UP 1616 - M-NPVP-17 - CB IA
It's better than nothing... I did quite a bit of yard work today and had seen that the UP's new Abraham Lincoln presidential tribute motor was leading a North Platte to Valley Park train out of NP around midday. This was about the best-case scenario, arriving Omaha just before dusk but early enough that it barely beat the shadows downtown. Having named my second child Lincoln, I couldn't not make the effort to watch its first trip across the river into Iowa... I was able to shoot it downtown before scooting across the river to an apartment complex parking lot and get what likely is the first shot of the motor in Iowa; the birthplace of the Union Pacific and Transcontinental Railroad. This is roughly 1/2 mile east of the state line just before it passes over I-29 on approach to the original UP yard in Council Bluffs.
Numbering clarifications:
- UP 1616 (SD70M), renumbered from UP 4015 on 4/21/25
- UP 4015 (SD70M), renumbered from UP 4392 on 4/22/25
UP 1616 - M-NPVP-17 - CB IA
It's better than nothing... I did quite a bit of yard work today and had seen that the UP's new Abraham Lincoln presidential tribute motor was leading a North Platte to Valley Park train out of NP around midday. This was about the best-case scenario, arriving Omaha just before dusk but early enough that it barely beat the shadows downtown. Having named my second child Lincoln, I couldn't not make the effort to watch its first trip across the river into Iowa... I was able to shoot it downtown before scooting across the river to an apartment complex parking lot and get what likely is the first shot of the motor in Iowa; the birthplace of the Union Pacific and Transcontinental Railroad. This is roughly 1/2 mile east of the state line just before it passes over I-29 on approach to the original UP yard in Council Bluffs.
Numbering clarifications:
- UP 1616 (SD70M), renumbered from UP 4015 on 4/21/25
- UP 4015 (SD70M), renumbered from UP 4392 on 4/22/25