With the Chicago & Northwestern heritage unit up front, Manifest train QNPPR-30 from North Platte to Proviso heads eastbound through Rochelle.

22G rumbles through the small town of Temple

UP 1995 tours eastern Alabama for the first time

Northwest in the Southeast

Throttle wide open to make a good run over the grade leading to Tallapoosa

Union Pacifics CNW heritage unit leads the way through Cook Springs at 7:42am

UP 1995, the C&NW heritage unit, awaits a new crew in the Brazos Valley to continue its journey to the Ferromex interchange at Eagle Pass, TX.

A Union Pacific special's dead-head move is about to die on the hours of service at 1800 at Barr Siding, North of Springfield, Illinois. Steve Smedley photo

With crew aboard and air tests complete, UP 1995 departs West Colton eastbound leading the MWCNP-12 to North Platte, Nebraska on a warm Spring morning.

UP 1995 leads a Mira Loma bound autorack train along BNSF rails to Riverside where the train will re-join home rails.

Heading east by the former Santa Fe "A-Yard" in San Bernardino, UP 1995 is well underway with the MWCNP-12 as it approaches the historic Mt. Vernon Ave overpass.

Early morning at Pepper Ave in West Colton finds the CNW heritage locomotive and consist being hostled as the power for the West Colton to North Platte manifest train.

Climbing the grade up through the lower reaches of Cajon Pass, an eastbound MWCNP-15 passes through Swarthout Canyon east of Blue Cut on the BNSF's Cajon Sub.

Exercising trackage rights, UP 1995 on the point of the MWCNP-15 has just switched over from the UP to BNSF at the Colton diamond as the train heads toward San Bernardino and Cajon Pass.

An unseasonably hot Spring day in southern California's Inland Empire finds a westbound Union Pacific manifest entering the West Colton yard at Pepper Ave. The heat has kept all but a few hearty r... (more)