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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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Pair of GEs
Title:  Pair of GEs
Description:  One of them is ex SP. At this time there were still a lot in original paint, this is one of many I saw that dayh.
Photo Date:  5/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/21/2014 1:45:58 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6646(AC44CW) SP 185(AC44CW)
Views:  411   Comments: 2
DPU
Title:  DPU
Description:  A UP GE brings up the rear on a loaded coal train
Photo Date:  5/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/21/2014 1:49:55 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6670(AC44CW)
Views:  218   Comments: 1
Back to the mines
Title:  Back to the mines
Description:  A trio of GEs leads a coal train back to Wyoming
Photo Date:  5/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/21/2014 1:54:57 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6777(AC44CW) UP 7065(AC4460CW) UP 7198(AC44CW)
Views:  398   Comments: 0
Mixed power
Title:  Mixed power
Description:  A mostly autorack train roll west behind a GE and EMD
Photo Date:  5/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/21/2014 1:57:12 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7017(AC4460CW) UP 8035(SD9043MAC)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
Coal east
Title:  Coal east
Description:  A loaded coal train rolls east behind one each GE and EMD
Photo Date:  5/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/21/2014 1:58:56 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7139(AC44CW) UP 8046(SD9043MAC)
Views:  301   Comments: 0
SD90
Title:  SD90
Description:  For a while, til they proved themselves unreliable, SD9043s were common on coal trains, such as this empty westbound.
Photo Date:  5/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/21/2014 2:01:33 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8047(SD9043MAC) UP 7101(AC44CW)
Views:  283   Comments: 0
Eastbound coal
Title:  Eastbound coal
Description:  An eastbound coal train led bt an SD90 rolls past the grain elevator
Photo Date:  5/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/11/2014 1:04:43 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8088(SD9043MAC) UP 7207(AC44CW)
Views:  374   Comments: 6
Autos
Title:  Autos
Description:  A break in the parade of coal trains brings this auto rack train, also behind an SD90
Photo Date:  5/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/11/2014 1:07:05 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8110(SD9043MAC) UP 3456(SD40-2)
Views:  352   Comments: 1
Empty with and SD90
Title:  Empty with and SD90
Description:  Another empty coal train led by and SD90 heads back to Wyoming
Photo Date:  5/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/21/2014 2:03:58 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8123(SD9043MAC) UP 7127(AC44CW)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
Stacks with old power
Title:  Stacks with old power
Description:  When they first started running in the mid 80s, stack trains were high priority, and got the top shelf power most of the time. By this point in 2000, theyre just another intermodal, and get anything.
Photo Date:  5/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/11/2014 1:10:23 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 9099(C41-8) UP 3158(SD40-2)
Views:  387   Comments: 0
Great leader
Title:  Great leader
Description:  At the time of this photo, it was still possible to see a pretty good variety of predecessor road power on UP. Heres one such, a CNW unit leading an SP unit on an eastbound.
Photo Date:  5/27/2000  Upload Date: 2/6/2014 1:44:52 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CNW 6925(SD40-2) SP 8521(SD40T-2)
Views:  418   Comments: 1
CNW westbound
Title:  CNW westbound
Description:  A westbound stack train rolls past the elevator behind an interesting set of power-CNW units in two schemes and a 4 axle GE.
Photo Date:  5/27/2000  Upload Date: 2/6/2014 1:49:20 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CNW 8506(C40-8) UP 5683(B40-8) CNW 8051(SD60)
Views:  514   Comments: 0
Coal east
Title:  Coal east
Description:  A mixed set of power, including one of the misbegotten SD90s, leads an eastbound coal train
Photo Date:  5/27/2000  Upload Date: 2/6/2014 1:52:30 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6741(AC44CW) UP 8043(SD9043MAC)
Views:  378   Comments: 0
Coal empties
Title:  Coal empties
Description:  The standard power set in those days seems to have been a GE and an SD90, I saw quite a few that day. This one is pulling empties back to Wyoming.
Photo Date:  5/27/2000  Upload Date: 2/6/2014 1:55:18 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7164(AC44CW) UP 8065(SD9043MAC)
Views:  517   Comments: 0
More coal east
Title:  More coal east
Description:  Another coal train, this one behind a pair of GEs, makes its way to a power plant somewhere.
Photo Date:  5/27/2000  Upload Date: 2/6/2014 1:58:01 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7206(AC44CW) UP 7081(AC44CW)
Views:  305   Comments: 0
Van train
Title:  Van train
Description:  UP runs a wide variety of traffic on its Nebraska main. Here a van train behind a GE and a couple of EMDs heads east.
Photo Date:  5/27/2000  Upload Date: 2/6/2014 2:00:42 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7263(AC44CW) UP 8304(SD9043MAC) UP 6168(SD60M)
Views:  423   Comments: 1
Still more coal
Title:  Still more coal
Description:  This time the EMD leads on one of an endless parade of coal trains.
Photo Date:  5/27/2000  Upload Date: 2/6/2014 2:04:15 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8042(SD9043MAC) UP 7097(AC44CW)
Views:  279   Comments: 0
SD90 DPU
Title:  SD90 DPU
Description:  The coal train led by the SD90 had one pushing as well, Here it is going away past the grain elevator
Photo Date:  5/27/2000  Upload Date: 2/6/2014 2:06:44 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8209(SD9043MAC)
Views:  172   Comments: 0
Old warriors
Title:  Old warriors
Description:  By now, the original C40-8s were becoming the older secondary power as the legions of widecabs came on line. Here a pair go west, still worthy of priority service.
Photo Date:  5/27/2000  Upload Date: 2/6/2014 2:09:52 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 9054(C40-8) UP 9132(C40-8)
Views:  313   Comments: 1
Stack with an SP unit
Title:  Stack with an SP unit
Description:  SPs big power mostly went to the coal trains, but the other units could show up anywhere, as this tunnel motor on a stack train
Photo Date:  5/27/2000  Upload Date: 2/6/2014 2:16:41 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 5397(SD40T-2) UP 3908(SD40-2)
Views:  448   Comments: 1
Stacks west
Title:  Stacks west
Description:  A westbound stack train rolls through Cozad behind a GE and a pair of older EMDs
Photo Date:  5/27/2000  Upload Date: 2/6/2014 2:21:05 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 9705(C44-9W) UP 6101(SD60M)
Views:  371   Comments: 0
CNW yard
Title:  CNW yard
Description:  The CNW had a yard just northwest of downtown Chicago, and I often saw power there. Today theres an ex MILW MP 15 there too, along with a pair of ex CNW units, one still in original paint, which I nailed in one of those "hold up the camera and pray" shots taken from the Edens Expressway
Photo Date:  6/3/2000  Upload Date: 2/10/2014 1:25:28 AM
Location:  Chicago, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  SOO 1560(MP15AC) CNW 4404(GP15-1) UP 1715(GP15AC)
Views:  739   Comments: 1
Southbound on the ex Mopac
Title:  Southbound on the ex Mopac
Description:  A southbound with some classic power and yet another NS GE rolls toward Little Rock on the ex MP. The second unit should feel right at home. It was originally a MP unit
Photo Date:  6/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/10/2014 1:20:26 AM
Location:  Walnut Ridge, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 9163(C40-8) UP 5031(SD70M) NS 9109(C40-9W)
Views:  507   Comments: 1
Eastbound on the Rock
Title:  Eastbound on the Rock
Description:  An eastbound rolls up the Golden State Route
Photo Date:  7/20/2000  Upload Date: 1/26/2014 3:41:40 AM
Location:  Greensburg, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 9449(C41-8W) UP 9728(C44-9W)
Views:  457   Comments: 0
Westbound on the Rock
Title:  Westbound on the Rock
Description:  A westbound rolls along the ex Rock Island as seen from adjacent US 54.
Photo Date:  7/28/2000  Upload Date: 1/26/2014 3:36:33 AM
Location:  Liberal, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 4026(SD70M) UP 5057(SD50) UP 5961(SD60)
Views:  442   Comments: 2
SP power east
Title:  SP power east
Description:  This eastbound was rolling along US 54 near Mineola Kan on the ex Rock Golden State route with a pair of SP GP 60s bracketing a UP unit.
Photo Date:  8/4/2000  Upload Date: 7/15/2012 2:58:15 AM
Location:  Minneola, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  SSW 9652(GP60) UP 3761(SD40-2)
Views:  501   Comments: 3
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:  455   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:  396   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: 
Views:  331   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:  224   Comments: 1
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:  645   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:  459   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:  376   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:  379   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: 
Views:  544   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:  205   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:  546   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:  893   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:  622   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:  425   Comments: 1
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:  () SP 5352(SD40T-2)
Views:  392   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:  428   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:  345   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:  376   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:  517   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:  433   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:  306   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:  495   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:  408   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)
Views:  564   Comments: 0

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