Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) 6023 - GE AC44CWCTE

Meeting with I104 was, surprisingly, I191. I havent seen this train in almost a year, since CSX changed the schedule, but I happened to be out late enough tonight to catch it. It also had a fresh UP new scheme leader, which was awesome!

UP 6023 leads this freight north out of the Alton & Southern connection here in Mitchell, Illinois, soon the train will take the Pana Sub. to continue its journey.

A UP coal train overtakes the slow moving manifest

The hills of the Pine Hills and Inspiration Point in the background

The hills of the Pine Hills and Inspiration Point in the background

Now approaching Camp Creek Road, the 3829 nears Belvue and will soon cross the Oregon Trail

Rolling east past the Manhattan Regional Airport, UP 3829 takes train ARLNSR-25 east towards the Norfolk Southern in Kansas City

UP 6023

UP 6023

UP 6023

UP 6023

Dark skys over fort mad today on the bnsf transcon at Mp 232.

Two UP GE's leads an eastbound coal load through train town USA on Union Pacific's Jeff City Sub.

UP's Valmy,Nevada-Skyline Mine,Utah coal empties pull out of Provo to head up to the Skyline Mine near Scofield for a refill. UP 6196 and UP 5703 act as distributed power units on the back.

UP's Skyline Mine,Utah-Valmy, Nevada coal train rolls west at Orem's Lakota Junction. Utah Transit Authority's ''Front Runner'' trackage can be seen in the foreground the date has been pushed back to 2014 for the opening of UTA's Salt Lake City/Provo Corridor. Historically speaking, Lakota Junction was a crossing with the Denver & Rio Grande Western Mainline and Union Pacific's Provo Subdivision between Provo and Salt Lake City. The crossing was ripped out in 1985 when Union Pacific gained trackage rights on the D&RGW Mainline. The original portion of the UP Line from Provo to Lakota Junction was torn out in 2008 to make way for the ''Front Runner'' Project. UP trains to and from Provo now use the old Rio Grande Mainline.

UP North Yard

#3 of the day (so far!). Westbound MNYRO Manifest North Yard (Denver CO) to ROper yard (Salt Lake City UT).

UP #6023 In the middle of a G-Train

DPU of train led by UP 6922

Roll by.

Slowly coming around the corner.

UP 6023 west slowly brings there emptys down the Arlington Hill. Just a few more Miles and the Train will cross over the Elkhorn River and into Dodge county. Where I am standing. Back in the Steam days on this part of the Railroad. There use to be a Train Station that marked this location. Just off to the right use to be the ex-Irvington line that use to run off towards Omaha just a few miles off behind that Train.

Dane and I headed out for Colorado bright and early today, and didn't get far before catching a little MNA action. Here we see UP Train CNWNA 22 rolling up the MNA Carthage Sub through Rich Hill.