Tracking West
Employee Power
In 2019, UP unveiled a new special paint that celebrated the company’s employees. UP 1111 would tour the system shortly after, making stops at every major terminal across the railroad’s thousands of miles of track. However, the irony of the locomotive made it a target of graffiti shortly after being put into service, with UP laying off many employees shortly after making 1111. Despite this, two years later UP would make another one of these units, this time celebrating the company’s diversity.
Just after six years of service, 1111 is seen bringing an MPDRV onto its final miles into Roseville. It was quite the problematic train, a centerbeam with a problem, the train took ten hours from Dunsmuir to Roseville, and a hot axle caused the train to stop just minutes after taking this photo. The train would finally get into Roseville shortly after 9 PM.
Employee Power
In 2019, UP unveiled a new special paint that celebrated the company’s employees. UP 1111 would tour the system shortly after, making stops at every major terminal across the railroad’s thousands of miles of track. However, the irony of the locomotive made it a target of graffiti shortly after being put into service, with UP laying off many employees shortly after making 1111. Despite this, two years later UP would make another one of these units, this time celebrating the company’s diversity.
Just after six years of service, 1111 is seen bringing an MPDRV onto its final miles into Roseville. It was quite the problematic train, a centerbeam with a problem, the train took ten hours from Dunsmuir to Roseville, and a hot axle caused the train to stop just minutes after taking this photo. The train would finally get into Roseville shortly after 9 PM.