Monday, November 26, 2012
PASSING TRAINS PT10
A train with UP power is passing through town!
The lead unit is UP 1982, UP's Missouri Pacific Heritage unit. While this unit, along with the other five Heritage units, mostly stays on home rails, it sometimes "tours" other parts of the country.
The second unit is an ex-Southern Pacific Dash 9-44CW.
On the head end of the train is a long string of articulated autoracks, forming a long, yellow snake behind the locomotives -and almost matching the Armour Yellow of the second UP unit!
But, after the racks, are a string of piggyback trailers, including two sharing a draw-bar connected pair of flatcars.
The men in the yard watch as the last of the cars roll past, alert for any problems. They find none, and the train continues westward, the two engines on their way back home to the Union Pacific!
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In the third picture the train is passing what appears to be 3 black cars - a caboose, passenger car and maybe a boxcar. Any details you can share about that set?
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