It's the first light of day as NS 052, a train full of solid rocket booster parts for the NASA Space Program eases through downtown Birmingham, Alabama on a dreary morning.

UP 7382 & 8036 eastbound with a Z train.

NS Rocket Booster Train 052 (Brigham City, Utah - Cape Canaveral, FL) heads North to Chattanooga as they rumble through Trussville.

NS Rocket Booster Train 052 (Brigham City, Utah - Cape Canaveral, FL) departs Norris Yard in Irondale as they head North to Chattanooga, TN.

NS 052 rolling through the siding at Flovilla, Ga. This train is carrying solid rocket boosters heading for Cape Canaveral, Florida.

The Rocket Booster high and wide passes through a pretty empty Inman Yard in the capital city as its next stop is Macon.

NS 052, with it's train of rocket boosters headed for NASA at Port Canaveral, FL, makes quick work through Varnell, GA after slowing to restricted speed for a running meet with 282.

NS 052, with it's train of rocket boosters headed for NASA at Port Canaveral, FL, takes the siding between Phelps and Freeman just south of Dalton, GA for a meet with northbound 25Q.

NS train 052 rolls northbound through Springville, Al transporting solid rocket boosters to Florida for NASA.

UP 7382 leads a detoured set of stacks up the street through Jack London Square, passing right underneath a footbridge that lazy pedestrians will soon ignore as they climb over the train, which ca... (more)

Union Pacific ES44AC #7382 leads the detoured Global 3, IL to Oakland intermodal train, or IG3OAD, through Oakland Jack London Square.

UP 7382 North exhibits the classic over/under pose as it exits Tunnel No. 9 on a spring evening.