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Union Pacific service truck 53126 blocking the road at Dakota and Atlantic, for hooking fire hose to UP car "Joe Jackson" 814 for water fill-up. This is a match to the other photo I posted taken trackside, to show the whole operation. This was during "The Valley Eagle"...
Local NS D93 westbound at Clymers, IN on the NS Illinois Division. The local was readying for a stop at the ethanol plant to drop off empty ethanol tank cars.
Late one afternoon in August 2007, a monster Newark-Roseville manifest attempted to cross the Suisun Bay Bridge out of Martinez, California, with 172 cars. While his two motors were somehow up to the task, he went into emergency just before reaching the northern shore. This left his brakeman to...
You can't get much more in to the water "thing" than this. Taken from my kayak at high tide. A UP Garbage train heads south across the lift bridge (Bridge 14) at Chambers Creek.
Heading by the lake north of Drexel, MO was this train with 5 DIT Units, including GWWR 2037. Locomotives: KCS 3942, TFM 1641, KCS 4623, KCS 600, GWWR 2037, TFM 1304, KCS 634, KCS 3163. Date: 1/26/2008
Heading over the bridge at Fisk, MO was UP Train MNLTT 04 as it crossed from Butler County into Stoddard County, MO. Locomotives: UP 8431, UP 9309, UP 9765. Date: 11/4/2007
This LLPX GP15-1 shows it's obvious, poorly patched Conrail heritage well. It was the Stellartion swticher for a long time, but now it's running on the mainline alongside bigger brothers like LLPX GP38-2's and HATX SD45-2's. Note the waterbottles on the hood.