Check out those footboards and the cool ACI label. These had a 1200 HP 12 cylinder 12-567 engine, probably from a retired E unit.
An early version on the model, with oil bath air filter.
These were later renumbered into the 2000s. I like the spark arresters.
Hmmm, snowplow on an MP15DC in Houston....
Can't believe I was shooting -2s back then, but hey, I knew the eagles wouldn't last long once Uncle Pete got going with the yellow paint.
Literally breathing it's last breaths, it waits on the placement track at Settegast
Transitional era after UP merger found the MP C36-7s on the San Antonio coal trains, formerly the realm of SP.
Led by a borrowed MOPAC screaming eagle, 70 loads of "pink lady" ballast from the Rock Springs quarry near Reedsburg, WI., grind up the ruling grade on the CNW Madison sub approaching Dane. There... (more)
Back when they were the pride of the fleet. Most of these are slugs or GenSets now.
Back in the transition from MP to UP. These were just recently (at the time) bumped from San Antonio coal train duty and put on Chicago-Houston/DFW Z train dities.
When it was the rave of the mechanical dept. Many of these units are either now UP slugs, remote control dummies or GenSets.
Many of these units are either now UP slugs, remote control dummies or GenSets.
An insult to GE lovers (all 5 of us); EMD cab on a U Boat!
