On the Freedom Trail
41 Mins #SRP-4449F $29.95

More history in the making. 4449s first move under steam in 17 years: the initial trial along the edge of the Columbia River Gorge with 2,000 tons of freight. More freight on the Union Pacific: Ogden to Cheyenne. It’s a frosty morning as she comes barreling out of Weber Canyon against a background of snow crowned Wasatch summits, her exhaust, a plume of white between the brilliant reds of Echo Canyon, streams far behind as she shouts her way up the long grade and onto the high plains of Wyoming. Next, with a special consist of Southern Pacific stainless steel passenger cars, climbing the Cascades and rounding Mt. Shasta, then high on the trestles and deep in the canyons of the Sierra as she crests Donner Summit. No diesels of any kind in the foregoing. On tour with the Freedom Train along the Snake River Gorge in Idaho, on the San Francisco waterfront, circling Tehachapi Loop, and alongside the Queen Elizabeth in L.A. leaving Colton Yard at dawn. Paced across the deserts of the Southwest thru Arizona and New Mexico.

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