Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP) 4003 - EMD SD70M

UP's MDYNL-29 (Manifest Dayton, TX-North Little Rock, TX) is sitting just south of Riverside, TX, on UP's Palestine Sub.

Built June 1999.

Q217 heads west at 1544.

Union Pacific SD70M #4003 trails on a Z-train (possibly the ZLCBR) as it rolls through Stockton.

Union Pacific ES44AC #7899 leads a Z-train (possibly the ZLCBR) through Stockton followed by SD70Ms #4003 and #4976 and AC4400CW #6832.

Bealville, CA

Bealville saw an interesting movement.

CP Train 695.

Union Pacific SD70M No.4003 ties down at Provo after bringing in a loaded Herzog Ballast Train. The crew on board will jump into the crewbus and head for Helper to pick up another train.

Union Pacific's Herzog ballast train from Milford,Utah pulls into Provo with seventy-four cars of loaded ballast for the UTA's ''Frontrunner Project''. Power on this train is distributed 4x1. With UP AC45CCTE No.7692 acting as lone ''D.P.U. SD9043AC No.8005 shown here was built General Motors EMD Division in January 1996.

UP light power heads from Winona, MN to Adams, WI.

Two nicely matched UP SD70M's haul Eastward to Saint Paul in the late morning.

UP 4003

UP 4003

UP 4003

UP 4003

Three UP EMD's head for Itasca.

UP 4003

UP 4003

a UP stack train rolls through Rochelle.

Three SD70M's lead a K-Line stacker east, toward Chicago.

Eastbound intermodal lead by UP 5402 flys through Payette less than an hour after coming through Lime OR. I took a more direct route through OR and arrived only seconds prior. The Snake River valley has easy grades and trains travel at max speeds.