UP 7871 works as the lone DPU motor as it brings up the rear of a 73 car empty St. James, LA to Wildcat, UT oil train at Coal Creek Canyon as it climbs the 1.8% grade between Blue Mountain Rd. and... (more)

UP 7871 leads a long cut of covered hoppers bound for IHB's Blue Island Yard over the Little Calumet River in Blue Island, IL.

Splitting the intermediate signals at El Casco, an eastbound empty UP auto train climbs the grade through San Timoteo Canyon toward the apex at Beaumont on UP's Yuma Sub.

Eastbound auto's begin there climb up San Timoteo Canyon on a clear fall morning in Southern California.

Near Redlands, an eastbound empty UP auto train climbs the grade through San Timoteo Canyon toward Beaumont on UP's Yuma Sub.

Nearing the top of the grade at Beaumont, an eastbound empty UP auto train climbs out of San Timoteo Canyon UP's Yuma Sub.

Approaching the crossovers at Hinda, an eastbound empty UP auto train climbs the grade through San Timoteo Canyon toward the apex at Beaumont on UP's Yuma Sub.

Eastbound autos work upgrade as they pass the signals at El Casco.

A clear fall morning along UP's busy Yuma Sub finds this empty auto train working up the last miles of the climb as they exit San Timoteo Canyon at Beaumont.

Early morning in San Timoteo Canyon finds UP 7871 and a older UP Dash 8 leading a empty auto train east near Hinda.

A single GE shoves hard on the rear of a slow moving Eastbound manifest as it crawls up San Timoteo Canyon.

A Union Pacific KLAG1 stack train rambles east by the ruby red cliffs of Echo Canyon.

Union Pacific's Los Angeles, CA to Global 1, IL stacker climbs the Evanston Sub grade through scenic Echo Canyon.