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First video edited with Sony Vegas, and it ends up looking like something out of WMM but taking three times as long.

I suck at editing.
https://www.youtube....h?v=cCaczqYK_K4

Backstory:
The Desert Rose started as a Union Pacific crack express train, the Desert Rose Special, originally one of several high-profile trains traversing the route between the Bay Area and Chicago. It wasn't until the eve of World War II that it was given its own identity, with coaches and diners painted in its soon-to-be-trademark red and silver and sublettered for UP's Full Bucket subsidiary, cascaded from other trains. The coming war meant that the Desert Rose Special's dedicated cars were never ordered, and sleepers were needed elsewhere.

The late 1940s and 1950s brought the same hope and renewal to the Desert Rose Special, shortened to Desert Rose, as it did to other UP streamliners. Its mismatched colors soon became its distinguishing characteristic, but despite the non-uniform exterior its level of service was regarded second to none. Running three times a week, daily during the summer, the train was considered a slower but more luxurious alternative to the City of San Francisco. As travelers began to switch to airplanes and the Interstate for point-to-point travel, the Desert Rose was marketed as a cruise train, catering to the emerging middle class. As a result of this strategy it remained popular long after many of Union Pacific's other streamliners had begun to decline.

Despite its popularity only being surpassed by the California Zephyr during the 1950s, the Desert Rose suffered extraordinarily from the decline of the 1960s due to a shared sleeper and dome pool with the City of San Francisco, a Monday-Wednesday-Thursday schedule that resulted from the shared pool, and UP's decision to acquire a new fleet of red-and-silver stock in 1965 in one last desperate attempt to revive the train. The Desert Rose never attracted as many vacationers as intended during the 60s, and some the new cars never saw service with the Union Pacific. Nevertheless the train held on until May 1st, 1971, when Amtrak canceled it as one of their first actions. The cars, which UP had refused to hand over to Amtrak, were stored on Full Bucket Line property, intended to be used as replacements for UP's OCS train once that equipment had worn out. Under the agreement, the FBL occasionally used the coaches for excursions.

In 1995, with its Heritage fleet wearing out, Amtrak sought to acquire the cars from UP, but instead ended up resurrecting the Desert Rose in conjunction with the UP and FBL. While it did carry mail, FBL's marketing strategy was what made it a success: pitched as a cruise train that operated on a lenient schedule, the resurrected Desert Rose had become one of Amtrak's most profitable operations by 1997, and could stretch well over 40 cars and 5 locomotives. The removal of mail business in 2005 shortened the overall consist length, but not its capacity as Amtrak steadily contributed more equipment to match demand for the triweekly train.

Despite its success, the Recession, spiking fuel prices, and slow recovery killed Amtrak's interest in a cruise train, and the Desert Rose was scheduled for termination in June of 2014. Another railroad stepped in, however, to not only save the streamliner but, for the first time in the train's history, fully realize its potential...