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My Kind of Resort
Title:  My Kind of Resort
Description:  The Nugget Casino and Resort of Sparks NV overlooks the former SP, now UP, yard as well as a scrap dealer. This view of UP 5555 is from a 12th floor room in the West Tower; the north side fronts Interstate 80.
Photo Date:  9/4/2008  Upload Date: 9/7/2008 9:28:32 PM
Location:  Sparks, NV
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5555(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  736   Comments: 2
Room With a View
Title:  Room With a View
Description:  This is the view from the Nugget Hotel/Casino in Sparks NV; whose southern-facing rooms overlook the former SP yard in town. The AC44 in the background (5562) is switching while 5579 in the foreground has just led ten sisters over Donner Pass as a light movement. They've been tied down for the night and the crew is waiting for the bus to take them to the yard office. Never mind you're on the wrong side of the sun for great pictures, it's still a pretty good place to watch trains from. In four hours UP moved 10 trains, including Amtrak with 33 units, two of which were still DRGW black. All this in an air-conditioned room on a 92deg day.
Photo Date:  9/9/2009  Upload Date: 9/9/2009 8:44:53 PM
Location:  Sparks, NV
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5579(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  320   Comments: 0
Westbound UP on the BNSF
Title:  Westbound UP on the BNSF
Description:  A westbound UP stack train runs through Bucklin MO on the BNSF on Mother's Day. SP "patch" 6367 trails.
Photo Date:  5/14/2017  Upload Date: 5/14/2017 9:03:46 PM
Location:  Bucklin, MO
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5612(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  218   Comments: 1
Eastbound Grainer at Truckee
Title:  Eastbound Grainer at Truckee
Description:  An eastbound UP empty grain train departs Truckee early on a Sunday morning. There's another unit on the rear end in the DPU mode.
Photo Date:  9/10/2017  Upload Date: 9/11/2017 10:38:39 PM
Location:  Truckee, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5622(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  270   Comments: 1
Eastbound grain at Boca
Title:  Eastbound grain at Boca
Description:  An eastbound UP empty grain train approaches Boca, CA.
Photo Date:  9/10/2017  Upload Date: 9/11/2017 10:39:06 PM
Location:  Boca, CA
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5622(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  227   Comments: 1
Pushing Coal up Kirkwood Hill
Title:  Pushing Coal up Kirkwood Hill
Description:  A pair of GEs cross Didion Ave in Valley Park MO as they push their train up Kirkwood Hill in DPU mode.
Photo Date:  9/26/2009  Upload Date: 9/26/2009 1:24:42 PM
Location:  Valley Park, MO
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5646(AC44CWCTE) UP 6243(AC44CW)
Views:  326   Comments: 0
Washed Away
Title:  Washed Away
Description:  The former RI/ATSF line between St Joseph and Atchison was washed out at Winthrop MO by a flood in 2011. As of 2012 the line is still out of service. See Zach Pumphrey's shots of this same location to see what nature did to it. UP 5652 sits with an empty coal train during more normal times. The tracks to the right are what's left of the old BN/CB&Q branch from Armour, which was abandoned about 1991.
Photo Date:  10/9/2006  Upload Date: 8/8/2012 8:39:53 AM
Location:  Winthrop, MO
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5652(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  331   Comments: 0
UP Empties in the North Bottoms
Title:  UP Empties in the North Bottoms
Description:  UP 5711 leads an empty coal train through the north bottoms of Kansas City
Photo Date:  10/4/2008  Upload Date: 7/8/2012 12:12:59 PM
Location:  Kansas City, MO
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5711(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  157   Comments: 0
Passing the Ghost of the Rock
Title:  Passing the Ghost of the Rock
Description:  Two UP GEs bring an empty coal train westward near Everest Kansas in November 2007. What appears to be a trestle in the background is what remains of the Rock Island's St Joseph to Topeka line, which crossed over the then-MP here. It was abandoned in 1983 after being operated by the OKKT for a short period following Rock Island's 1980 demise.
Photo Date:  11/27/2008  Upload Date: 11/29/2008 10:14:01 PM
Location:  Everest, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5785(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  374   Comments: 2
Bound for Sunnier Climes
Title:  Bound for Sunnier Climes
Description:  Three UP units run a southbound grain train on the former Katy main just south of Muskogee OK.
Photo Date:  2/27/2015  Upload Date: 2/27/2015 7:26:07 PM
Location:  Summit, OK
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5795(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  228   Comments: 0
UP 5827
Title:  UP 5827
Description:  An empty UP coal train approaches Valley Junction in East St.Louis on a hazy Sunday. At the junction it will turn south for Dupo.
Photo Date:  1/9/2011  Upload Date: 1/9/2011 4:13:56 PM
Location:  East Saint Louis, IL
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5827(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  198   Comments: 1
Westbound UP freight at Polo
Title:  Westbound UP freight at Polo
Description:  Three units run a manifest through Polo, MO on a Saturday afternoon. They're headed for Kansas City.
Photo Date:  10/29/2022  Upload Date: 10/29/2022 6:48:48 PM
Location:  Polo, MO
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5829(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  55   Comments: 0
Crossing the Mississippi at Hannibal
Title:  Crossing the Mississippi at Hannibal
Description:  A UP unit leads a Norfolk Southern train across the Mississippi River at Hannibal MO in May 2010. After exiting the lift section the train will immediately cross the BNSF and then duck into a tunnel while turning to parallel the riverbank and enter town.
Photo Date:  5/22/2010  Upload Date: 5/22/2010 11:32:43 PM
Location:  Hannibal, MO
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5857(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  946   Comments: 14
Headed for Moberly
Title:  Headed for Moberly
Description:  A Union Pacific GE leads a pair of Norfolk Southern units on a westbound freight headed for Moberly and Kansas City.
Photo Date:  5/22/2010  Upload Date: 5/22/2010 11:32:55 PM
Location:  Rensselaer, MO
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5857(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  226   Comments: 1
Coal On the UP River Sub
Title:  Coal On the UP River Sub
Description:  UP 5892 leads a patched SP unit and a coal train through the small farm town of Levasy MO on the first of January, 2009. This is the UP's former MP River sub,which is used almost exclusively for eastbound traffic between KC and Jefferson City, westbounds typically using the Sedalia Sub.
Photo Date:  1/1/2009  Upload Date: 1/1/2009 6:17:13 PM
Location:  Levasy, MO
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5892(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  260   Comments: 0
UP Coal, Jeff City sub, MP55
Title:  UP Coal, Jeff City sub, MP55
Description:  Two units bring an eastbound UECX coal train into Washington MO on 5 July 2008.
Photo Date:  7/5/2008  Upload Date: 7/5/2008 8:14:48 PM
Location:  Washington, MO
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 5897(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  212   Comments: 0
UP 5916
Title:  UP 5916
Description:  UP 5916 heads a NS train eastbound out of Chocowinity NC on its way to the chemical complex at Lee Creek.
Photo Date:  1/16/2019  Upload Date: 1/16/2019 2:56:13 PM
Location:  Chocowinity, NC
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5916(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  88   Comments: 1
UP Coal Headed Up the MNA
Title:  UP Coal Headed Up the MNA
Description:  A UP coal train makes the turn off the UP (x MP) main at Diaz and onto MNA tracks for the short run to the power plant located near Newark
Photo Date:  1/17/2009  Upload Date: 1/17/2009 11:57:42 PM
Location:  Diaz, AR
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 5937(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  398   Comments: 1
Launch the birds!
Title:  Launch the birds!
Description:  An empty UP coal train makes the turn into Atchison KS in July 2007 while a GATX unit works the yard on the next track.
Photo Date:  7/14/2007  Upload Date: 2/6/2008 8:37:11 PM
Location:  Atchison, KS
Author:  Rick Morgan
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6069(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  336   Comments: 1
UP empty coal at Washington
Title:  UP empty coal at Washington
Description:  Yet another empty coal train heads west at Washington behind three units running elephant style.
Photo Date:  3/26/2010  Upload Date: 3/26/2010 7:06:13 PM
Location:  Washington, MO
Author:  Rick Morgan
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Locomotives:  UP 6073(AC44CWCTE)
Views:  160   Comments: 0


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