A Union Pacific duo leads NS 65W west through Pembroke, Virginia.
Two big UP GEs shove a Metro Ports Knoxville engine down Pacific Harbor Line's Long Beach Sub to deliver it to its new owner.
The dispatcher let UP Train CATS29 13 out ahead of the steam special, and that proved to be a thorn in their side for the next 100 miles down the UP Parsons Sub.
UP 5679 is the DPU on a loaded grain train heading south while a BNSF train on the former Santa Fe creeps north waiting for its turn to cross the diamonds of the interlocker.
Eastbound coal loads drop down through Coal Creek Canyon approaching Blue Mountain Road crossing.
UP 5679 grinds down the rails just after sunset at Sandcut, CA
Let the New Year begin
