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Racing along US 30
Title:  Racing along US 30
Description:  A pair of big EMD's leads a train along US 30 on the old CNW. US 30 is a prime train watching road, as it follows the former CNW, now the UP, and UP proper, for most of the distance from western Illinois to Portland.
Photo Date:  9/29/2012  Upload Date: 10/17/2012 2:09:44 AM
Location:  Mechanicsville, IA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3535(SD9043MAC) UP 8139(SD9043MAC)
Views:  553   Comments: 0
Between the signals
Title:  Between the signals
Description:  An eastbound UP train on the ex CNW splits a pair of signals as it blasts through Mechanicsville Iowa.
Photo Date:  9/29/2012  Upload Date: 10/17/2012 2:06:21 AM
Location:  Mechanicsville, IA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 3535(SD9043MAC) UP 8139(SD9043MAC)
Views:  574   Comments: 1
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:  690   Comments: 0
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:  547   Comments: 0
High above
Title:  High above
Description:  The tail end of a northbound empty coal train on the Missouri & North Arkansas rolls away across the White River on a tall bridge spanning the wide valley. M&NA owns the line, but the UP runs coal trains from KC to Diaz Ark, on it, gaining their ex MP main at Diaz.
Photo Date:  1/17/2007  Upload Date: 2/3/2017 4:20:15 AM
Location:  Cotter, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8042(SD9043MAC)
Views:  444   Comments: 1
Through the park
Title:  Through the park
Description:  There is a small city park at the south end of the Cotter bridge. I caught this empty UP coal train as the DPU approached the White River bridge.
Photo Date:  1/17/2007  Upload Date: 2/3/2017 4:36:43 AM
Location:  Cotter, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8042(SD9043MAC)
Views:  442   Comments: 1
Peeking out
Title:  Peeking out
Description:  The DPU on this northbound empty coal train is just visible as it rolls across the White River.
Photo Date:  1/17/2007  Upload Date: 2/3/2017 4:27:47 AM
Location:  Cotter, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Bridge,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8042(SD9043MAC)
Views:  416   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:  641   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:  523   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:  517   Comments: 0
Grain elevator at Choteau
Title:  Grain elevator at Choteau
Description:  UP southbound passes grain elevator at Choteau OK on former MKT
Photo Date:  1/15/2011  Upload Date: 4/23/2011 2:51:13 AM
Location:  choteau, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 8050(SD9043MAC) UP 8235(SD9043MAC) UP 8429(SD70ACe)
Views:  997   Comments: 2
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:  700   Comments: 0
Under and over
Title:  Under and over
Description:  UP 8197 leads a westbound train under the BNSF Barstow Sub near Frog Pond in a bucolic setting.
Photo Date:  9/29/2012  Upload Date: 10/17/2012 1:56:10 AM
Location:  Union Grove, IL
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories: 
Locomotives:  UP 8197(SD9043MAC) UP 8059(SD9043MAC)
Views:  668   Comments: 1
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:  794   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:  763   Comments: 1
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:  617   Comments: 6
Whos first
Title:  Whos first
Description:  I was in McAlester one day in late 2008 to find the UP was fleeting northbounds on the old MKT. Two of them stand ready to roll at the north end of town. They'll take to the old Missouri Pacific at Wagoner to reach Kansas City, as UP runs directionally north of there, southbounds using the MKT, northbounds the MP.
Photo Date:  8/1/2008  Upload Date: 8/8/2016 3:51:48 AM
Location:  McAlester, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8104(SD9043MAC) UP 4772(SD70M)
Views:  732   Comments: 1
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:  641   Comments: 1
Yet another coal train
Title:  Yet another coal train
Description:  Eastbound coal near North Platte
Photo Date:  9/19/1999  Upload Date: 3/1/2014 1:49:39 AM
Location:  North Platte, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 7020(AC4460CW) UP 8111(SD9043MAC)
Views:  668   Comments: 1
UP 8119 west
Title:  UP 8119 west
Description:  UP and CSX units lead a westbound past a barn near Topeka
Photo Date:  9/5/2011  Upload Date: 1/20/2012 1:36:11 AM
Location:  Belvue, KS
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8119(SD9043MAC) CSX 442(AC44CW)
Views:  618   Comments: 0
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:  612   Comments: 0
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:  1069   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:  820   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:  636   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:  948   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:  752   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) CSX 5903(B36-7)
Views:  1013   Comments: 0
Easing on down
Title:  Easing on down
Description:  The DPU on a southbound AEPX coal train sits at the north end of Noel siding, waiting for an empty grain train to clear on the main. Thats quite a power set on the DPU.
Photo Date:  9/15/2007  Upload Date: 7/9/2016 4:04:41 AM
Location:  Noel, MO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  TFM 1605(SD70MAC) KCS 4040(SD70ACe) UP 8156(SD9043MAC) KCS 4601(AC44CW) KCS 4033(SD70ACe)
Views:  1182   Comments: 0
UP under the tower
Title:  UP under the tower
Description:  A pair of UP units leads their charge of 125 AEPX hoppers toward a reload in Wyoming, passing the Siloam water tower.
Photo Date:  1/25/2008  Upload Date: 1/22/2017 3:25:06 AM
Location:  Siloam Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5785(AC44CWCTE) UP 8159(SD9043MAC)
Views:  892   Comments: 1
Westbound in the canyon
Title:  Westbound in the canyon
Description:  I was heading east in I 80 when this one came around the curve. Perfect timing for once.
Photo Date:  10/1/1997  Upload Date: 3/25/2014 1:03:35 AM
Location:  Echo Canyon, UT
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8172(SD9043MAC) UP 9473(C41-8W)
Views:  699   Comments: 4
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:  635   Comments: 0
Rolling on through
Title:  Rolling on through
Description:  This empty AEPX coal train is keeping the main as it rolls to a meet with a southbound at Gentry.
Photo Date:  9/1/2007  Upload Date: 7/9/2016 5:14:55 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6750(AC44CW) UP 8183(SD9043MAC)
Views:  909   Comments: 1
Meet at the south end of town
Title:  Meet at the south end of town
Description:  We see the empty AEPX train passing the head end of a southbound grain train.
Photo Date:  9/1/2007  Upload Date: 7/9/2016 5:19:31 AM
Location:  Gentry, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6750(AC44CW) UP 8183(SD9043MAC) KCS 4023(SD70ACe) TFM 1600(SD70MAC)
Views:  1260   Comments: 1
Outstanding in the field
Title:  Outstanding in the field
Description:  The northbound AEPX train rolls past the hayfield north of the Butler Creek bridge as it makes its way toward Missouri, a mile or so hence.
Photo Date:  9/1/2007  Upload Date: 7/9/2016 5:23:12 AM
Location:  Sulphur Springs, AR
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 6750(AC44CW) UP 8183(SD9043MAC)
Views:  919   Comments: 1
Doing what it was bought for
Title:  Doing what it was bought for
Description:  A CNW GE leads an empty coal train back to Wyoming.
Photo Date:  5/26/2000  Upload Date: 2/21/2014 1:20:15 AM
Location:  Cozad, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  CNW 8826(AC44CW) UP 8187(SD9043MAC)
Views:  548   Comments: 1
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:  384   Comments: 0
Southbound coal
Title:  Southbound coal
Description:  I always liked taking US 69 into Texas. Most of the way from Big Cabin soxth you could see the ex MKT, and often a train or two. This southbound coal train was at Adair
Photo Date:  3/23/2000  Upload Date: 2/20/2014 1:41:21 AM
Location:  Adair, OK
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 7173(AC44CW) UP 8213(SD9043MAC)
Views:  671   Comments: 0
Headed for the tunnel
Title:  Headed for the tunnel
Description:  This 101 car westbound has descended the loop and will go under itself in a moment as it completes its transit of Tehachapi.
Photo Date:  4/2/2015  Upload Date: 9/19/2015 2:10:08 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8259(SD9043MAC) UP 5469(AC45CCTE) UP 5499(AC45CCTE)
Views:  556   Comments: 0
Easing down
Title:  Easing down
Description:  An westbound UP train works 101 cars downhill toward the tunnel at Tehachapi.
Photo Date:  4/2/2015  Upload Date: 9/19/2015 2:05:45 AM
Location:  Walong, CA
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8259(SD9043MAC) UP 5469(AC45CCTE) UP 5499(AC45CCTE)
Views:  542   Comments: 0
Empty coal and a couple of SD90s
Title:  Empty coal and a couple of SD90s
Description:  A pair of SD90s and an SP unit lead an empty coal train west.
Photo Date:  9/18/1999  Upload Date: 3/1/2014 2:13:25 AM
Location:  Lexington, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Scenic,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8271(SD9043MAC) UP 8294(SD9043MAC) SP 173(AC44CW)
Views:  624   Comments: 0
Coal on the Kansas Pacific
Title:  Coal on the Kansas Pacific
Description:  Any time I went to Denver from KC, if time was not an issue, Id usually take US 40 west from Oakley, Kan, following the UPs ex Kansas Pacific line. I almost always saw something, though was not always able to get a shot. This day I caught an eastbound coal train near Kit Carson.
Photo Date:  1/24/1999  Upload Date: 6/13/2012 1:37:21 AM
Location:  Kit Carson, CO
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6589(AC44CW) UP 8272(SD9043MAC)
Views:  687   Comments: 0
Yet another coal train
Title:  Yet another coal train
Description:  A westbound empty train en route back to Wyomeing
Photo Date:  9/29/1998  Upload Date: 3/15/2014 2:39:13 AM
Location:  Central City, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6690(AC44CW) UP 8285(SD9043MAC)
Views:  549   Comments: 0
DPU
Title:  DPU
Description:  The coal trains got DPUs all the way to Omaha or KC and beyond. Theyd stay on through to connections as welll, as will this one bringing up the rear of a loaded train.
Photo Date:  1/26/2001  Upload Date: 12/18/2013 1:32:25 AM
Location:  Hershey, NE
Author:  Tom Beckett
Categories:  Signal,Action
Locomotives:  UP 8300(SD9043MAC)
Views:  705   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:  728   Comments: 1

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