Uploaded March 2022 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Follow Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 and the 844 on a special double-header between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Ogden, Utah. The event coincided with Union Pacific's Spike 150 Celebration commemorating the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869. This is the 4014's first excursion run after being restored to operating condition. Scenes along Sherman Hill and the Wasatch Mountains show Big Boy working over the mountain grades it was originally designed for.
This is an excerpt from "Return of the Big Boy" available on DVD and Blu-ray. 7ideaproductions.com/products/return-of-the-big-boy
Follow Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 and the 844 on a special double-header between Cheyenne, Wyoming and Ogden, Utah. The event coincided with Union Pacific's Spike 150 Celebration commemorating the driving of the golden spike at Promontory Summit, Utah in 1869. This is the 4014's first excursion run after being restored to operating condition. Scenes along Sherman Hill and the Wasatch Mountains show Big Boy working over the mountain grades it was originally designed for.
This is an excerpt from "Return of the Big Boy" available on DVD and Blu-ray. 7ideaproductions.com/products/return-of-the-big-boy
![Stevens Pass [BNSFs Scenic Subdivision through the beautiful Cascade Mountains of Washington State]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HFhzpeHz9Ts/mqdefault.jpg "Stevens Pass [BNSFs Scenic Subdivision through the beautiful Cascade Mountains of Washington State]
[Originally released on DVD in 2010]
Stevens Pass stands at an elevation of 4,061 feet above sea-level in the heart of the Pacific Northwests Cascade Mountains. Large granite outcroppings tower above the densely forested landscape creating a cool, wet rainforest on the west and semi-arid country on the east. Weaving through this seemingly impassible barrier is a transcontinental railroad connecting the heartland of America with the Pacific Northwest and the Orient.
BNSF Railway utilizes a historic route carved by John F. Stevens over 100 years ago. A continuous parade of long and heavy trains roll back and fourth over the beautiful terrain on what is fittingly named the Scenic Subdivision. 7idea Productions traveled to the State of Washington in May of 2010 to document current operations over this former route of the Great Northern between Everett and Wenatchee.
Witness long stack trains crossing beautiful mountain streams, heavy grain trains thundering up 2.2% grades with mid and rear-end DPUs plus Amtraks Empire Builder on its daily run between Chicago and Seattle. The highlight of the line is the famous 7.8 mile Cascade Tunnel, the longest in the United States. See how smoke and fumes are flushed out of the tunnel in between trains.
We will recount the 1910 Wellington avalanche which swept two trains off the mountain.
No one ever said mountain railroading was easy and youll see why in STEVENS PASS...BNSF Railways Scenic Sub!
Available on DVD and Blu-ray at 7ideaproductions.com. https://www.7ideaproductions.com/products/stevens-pass?_pos=1&_sid=c11f73b10&_ss=r
0:00 Intro
2:31 Map
3:17 Everett
7:33 Lowell
10:35 Monroe
12:30 Goldbar
16:52 Skykomish River
17:46 Index
19:53 West Baring
22:19 Skykomish
26:23 Foss River Trestle
31:05 Deception Creek
35:40 Scenic
37:00 The Wellington Disaster
38:24 Cascade Tunnel
50:55 Berne
54:27 Gaynor Trestle
1:01:24 White Pine Creek
1:02:18 The Notch
1:07:25 Merritt
1:10:21 Winton
1:12:54 Winton Tunnel
1:14:22 Wenatchee River Bridge
1:16:53 Leavenworth
1:23:27 Peshastin
1:25:20 Dryden
1:29:15 Turkey Shoot Road
1:30:47 Cashmere
1:32:12 Moniter
1:35:21 Wenatchee
1:45:49 Appleyard")
![The Wasatch Grade [Union Pacific Ogden, UT to Green River, WY]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HXYJrIGjcE4/mqdefault.jpg "The Wasatch Grade [Union Pacific Ogden, UT to Green River, WY]
Originally released on DVD in 2016, take a tour of Union Pacifics Evanston Subdivision between Ogden, Utah and Green River, Wyoming. Highlights include scenic Weber and Echo Canyons, UPs classic roundhouse at Evanston, WY, and cleaning up a derailment that wiped out both main tracks west of Green River at Peru. As a bonus, see historic footage of Big Boy 4014s return to the Wasatch Mountains on its journey to Cheyenne for restoration in 2014.
This program is available on DVD and Blu-ray by visiting 7ideaproductions.com.
https://www.7ideaproductions.com/products/the-wasatch-grade?_pos=1&_sid=e57b9b826&_ss=r
0:00 Intro
2:40 Map
4:40 Ogden
15:58 Uintah
22:32 Weber Canyon
28:15 Mountain Green
30:45 Tunnel Hollow
34:02 Taggarts
37:17 Devils Slide
40:01 Henefer
41:12 Echo
44:31 Echo Canyon
58:29 Emory
1:04:10 Castle Rock
1:12:12 Old Summit Tunnel
1:15:13 Wahsatch
1:24:51 Telegraph Poles Marking Mileposts
1:27:54 Evanston
1:36:03 Millis
1:38:28 Bear River City site
1:39:41 Near Altamont
1:40:45 Ragan
1:44:09 Leroy
1:47:46 Carter
1:57:45 Wreck at Peru
2:01:13 Granger
2:10:58 Trona Mines
2:12:27 Bryan
2:15:10 Peru
2:20:56 Green River
2:28:48 Big Boy 2014 Return to Steam")
![Across Arizona Part 2 [BNSFS ARIZONA MAIN LINE]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Jd6cO1eIKXk/mqdefault.jpg "Across Arizona Part 2 [BNSFS ARIZONA MAIN LINE]
Originally released on DVD in 2014
In part 2 of this two-part series, we continue our trek across the Grand Canyon State between Williams Junction and Lupton, at the New Mexico border.
Beginning at Williams Junction we explore BNSFs Seligman Subdivision east through Flagstaff while a fast moving snowstorm blows over the Arizona Divide. The weather improves as we follow the Southern Transcon over Canyon Diablo Bridge and through the big sag into Winslow Yard.
The high mountain forests transition into open country accented by the vividly shaded badlands of the Painted Desert as trains head east over the Gallup Sub to the New Mexico border. We will visit locations such as Joseph City, Holbrook, Arntz, Adamana, and Coronado Junction, before reaching the state line beneath the beautiful rock cliffs at Lupton. Intermodal, manifest, grain, and coal trains ply the rails on this busy corridor.
Seeing over seventy trains per day, this is one of the most popular railfan destinations in the west!
This program is available on DVD and Blu-ray by visiting 7ideaproductions.com. https://www.7ideaproductions.com/products/across-arizona-part-2
0:00 Intro
1:42 Map
2:44 Williams Junction
10:19 Maine
12:05 Bellemont
15:50 Flagstaff
18:51 Mc Phetridge
21:21 Cosnino
23:33 Darling
28:31 Canyon Diablo Bridge
35:37 Sunshine
42:48 Winslow
49:25 Cholla Power Plant
52:29 Holbrook
1:01:39 Arntz
1:09:00 The Painted Desert (Adamana)
1:13:30 Pinta
1:15:54 Coronado Junction
1:18:52 Chambers
1:20:41 Lupton")
