Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) 5553 - GE AC45CCTE

Building America

Building America

A northbound MLDYC approaches Banister Lane in South Austin

The trailing Kansas City Southern de Mexico unit is still wearing its less than colorful paint scheme. Hope it will be one of the first to get a new paint job under CP control! If I could clean the windows in the Haley Tower at the Wabsh Valley RR Museum, this would be an ideal vantage point for catching the train action!!!

The pair were heading up a south bound mixed freight but mostly vehicular flats. I switched windows in the control room at Haley tower to catch this shot.

Literally while touring the second floor control room for the former C&EI Haley Tower, we heard the rumble of an approaching train. With no time to get outside, I shot these views through the windows of Haley Tower. Wish they had been cleaner! BTW, thanks to Tom Beckett (see comment below) for catching the fact that it is a KCSM unit, not KCS. Beginning to think the window wasn't that dirty - might be my eyesight instead!

South Bound UP

X647 (Chicago, IL Clearing Yard - Waycross, GA) resumes its southward journey after getting recrewed at CP Maplewood. Maplewood is where the Radnor Cut-off splits from the old L & N main line, bypassing downtown Nashville and heading directly into Radnor Yard.

NB CN

CP 8779 & UP 5553 lead an eastbound ethanol train around the curves of NSs former NYC mainline at Whiting, IN.

CP 8779 & UP 5553 lead an eastbound ethanol train around the curves of NSs former NYC mainline at Whiting, IN.

CP 8779 & UP 5553 lead an eastbound ethanol train around the curves of NSs former NYC mainline at Whiting, IN.

CP 8779 & UP 5553 lead an eastbound ethanol train around the curves of NSs former NYC mainline at Whiting, IN.

CP 8779 & UP 5553 lead an eastbound ethanol train around the curves of NSs former NYC mainline at Whiting, IN.

CP 8779 & UP 5553 lead an eastbound ethanol train around the curves of NSs former NYC mainline at Whiting, IN.

Eastbound manifest on the Evanston sub.

UP 5553 leads a light power move eastbound in the early afternoon

UP 5553 leads a light power move eastbound in the early afternoon

UP 5553 - FXE 4672 head west after lifting autos at Wolverton

UP 5553 - FXE 4672 with 10 cars

147 making every bit of track speed through Ayr with UP 5553 - FXE 4672 and 10 cars

UP 5553 on the BNSF, in the afternoon, along Airport Way S

UP 5553 pushes a southbound oil train past the Amtrak depot on a soggy Saturday

Serving as the DPU on an eastbound loaded open hopper coal train

Union Pacific ES44AC No. 5553 switches in UPs Klamath Falls yard.

Union Pacific ES44AC No. 5553 switches in UPs Klamath Falls yard.

Union Pacific ES44AHs No. 2562 and No. 2554 and ES44AC No. 5553 switch in the UP yard in Klama‰h Falls, OR.

UP 5553 trails a westbound intermodal train through Malta, IL.

UP 5553 trails a westbound intermodal train through Malta, IL.