A pair of UP motors bring NS train A79 (Birmingham, AL - Sheffield, AL) through the small town of Parrish, AL on the NA West District.
Norfolk Southern train A79 snakes through the curves into downtown Jasper, AL. on their way west to Sheffield.
Heading east as it passes under Beaumont Avenue is a Union Pacific local, with a single SD70ACe (UP 8867) and about a dozen cars, most of which are lumber cars for the various lumber yards in town... (more)
After making a pick-up, a westbound departs Grand Island.
Photographed minutes after sundown, Union Pacific's Long Beach to Global 3 intermodal descends Erda Hill on the historic Los Angeles & Salt Lake Route.
Between Ordway and El Casco, UP 8867 west with a couple CSX pool units drops down Beaumont Hill in the early afternoon.
A fresh UP SD70ACe leads 2 CSX units on this westbound IMNLB.
Westbound empties on the Marysville sub. In about a quarter mile the train will pass through Gibbon Jct. and continue west on the Kearney sub.