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5/3/2024
 
 
 
 
 
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The clouds part for the 5458
Title:  The clouds part for the 5458
Description:  A brief ray of sunlight casts its benign presence above UP 5458 following two BNSF intermodals north through Woodford.
Photo Date:  4/11/2010  Upload Date: 4/23/2010 11:01:44 AM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5458(AC45CCTE)
Views:  189   Comments: 1
Coming and going
Title:  Coming and going
Description:  UP 5461 arrivs at Bealville while its DPU power leaves Cliff. The train is in both Tunnels Nos. 3 and 5.
Photo Date:  4/24/2011  Upload Date: 1/26/2012 1:03:46 AM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5461(AC45CCTE)
Views:  157   Comments: 0
Not quite spring
Title:  Not quite spring
Description:  UP 5468 slams through the control point at McGinn on a 69 degree January evening.
Photo Date:  1/30/2012  Upload Date: 1/31/2012 10:32:40 PM
Location:  North Bend, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5468(AC45CCTE)
Views:  134   Comments: 1
Rural Nebraska
Title:  Rural Nebraska
Description:  US 30 is to the UP what Route 66 was to the AT&SF - paralleling the railroad for vast distances. The long shadows of sunset after 5pm speak of steadily lengthier days - a welcome sign.
Photo Date:  1/30/2012  Upload Date: 1/31/2012 10:35:18 PM
Location:  North Bend, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5468(AC45CCTE)
Views:  135   Comments: 2
Hitting the diamond
Title:  Hitting the diamond
Description:  UP 8565 East starts across the BNSF diamond arriving at Fremont.
Photo Date:  3/30/2012  Upload Date: 4/9/2012 10:47:38 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8565(SD70ACe) UP 5478(AC45CCTE) UP 4773(SD70M)
Views:  273   Comments: 1
Those long June evenings
Title:  Those long June evenings
Description:  A decent afternoon with half a dozen manifests and the usual run of coal loads and empties in several hours. As the sun waned and I began heading for home, another eastbound showed and I chased it down Lincoln Highway to grab this view just west of Logan.
Photo Date:  6/29/2010  Upload Date: 7/3/2010 12:22:08 PM
Location:  Logan, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5487(AC45CCTE)
Views:  237   Comments: 0
The days closer
Title:  The days closer
Description:  UP 5502 is chasing UP 5468 West into the sundown at McGinn.
Photo Date:  1/30/2012  Upload Date: 1/31/2012 10:36:35 PM
Location:  North Bend, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5502(AC45CCTE)
Views:  113   Comments: 0
UP 5518 East
Title:  UP 5518 East
Description:  UP 5518 East rolling up the Boyer River valley on Easter Sunday.
Photo Date:  4/8/2012  Upload Date: 4/9/2012 11:56:24 PM
Location:  Woodbine, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5518(AC45CCTE) UP 5698(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
Leaving town
Title:  Leaving town
Description:  UP 5520 West is among some seven or eight intermodal trains that passed within a couple hours.
Photo Date:  11/7/2010  Upload Date: 11/15/2010 11:46:23 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5520(AC45CCTE) UP 4208(SD70M)
Views:  297   Comments: 3
UP 7655
Title:  UP 7655
Description:  It is quite an amazing path that the rails negotiate to elevate their twisting path from the valley floor toward the summit. UP 7655 brings a southbound intermodal train through Bealville.
Photo Date:  4/9/2010  Upload Date: 4/21/2010 11:45:27 AM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7655(AC45CCTE) UP 5534(AC45CCTE) UP 4971(SD70M)
Views:  436   Comments: 0
UP 5546
Title:  UP 5546
Description:  Northbound manifest between Cliff and Bealville near the site of old Tunnel No.4, taken out in the 1952 earthquake.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 1:06:27 PM
Location:  Cliff, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 5546(AC45CCTE)
Views:  208   Comments: 0
UP 7976
Title:  UP 7976
Description:  A clean new GE leads a string of intermodal boxes.
Photo Date:  2/5/2013  Upload Date: 2/10/2013 5:39:13 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7976(AC45CCTE) UP 4512(SD70M) UP 8414(SD70ACe) UP 5551(AC45CCTE)
Views:  441   Comments: 1
UP 7349
Title:  UP 7349
Description: 
Photo Date:  8/11/2014  Upload Date: 8/31/2014 2:23:22 AM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7349(AC45CCTE)
Views:  187   Comments: 0
Just right
Title:  Just right
Description:  I rode from Sandpoint, ID (huge run of trains after dark) over to Rock Island, WA to see the trestle within a trestle but came up snake eyes on trains. So I headed for the Columbia gorge around Wishram and spent the night at one of the better motel bargains - Dintys for some $42 a night, clean and right near the UP. Next morning I am sipping coffee, marveling at how good the lighting is for a train, if one were to show. Voila! here comes UP 7353 East to start off a good morning of activity.
Photo Date:  8/18/2011  Upload Date: 2/2/2012 3:21:19 PM
Location:  Biggs, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7353(AC45CCTE) UP 9766(C44-9W) UP 5077(SD70M)
Views:  579   Comments: 4
UP 7357
Title:  UP 7357
Description:  Westbound auto rack train crosses the Missouri River that is well above flood stage. The nuclear power plant just down river was being sandbagged at the time.
Photo Date:  6/27/2011  Upload Date: 1/27/2012 12:47:48 AM
Location:  Blair, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7357(AC45CCTE)
Views:  181   Comments: 1
UP 8473
Title:  UP 8473
Description:  Westbound departing Fremont, NE on a winter afternoon.
Photo Date:  2/5/2013  Upload Date: 2/10/2013 5:38:10 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8473(SD70ACe) UP 7371(AC45CCTE)
Views:  260   Comments: 1
UP 7463
Title:  UP 7463
Description:  Westbound intermodal outfit departing Fremont on a Saturday afternoon.
Photo Date:  12/17/2011  Upload Date: 12/19/2011 6:50:09 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7463(AC45CCTE) UP 7372(AC45CCTE)
Views:  231   Comments: 0
UP 7382
Title:  UP 7382
Description:  UP 7382 is close on BNSF 4518s heels through the curves between Walong and Marcel.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/17/2012 12:27:44 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7382(AC45CCTE)
Views:  184   Comments: 1
UP 7382
Title:  UP 7382
Description:  If Horseshoe Curve is the iconic railroad location in the east, Tehachapi Loop must be the equivalent in the west. UP 7382 North rounds the loop and exits Tunnel No.9 before sundown.
Photo Date:  5/6/2012  Upload Date: 5/7/2013 10:03:56 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Tunnel,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7382(AC45CCTE)
Views:  170   Comments: 1
UP 7423
Title:  UP 7423
Description:  UP 7423 is eastbound with double-stacks at MP 31 near Valley, NE on the short, remaining segment of current of traffic signalled railroad between Elkhorn and Mercer.
Photo Date:  1/13/2010  Upload Date: 3/15/2010 3:50:56 PM
Location:  Valley, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Winter,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7423(AC45CCTE)
Views:  297   Comments: 0
Two views of UP 7432-I
Title:  Two views of UP 7432-I
Description:  Eastbound intermodal outfit cruising through Fremont.
Photo Date:  12/17/2011  Upload Date: 12/19/2011 6:51:40 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7432(AC45CCTE) UP 4546(SD70M)
Views:  218   Comments: 1
Two views of UP 7432-II
Title:  Two views of UP 7432-II
Description: 
Photo Date:  12/17/2011  Upload Date: 12/19/2011 6:51:28 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7432(AC45CCTE) UP 4546(SD70M)
Views:  228   Comments: 0
Easing down
Title:  Easing down
Description:  UP 7442 let one by at Woodford and is now easing through Bealville for a meet.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 12:47:12 PM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7442(AC45CCTE)
Views:  195   Comments: 2
Northbound manifest
Title:  Northbound manifest
Description:  UP 7442 is heading in at Woodford to let an intermodal train by.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 12:32:21 PM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7442(AC45CCTE)
Views:  186   Comments: 1
The iconic wings
Title:  The iconic wings
Description:  No other railroad logo has survived the years of consolidations - not the great keystone, the B&Os capitol dome, the Northern Pacific monad or the Great Northern goat, et al. All have passed, but for the KCS. Yet the Union Pacific emblem is into its third century of existence and endurance.
Photo Date:  8/16/2009  Upload Date: 4/1/2010 12:26:55 PM
Location:  Meacham, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7916(AC45CCTE) UP 7446(AC45CCTE) UP 8522(SD70ACe)
Views:  429   Comments: 0
Home stretch to La Grande
Title:  Home stretch to La Grande
Description:  UP 7916 West has just a few more miles to the division point in La Grande, OR.
Photo Date:  8/16/2009  Upload Date: 4/1/2010 11:37:38 AM
Location:  Union Junction, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7916(AC45CCTE) UP 7446(AC45CCTE) UP 8522(SD70ACe)
Views:  449   Comments: 0
Track Speed
Title:  Track Speed
Description:  The 7449 West is undeterred by curvature or significant gradient as it ticks off the Nebraska miles at a solid 70.
Photo Date:  8/21/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:34:18 PM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7449(AC45CCTE)
Views:  191   Comments: 2
On the loop
Title:  On the loop
Description:  UP 7477 North negotiates Tehachapi Loop on a Sunday morning.
Photo Date:  5/6/2012  Upload Date: 10/9/2012 12:44:06 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7477(AC45CCTE) UP 7455(AC45CCTE) UP 4364(SD70M) UP 8512(SD70ACe)
Views:  396   Comments: 1
UP 7456
Title:  UP 7456
Description:  A westbound double-stack outfit cruises past the site of a derailment from earlier in the month west of the control point at McGinn. High winds flipped a trailer home nearby and derailed part of a westbound coal empty.
Photo Date:  4/29/2013  Upload Date: 4/30/2013 11:46:20 AM
Location:  McGinn, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Wreck,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7456(AC45CCTE)
Views:  196   Comments: 0
UP 7479
Title:  UP 7479
Description:  DPU power on UP 7442 North
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 7/18/2012 12:30:27 PM
Location:  Woodford, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7479(AC45CCTE)
Views:  147   Comments: 0
Into the October sundown
Title:  Into the October sundown
Description:  UP 7484 passes the old west end of Kennard siding where grading is underway for the on-going double tracking of the former C&NW freight line between Missouri Valley, IA and Fremont, NE. The line, which has been primarily a westbound by-pass around Omaha, will see increasing levels of eastbound traffic as capacity is increased.
Photo Date:  10/15/2012  Upload Date: 11/1/2012 9:46:18 AM
Location:  Kennard, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7484(AC45CCTE)
Views:  151   Comments: 0
Clean Machine
Title:  Clean Machine
Description:  UP 7499 is at the rear of an eastbound double-stack train, illustrating how good UPs color scheme looks when clean.
Photo Date:  10/4/2011  Upload Date: 10/5/2011 12:29:04 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7499(AC45CCTE)
Views:  208   Comments: 1
UP 7518
Title:  UP 7518
Description:  76 cars of vehicles
Photo Date:  11/1/2011  Upload Date: 1/25/2012 4:14:59 PM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7518(AC45CCTE) UP 4904(SD70M)
Views:  216   Comments: 2
UP 7610 in the Blues
Title:  UP 7610 in the Blues
Description:  Just west of La Grande, OR.
Photo Date:  4/28/2011  Upload Date: 1/26/2012 1:23:22 AM
Location:  La Grande, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7610(AC45CCTE) UP 9509(C41-8W) UP 4444(SD70M) UP 4350(SD70M)
Views:  439   Comments: 0
Endangered searchlights
Title:  Endangered searchlights
Description:  UP 7610 crests the second of three big grades on the Oregon Short Line at Telocaset.
Photo Date:  4/28/2011  Upload Date: 1/26/2012 1:28:57 AM
Location:  Telocaset, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7610(AC45CCTE) UP 9509(C41-8W) UP 4444(SD70M) UP 4350(SD70M)
Views:  494   Comments: 0
Eastbound manifest
Title:  Eastbound manifest
Description:  UP 7610 Eastbound at Union Jct., OR as snow squalls move across the wide valley.
Photo Date:  4/28/2011  Upload Date: 1/26/2012 1:26:41 AM
Location:  Union Junction, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7610(AC45CCTE) UP 9509(C41-8W) UP 4444(SD70M) UP 4350(SD70M)
Views:  375   Comments: 0
Catch me if you can
Title:  Catch me if you can
Description:  UP 7611 was already whistling for the road crossings in Fremont as it departed town and I had to kick the Harley into high gear to overtake it at Troxel, a few miles west of town.
Photo Date:  9/20/2010  Upload Date: 9/21/2010 11:07:28 AM
Location:  Troxel, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7611(AC45CCTE) NS 9240(C40-9W) UP 6633(AC44CW)
Views:  278   Comments: 2
UP 7611 Take 2
Title:  UP 7611 Take 2
Description:  UP 7611 passes the wide angle friendly grain elevator at Troxel.
Photo Date:  9/20/2010  Upload Date: 9/21/2010 11:09:30 AM
Location:  Troxel, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7611(AC45CCTE) NS 9240(C40-9W) UP 6633(AC44CW)
Views:  295   Comments: 0
UP 7630
Title:  UP 7630
Description:  The DPU unit on a southbound intermodal at Marcel.
Photo Date:  5/3/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 12:11:22 AM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7630(AC45CCTE)
Views:  160   Comments: 0
New Diamonds
Title:  New Diamonds
Description:  A westbound intermodal it about to hit the BNSF/UP diamond at Fremont, NE - diamonds that take a lot of tonnage.
Photo Date:  7/12/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:28:02 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Track,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7637(AC45CCTE)
Views:  172   Comments: 2
Power to burn
Title:  Power to burn
Description:  Plenty of horsepower on this westbound intermodal leaving Fremont on a spring afternoon.
Photo Date:  5/10/2013  Upload Date: 5/13/2013 8:07:30 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7641(AC45CCTE)
Views:  120   Comments: 3
Confirmation at Cienega Creek
Title:  Confirmation at Cienega Creek
Description:  After the eastbound passed, I found a spot on a hillside where I could watch it slowly coil its way through the desert landscape and, with luck, spy any westbounds approaching. I suppose a scanner would be wise, but after 40+ years of using and monitoring the radio Id just as soon listen to the birds. Well, I thought I was seeing the eastbound consist moving away off in the distance, and then noticed it was a westbound. So I scrambled down the hill and was blessed with a nice afternoon manifest.
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:18:11 PM
Location:  Cienega Creek, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7649(AC45CCTE) UP 4227(SD70M)
Views:  285   Comments: 0
Make my day
Title:  Make my day
Description:  UP 7649, the lone westbound until after dark, makes the journey worthwhile.
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 1:22:19 PM
Location:  Cienega Creek, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7649(AC45CCTE) UP 4227(SD70M)
Views:  280   Comments: 1
UP 7664 West
Title:  UP 7664 West
Description:  The dimensions of the west dwarf mans creations.
Photo Date:  8/18/2011  Upload Date: 2/2/2012 3:49:48 PM
Location:  Celilo, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7664(AC45CCTE)
Views:  175   Comments: 0
UP 7664 West
Title:  UP 7664 West
Description:  A short distance west of Rowena as seen from old US30.
Photo Date:  8/18/2011  Upload Date: 2/2/2012 3:51:00 PM
Location:  Rowena, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7664(AC45CCTE) UP 4201(SD70M)
Views:  209   Comments: 0
Ready to go
Title:  Ready to go
Description:  As the westbound nears, UP 5256 begins to pull, with two DPUs bringing up the rear.
Photo Date:  8/16/2009  Upload Date: 4/1/2010 11:34:30 AM
Location:  Union Junction, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 3881(SD70M) UP 7665(AC45CCTE)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
Coming and going
Title:  Coming and going
Description:  UP 7916 West passes the 5256 East s DPU power.
Photo Date:  8/16/2009  Upload Date: 4/1/2010 11:36:08 AM
Location:  Union Junction, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7916(AC45CCTE) UP 7665(AC45CCTE)
Views:  316   Comments: 0
Not long for this world
Title:  Not long for this world
Description:  Extensive grading has been done for the second mainline west of Tucson, and you know what that spells for the classic searchlights. UP 7666 crusies through East Picacho at track speed.
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 11:23:02 AM
Location:  Picacho, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7666(AC45CCTE) UP 8528(SD70ACe)
Views:  236   Comments: 0
A Tale of UP 7674 East-V
Title:  A Tale of UP 7674 East-V
Description:  In the lovely setting of the Blue Mountains UP 7674 is cruising down the valley between Haines and Baker, OR.
Photo Date:  5/11/2012  Upload Date: 5/9/2013 10:59:52 AM
Location:  Haines, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7674(AC45CCTE) UP 5927(AC44CWCTE) UP 7014(AC4460CW)
Views:  205   Comments: 1
A Tale of UP 7674 East-III
Title:  A Tale of UP 7674 East-III
Description:  The 7674 has attained the summit at Telocaset. Somehow the scene doesnt look right without searchlight signals in the background. Progress does not heed aesthetics.
Photo Date:  5/11/2012  Upload Date: 5/9/2013 10:54:18 AM
Location:  Telocaset, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7674(AC45CCTE)
Views:  126   Comments: 1


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