I finally caught the last heritage unit! After missing 1996 numerous times i finally caught it laying low in north Portland after coming in the previous day from Tacoma.

The SP Heritage Locomotive is doing its best impression of a Cotton Belt Golden State Route piggy back train of yesteryear; but it's just UP Train IDULB 06 rolling across Stranger Creek at Linwood... (more)

Now moving right along, UP Train IDULB 06 makes haste in its exodus from Kansas City behind the SP Heritage Locomotive, moving through the West Bottoms on UP KC Metro Sub. Main Track 1 past the St... (more)

A pair of BNSF units take UP Train YKS75 06 down Main Track 4 of the UP KC Metro Sub. towards Neff Yard at Shelley Avenue as UP Train IDULB 06 eases up towards Lydia on the way out on Main Track 3... (more)

SP heritage unit #1996 leads a westbound stack train with UP 4339 & 4813 trailing.

SP heritage unit #1996 leads a westbound stack train with UP 4339 & 4813 trailing.

The Southern Pacific Heritage painted engine heads Eastbound past the "Pillow Rock" formations.

Union Pacific, 1996, leads the MROGR through Layton, Utah, bound for Green River, Wyoming.

With the sun coming out just at the right time, UP 1996 leads MNPPR east just outside of Union Pacific's Global 3 Intermodal Facility in Rochelle, IL along the UP Geneva Sub.

UP 1996 and 2 CSX units pass miles of corn fields in the middle of nowhere, NE.

Curving into the morning sunlight, UP 1996 leads a West Colton-bound manifest through the towering Mormon Rocks as it drops downgrade toward Cajon Junction.

IG4TA is strung out on the lead waiting for a recrew to finish building the train. Within the next hour the train will be ready and will make its departure on time at 8pm after Amtrak 307 goes by ... (more)

UP 1996 leading the LAXT, CA to Dallas, TX Intermodal through Pantano, AZ

It only took ten years but I finally got the 1996 on the point.

The Southern Pacific Heritage engine leads on this 158 car Eastbound manifest train.