Coming off CN's Memphis Sub, UP MMENLD 07 switches onto main 2 on the BNSF Thayer South Sub enroute to the home rails of the UP Memphis Sub.
UP MMENLB comes off the NS west main onto the UP under the new signals at the CN crossing on Broadway. An empty Scherer coal train is parked on the NS east main as BNSF track crews work on their t... (more)
UP's QNLSF 06 train peaks around an empty BNSF train as it heads toward NS Forrest Yard for an exchange.
A pair of empty coal trains are seen here at Neptune Street. BNSF 5608 is the DPU of this empty Scherer train on the NS east main. The end of the empty Miller coal train is in the distance on the ... (more)
UP's MMEEWX reaches the point where the CSX main lines ends and merges into the UP Memphis Sub main at Kentucky Street in downtown Memphis. Notice the different type number board on the right side... (more)
With the brand new signal bridge at the CN crossing in view, BNSF 5180 holds the BNSF main as UP 4152 takes the MMEEWX train down the CSX main on Broadway.
A BNSF remote control SD40-2 works out of the south end of Tennessee Yard as an empty Miller Plant coal train heads north on the main line.
After an all day trip in Arkansas I head back in to Memphis to catch this BNSF empty coal train heading west for the Frisco Bridge.
UP's ZNSLC 26 rolls under the newly erected BNSF signal bridge as a manifest trains comes into town heading east.
Charging out of Memphis with NS 16Z is UP SD70M 3990 (ex SP 9815) along with an NS & two UP units on the morning of 27 September 2005
With dynamics quietly groaning, NS SD70M 2594 holds 391 to 40 mph as it rolls downgrade near the Memphis/Germantown city line. Engine consist: NS 2594-LTEX 8593, NS 3532, NS 6696, NS 6801
A new ES44AC leads an empty Palos coal train through the city of Memphis on its way back to Wyoming for another load.
Fill'er up!! The Saturday morning "City of New Orleans" gets a tank full in Memphis as a storm approaches from the west.
THe MMEPBB rounds the curve near Kansas Street as the loaded coal train CEYMS heads east.
The NS train 391 cuts through the campus of the University of Memphis.
