Snow Covered Great Divide Heavy snow covers the eastern slope along the Indian Peaks and Rollins Pass. Daily oil sure helped make a pleasant shot in knee deep new snow.
UP 5339 (ES44AC) leads freight through Crescent, Colorado on a beautiful sunny day with snow on the Rocky Mountains.
A storm the night before has blanketed Crescent, Colorado with a foot of snow as UP 5339 (ES44AC) leads an oil can train through the curve on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.
Even though we are in a whole different valley. The Wasatch mountain range provides a nice backdrop for UP 5339, 4873, 5423 at Lofgreen, Utah.
UP 5339, 4873, 5423 are just a grinding it out, on a giant fill at Pehrson, on the Lynndyl Subdivision.
Just enough power, this portion of the line is a pretty good climb. Rolling along at around 20 miles an hour, it's not a very long train, but it must be heavy. I think it's the MOGWC.
With some fresh snow this week, I decided to run out this morning, to see if I could catch a train. UP 5339, 4873, 5423 lead a westbound manifest on the Lynndyl Subdivision.
Due to track maintenance near Mojave, almost all of the traffic on Friday was heading south… except for one. Here, UP’s West Colton to Roseville manifest meets a southbound BNSF stack train at... (more)
Workers replace the draft gear of Union Pacific GE ES44AC No. 5339 at the Downing B. Jenks Shop at North Little Rock, Arkansas, on May 18, 2015.
Up power leads a northbound NS stacker for Atlanta.
UP 5339 approaching NEFF yard and Air Line Jct on the joint UP/ICE line.