This MWCNP-30 ran up the Sharp Sub then on to the Provo subdivision into Salt Lake City. Lead by EMD SD70ACe-T4 3092. I watched it's progress all day, with the hope of catching it when I got off w... (more)
Rear end units on a TXU Martin Lake coal train
One of EMD's "Banana" SD70ACe-T4 units from their lease fleet serves as the DPU on KCS train ARSH (Artesia, MS to Shreveport, LA). This train is usually a nocturnal move, rarely seen in ... (more)
UP 3031 & 8145 lead an eastbound manifest.
Taking in the last of the daylight, a pair of EMDX leasers rest in front of the abandoned Pool 8 elevator on the makeshift shop track awaiting a late evening departure on the last coal empties of ... (more)
UP 3076 & 7000 westbound with a manifest.
UP 3095 has the lead duties on this westbound manifest throttling up out of the typical inversion conditions that are common to the Treasure Valley in the winter, but it certainly adds some charac... (more)
Spending the night at the Union Pacific’s West Anaheim Yard is UP SD70ACe-T4 3032, paired with Kansas City de México ES44AC 4745. (Anaheim, California - March 28, 2021)
UP's westbound Cabazon to Gardenia rock train heads down Beaumont Hill at El Casco behind SD70ACe-T4 #3023.
A pair of Progress Rail “bananas” lean into the curve around Spiers Lake and the rock cuts in beautiful Bala, ON underneath the watchful eye of the windswept, tall, eastern white pines the Mus... (more)
The MWCNPX departs West Colton with UP EMD T4 3063 leading.
The Guadalupe Hauler heads south with 4 locomotives and 8 cars. This edition has two T4s bookending the consist.
Two different generations of EMDs sit side by side at the sanding tower, as a spectacular sunset ensues.
An ISILB arrives at the ICTF Support Yard with a Tier 4 leader.
Led by shiny EMD SD70ACe-T4 No. 3054, a westbound Union Pacific stack train departs Green River, Wyoming, after a crew change and begins the climb over Peru Hill on September 27, 2020.