Depatched Union Pacific GP40M-2 #1482 rolls into UP's Denver Yard with a former D&RGW GP40-2.
With less than a year to go before being completely shut down, the old SP diesel servicing facility at Taylor Yard in Los Angeles is home tonight for this SP geep still looking sharp in her former... (more)
patched SSW unit sits in the morning sun
Heading south, the UP Saugus Local backs through the Burbank Airport Amtrak platform - enroute to Burbank Jct. with caboose 4612 leading pure SP GP40M-2's 7125 and 7135.
Patch UP1482 with the Mulford Job was caught today returning north to Mulford yard in San Leandro. Mulford is the very northern tip of the 470 mile ex-Southern Pacific Coast Line.
Rare indeed. Only about 18 Cotton Belt GP40-2s left.
The SP7118 is back on it's way to Warm Springs. About 10 minutes further south, I would later park and hike trackside to shoot a last picture of this train at Niles Canyon. My reward in the end wa... (more)
The Livermore Local or "54 Local" was caught on tis day with only one unit requiring a long hood forward move from Warm Springs all the way to Livermore on the ex-WP Oakland Sub.
CN power fresh off arriving eastbound train, heads for the fuel pad.
