UP Power set moves around gateway yard
UP 6450 and 1426 on a local
UP 6450 leads this local
UP 6450 trails 3rd of 3 on NS 142
Union Pacific 8143 leads a long eastbound freight on the east end of Soda Springs, Idaho
Eastbound approaching Agnew
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After this train the Chester Sub would be shut down for about 5 hours at the Thebes Bridge. A SB that was on the Illinois approach got caught at the 117 detector and stopped on the bridge. While walking the train the conductor spotted a tugboat and some barges that got loose in the heavy currents of the (very flooded) Mississippi and one of them struck the bridge. After which the dispatcher halted all activity until the bridge inspector arrived and did his work. Finally ar around 4 PM the inspector gave an OK and all trains were moving again.
Another GE brings up the back of this grainer.
UP 6450 heads west into some developing thunderstorms in Riley County.
A pair of GEs (6450/6540) run an empty coal train west tmrough Otterville MO; an SP AC44 (257) is working as a DPU behind. This is the Sedalia Sub on the former MP.
Hopper Train.
Coal runs through as UP Train 2CNAAE9 24 runs through KCUS with a dyslexic's nightmare for power. An unpatched SP was on the rear of the train.
UP 6450
AC 4400CW 6450