Photo ID: 110385 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Burns, WY 132 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific, VIA, Amtrak UP 5875, transporting some Siemens-built equipment that will be delivered to VIA rail (the first six units) and Amtrak (last two units) meets a very long westbound intermodal train (the ZG2BRB) at Burns, WY. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110384 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Burns Burns, WY 94 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific Passing by an industry in the small town of Burns, WY (population 356 in 2020), an eastbound UP special rolls along near track speed on Main 2. A single C44AC-CTE is pulling a VIA trainset and two Amtrak commuter cars, built by Siemens, for transport to Chicago where they will be turned over to other railroads. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110383 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Ar Laramie County, WY 88 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) VIA VIA 2214 is an SCV-42, built by Siemens in Florin, CA. The unit is a variant of the Charger series of locomotives produced by Siemens, similar to the ALC-42s that Amtrak is currently receiving. VIA rail, the Canadian counterpart to Amtrak, ordered 32 of these trainsets in December 2018, which are slowly being delivered. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110382 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Laramie County, WY 75 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) VIA You are looking at a Siemens-made cab control commuter rail unit. This unit alone has no prime mover or traction motors. It is indeed just a cab control car that passengers can ride in. It is headed for VIA rail in Canada. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110381 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Archer Curve Laramie County, WY 91 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific A trainset built by Siemens and destined for VIA Rail (Canada's passenger railroad) is on the move on Main 2 at Archer Curve just east of Cheyenne. The equipment will be turned over from UP to either Canadian National or Canadian Pacific at Chicago. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110380 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Archer Curve Laramie County, WY 124 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific The reason for my journey to Wyoming on this Sunday! UP is transporting a VIA rail trainset and two Amtrak commuter cars from Florin, CA (the Siemens plant) to Chicago, IL. A single UP units leads the rather unique trainset through Archer Curve just east of Cheyenne. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110379 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Archer Curve Laramie County, WY 84 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific UP 7249 and three other units are on the point of an eastbound manifest. The train is wrapping through the S-Curves known as Archer Curve on Main 2, headed east on the Sidney Sub. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110378 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Archer Curve Laramie County, WY 79 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific A long covered hopper train approaches the (now closed) Pershing Blvd bridge with a C44ACM, SD70ACe, and ET44C4 on the point. UP 6160 was originally SP 167. It has undergone several upgrades since its time as an SP unit. It is now capable of being a DPU unit. Originally, SP 100-199 did not have DPU equipment installed. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 110377 Date Shot Photo By Sunday, April 14, 2024 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed Archer Curve Laramie County, WY 84 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific UP 6160 leads a westbound covered hopper train on Main 1 toward Archer Curve just east of Cheyenne. If you blasted off that yellow paint on UP 6160, you'd end up finding some scarlet and gray! UP 6160 started life as SP 167. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108911 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 252 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific After a full day of chasing UP's hospital train east, I caught this eastbound autorack train in the final few minutes of sunlight just east of Pine Bluffs. Quite a nice ending to a very nice day. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108910 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 223 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Chicago North Western A final look at the old CNW F7A #401 as it rolls east on the hospital train toward its new home in Silvas, IL. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108909 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 259 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific As the sun got closer and closer to the western horizon, the crowd following UP's hospital train definitely thinned out a bit. Here, you can see about ten or so cars stopped on the shoulders of the Lincoln Highway, parallel to a stopped UP 5716 and train. They got stopped at a red signal, but are just about to get a clear (green) signal to continue east. This would be as far east as I was able to chase the train. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108908 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 292 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific The UP hospital train has come to (yet another) stop due to a red signal ahead. The dispatcher informed the train that they'd be stopped temporarily to allow an eastbound to run around on Main 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108907 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 258 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific, Southern Pacific This was an incredibly lucky catch for the day! A decade ago, patched Espee AC4400CWs were still fairly common. However, over the years, UP has managed to repaint all but three of these units in to full UP yellow. I just happened to coincidentally come across this scarlet and gray unit, serving as a mid-train DPU on an eastbound grain train. This unit was originally SP 264. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture. Photo ID: 108906 Date Shot Photo By Friday, November 11, 2022 Kevin Morgan Location Times Viewed East of Pine Bluffs Kimball County, NE 248 (Add a Comment) Subdivision Railroad Sidney (UP) Union Pacific After several hours of being stuck behind a UP hospital train, which is restricted to 20 MPH, the Sidney Sub dispatcher was finally able to cross this grain train over to Main 1. Email Questions or Comments to the Webmaster or add a comment to the picture.

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