UP 8476 takes a very long 1x1x1 M-ASPB through the small town of Altheimer, AR along the former SSW/Cotton Belt.
With a massive 14,000ft, 1x1x1 train behind it, UP #8476 swings around the curve in Altheimer, running out the last few miles to Pine Bluff Yard.
With the Highline out of commission for the first half of the day it really clogged up everything in KC for a good chunk of the day. Here we see grain train GSCTE5 11 led by UP 5857 meet train KMN... (more)
135 passes through Swannanoa, NC in the late afternoon light.
UP #8476 leads westbound train 135 into Asheville at Biltmore Wye on this cold December afternoon.
UP's Long Beach to Global 2 stacker rolls east through North Yard in Salt Lake City.
Eastbound taken right at sunset. By the time the tail end went by the sun had set. Camera Canon 7D at ISO 800 with shutter at 1/400 and f stop whatever the camera wanted, which was f 4. Amazing ho... (more)
A UP stack train heads east on the "wrong" main (which was the "correct" main in C&NW's left-hand running days) on UP's Boone Sub shortly before dusk.
A Trio of ACes crawl through downtown Coal City
Always good to have ear protection when a SD70ACe is leading. Dang them horns are LOUD!
3 new EMD ACe engines 8476 - 8502 - 8444 and UP 5413 cross the Trinity River eastbound to Marion AR.
