UP6938East_North Power
Union Pacific 6938 East with a Hot Piggyback train is passing the approach signal to North Powder at Mile Post 319.8 (yes, I know the photo shows MP 319.9 that is for the other direction) on Union Pacific’s Huntington Subdivision of the Portland Area. The train is just coming out of the 25 mph trackage through the Powder River Canyon. By the smile on the locomotive engineer’s face, he in starting to accelerate and picking it up to 70 mph. As a side note, when I worked the Mojave Subdivision we had 70 mph tracks, I can recognize the same smile through any zoom lens.
UP 6938 is a Survivor, (unless Uncle Jim downsized that too!) setting in front of Jenks Locomotive Facility in North Little Rock, Arkansas. 6938 was one of forty-seven units built by EMD starting in 1969, because of that they were called “Centennials”
North Powder, Oregon. August 26,1984
©️2021 Michael Douglas Sawyer | Photography All Rights Reserved
UP6938East_North Power
Union Pacific 6938 East with a Hot Piggyback train is passing the approach signal to North Powder at Mile Post 319.8 (yes, I know the photo shows MP 319.9 that is for the other direction) on Union Pacific’s Huntington Subdivision of the Portland Area. The train is just coming out of the 25 mph trackage through the Powder River Canyon. By the smile on the locomotive engineer’s face, he in starting to accelerate and picking it up to 70 mph. As a side note, when I worked the Mojave Subdivision we had 70 mph tracks, I can recognize the same smile through any zoom lens.
UP 6938 is a Survivor, (unless Uncle Jim downsized that too!) setting in front of Jenks Locomotive Facility in North Little Rock, Arkansas. 6938 was one of forty-seven units built by EMD starting in 1969, because of that they were called “Centennials”
North Powder, Oregon. August 26,1984
©️2021 Michael Douglas Sawyer | Photography All Rights Reserved