A Very Patriotic Leyden Sunset Natures own fireworks so close to the 4th of July. Westbound Grand Junction bound manifest gets underway out of Leyden into the last light of a summer day.
The last few minutes of sunlight catch UP 3015 (SD70AH-T4) as it waits for a green signal to run through Arvada, Colorado on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
UP maintenance provide service to some of the 7 engines in the consist as UP 3015 (SD70AH-T4) waits to leads an empty coal train up the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
UP 3015 (SD70AH-T4) leads 7 other motors and a long coal train at Leyden, Colorado as it gets ready to climb the Moffat Tunnel Sub to the Continental Divide.
UP Passenger Special POALB3 27 uses the PHL's Long Beach Sub to spin its train before arriving at the end of its Oakland to ICTF run. Powering the train is a relatively new SD70ACe-T4 with busines... (more)
A Hinkle to Pocatello manifest mounts the grade up the side of Telocaset Hill out of Union, Oregon.
Passing the south switch at Canyon on the Mojave Sub, UP 3015 moves right along leading a short PLBYR.
UP SD70ACeT4 #3015 leads a short Yermo bound special past the Ontario Amtrak station.
Haven't been out much lately, summertime is so busy, and it's too hot! A business trip yielded me 1 train at sunset last weekend. Here one of UP's new Tier 4 SD70's is a DP unit on a westbound hop... (more)