Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) 4799 - EMD SD70M

L598/MNLTT

During our last trip to Denver, I had seen this spot east of Greensburg and wanted to get a shot of a train here. I got one last time, but now was hoping Id get another chance. Just as I thought Id miss it this trip, this westbound rolled out from behind an elevator a few miles east. Some days, you win one!!

The head end power on the westbound stack

Grain elevators are often the tallest structures for a long way out on the prairie, hence the name. A westbound stack train rolls past an elevator near Greensburg Kan, on the ex Rock Island Golden State Route

Anaheim Hauler

Q512

A nice set of 3 elephant style SD70Ms roars through Saginaw Interlocker.

UP 4799 leads the ZYCMX through rural Sidney.

SPMW 5890, in fire service.

UP 4799 #2 power in a WB doublestack at 9:56am

Built June 2002.

Blue and yellow EMD's lead Q409 through Vine at 1103.

NS 225

With the NS crew now on-board, 39G gets rolling over Cove Road, headed towards CP Hatch.

UP SD70ACe 8349 and UP SD70M 4799 as the second and third units on 39G at Cove Road.

39G sits crew less at Cove Road in Pennsauken, NJ on a cold, damp day with NS C40-9W 9319 ahead of UP SD70M 4799, UP SD70ACe 8349 and NS C40-9 8779.

39G sits crew less at Cove Road in Pennsauken, NJ on a cold, damp day with NS C40-9W 9319 ahead of UP SD70M 4799, UP SD70ACe 8349 and NS C40-9 8779.

Trailing unit on 38G

The two UP units lead 38G past the RiverLINE stop at 36th St

38G arrived with all Union Pacific power

NS 38G passes the former Reading (now RBMN) station and the Erie Railroad caboose at Temple, PA (CP LAUREL).

NS 39G at Cove Road

A nice surprise, as Allentown, Pa - Camden, NJ train 38G showcases western EMD visitors, westbound on a brilliant winter afternoon on the NS Reading Line.

UP 4799 leads a southbound trash train past the Chambers Bay Golf Course in Tacoma, WA.

Wb stack train!fly s Past a Eb stack train on the Transcon.

Rerouted off its usual panhandle route due to curfews, R606 heads through the rural countryside of Chambers County on its way to Waycross. Canon EOS Elan 7N, Fujichrome Velvia 100.

Here's a better shot of the lead power of this cool UP SB which still has it's old crew and waiting for a new one. My next set of photo which I will upload tomorrow night will be from the 1980s and 1990s by my Grandpa B. who has kindly give me permission to post them

What a treat on a now gloomy Halloween, a trio of UP SD70Ms, a AC4400CW, and a Dash 8 are sitting at the Grasston Siding as lead power for this SB

Here's a shot of both UP SD70M #4799 and UP Dash 8 - 41CW #9482, they are the 4th and 5th units out on this nice 5 unit consist

Here's yet another shot of UP AC4400CW #7164 and it's the 3rd unit out on a 5 unit consist

Here's a back end shot of UP SD70M #4799, one of the 3 SD70Ms in this nice consist

How can you not think this is cool, to me, it is, I like the low numberboard Dash 8s on UP's roster and I only seen a handful of them and the best shots of one belongs to UP #9482

All five units in the UP Consist is in this photo and they are nearly elephant style, with UP #3926 being the oddball of the consist looking the other way

While the crew is waiting for a new one to relieve them, they test the lights of UP SD70M #3784, 3 times and I caught one of the 3 times. I also thought they were going to leave

The clouds rolled in before we went to Grasston and too bad it did, because I would have gottne some nice lighted up shots. This UP train is waiting for a new crew with the old one in the cab