The eastbound run of the Quad Cities Rocket earlier in the day yielded an unfortunate cloud at this location. The westbound run yielded no such thing as the Centennial DDA40X #6936 crossed the Roc... (more)
Centennial At Chicago Junction. Making its departure out of Bureau, DDA40X #6936 passes Chicago Junction, the location where the Iowa Interstate's Blue Island and Peoria Subdivisions meet.
A railfan captures the scene as the Quad Cities Rocket, led by DDA40X "Centennial" #6936, makes its way east out of Sheffield, IL.
The photo line is packed as UP 6936 and IAIS 513 hustle the Quad Cities Rocket through Geneseo, passing the nicely restored Rock Island depot.
The Quad Cities Rocket. The chasers are approaching and the photographers are lined up, as UP DDA40X #6936 leads an eastbound passenger special for Bureau, as it rolls through the town of M... (more)
UP 6936 and IAIS 513 leads "The Quad Cities Rocket" train across the Iowa River
UP 6936 patiently waits at the diesel shops in Silvis, IL as it will lead an excursion this weekend on the Iowa Intersate Railroad
Union Pacific DDA40X 6924, leads two C&NW SD40 and Conrail GP40 unit westbound along side I80. I was pacing this train in a 18 wheeler when I took this picture, I held out my camera while driving,... (more)
The big news on the Union Pacific back in the Summer of 1984 was the reactivation of most of their Centennial fleet of DDA40X "double diesels". Near the very end of their short lived return to se... (more)
On May 8, 2014, Union Pacific EMD DDA40X No. 6938 sits on display in front of the railroad’s Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas.
UP DDA40X 6913 with SD40-2 3485 heading west near Granite, Wyoming. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.
UP EMD DDA40X 6927 with SD40-2 3197 near Hermosa Tunnel, Wyoming. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.
A westbound Union Pacific “van” train, led by EMD DDA40X “Centennial” No. 6917, approaches Dale Junction on a desolate spring day on Wyoming’s Sherman Hill in April 1984.
Westbound Union Pacific DDA40X 6929 leaving Cheyenne, Wyoming. A Mike Bledsoe Photo.
UP 6930 and the now gone CNW twins look on at IRM.
