Some misc. UP

BNSF FAN Feb 21, 2022

  1. BNSF FAN

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    Share 'em if you got 'em :D

    Flags in the wind somewhere between Victorville and Barstow CA - Aug 2013
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    Mohawk, AZ , 11/13/2002

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  3. BNSF FAN

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    That is a cool shot! (y)(y)(y) Those standard cab SD's just scream classic UP!
     
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  4. BoxcabE50

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    Over forty years back, this SW9 was idling at The Dalles, Oregon:

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  5. BNSF FAN

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    Great pic Ken! Not only is that a cool switcher, check out all those classic freight cars (y)(y)(y)
     
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    Thanks! I am going to re-scan it. Since doing this one, I've acquired a better machine. Hoping for a better quality view.
     
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  7. Hardcoaler

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    Lowell, NC on the NS main, 06/11/2019. Lowell features one of the very few original SOU signal bridges with vintage signals still standing. It's a great spot. I hope to go there again sometime this spring.

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  8. HemiAdda2d

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    The wayback machine came up with this Reno-Sparks view from 2008:

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    And in June 2018, the old GN yard in Minot had 2 V-trains, one with UP leaders.

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    Just east of Barstow CA - Aug 2013

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    Breaman GA July 1, 2022
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  11. BoxcabE50

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    A bit of side-swipe damage. Sitting at Argo Yard in Seattle back around 2010:

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  12. HemiAdda2d

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    Probably 2008? I can't remember, but it's East Portal, CO, and those searchlight signals are long gone now.

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    UP 9000 is part of a mid train helper set on a load of powder river coal headed southbound on the NS at Chattanooga's DeButts Yard in the fall of 1990.
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  14. Kurt Moose

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    Always liked those, looking kinda' like an Alco!(y)
     
  15. BoxcabE50

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    Yup. Reminds me somewhat of the old SP&S C636 units!
     
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    This was just outside Kansas City. Not sure on the exact location but I seem to remember it was some sort of scrap yard near Argentine Yard. Summer 1991
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  17. Hardcoaler

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    (y) Oh wow, that was such a cool find!!
     
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  18. HemiAdda2d

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    Big blows still existed outside of museums in the 1990s? Were any of these saved?
     
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  19. Kurt Moose

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    Sure hope so!
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    UP S5 sits in a storage line in Little Rock AR November 26. 1989
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