Welcome to the final segment in Union Pacific's Overland Route: America's Original Superhighway, by the Thornapple River Rail Series.

In this miniseries, part of our Superhighway specials, we're touring the entire Union Pacific portion of the first Transcontinental Railroad, long known as the Overland Route, nearly a thousand miles of railroad spanning from the Missouri River at Omaha, Nebraska to the Great Salt Lake at Ogden, Utah.

An incredible railroad, the original Transcontinental Railroad is today a superhighway of commerce, featuring dozens of freight trains of all types through the American heartland. From the lush framlands of the Midwest to the deserts of Wyoming and Utah, the railroad is as incredible and unique as any other.

In this final segment, covering the Rawlins and Evanston Subdivisions, we begin near the continental divide, on the western fringes of Rawlins, Wyoming. Progressing across the high desert through the Great Divide Basin, the railroad passes through sparse terrain, before rolling into the oasis of Green River, a crew change point and the beginning of the Evanston Sub.

The Evanston Sub finishes the run across the Wyoming Desert before dropping down the famed Wahsatch Grade into the Great Salt Lake Basin. The grade, for which the Challengers, Big Boys and Gas Turbines were built, represents some of the best western scenery on the Union Pacific portion of the Overland Route: America's Original Superhighway.

Locations featured in this video:
Rawlins, WY
Wamsutter
Rock Springs
Green River
Granger
Evanston
Wyuta - Utah/Wyoming State Line
Wahsatch
Emory
Echo
Henefer
Sharps Hollow
Mountain Green
Ogden, UT

LINKS:
Part 1: the Omaha & Columbus Subs: [ Ссылка ]
Part 2: the Kearney Sub: [ Ссылка ]
Part 3: the North Platte and Sidney Subs: [ Ссылка ]
Part 4: the Laramie Sub: [ Ссылка ]
Part 5: the Rawlins and Evanston Subs: [ Ссылка ]

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Videography Equipment:
-Primary: Sony HDR-PJ790V HD Camcorder
-Edited with: Cyberlink PowerDirector 13

Maps created using Google Maps base imagery, with additional annotations.

Track diagrams based on ATCS territory files.

Elevations based on a Union Pacific Passenger Timetable from 1969.

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