You are welcome! Truthfully, these videos do not do the Cascades justice. Thank you for watching and leaving a comment!

@asullivan4047 5 ай бұрын

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😉

@steverudder3321 8 ай бұрын

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!😁👍

@johnrockstone 10 ай бұрын

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!🙂🙂🙂

@7ideaproductions 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it.

@GrumpyForester 9 ай бұрын

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.

@BrianHanscom0790 10 ай бұрын

Another amazing upload to watch on the big screen 📺 b4 bed. Thank you, watching from Pahrump Nevada 🇺🇲

@neilpearson157 7 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more. The grandeur of the scenery far beyond anything we can experience in the UK. The silence between trains is equally magnificent.

@aramcartozian6084 10 ай бұрын

Great video. Back when SP was running the line my kids and I would camp up by the tracks at Odell Lake.

@7ideaproductions 10 ай бұрын

Great times back then!!!

@bibledefinedbymartycozad 10 ай бұрын

Loved the mud slide story and info. We would never had seen it.

@richardreid6377 10 ай бұрын

I would have thought the 1987 flood washouts in Feather River Canyon were worse than the slide.

@bibledefinedbymartycozad 10 ай бұрын

good point. but I was NOT on computer at that time. LOL do you have any videos of that ? thanks again for a great video. @@richardreid6377

@Oregontrailblazin 10 ай бұрын

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

@johnnyjones2255 10 ай бұрын

Good work! I have been to most of those places, but this is the way to see and hear the trains, in my older years! Thank you!

@CharlesHarpolek4vud 8 ай бұрын

You said it brother seeing amtrak! Amtrak anywhere is unusual!

@LukeRobinson 10 ай бұрын

Your videos are amazing. Thanks!

@geomodelrailroader 10 ай бұрын

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.

@NormanSilv 7 ай бұрын

A day at Oak Ridge is a real adventure

@eugeniustheodidactus8890 10 ай бұрын

*Visually stunning !*

@gangstasl0 6 ай бұрын

What an amazing movie…I Love the awesome shots all over and in different places and different trains…great job filming

@royzug2847 9 ай бұрын

The scenery in this video is spectacular. A great job in capturing it for us to enjoy.

@asullivan4047 5 ай бұрын

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 😇.

@dutchman2414 10 ай бұрын

Amazing video and narration what natural beauty

@Dannyedelman4231 10 ай бұрын

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

@jeffreyhunt1727 10 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting these!!!

@LisbonRailProductionsandF1 10 ай бұрын

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.

@7ideaproductions 10 ай бұрын

Thank you and it is good to hear from Portugal!

@LisbonRailProductionsandF1 10 ай бұрын

@@7ideaproductions oh yeah, mate

@LisbonRailProductionsandF1 10 ай бұрын

@@7ideaproductionsit would be nice to have you as my new subscriber, what do you think.

@Brad-.-.-.-.howitzer 10 ай бұрын

Awesome video!!¡Thank you

@Nicola636128 9 ай бұрын

Fantastic, outstanding program in two parts!!

@motionsick 6 ай бұрын

These videos are so fun.

@whiskeymike5154 10 ай бұрын

Beautiful!

@bobtrevorah2305 10 ай бұрын

Another outstanding video! Thanx for all your time and effort!

@denisetindall1487 3 ай бұрын

I like train videos on KZfaq 👍

@robinmathews2446 10 ай бұрын

Man, Those containers only just fit in tunnel 2 at Wicopee? (about 3:10) .

@natejackson8213 10 ай бұрын

Great video!!

@pflqr 10 ай бұрын

The best! Thank yo

@memberofamreg676 10 ай бұрын

Thanks, great Pics👍

@andrewcrumb8027 10 ай бұрын

The parlor cars on Amtrak's Coast Starlight were retired a long time ago.

@EntertainmentWorldz 10 ай бұрын

Fantaliscious Vlog...💖💖💖💖💖💖

@drewdoneit5578 5 ай бұрын

Sweet !!❤

@dannywilliamson3340 10 ай бұрын

Wow....excellent work!! You guys really work your butts off to get the shot. How do you get permission to use UPs service roads?

@BobSmith-mj7ik 10 ай бұрын

Awesome

@WMRRFIREBALL 10 ай бұрын

Wow the smoke coming out of the tunnel at ~1:00 is massive. For sure the steamers needed to be cab forward.

@blairterry9435 9 ай бұрын

That’s for sure like 4294.

@NGH99999 10 ай бұрын

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 10 ай бұрын

I've seen pictures of that curtain. Seems to me there was at least one time where it didn't open and the train went through it.

@NGH99999 10 ай бұрын

@@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.

@7ideaproductions 10 ай бұрын

@@NGH99999 Yes Joel's site is a fantastic source. He put a lot of work into it.

@user-gl9qb6hs2l 10 ай бұрын

I just got 2 disks about the mrl today

@brentbrown51 2 ай бұрын

Is this the route that was taken by SP’s Shasta Daylight (numbers 9 & 10, I think)?

@aquaspire7671 10 ай бұрын

What cameras do you guys use? They shots are really crisp, especially in the rain!

@7ideaproductions 10 ай бұрын

That program was shot mostly with Sony camcorders. Most of the footage was shot with A PXW X180. Thanks for asking!

@aquaspire7671 10 ай бұрын

@@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!)

@7ideaproductions 10 ай бұрын

I get a good workout. Nowadays my preferred kit is the Sony Z280 and a drone.

@Dannyedelman4231 10 ай бұрын

@@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

@brettany_renee_blatchley 6 ай бұрын

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?