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UP 3939 was built in April 2003 as part of UP's massive order of more than 1400 SD70M's. It was also built with a flared, 4-section radiator (improved emissions & cooling) to meet EPA's Tier 1 standards.
20 years later, as SD70Ms have slowly been phased out in favor of newer SD70ACe's and ES44AC's, UP 3939 finds itself in storage at UP's Congress Yard in Houston.
UP SD70M #3939
Houston, TX
April 3rd, 2024
UP SD70ACe No. 8479 leads empty coal train CWSBT (Weston Power Plant-Black Thunder Mine) at St. Francis, WI. 5/20/2020
So after DJI’s usual BS screwed up my first shot of the day down at West Yard, I got the chance to redeem myself with this mixed consist train at Krieger.
The horn sounded great blowing through Bonner and had me thinking it was going to be an EMD T4 rounding the curve but instead I got a fairly dirty SD70ACe and a KCS GEVO. The frost on the tops of the tank cars makes a nice touch in the 18 degree cold of the morning.
The sun was starting to get muted with the clouds here and I decided to call it a day after shooting this one. So this will likely be the last shot of 2020 unless the clouds miraculously disappear later this afternoon.
It looks like we are really going to get some snow starting tonight and we may actually end up with 4” if you trust the talking heads on the TV. I’ll believe it when I see it, but rest assured that if we get some fresh powder I’m going to head out and grab some images.
The CP-UP delivery pulls a cut of cars out of CP St. Paul Yard and will shove them into the UP Belt Yard.
A close up of 37800 as it passes through Thornhill on its recent jaunt which started off as the 0E37 0930 Derby North Doc - Heaton.
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Richardson Hitchins lands a hard body shot on Alexander Picot at the Barclays Center, Brooklyn 4/22/17. Hitchins is signed to the "Money Team" with Mayweather Promotions, he is currently 3-0, photographed here by me in his 2nd professional bout. Hitchins defeated Picot via Unanimous Decision
Unexpected 3 day weekend for a number of reasons so why not go somewhere unexpected? Hit up Athens Georgia today (home of the University of Georgia) and walked around. The staircase in the garage we parked in was cool. Got yelled at by security guard for "loitering" taking pictures so told the guy one more shot and then decided to pull out the tripod and go HDR a few times. Got a dirty look as I walked away but got a cool shot too, so win-win.
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Obligatory family shot: