Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
See Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 heading east through Utah, Idaho and western Wyoming on its return trip to Cheyenne in July 2024.
We will pick up the action in the Bear River Canyon north of Ogden, Utah and head north for McCammon, Idaho where the steam special enters the Pocatello Subdivision. We will follow the 4014 through Montpelier and into the state of Wyoming.
Most of these scenes were taken from our program "Union Pacific's Pocatello Subdivsion" available on DVD and Blu-ray. 7ideaproductions.com/collections/frontpage/products/union-pacifics-lynndyl-subdivision
0:00 Intro
0:35 Bear River Canyon - Utah
4:27 Weston - Idaho
6:4 McCammon
9:05 Georgetown
11:11 Montpelier
18:39 Cokeville - Wyoming
20:23 Summit Cut (near Kemmerer)
21:40 West of Opal
See Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 heading east through Utah, Idaho and western Wyoming on its return trip to Cheyenne in July 2024.
We will pick up the action in the Bear River Canyon north of Ogden, Utah and head north for McCammon, Idaho where the steam special enters the Pocatello Subdivision. We will follow the 4014 through Montpelier and into the state of Wyoming.
Most of these scenes were taken from our program "Union Pacific's Pocatello Subdivsion" available on DVD and Blu-ray. 7ideaproductions.com/collections/frontpage/products/union-pacifics-lynndyl-subdivision
0:00 Intro
0:35 Bear River Canyon - Utah
4:27 Weston - Idaho
6:4 McCammon
9:05 Georgetown
11:11 Montpelier
18:39 Cokeville - Wyoming
20:23 Summit Cut (near Kemmerer)
21:40 West of Opal
![Union Pacifics Lordsburg Sub Part 1 [Tucson, AZ to Steins, NM]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DK4cJwXvw6E/mqdefault.jpg "Union Pacifics Lordsburg Sub Part 1 [Tucson, AZ to Steins, NM]
Today’s Union Pacific trains roll through the desert country of the American Southwest on a three hundred mile journey between Tucson and El Paso. As part of the legendary Southern Pacific’s Sunset Route through Arizona and New Mexico, it is known as the Lordsburg Subdivision. This double-track main line connects ports in southern California with eastern destinations like New Orleans, Chicago, and Houston, as well as, south of the border into Mexico.
In part 1 of this two-part series, we will cover the western half of the subdivision between Tucson and Steins near the New Mexico state line. Trains crest four different summits including Mescal, Dragoon, Railroad Pass, and Steins Pass west of Lordsburg.
Monster stack trains over three miles in length are common on the Lordsburg Sub. There are plenty of mixed manifest and unit grain trains to keep things interesting. This is also the route of Amtrak’s Sunset Limited which makes a tri-weekly run over the line.
In addition to main-line traffic, we will visit the San Pedro Valley Railroad at Benson and the Arizona Eastern which serves the large Morenci Copper Mine near Clifton.
This program was shot in April 2024
Available on DVD and Blu-ray at 7ideaproductions.com. https://www.7ideaproductions.com/collections/frontpage/products/union-pacifics-lordsburg-subdivision-part-1
0:00 Intro
2:30 Map
5:28 Tucson
11:47 Vail
26:17 Cienega Creek
39:56 Pantano
51:42 Mescal
1:05:07 Benson
1:11:35 Fenner
1:14:11 Sibyl
1:17:30 Dragoon
1:22:25 Apache
1:29:07 Cochise
1:29:50 Wilcox
1:40:28 Raso
1:41:41 Bowie
1:51:20 Karro
1:52:52 Steins")
![Arizona Copper Mine Railroad [Freeport McMoRan Industrial]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/DdZAEgyspEY/mqdefault.jpg "Arizona Copper Mine Railroad [Freeport McMoRan Industrial]
A unique collection of diesel locomotives power trains over a 5% grade in Arizonas Morenci Copper Mine. The Freeport McMoRan Industrial serves the copper mine and interchanges with the Arizona Eastern out of Lordsburg, New Mexico.
This program is part of our series on Union Pacifics Lordsburg Subdivision which is also available on Youtube, DVD and Blu-ray. Visit 7ideaproductions.com. https://www.7ideaproductions.com/collections/frontpage/products/union-pacifics-lordsburg-subdivision-part-2")
