Oil empties off the SJVR in Bakersfield hustle east out of the Sierra Nevada. Unfortunately, this erratic (at best) oil service seems to have completely gone away.
A 2x2 soda ash train lugs its way up to the west end of Reverse siding at a steady crawl. From here on west, the railroad levels out and it should be a relatively smooth run to Nampa.
A Skyline Mine, UT to Rillito, AZ coal drag screams uphill in the San Timoteo Canyon. This train is bound for a cement plant that uses coal to generate its own power in-house.
On a dark and gloomy morning, unusual in Colorado's high country, a UP coal train is negotiating the first curves of Byers Canyon alongside the Colorado River.
Quad 5's shoves hard on a Fresno to North Platte manifest as it passes by the Reno Amtrak Station where passengers await the arrival of the eastbound Cal Zephyr
6 units head out the north end of the Waukegan yard for wying in Kenosha. Not a bad SP gray to UP yellow ratio!!!
UP 5649 works in DPU mode as he crosses the UP Geneva Sub.
UP 5809 comes down the #1 track at Alta. All trains this day were run up and down the #1 track between Gold Run and Shed 10 due to a minor derail by a BNSF train.
TWO BRAND NEW UNITS
