Uploaded July 2022 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Picking up where we left off in Part 1, we continue our tour of Train Mountain during the 2012 Triennial Meet with an look at safety checkpoints, a "G Scale" railroad within the railroad, building new track, and the incredible railroad signal system and control tower designed by John Cooper.
We will meet live steam enthusiasts from Austria, a talented locomotive builder from Canada, and a fun-loving group of Australians who brought their own trains!
Picking up where we left off in Part 1, we continue our tour of Train Mountain during the 2012 Triennial Meet with an look at safety checkpoints, a "G Scale" railroad within the railroad, building new track, and the incredible railroad signal system and control tower designed by John Cooper.
We will meet live steam enthusiasts from Austria, a talented locomotive builder from Canada, and a fun-loving group of Australians who brought their own trains!
![Helpers on the Hill [Union Pacific manned helpers in the Oregon Cascades]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m3WhZDu1WJU/mqdefault.jpg "Helpers on the Hill [Union Pacific manned helpers in the Oregon Cascades]
In an age of remote-controlled distributed power, locomotives, Union Pacific brought back manned helpers to the Cascade Subdivision above Oakridge, Oregon between late 2018 and 2023. Two helper sets based in Oakridge would assist heavy southbound trains for California up the grueling 1.8% grade over Pengra Pass. We captured video of the operation in the spring of 2022.")
