Military units

String of military units sit alongside I15 near Ogden in September 1996  at Utah's Hill Air Force Base where Army locomotives from all the United States are rebuilt. Pictured are GE 44, 60 & 80 tonners and Alco S1s, RS4-TCs and MRS1s.

KCS in KC

Kansas City Southern GP38-2s, in two of the company's many paint schemes, lead a transfer from Union Pacific to home territory at Santa Fe Jct. in Kansas City in 2002.

Coal train

Union Pacific 6452, an AC400, brings up the rear of a Centralia coal train passing through Vancouver on Sept. 21.

Grain terminal switcher

Now known as Temco for Tacoma Exporting Co., a branch of a larger operation in Tacoma, Wash., the former Harvest States plant in Kalama has added this SW1200, a former BNSF Heritage unit, to its switching fleet. JLCX stands for J & L Consulting.

CP grain empties

On a foggy day Oct. 28 in Kalama, CP9739 prepares to depart Kalama Export as unit three of a Union Pacific grain empties headed for Eastport, Idaho.

New ES44C4 units

One of the new style GE's, an ES44C4, which is not powered on the center of each of the three axles,  powered coal loads through Vancouver last month.  The wheels to drop down when needed to provide traction.

Southern Pacific renumber

Patched Southern Pacific units are still fairly common on the Union Pacific 16 years after the merger.  UP6210 was phtographed on a grain empty in Kalama Sept. 13.