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While this unit was in town I took a couple of pics on the dark side. The flash went off and this is the best of the bunch. I did get a video of this unit and it's posted on YouTube under my username.
A long Union Pacific manifest rolls westward on the Black Butte Sub near Worden, Oregon in October of 2004. UP of course has only provided the best for the head end on this autumn day! :p
An eastbound freight grinds uphill at Upton, California with Mount Shasta in the background during February of 2003. Normally this location would be covered in snow, but it was a mild winter that year.
One of Union Pacific's flawed SD90MAC's takes a short eastbound freight through Grass Lake, California on the Shasta Route in August of 2002. The big EMD's are all in the scrap pile just a about a decade after their construction.
Amtrak Cascades Train #506 races north after crossing over from Main #1 to Main #2 at MP 111 crossovers. The train is about 10-12 minutes away from it's next stop at Kelso, Washington. The sun just happened to show when the train was coming into view, so I converted it into black & white.
All of the horizontal forces of a train are applied to each coupler, these small pieces of steel holding an entire train together. Taken from the sidewalk overlooking King St. Station in Seattle, WA.
A Black Mesa & Lake Powell train rolls west with a coal train in the late afternoon with several E60's and E60C's on the front. This isolated 78 mile railroad is situated in northern Arizona for the purpose of hauling coal from a mine to a power plant.
The Black Hills Central Railroad is a tourist line running between Hill City and Keystone South Dakota. Here the train is running west from Keystone to Hill City.
The Black Hills Central Railroad is a tourist line running between Hill City and Keystone South Dakota. Here the train is running west from Keystone to Hill City.
The Black Hills Central Railroad is a tourist line running between Hill City and Keystone South Dakota. Here the train is running west from Keystone to Hill City.
The Black Hills Central Railroad is a tourist line running between Hill City and Keystone South Dakota. Here the train is running west from Keystone to Hill City.
The Black Hills Central Railroad is a tourist line running between Hill City and Keystone South Dakota. Here the train is running west from Keystone to Hill City by a camp ground.
CSXT Southbound Freight Train Q595 is about to end its journey at CSXT'S Boyles Terminal in Tarrant City, Al. from Avon Yard in Indianapolis, In. The location is between New Castle, Al. & Black Creek, Al. at Milepost 000382