As a KCS Crew gets ready to take their grain train from the CP south, UP Train SCBSP 21 cools its heels waiting on the outbound crew to show up at around 0230 in the morning at Air Line Jct.
UP E9's are moved into position for the departure out of the Metroplex following Super Bowl 45.
Business train getting ready for departure back to Council Bluff Iowa as Cowboys Stadium looms in the distance.
A look down one of the inspection pits at the UP steam shops finds 949 sitting outside the shops being load tested before they leave for the trip to Council Bluffs, In the back ground a BNSF train... (more)
After crew changing at 18th Street, UP's E9's accelerate out of Kansas City, leaving the skyline behind on the old Omaha Main.
Streamlined. Union Pacific's E9's lead a 7 car deadhead special back to the Bluffs, and are following a loaded coal train into KC, ducking under the signal bridge at milepost 10.2.
A UP Operation Life Saver Special ties down for the night in the Phippsburg yard
A "City" train descends on Cheyenne.
The low sun of January reflects off the UP executive power about to cross the Mississippi. This was still CNW property at this date.
UP OCS train heads east over the CNW about to duck under US 61.
It's crew change time for E9 949, on the point of an Operation Lifesaver Special deadheading from Sheldon, Iowa to Mason City, Iowa.
949 leads the southward OLS Special off the bridge over the Little Calumet River.
UP E9's east of Grand Island. They are headed for the River City Roundup in Omaha.
UP 949 and 951 are together for an operation lifesaver special along UP's Greeley Sub. 949 developed a horn defect so 951 and 963b had to be placed on the headend and run backwards.
