NS 225 with the UP 1982 gets moving again after meeting Amtrak 20 at Toomsuba. The train is on its last stretch on the NS and is only a few miles out of Meridian. We were hoping on getting a few s... (more)

Redemption! After missing the MoPac heritage unit when it made a surprise run on 22G earlier this year, I got a second chance at this beautiful unit. With news of it arriving 4th in trail o... (more)

An engine with wings of a different color races by a crossing on the double track section between Dingle and Montpelier.

The Mopac Heritage engine leads the charge for this stack train up Peru hill.

The operation life saver train came through muskogee and I got to ride on it for about two hours. UP 1982 and UP 1996 were are the two units pulling this OPL excursion. Nice lighting sitting in th... (more)

The cacti may give this a southwestern appeal, but really, it was just another late summer day in St. Louis. I guess someone decided the ROW needed to be decorated with a spread of cactus.

It's 1AM, and NS 212 passes by the old N&W station at Boyce, Virginia. Nothing special this morning, except that rather unique looking leader.

World Traveler. UP 1982 became the first of UP's heritage units to visit New Jersey by leading NS 212 from Atlanta, GA to Croxton, NJ seen here crossing Front St. at 07:32. The MoPac unit i... (more)

After waiting for a PHL switching job to clear the switch ahead, UP 1982 starts its slow crawl across Badger Bridge to the APL Terminal on Terminal Island.

Union Pacific train KG3LB-13 (Global Three, IL to Long Beach, CA double-stacks) approaches Dike (the old SP station name for Devore) after crossing over to the old SP Palmdale Cutoff from the BNSF... (more)

Second section of #209 with something very uncommon in the lead! "MoPac" 1982 ran clear across the country to be the first UP Heritage Unit to visit Florida, seen on the approach to Bowden Yard @... (more)

Second section of #209 with something very uncommon in the lead! "MoPac" 1982 ran clear across the country to be the first UP Heritage Unit to visit Florida, seen weaving across CSXT to FEC Bowde... (more)

Second section of #209 with something very uncommon in the lead! "MoPac" 1982 ran clear across the country to be the first UP Heritage Unit to visit Florida & assuredly the first to grace the Flo... (more)

Second section of #209 with something very uncommon in the lead! "MoPac" 1982 ran clear across the country to be the first UP Heritage Unit to visit Florida & assuredly the first to grace the Flo... (more)

Second section of #209 with something very uncommon in the lead! "MoPac" 1982 ran clear across the country to be the first UP Heritage Unit to visit Florida. And it USED to be any FEC motor was ... (more)