A venerable SD70MAC, UP 4166, brings up the rear of a West Colton-bound manifest at Ilmon as its train slowly approaches the "narrows" where it will stop to wait for the northbound ZLCLT.
Following the Truckee River westbound from Reno, a Union Pacific Mixed Manifest is just outside of the Town of Truckee. Ahead waits the real climb to the Summit at Norden.
On July 4, 2005 UP put on a show at Big Ten above Denver as its westbound manifest took on the Front Range with no less than eight locomotives including one still in SP paint. Here it is in the lo... (more)