Sunday, September 30, 2012

Renumbered SP

Two ex Southern Pacific GP40-2s leave the Mt. Vernon plant of NRE in September 2002 sporting their new Union Pacific patches. The 1444 is used frequently in various locations around the Pacific Northwest.

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Blue Mt in Dayton

Lone Blue Mountain GP35 at Dayton, Wash. in 2000.

Friday, September 28, 2012

Meet at Telocaset

Union Pacific intermodal meets eastbound merchandise train at Telocaset in 2004.





Thursday, September 27, 2012

Bridge at Santa Fe Jct.

Union Pacific SD70M leads an auto train out of the intermodal yard in Kansas City and across a unique bridge over the Kansas River in September 2002.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Triple play

Portland & Western GP39-2 2311 and Union Pacific C44ACCTE 5523 stop just before the Columbia Draw Tuesday evening while the BNSF 2724 rests on the NP tail.  Rare to catch three different railroads operatiing in the same location these days.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Broadway in the air


Southern Pacific 6864, a SD45T-2, heads south near Union Station in the early 1990s as the Broadway Bridge stands open for a passing ship.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Soo high nose

Soo 552 GP9 worked the Marshfield, Wis., yard in the mid 1970s with 2201A, an F7A unit.