Union Pacific EMD SD70ACe No. 1996 displays its colorful Daylight colors in its Southern Pacific heritage scheme at the locomotive facility at Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on May 4, 2011... (more)

The SP heritage unit leads the Houston to North Council Bluffs manifest up to the diamond at Oreapolis to wait for the passage of a BNSF hopper train.

UP 1996 leads a southbound Lathrop to Long Beach I train just north of Canyon on the Mojave Sub.

It looks like a Union Pacific train, but it is a CSX train on the former Pennsy Vandalia line between Terre Haute and St. Louis. UP power regularly runs through from St. Louis to the former NYC ... (more)

As a light snow falls in Carlin Canyon the daylight inspired red and orange of Southern Pacific heritage locomotive #1996 adds some color to the wintery scene.

UP 1996, SP heritage unit, brings up the rear of a 269 car eastbound loaded coal train.

On a hazy morning, UPs Southern Pacific heritage unit crawls east after holding for Metra rush, seen here between Maple Park and Elburn.

The SP Heritage unit takes a crossover at 21st Street in Tacoma leading IG4SE

The Southern Pacific Heritage Unit leads a stack train passed the massive Temco Grain Elevator along the Tacoma Waterfront.

The Southern Pacific Heritage Unit leads a very worn AC4400 along the Puget Sound.

UP MSCWCW nears the end of its journey as they pass under the now-replaced searchlights at CP-Rana with 1996 leading.

One unit that wasn't under remote control operation was UP 1996 as it say silently at the Anaheim Wye. The locomotive was noticeably dirtier from the last time I caught it back in 2008.

Westbound on the Glidden Sub

UP 1996 brings up the rear of the westbound ZMQLC.

UP 1996 soars downgrade through Shawmut passing by the original Southern Pacific Main alignment