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5/3/2024
 
 
 
 
 
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A TAle of UP 7674 East-I
Title:  A TAle of UP 7674 East-I
Description:  UP 7674 East has arrived at Union Jct., OR for a meet, headlight extinguished.
Photo Date:  5/11/2012  Upload Date: 5/9/2013 10:49:07 AM
Location:  Union Junction, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7674(AC45CCTE)
Views:  115   Comments: 0
Summer dream
Title:  Summer dream
Description:  UP 7675 embellishes a lovely June afternoon.
Photo Date:  6/23/2011  Upload Date: 1/27/2012 12:42:00 AM
Location:  Troxel, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7675(AC45CCTE) UP 4101(SD70M)
Views:  266   Comments: 0
UP 7683 on The Loop-I
Title:  UP 7683 on The Loop-I
Description:  The tail of the train is clear down to Woodford yet as UP 7683 begins to negotiate Tehachapi Loop.
Photo Date:  4/10/2010  Upload Date: 4/22/2010 12:29:05 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7683(AC45CCTE) UP 5085(SD70M) UP 8228(SD9043MAC)
Views:  416   Comments: 0
UP 7683 on The Loop-II
Title:  UP 7683 on The Loop-II
Description:  Ever higher
Photo Date:  4/10/2010  Upload Date: 4/22/2010 12:40:25 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7683(AC45CCTE) UP 5085(SD70M) UP 8228(SD9043MAC)
Views:  409   Comments: 0
UP 7683 on the Loop - III
Title:  UP 7683 on the Loop - III
Description:  Passing over Tunnel No.9
Photo Date:  4/10/2010  Upload Date: 4/22/2010 12:43:56 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7683(AC45CCTE) UP 5085(SD70M) UP 8228(SD9043MAC)
Views:  394   Comments: 0
UP 7683 on The Loop-IV
Title:  UP 7683 on The Loop-IV
Description:  Finally, the big manifest reaches your vantage point and roars past with units wide open as they thread the manifest through the Tehachapi Range.
Photo Date:  4/10/2010  Upload Date: 4/22/2010 12:48:06 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7683(AC45CCTE) UP 5085(SD70M) UP 8228(SD9043MAC)
Views:  375   Comments: 0
Company Notch
Title:  Company Notch
Description:  UP 7683 has got em at or near maximum speed as it sails through Ames. No wonder, as the consist amounts to 22 double-stack units, and with a DPU on the rear!
Photo Date:  9/20/2010  Upload Date: 9/21/2010 11:26:31 AM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7683(AC45CCTE)
Views:  260   Comments: 1
Round the bend
Title:  Round the bend
Description:  UP 7683 bears down as it negotiates a slight bend where the old Ames center siding once spliced the east and westward mains. You take your curves where you can find them in this country.
Photo Date:  9/20/2010  Upload Date: 9/21/2010 7:38:17 PM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7683(AC45CCTE)
Views:  249   Comments: 0
UP 7685
Title:  UP 7685
Description:  Rolling west on the old Golden State Route that featured lower quad semaphores right up into merger, this intermodal train has just passed under BNSFs Transcon that crosses the valley on the high fill in the background.
Photo Date:  4/7/2010  Upload Date: 4/20/2010 10:18:37 AM
Location:  Vaughn, NM
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7685(AC45CCTE) UP 4570(SD70M)
Views:  434   Comments: 0
Lookin sharp
Title:  Lookin sharp
Description:  UP 7686 looks good at the head of a westbound manifest departing Fremont, NE.
Photo Date:  3/16/2011  Upload Date: 9/10/2011 4:19:46 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7686(AC45CCTE) UP 9441(C41-8W)
Views:  348   Comments: 1
Wings
Title:  Wings
Description:  Of course, the really cool aspect of Caliente and Bealville is that one can catch the same train at both locations by virtue of the short roadway vs. railroad distance between these points. The classic Union Pacific wings lend a striking appeal to the most consistent of railroad paint schemes.
Photo Date:  4/22/2011  Upload Date: 9/27/2011 1:26:40 PM
Location:  Bealville, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7693(AC45CCTE)
Views:  203   Comments: 0
Getting underway
Title:  Getting underway
Description:  Once UP 5365 North has cleared, the 7693 gets the railroad to head up grade and wastes no time getting with the program.
Photo Date:  4/22/2011  Upload Date: 9/27/2011 1:14:04 PM
Location:  Caliente, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7693(AC45CCTE)
Views:  234   Comments: 0
Arriving in town
Title:  Arriving in town
Description:  UP 7698 is slowing for a crew change in La Grande.
Photo Date:  8/16/2009  Upload Date: 4/1/2010 11:43:21 AM
Location:  La Grande, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7698(AC45CCTE)
Views:  242   Comments: 0
Never on Tuesday
Title:  Never on Tuesday
Description:  It is generally the slowest day of the week mid-continent (good for Maintenance of Way) and never an ideal time to be trackside. Time passed and the sun was lining itself up with the rails when UP 7698 finally showed, but that cantilever was the object.
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 11:17:47 AM
Location:  Picacho, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7698(AC45CCTE) UP 4858(SD70M)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
UP 8437
Title:  UP 8437
Description:  State of the art railroading on the Overland Route.
Photo Date:  3/14/2012  Upload Date: 3/30/2012 12:11:47 AM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8437(SD70ACe) UP 7710(AC45CCTE)
Views:  194   Comments: 1
UP 7738
Title:  UP 7738
Description:  A hour long lull in traffic is broken by UP 7738
Photo Date:  5/4/2012  Upload Date: 7/14/2012 1:12:42 PM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7738(AC45CCTE) UP 4168(SD70M)
Views:  242   Comments: 1
Against the grain
Title:  Against the grain
Description:  UP 7746 is running the westward track that will soon be bi-directional with the activation of the generic traffic lights replacing these classic UP block signals.
Photo Date:  2/13/2013  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 10:21:30 AM
Location:  Mercer, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7746(AC45CCTE)
Views:  192   Comments: 0
Rolling through the loop
Title:  Rolling through the loop
Description:  UP 7761 is northbound at Walong at six in the afternoon.
Photo Date:  5/5/2012  Upload Date: 8/3/2012 12:44:39 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7761(AC45CCTE)
Views:  207   Comments: 1
The folks who live on the hill
Title:  The folks who live on the hill
Description:  Given my druthers, Id prefer a porch closer to the tracks, however, the folks who live on this hill seem to have a fine vista. UP 7769 enters two main tracks at the north end of Cable.
Photo Date:  4/24/2011  Upload Date: 1/25/2012 4:53:29 PM
Location:  Cable, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7769(AC45CCTE) UP 4098(SD70M)
Views:  188   Comments: 2
UP 5716 East cruises through Ames, NE.
Title:  UP 5716 East cruises through Ames, NE.
Description: 
Photo Date:  10/3/2011  Upload Date: 10/4/2011 3:05:26 PM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5716(AC44CWCTE) UP 3786(SD70M) UP 6809(AC44CW) UP 8002(SD9043MAC) UP 8487(SD70ACe) UP 7784(AC45CCTE)
Views:  557   Comments: 0
A clean set of power
Title:  A clean set of power
Description:  Three relatively new ES44ACs showing the affect of a storm that moved through the region lead a westbound intermodal outfit between Arlington and Fremont, NE
Photo Date:  1/30/2013  Upload Date: 2/10/2013 6:18:17 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7821(AC45CCTE) UP 8045(AC45CCTE) UP 7985(AC45CCTE)
Views:  390   Comments: 1
In the middle
Title:  In the middle
Description:  UP 7828 amidst the double-stacks of a fast moving intermodal outfit at the east end of Naviska siding.
Photo Date:  4/13/2010  Upload Date: 4/24/2010 12:29:00 PM
Location:  Naviska, AZ
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7828(AC45CCTE)
Views:  169   Comments: 0
Going away
Title:  Going away
Description:  UP 7828 does rear-end honors on a UP intermodal outfit at the south switch of Marcel.
Photo Date:  4/21/2011  Upload Date: 9/27/2011 12:22:37 PM
Location:  Marcel, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7828(AC45CCTE)
Views:  212   Comments: 0
A vista of contrasts
Title:  A vista of contrasts
Description:  Not long behind a manifest comes UP 7839 with double-stacks. What a marvelous content of contrasts such as the blue river, parched canyon walls, high plains and Mt. Hood - with a railroad running right down the center of the scene.
Photo Date:  8/18/2011  Upload Date: 2/2/2012 3:23:09 PM
Location:  Biggs, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7839(AC45CCTE)
Views:  438   Comments: 7
Early Autumn
Title:  Early Autumn
Description:  A rather busy afternoon around Fremont with UP 7842 bringing a 2+2 double stack outfit west across the BNSF diamonds and a bit of color in what passes for autumn in the Heartland.
Photo Date:  9/26/2011  Upload Date: 10/4/2011 2:31:43 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7842(AC45CCTE) UP 4008(SD70M)
Views:  235   Comments: 0
Just another train
Title:  Just another train
Description:  Albeit an interesting manifest rolling down the Boyer River valley between Woodbine and Logan, IA.
Photo Date:  8/13/2012  Upload Date: 9/21/2012 11:30:20 PM
Location:  Woodbine, IA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7851(AC45CCTE)
Views:  125   Comments: 1
With the wind at its tail
Title:  With the wind at its tail
Description:  UP 7875 has a fast moving intermodal eastbound on the Transcon. Another unit is tucked in mid-train.
Photo Date:  10/26/2010  Upload Date: 11/10/2010 10:55:18 AM
Location:  Cameron, IL
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7875(AC45CCTE)
Views:  196   Comments: 0
UP 7891
Title:  UP 7891
Description:  One last train before the sun sets...
Photo Date:  5/6/2012  Upload Date: 5/7/2013 10:05:24 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7891(AC45CCTE)
Views:  123   Comments: 1
A Beautiful Day
Title:  A Beautiful Day
Description:  Its a beautiful day in the Columbia River gorge as a westbound double-stacker meets an eastbound waiting its turn at the end of double track. UP 7899 is the rear DPU unit. For some reason UP moved the control point half a mile to the west, thus the now rusting eastbound main to the left of the train.
Photo Date:  5/10/2012  Upload Date: 5/8/2013 12:17:07 PM
Location:  Biggs, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7899(AC45CCTE)
Views:  160   Comments: 3
One thing is for certain...
Title:  One thing is for certain...
Description:  if you are in Nebraska, you are going to see coal trains. Plenty of coal trains - most of em 135 cars long. More empties roll west.
Photo Date:  9/26/2011  Upload Date: 10/4/2011 2:34:31 PM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7911(AC45CCTE) UP 5560(AC44CWCTE) UP 7113(AC44CW)
Views:  413   Comments: 1
Drifting into town
Title:  Drifting into town
Description:  UP 7914 East slows for a re-crew in Fremont, NE on a November afternoon.
Photo Date:  11/7/2010  Upload Date: 11/15/2010 11:45:14 AM
Location:  Fremont, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7914(AC45CCTE) UP 4510(SD70M)
Views:  267   Comments: 0
The lowly manifest lets one by
Title:  The lowly manifest lets one by
Description:  UP 7916 is getting around UP 5604 West at Meacham, OR on the west slope of the Blue Mountain grade.
Photo Date:  8/16/2009  Upload Date: 4/1/2010 12:14:53 PM
Location:  Meacham, OR
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7916(AC45CCTE) UP 5604(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  355   Comments: 0
UP 7920
Title:  UP 7920
Description:  A 1+1 DPU double stacker
Photo Date:  9/7/2010  Upload Date: 9/8/2010 2:18:47 AM
Location:  Troxel, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7920(AC45CCTE)
Views:  227   Comments: 0
UP 7920
Title:  UP 7920
Description:  Amidst the sunflowers of September and the backdrop of the huge grain elevator at Troxel, NE, just west of Fremont, the 7920 appears lonely on the point of a westbound double-stack outfit, with another unit mid-train.
Photo Date:  9/7/2010  Upload Date: 9/8/2010 2:20:08 AM
Location:  Troxel, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7920(AC45CCTE)
Views:  427   Comments: 0
UP 7998
Title:  UP 7998
Description:  Westbound double-stack outfit approaching track speed through Ames, NE.
Photo Date:  2/13/2013  Upload Date: 4/28/2013 10:23:39 AM
Location:  Ames, NE
Author:  Rick Erben
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7998(AC45CCTE)
Views:  234   Comments: 2


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