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Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5914 leads an eastbound UP coal train into a Crescent, Colorado, on the frosty morning of January 5, 2005.
As the blue hour turns to night over Denver, Colorado, on December 7, 2015, Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5687 sits inside the cavernous main hall of the former Rio Grande backshop at Burnham Shops. UP No. 5687 is getting an overhaul and change out of its old 4,400 hp 7FDL16 prime mover. Sadly, in a place that once built and rebuilt steam locomotives, this unit is the last locomotive to be overhauled at Burnham before UP closed up the place on February 14, 2016.
The Thistle Tunnels are twin bores under Billies Mountain in Utah, constructed by Morrison-Knudsen after a massive mudslide buried the town of Thistle in floodwater and closed the Rio Grande main line in 1983. Passing through one of the curved bores on Track 1 is a westbound Union Pacific helper set dispatched to Castilla to help a heavy eastbound UP freight over Soldier Summit on the night of November 6, 2007.
Sunlights illuminates a westbound Union Pacific coal train as storms move east at Plainview, Colorado, on July 4, 2005.
With plenty of alpenglow on the Front Range mountains very early on the morning of January 22, 2007, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train drops downgrade just west of Leyden, Colorado.
A BNSF coal train climbs the grade of Nebraska’s Crawford Hill at Breezy Point west of Belmont on the afternoon of July 11, 2008. The train is led by Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5935.
With the train about as small as it can be and dwarfed by the amazing red rock scenery around Moab, Utah—Union Pacific’s Potash local heads back to the main line after setting out most of its cars at Potash—and is now taking back a single tank car picked up earlier at Brendel on March 4, 2012.
Late in the afternoon of July 4, 2019, Mother Nature decided to provide some of her own fireworks over Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Torrential rain, lots of lightning and some wind sent us into the safety of our vehicles parked near Steckley Road overpass on top of Logan Hill. Nearly an hour later, it was finally raining light enough to head outside again and record the first train over the hill after the storm. At 7:34 p.m., a southbound Union Pacific coal train climbs the final length of the hill as the weather moves away. The mud was incredible, and so was watching the lightning for the next couple of hours. Here’s my brother Tom’s photo of the receding storms later that evening. www.flickr.com/photos/tdanneman/48357846607/in/dateposted/
At East Portal, Colorado, an eastbound Union Pacific IPPX coal empty exits the Moffat Tunnel and begins descending the two-percent grade toward Denver. Autumn color at East Portal, situated at a little over 9,200 feet in elevation, is pretty much at its peak on this beautiful morning of September 26, 2024.
Approaching Dale Junction, Wyoming, on Sherman Hill is a westbound Union Pacific unit potash train on September 17, 2008.
An eastbound Union Pacific IPPX coal empty has just exited the 6.2-mile Moffat Tunnel and rolls across Gilpin County Road 16 grade crossing at East Portal, Colorado, on September 26, 2024.
An eastbound Union Pacific coal train passes through the off-the-beaten-path rugged landscape of Rollins Canyon east of Rollinsville, Colorado, on a sunny March 1, 2009.
Union Pacific AC4400CW-CTE No. 5973 is illuminated by morning sunlight on a UP ballast train at Tunnel 35 between Gore and Azure, Colorado, in the depths of rugged Gore Canyon on August 5, 2009.
Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE Nos. 6044 and 5946 overpower a one-car Potash local along the Colorado River after departing Potash, Utah, on March 4, 2012. The towering sandstone cliffs loom over the train as it approaches the entrance to Bootlegger Canyon on this scenic branch near Moab.
A westbound Utah Railway coal train, with Union Pacific power on the head end, gets underway after cutting out the helpers at Summit, Utah, on June 21, 2004. Afternoon storms are moving east, and the Utah Railway helpers will do the same thing momentarily, returning to the base of the hill at Martin.
A Union Pacific coal train approaches 63-foot Tunnel 40 in scenic and rugged Little Gore Canyon west of Azure, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 21, 2014.
The morning sun rises over Denver as a westbound Union Pacific coal empty climbs out of Leyden, Colorado, on a cold January 25, 2007.
Nach zwei Stunden warten auf der Chester Sub, hörte ich in der Ferne ein Horn und nur wenige Minuten später donnerten die beiden AC4400CW-CTE Dieselloks in Richtung Süden an mir vorbei. Am Haken hatten sie einen gemischten Güterzug mit den typisch amerikanischen Boxcars, Tanker und Getreidewagen.
Dawn’s early light silhouettes a westbound Union Pacific coal train climbing out of Leyden on January 23, 2007. Soon enough, the sun will rise above the city of Denver and a scattering of clouds to the east, revealing another sunny winter day in Colorado.
UP 5812 emerges from Tunnel 9 and enters the famed Tehachapi Loop. The train will be taking the main around the loop, as the power passes over the switch at the north end of Walong siding
UP 5812 AC44CWCTE
Rolling eastbound on the former Rio Grande Moffat Tunnel Subdivision main line is an eastbound Union Pacific coal train at Tabernash, Colorado, on June 24, 2024.
Machinists in Union Pacific’s backshop at Burnham Shops in Denver, Colorado, prepare to remove a generator from the 4,400 hp 7FDL16 prime mover of UP GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5687 during the locomotive’s overhaul on December 7, 2015.
Led by repainted Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5904 is a northbound UP coal empty scurrying over Logan Hill at Logan north of Bill, Wyoming, on July 14, 2024.
Union Pacific’s Potash local approaches some curvy track near Emkay on March 4, 2012. This location is near the entrance to Arches National Park in Utah’s beautiful red rock country.
UP 5973 leads a UP trackage rights coal train east on BNSF's Red River Valley Sub near Vernon, TX.
Ironically, I had driven from the Red River Valley of North Dakota to the Red River Valley of the south this summer to attend CFIC (aka Instructor Pilot upgrade) training in the KC-135 at Altus AFB, OK. Outside of Basic Training, CFIC training was the most intense, annoying, haze-like, we're-going-to-treat-you-like-crap-just-because-that's-the-way-we've-always-done-it training I had ever gone through in the USAF. The experience was even worse considering it was July in southwestern Oklahoma and I was flying a plane that for all intents and purposes lacked air conditioning.
Also lacking air conditioning? My car. I can't remember how hot it was out here railfanning, but I was baking alive. My car had been in an accident earlier in the year, and the air conditioner wasn't quite repaired correctly and it finally went kaput when I rolled into Oklahoma in July. Needless to say, I was ticked off and hot for most of my time that summer! On the bright side, I don't remember being annoyed that I caught a UP train on a BNSF line or that the filthy engine was leading, so there's that!
UP manifest MRONY (Salt Lake/Roper Yard to Denver/North Yard) looks more like a coal train at first glance. The short freight is passing through fresh snow along the Green River Sub just west of Wellington, UT. UP 6044 shows signs of battling snow drifts, perhaps on Soldier Summit.
An eastbound Union Pacific loaded coal train works hard as it crawls over the Highline Bridge off of the Falls City Subdivision onto KCT territory, where it'll take the River Subdivision after Eton.
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Kansas City Terminal
Santa Fe Junction
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
June 20, 2025
Canon EOS 77D
Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4.0-5.6 IS
UP 5793 is leading a southbound CSUX coal train out of Palmer Lake, CO and down the Palmer Divide.
This is just a little wider-angle of my previous upload. Always enjoy seeing elephant-style running...
UP 5681 has a non-standard door and is seen leading ethanol train CP 528. It is stopped and awaiting a new crew at a spot known as Robbie Burns on CP.
At sunrise on January 26, 2007, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train drops downgrade into Leyden, Colorado, leaving the front range mountains behind.
A southbound BNSF coal load has two Union Pacific pushers on the rear helping it up Logan Hill at Converse Junction, Wyoming, on June 22, 2018. In the foreground are two empties waiting to be loaded at Antelope Mine.
UP 5921 crosses Droubay road in Erda, Utah. A little over a week before this shot. The mountain in the back ground was on fire. You can see the burn marks, and the red borate that was laid down by the fire bombers. Fortunately this fire was put out very quickly.
A westbound Union Pacific coal empty approaches Azure, Colorado, as it exits Gore Canyon and snakes through Tunnel 38 on June 19, 2023. Powering the train is newer (and cleaner) EMD SD70ACe-T4 Nos. 3029 and 3072 led by a more tattered GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5682.
How about some great low angle autumn sun and a fresh paint UP leader to end the day?
How about a side order of a blown heater core hose on your F-150 as you pulled up to the location to get the shot?
UP 5855 West at East Linwood on the UP Kansas Sub earlier this evening.
One of these days I'll get a stretch of good luck.
An eastbound Union Pacific loaded coal train works hard as it crawls over the Highline Bridge off of the Falls City Subdivision onto KCT territory, where it'll take the River Subdivision after Eton.
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Kansas City Terminal
Santa Fe Junction
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
June 20, 2025
Canon EOS 77D
Canon EF-S 18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS
Union Pacific 5807 looking a little rough. Hope fully it will make it's way to Wabtec for a rebuild and some fresh paint. It does appear to have got new trucks. They aren't messing around with this train on the horse power. Four elephant style on the point, two mid train, and one on the rear. It was a monster of a train also so maybe it needed everything it had.
UP 7153 West shot for a new photo location last Saturday. With no drone I was forced to get creative with the higher sun angle of the day to get some decent images. I'd only shoot this if I knew a train was parked up in Bonner. You have ZERO sight line to the west.
A Saguaro cactus with UP5651 (AC4400CW-CTE), UP5383 (AC45CCTE), UP7243 (AC44CW) and UP9766 (C44-9W) cruising west downgrade from Shawmut, AZ on a late winter's afternoon hauling intermodal ISALB-07 from San Antonio, TX headed for Long Beach, CA.
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My wife had a seminar in Saint George, Utah. While she was attending that. I made my first visit to Caliente, Nevada and my first views Rainbow Canyon. Fortunately I was reward with a eastbound pretty fast. A nice looking repaint / rebuilt UP 5903 leads along the magnificent rock walls.
AC4400CW-CTE UP 5973 is tied down on the 102 track, of the CSX Memphis Terminal Sub, with a string of autoracks at Cox Street.
My second train in rainbow canyon. UP 5596 leads the Salt Lake to Los Angeles Z train on the Caliente Sub.
The closest thing to new power on the Union Pacific these days, are the rebuilds. C44ACM 5731 looks good with a newer coat of paint.
UP 5863 leads a southbound CSUX coal train past the Allis Ranch on Main 2 in Greenland, CO.
I was hoping to get a shot contrasting horsepower with cow power with the cows innocently grazing in the field, but as you can see, the S.O.B.'s spotted me and started moving my way. Look at that one on the right...he was in a slow trot. My presence wasn't noticed by the two on the left yet, but it wasn't much longer and they were coming my way. I guess they thought I had food for them, but the irony is that the next day they were gone, possibly hauled off to become food for me!