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Viewing Album:  Union Pacific
 
By:Tom Beckett
Dates:1/1/2011 - 1/1/2011
Album Info:Photos of trains on the UP system
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Headed north
Title:  Headed north
Description:  A train just over the bridge from Mexico rolls north on the ex Mopac
Photo Date:  8/23/2000  Upload Date: 1/26/2014 3:45:45 AM
Location:  Laredo, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5872(GP60) SP 8666(SD40M-2) SP 7791(B30-7)
Views:  403   Comments: 0
Eastbound with classic power
Title:  Eastbound with classic power
Description:  By the year 2000, SD40 types had been relegated to second class status on the larger roads as highwe horsepower units came on line. There were still quite a few out there, as this eastbound attests.
Photo Date:  1/20/2001  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 1:26:30 AM
Location:  Kent, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3364(SD40-2) UP 3810(SD40-2) UP 3689(SD40-2)
Views:  347   Comments: 0
On the SP
Title:  On the SP
Description:  A pair of new SD70Ms roll a stack train west on the old SP. I shot this from a dirt lot off an I 10 off ramp. Good spot, and you can park a truck there.
Photo Date:  1/20/2001  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 1:31:38 AM
Location:  McNary, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4145(SD70M) UP 4268(SD70M)
Views:  299   Comments: 0
Eastbound in the snow
Title:  Eastbound in the snow
Description:  Yes it snows in Texas, even this far south. Maybe it came along with the CNW unit.
Photo Date:  1/20/2001  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 1:34:18 AM
Location:  Kent, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4176(SD70M)
Views:  187   Comments: 0
Westbound with an old home road unit.
Title:  Westbound with an old home road unit.
Description:  A westbound stack train with a nod to the lines heritage rolls past the exit at McNary.
Photo Date:  1/20/2001  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 1:37:22 AM
Location:  McNary, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4189(SD70M) UP 4006(SD70M) UP 3446(SD40-2) SP 6795(SD45T-2R)
Views:  567   Comments: 0
Road shot
Title:  Road shot
Description:  This eastbound was going east as I was going west on I 20. Hold up the camera and hope.
Photo Date:  1/20/2001  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 1:42:13 AM
Location:  Sierra Blanca, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 9491(C41-8W) UP 9148(C40-8) UP 9178(C40-8)
Views:  412   Comments: 0
A pair of SP units
Title:  A pair of SP units
Description:  A pair of SP GP 40s waits on a westbound stack train, looking for all the world like the merger never happened.
Photo Date:  1/21/2001  Upload Date: 7/15/2012 2:49:31 AM
Location:  Fabens, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  SSW 7655(GP40-2) SP 7947(GP40-2)
Views:  341   Comments: 0
Westbound stacks
Title:  Westbound stacks
Description:  A westbound stack train behind a set of new SD70Ms approaches El Paso
Photo Date:  1/21/2001  Upload Date: 1/29/2012 1:49:38 AM
Location:  Fabens, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4145(SD70M) UP 4268(SD70M)
Views:  332   Comments: 0
Westbound in the desert
Title:  Westbound in the desert
Description:  A westbound UP train behind a pair of then new SD70Ms rolls past the I 10 exit at McNary
Photo Date:  1/21/2001  Upload Date: 6/5/2014 2:17:51 AM
Location:  McNary, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4145(SD70M) UP 4268(SD70M)
Views:  230   Comments: 0
Westbound stacks on the old SP
Title:  Westbound stacks on the old SP
Description:  A westbound stack train rolls through the sagebrush heading for the west coast on the former SP Sunset Route.
Photo Date:  1/21/2001  Upload Date: 1/29/2012 1:51:41 AM
Location:  McNary, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4189(SD70M) UP 4006(SD70M) UP 3446(SD40-2)
Views:  495   Comments: 0
Mixed bag
Title:  Mixed bag
Description:  A westbound with an unlikely participant in the form of a BN C30-7 rolls west at McNary
Photo Date:  1/21/2001  Upload Date: 6/5/2014 2:19:57 AM
Location:  McNary, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6139(SD60M) UP 3430(SD40-2) BN 5137(C30-7)
Views:  143   Comments: 0
Quite a mix
Title:  Quite a mix
Description:  Westbound stack with a set of second tier units, including one from BN, rolls west at McNary.
Photo Date:  1/21/2001  Upload Date: 1/21/2014 1:39:24 AM
Location:  McNary, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6139(SD60M) UP 3430(SD40-2) BN 5137(C30-7)
Views:  165   Comments: 0
Wide open spaces
Title:  Wide open spaces
Description:  An eastbound rolls along I 10 in west Texas, location approximate.
Photo Date:  1/21/2001  Upload Date: 5/28/2014 2:32:54 AM
Location:  Van Horn, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9470(C41-8W)
Views:  305   Comments: 0
Yes it does snow here
Title:  Yes it does snow here
Description:  An eastbound train on the former Texas & Pacific in an unlikely Christmas card scene in west Texas. It doesnt snow here often, but once in a while the desert gets a dusting.
Photo Date:  1/21/2001  Upload Date: 1/29/2012 1:54:41 AM
Location:  Kent, TX
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Winter,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9593(C44-9W) UP 3811(SD40-2) UP 9391(C40-8W)
Views:  489   Comments: 0
Classic CNW
Title:  Classic CNW
Description:  A CNW "Operation Lifesaver" SD40-2 leads a merchandise train east.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 12/18/2013 1:01:12 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CNW 6930(SD40-2) UP 9591(C44-9W) UP 5637(B39-8)
Views:  828   Comments: 1
Heritage power meets the new order
Title:  Heritage power meets the new order
Description:  A former CNW SD40 meets a westbound coal train with an SP unit in the consist.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 1/17/2014 1:13:47 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  CNW 6930(SD40-2) UP 9591(C44-9W) UP 8140(SD9043MAC) SP 341(AC44CW)
Views:  529   Comments: 0
CNW GE
Title:  CNW GE
Description:  A CNW GE leads a "we ain't mad at nobody" consist on an eastbound coal train
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 12/18/2013 1:08:04 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CNW 8816(AC44CW) SP 293(AC44CW) UP 8081(SD9043MAC)
Views:  361   Comments: 1
Westbound trailers
Title:  Westbound trailers
Description:  A westbound intermodal train rolls through Hershey Neb behind new power
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 6/29/2011 12:43:56 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 4054(SD70M) UP 4179(SD70M)
Views:  359   Comments: 0
Westbound coal
Title:  Westbound coal
Description:  This westbound coal train sat at Hershey Neb for over two hours waiting on traffic before they could move.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 6/29/2011 12:45:20 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8140(SD9043MAC) SP 341(AC44CW)
Views:  362   Comments: 0
Classic power
Title:  Classic power
Description:  A UP SD40-2 leads an SP tunnel motor in a scene that coulld have been from the 1970s
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 12/18/2013 1:11:21 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3358(SD40-2) SP 5352(SD40T-2)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
Meet
Title:  Meet
Description:  I spent about 4 hours at Hershey that day-it was convenient to park a truck-and saw all kinds of traffic. Heres another meet, an SD70 powered eastbound passing the coal train that waited about three hours.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 1/18/2014 1:41:10 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 4064(SD70M) UP 8140(SD9043MAC) SP 341(AC44CW)
Views:  367   Comments: 0
Back to the coal fields of Wyoming
Title:  Back to the coal fields of Wyoming
Description:  An empty coal train crosses US 30 on its way up the North Platte sub, headed to the Powder River basin for more coal.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 12/18/2013 1:14:50 AM
Location:  O Fallons, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7192(AC44CW) UP 8172(SD9043MAC)
Views:  282   Comments: 0
Coal east
Title:  Coal east
Description:  I saw a lot of coal trains that day.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 12/18/2013 1:16:47 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7210(CM44AC) SP 245(AC44CW)
Views:  317   Comments: 0
New power
Title:  New power
Description:  A trio of then new GE's leads an APL stack train east.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 12/18/2013 1:21:02 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7575(AC60CW) UP 7533(AC60CW) UP 7566(AC60CW)
Views:  468   Comments: 1
SD 90
Title:  SD 90
Description:  The SD90 was a disaster for EMD. They never lived up to their potential, and were quickly retired by the two roads that owned them. Heres one leading a coal train.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 12/18/2013 1:24:42 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8054(SD9043MAC) UP 6782(AC44CW)
Views:  377   Comments: 0
Finally
Title:  Finally
Description:  This guy sat for about three hours waiting for traffic. Finally he got to go, headed back to Wyoming for more coal.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 12/18/2013 1:29:05 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8140(SD9043MAC) SP 341(AC44CW)
Views:  263   Comments: 0
Vans west
Title:  Vans west
Description:  A TOFC train passes the waiting coal train.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 1/17/2014 1:31:38 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4054(SD70M) UP 4079(SD70M) UP 8140(SD9043MAC) SP 341(AC44CW)
Views:  422   Comments: 0
Stacks and coal
Title:  Stacks and coal
Description:  A westbound stack train passes a coal train waiting in the siding
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 1/17/2014 1:28:17 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8140(SD9043MAC) SP 341(AC44CW) UP 7531(AC60CW)
Views:  351   Comments: 0
Three way
Title:  Three way
Description:  The coal train on the left was waiting for traffic-for about three hours-while the stack train on the right went east and a westbound merchandise train shot through the middle.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 1/17/2014 1:25:32 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8140(SD9043MAC) SP 341(AC44CW) UP 9547(C41-8W) CSX 5903(B36-7)
Views:  475   Comments: 0
DPU
Title:  DPU
Description:  The coal trains got DPUs all the way to Omaha or KC and beyond. Theyd stay on through to connections as welll, as will this one bringing up the rear of a loaded train.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 12/18/2013 1:32:25 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8300(SD9043MAC)
Views:  452   Comments: 0
Manifest
Title:  Manifest
Description:  In between all the intermodals and coal trains, UP occasionally runs a merchndise train. Heres one rolling west into Hershey
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 1/17/2014 1:21:18 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9543(C41-8W) UP 9266(C40-8)
Views:  315   Comments: 0
GEs west
Title:  GEs west
Description:  A pair of GEs leads a westbound manifest. This one is unusual in that its 4 motor unit trailing, a CSX B36-7, not the typical 6 axle unit.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 12/18/2013 1:34:59 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9547(C41-8W) CSX 5903(B36-7)
Views:  285   Comments: 0
Westbound stacks
Title:  Westbound stacks
Description:  A westbound stack train rolls under the signals at the east end of Hershey.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 1/17/2014 1:17:16 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9755(C44-9W) UP 9624(C44-9W)
Views:  503   Comments: 0
UP southbound
Title:  UP southbound
Description:  Tuscola Ill is an important junction. The UP-ex C&EI from Chicago to St. Louis and the NS ex Wabash both cross the IC here. In this view we see a confusing situation. Whose train is this with two of the players represented?? Its a UP train, but with a new NS ES40 leading, about to cross the IC. Thats the actual NS in to the right.
Photo Date:  5/6/2006  Upload Date: 10/21/2012 2:31:31 AM
Location:  Tuscola, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 7537(ES40DC) UP 9209(C40-8)
Views:  338   Comments: 2
Second tier power
Title:  Second tier power
Description:  Once the stalwarts of stack and auto trains, the high horsepower GEs eventually found themselves on a variety of second tier runs, such as on this 47 car local in Arkansas rice country on the old Cotton Belt, where these same units had not too long ago pulled high priority, time sensitive freight.
Photo Date:  2/4/2007  Upload Date: 7/4/2016 4:50:38 AM
Location:  Stuttgart, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1855(B40-8) UP 1801(B40-8)
Views:  214   Comments: 1
Poking around
Title:  Poking around
Description:  I was poking around the old Cotton Belt shops-now the Arkansas Railroad Museum-one morning and heard this QASLR approaching with 96 cars. Not the best shot, but OK for something I was not expecting.
Photo Date:  2/4/2007  Upload Date: 7/4/2016 4:59:21 AM
Location:  Pine Bluff, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3906(SD70M) UP 5050(SD70M) UP 4121(SD70M)
Views:  312   Comments: 1
Katy on the Rock
Title:  Katy on the Rock
Description:  I have occasionally encountered UPs heritage units, the MP unit a couple of times, as well as the SP unit. None of the ones I have seen were on the original roads. The Katy unit continued that trend. Here it is trailing a couple of Geeps on a southbound headed for Texas on the former Rock Island.
Photo Date:  5/19/2007  Upload Date: 7/4/2016 5:11:29 AM
Location:  Hennessey, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1988(SD70ACe) UP 2088(GP60) UP 2040(GP60)
Views:  203   Comments: 3
Southbound surprise
Title:  Southbound surprise
Description:  I was driving north on US 81 north of Kingfisher, which follows the former Rock line from Herington Kan down into Texas, when I caught up with this 87 car southbound UP train. GP 60s are unusual enough these days, but the trailing unit was the real treat: the Katy heritage unit. Lucky catch. Too bad the sun wasnt out!!
Photo Date:  5/19/2007  Upload Date: 7/4/2016 5:24:08 AM
Location:  Hennessey, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2040(GP60) UP 2088(GP60) UP 1988(SD70ACe)
Views:  194   Comments: 1
Pushing
Title:  Pushing
Description:  A BNSF coal train on trackage rights rolls away as we look at the DPU on the ex MP Coffeyville Sub.
Photo Date:  7/27/2007  Upload Date: 7/4/2016 4:27:27 AM
Location:  Talala, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9393(SD70ACe) BNSF 9711(SD70MAC)
Views:  234   Comments: 0
Empties north
Title:  Empties north
Description:  A coal train running on trackage rights on the old MP rolls north for KC and home rails en route back to Wyoming with 135 empties.
Photo Date:  7/27/2007  Upload Date: 7/4/2016 4:39:18 AM
Location:  Talala, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  BNSF 9955(SD70MAC) BNSF 9875(SD70MAC)
Views:  256   Comments: 1
Gone and back again
Title:  Gone and back again
Description:  This northbound 127 car train has a familiar face among the power. The second unit, once SP, shed by UP after the merger, is now back in action in familiar territory, this time in a least fleet.
Photo Date:  7/27/2007  Upload Date: 7/4/2016 4:43:42 AM
Location:  Talala, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 4743(SD70M) GECX 8308(SD40T-2) UP 9533(C41-8W)
Views:  302   Comments: 2
Grain empties
Title:  Grain empties
Description:  I dont get over to the Coffeyville Sub often, but when I do, I almost always see something. This day it was a 76 car empty grain train, headed back for KC. It was a pretty easy chase north of Inola, except right around Claremore, which has a lot of traffic.
Photo Date:  7/27/2007  Upload Date: 7/4/2016 5:30:37 AM
Location:  Nowata, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8118(SD9043MAC) UP 6483(AC44CW)
Views:  174   Comments: 1
Widecabs north
Title:  Widecabs north
Description:  The ex MP from Little Rock to Alexandria LA can be a busy line. I followed it from Pine Bluff to McGehee on trips to Mobile, and almost always saw something. This trip, it was a 125 car northbound behind a set of widecabs, typical of modern railroading.
Photo Date:  11/5/2007  Upload Date: 6/28/2016 4:24:11 AM
Location:  Tamo, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9370(C40-8W) UP 4890(SD70M) UP 9674(C44-9W)
Views:  461   Comments: 2
Sort of heritage
Title:  Sort of heritage
Description:  This ex CNW unit was on an eastbound at Van Buren, its former roads markings painted out, but no question as to its previous life.
Photo Date:  3/1/2008  Upload Date: 7/12/2016 4:08:34 AM
Location:  Van Buren, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Roster,Yard
Locomotives:  UP 6716(AC44CW)
Views:  209   Comments: 2
Pile trestle
Title:  Pile trestle
Description:  Coming from the east, where just about everything is concrete or steel, I am fascinated by the number of wood pile trestles on the main lines here. An eastbound UP trains lead unit rolls across one with no sign of distress to the bridge.
Photo Date:  6/29/2008  Upload Date: 8/3/2016 4:52:11 AM
Location:  Sallisaw, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 4608(SD70M)
Views:  184   Comments: 0
Easy shot
Title:  Easy shot
Description:  UPs ex MP Coffeyville Sub runs along US 59/64 through Sallisaw, right next to the road as it passes through town. It was an easy shot to get of this 98 car eastbound headed toward the yard in Van Buren Ark, about 25 miles ahead.
Photo Date:  6/29/2008  Upload Date: 8/3/2016 4:55:50 AM
Location:  Sallisaw, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 4608(SD70M) UP 4041(SD70M)
Views:  241   Comments: 0
Pushing into Arkansas
Title:  Pushing into Arkansas
Description:  This eastbound coal train had a pair of GEs for its DPU, pushing it on into Arkansas on the ex MP.
Photo Date:  3/8/2009  Upload Date: 8/25/2016 3:31:48 AM
Location:  Roland, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6216(AC44CW) UP 6653(AC44CW)
Views:  222   Comments: 1
No cigar
Title:  No cigar
Description:  One of those shots where you have it all set up, then something you missed screws the photo. This was a sketchy shot from the lighing point of view as it was, then the pole shadow got me on the leader. Oh well. This coal train is eastbound on the ex MP at Dora OK, about to enter Van Buren Ark.
Photo Date:  3/8/2009  Upload Date: 8/25/2016 3:24:26 AM
Location:  Roland, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6836(AC44CW) UP 5969(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  198   Comments: 1
Cape local
Title:  Cape local
Description:  This local was at an ex Mopac yard near Cape Girardeau. It looked like the kind of place that gets flooded out periodically, very close to the river.
Photo Date:  11/14/2009  Upload Date: 9/3/2016 4:19:59 AM
Location:  Cape Girardeau, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  UP 1475(GP40M-2)
Views:  213   Comments: 1
UP 6467 north on the former MoPac
Title:  UP 6467 north on the former MoPac
Description:  UP 6467 at
Photo Date:  7/3/2010  Upload Date: 1/23/2011 8:48:58 PM
Location:  Grady, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6467(AC44CW) UP 5910(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  264   Comments: 0

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