Afternoon sun is hitting just right as UP 1344 rounds the curve in Portland with four cars for the cement plant and a work train added for good measure. It seemed fitting seeing the ex Rio Grande ... (more)

UP 1344 pulls the Tennessee Pass local west past CP Goodnight on the way to Portland. UP 1344 is one of 37 GP40-2's built for the Rio Grande.

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A trio of light power, including UP 1358 (GP40N), runs a cut of hoppers into a yard at Florence, Colorado.

UP 1358 (GP40N) runs past the historic Rio Grande Depot in Florence, Colorado.

An interesting lash-up of EMD locomotives pulls this afternoon's Canon City local train out of the yard at Pueblo as it heads for the massive H... (more)

Shoving back onto the lead track to the cement plant, the Canon City local begins what will be a few hours of work as the train starts to serve this line's largest customer.

Today's UP Canon City local is just through the steel bridge crossing over the Arkansas River as it shows up with a large train to work the Holcim cement plant. Conversely, the Rock and Rail 401 ... (more)

A quartet of GP40-2 units shoves a long train of empty cement hoppers across SR. 115 and into the yard at Holcim cement as the workday is just beginning for this crew.

The UP Canon City local takes a break at its normal parking spot on track 45 in the massive UP yard with another load of cement hoppers from the Holcin Cement Plant just over 26 miles away.

Today’s Canon City local has finished its daily chores and now finds itself about to drop off its cut of cement hoppers in the massive UP yard at Pueblo. The consist is even more unique today w... (more)

After dropping off its cars of cement, the power of today’s Canon City local head to the locomotive terminal as they pass the short timer BNSF H-DENBEL which is frantically trying to get out of ... (more)

The power for this week’s Canon City local in the form of three UP painted GP40-2 locomotives idles away in the confines of the former Rio Grande yard while the two other geeps continue sorting ... (more)

Bloody Nose Originally built for the B&O in 1969, this GP40 was rebuilt by Morrison-Knudsen and re-released to the Southern Pacific on April 15, 1991. Besides still retaining its original... (more)

After a long day working in Canon City and the industries around it, the local comes back in to the Rio Grande yard with a three set of Geeps including one bloody nosed Southern Pacific locomotive... (more)