Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) 8408 - EMD SD70ACe

was the lead unit for a westbound UP freight at the UP yards in Jefferson City, MO on 10-29-2023.

CP 9808

The empty oil train takes the siding to pass a southbound AEPX train that is holding the main. Not sure why they do this. It has to be more efficient for the first train to take the siding, rather than the second train, which is moving, to roll through the siding at restricted speed. Theres probably a rule for that, and I am aware of the priority of trains by timetable, but even then, northbound trains have right over southbounds.

Harriman Quarry

Harriman Quarry.

Harriman Quarry

UP 8408 still the single pusher on this mixed freight, now at Valley Junction at the diamond/multi-wye.

UP 8408 singlet at the back of that same eastbound mixed freight hanging out along the highway in the big city of Gause.

Leading an empty "bare-table" train

Westbound auto rack near Union Grove

UP 8408 tail-end pusher on double-stack duty headed toward Seattle-Tacoma in a view thats going to get a LOT more common now that Hanjin pulled out of Portland for container ships... it supplied 70-80% of all Portland-Vancouver container traffic, but due to local strikes/working slow downs/huge backlogs of loaded ships (and a disaster of a winter shipping season - sorry Washington apple farmers and everyone else that lost out (amazing the number of folks affected in the Pacific Northwest), gave official notice in February Hanjin will no longer stop in Portland - Seattle-Tacoma or Los Angeles now are the stops. Hopefully theyll settle their strikes before Hanjin and everyone else decides Vancouver (the OTHER one in Canada) and Mexico are the best places to unload/load their huge economy boosting container ships.

A Union Pacific manifest has trackage rights on the BNSF Cajon Sub at Hinkley Road, mp 10.6, just west of Barstow, as an eastbound BNSF intermodal flies past on the other track. Luv me them big EMDs! 1:43pm.

Union Pacific SD70ACe #8408 leads the Oakland to Marion, AR stack train (KOAMN-18) through the Martinez Amtrak station.

Union Pacific SD70ACe #8408 leads the Oakland to Marion, AR stack train (KOAMN-18) through the Martinez Amtrak station.

UP 8408

UP 8408, and NS 2712 waiting its turn

UP 8408, and NS 2712 waiting its turn

UP 8408, and NS 2712 waiting its turn

UP 2002, CSX 7831, and another CSX unit and CSX 7900, and CSX 7923, CSX 5273, and CSX 5439, UP 8408, and NS 2712 waiting for a green signal

UP Huntington Sub.

Another stacker coming down the Chilli.

#MPDNP 30 passing thru the long shadows in the late late afternoon...

UP 8408

CSX 7607 and UP 8408

Just a close up of the power on the QNPINP 28, for those who don't like all wedge shots, then again I'm the one running the camera.

UP 8408 grinds up the hill with a 2 mile long manifest, the QNPINP 28

Unpatched SP 144 trails an ACe on UP Train MASNP 19 at 1st Street on the UP KC Metro Sub.

NS Southbound Intermodal Train 225 ( Atlanta, Ga. to Meridian, Ms. ) passing through Bessemer, Al. This train runs as Z- ATLA ( Atlanta, Ga. to Los Angeles, Ca. ) on KCS between Meridian, Ms. & Dallas, Tx. where it's then interchanged to UP

NS Southbound Intermodal Train 225 ( Atlanta, GA. to Meridian, MS.) coming up under the Bridge at 35th st. in Birmingham, Alabama

Rochelle Railroad Park

At CP-East Topeka