With problem with the AMTK 509, the west facing unit, AMTK 510, lead the special backwards all the way to Kelso.
K LAG1-26 With UP 7625, GECX 2010, GECX 90, UP 4470 UP 8559, UP 8918 & UP 1885. 91 Loads, 5688 Tons 6754 Feet. Photographed at 09:43. Looking good after being freshly washed for the GE display at ... (more)
Business took me here for the day. Rough job but somebody had to do it.
While everyone else in the photo line was busy shooting the low morning sun on the face of the UP 3985, I turned around to witness this image come to pass in the opposite direction. This photo was... (more)
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Road power from last night sits in Yermo Yard. Canon EOS 40D
UP 2479 West departs Yermo Yard across the dry, sandy streambed of the Mojave River.
A UP coal empty, going to Savage, UT, out of Barstow where the BNSF interchanged it to the UP.
In all my years I have never seen a BNSF train in the UP Yermo Yard, today there was two ballast trains!
A westbound enters Yermo yard before continuing to Long Beach.
UP 6904 leads the deadline at Yermo. 25 of her bretheren were reseurrected for one last go round hauling trains before they were all shut down permanently with the exception of the 6936.
At the final curve before entering Yermo yard