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Afternoon Sidewinder

A desert manifest at it's finest.

 

Union Pacific 8978 leads a pair of General Electrics with another SD70ACe in the fourth spot for a nice bookended consist, as they pull a Tucson, Arizona to West Colton, California manifest train through Rillito in the setting sun. The train looked pretty uniform up front with a cut of feed for Yuma, Arizona against the power followed by big blocks of Crown Imports (HighCube Boxcars) and Copper Concentrate loads (Gondolas) followed by a more typical mishmash of dead freight.

 

This train and few others have a companion video available here: youtu.be/t5IYfvVH4Jk

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Uploaded on December 17, 2025
Taken on November 11, 2025