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Well here sits Union Pacific 4170 in a long line of other Union Pacific locomotives on a Repair In Place (RIP) Track in the Pueblo Union Pacific Railroad/BNSF Railway Railyard.

UP 4048 East leads the Los-Angeles to Dallas Texas double stack that is about to pass under Interstate 10 know as Empirita. This former mainline track is now a long storage track used for cars and even locomotives east of Tucson.

UP 4595, CP 6080 and CSX 4780 power sits on the balloon track at the Tucson yard in January 2006.

UP 4855 east leads another colorful rainbow consist out of Tucson yard. UP 4855, BN 7110, UP 3193, HLCX 6525 and CSX 5341 in October 2006.

UP 4152, BN 7099, NS 8951 and CSX 7312 lead a Long Beach - Chicago double stack train out of Tucson, AZ as summer thunderstorms form over the mountains in July 2004.

CSX B661-28 winds through Bluegrass on its way to Tampa with the GTW heritage unit on point.

BNSF 9728 south leads a loaded coal train on the KCS Rich Mountain grade at Page, Oklahoma in April 2020.

METX 500 leads outbound Metra train 2615 at CP Morgan headed up toward Fox Lake. This trainset was decorated with Christmas lights as part of Metra's Holiday Train program. A PRR signal bridge still remains despite having modern color lights.

BNSF SD70MAC 9774 sits alone at the small yard of Garrison, MT in its original Executive/Grinstein paint scheme on a beautiful October afternoon.

Usually on the UP here, auto trains run under an M symbol. But today was different story, as this auto train ran as an ABEFPR Not only that one of the few former SP SD70Ms was point.

I sure was happy to see this for my first time. These newer Metra EMDs look mean. Here's one sitting alone waiting on its next assignment in the Chicago suburbs

NS 880 with a BNSF SD70MACe rebuild up front chugs past a string of abandoned codeline just east of Wawaka.

UP SD70M 4491 is no longer UP. Now aquired by GRYR we see them sitting brand new in the CN yard waiting to go south

KCS 3903 leads a westbound ballast load

With the sun fading fast, BNSF 9691 and BNSF 9688 bring a set of manifest cars down the hump lead in Tulsa, Oklahoma for classification. This is most likely the last stand for these old SD70MACs, with many of their brothers already being stored in Alliance, Nebraska, never to turn a wheel under their own power again. Soon these MAcs will join their brothers, but until then, they serve the Tulsa hump, classifying cars till their time is up.

With a lashup straight out of the late 90s, BNSF Z-SSECHC heads under the searchlights at Hoffman

I010-21 charges through Auburn Junction with a rebuilt SD70MAC in the lead.

NS 28V with an SD70M-2 leading charges eastbound through CP 360 in Butler on a beautiful yet windy Sunday morning.

M368-10 heads east after waiting on local L377-10 to cross over at West Nappanee. Moving the train is a pair of SD70MAC rebuilds, with the second unit shoving on the rear; leaving the more-recently rebuilt MAC to lead solo up front. It looks good in the morning light as it rolls by the former B&O depot.

BNSF Executive SD70MAC leads extra loaded coal train S80 through Waterloo after Amtrak 30 makes a late station stop.