The normal evening hotshot across Iowa rolls thru Bertram on the eastside of Cedar Rapids on the UP Clinton Sub. The train is over 70 miles into the evening trip from the eastside of the state to ... (more)
The hot westbound afternoon "Bird" rolls into Clinton and is a 1 mile from the crew change. This train is the Global 1 in Chicago, IL, to Brooklyn Yard in Portland, OR. The train is seen... (more)
The hotshot bound for Brooklyn Yard near Portland, OR, is buzzing along making good time. Here the train rounds the curve near Luzerne working between Cedar Rapids and Marshalltown in central Iow... (more)
The hot westbound afternoon "Bird" rolls into Clinton and is a 1/2 mile from the crew change. This train is the Global 1 in Chicago, IL, to Brooklyn Yard in Portland, OR. The train is se... (more)
On the long days of the summer, one can see a small parade of westbound Z-trains in the late afternoon leave Clinton. Here ZG1BR has just pass thru CPU 108, west of Blairstown. The train is 108 mi... (more)
On the long days of the summer, one can see a small parade of westbound Z-trains in the late afternoon leave Clinton. Here ZG1BR has just rounded up the ZG2LT just west of Blairstown, CPU 108. See... (more)
One of the hottest afternoon Z-trains across Iowa is this Global 1 to Brooklyn Yard in Portland, OR. Seen here passing some local farmsteads outside of Norway near CP 100. Short and fast is the na... (more)
I was lucky enough to catch the first run of UP's new SD70AH locomotives. They were in sequential order 8997, 8998, 8999 along with an older GEVO.
Brand new SD70AH credit units take ZG1BRB west under the CNW style E type signals at Euclid Ave in Oak Park, IL.
