Although not as big as the North Yard, the UP's 36th Street Yard in Denver provides an opportunity to see a variety of UP power.
Its a chilly +2 degrees and UPY 688 gives the remote engineer a ride to the North Yard.
UPY 688 (GP15-1) is one of many GEEPS that work the UP North Yard in Denver
Union Pacific's 'Chevron Job' (based out of North Yard in SLC) pulls a long cut of new tank cars from refinery trackage at Becks. The nifty searchlight signals are pleasant reminders that this was... (more)
Captured at the end of a warm November afternoon, UP's YSC53 switch job rolls west by Becks Hot Springs with cars from Holly Refining, Flying J, and Chevron.
Union Pacific's YRO25R switcher drags a long cut of cars to be classified at the bottom end of North Yard in Salt Lake City. The UPY 688 was built by EMD as the Missouri Pacific 1688 in Feb. 1982.
The crew of the local rides the front porch and controls the power remotely to perform some end of job switching at the north end of the Provo yard.
Union Pacific called a Sunday afternoon switch job to classify cars in the flat switching yard at Provo, Utah. The steel beam and steel plate bulkhead flats will be delivered to PDM steel in Spani... (more)
Locomotive and man power from the local maneuver in the tight, cluttered confines of the north end of the Provo Yards. The crew member on the left is controlling the power remotely. A public stree... (more)
While storm clouds brew over the Wasatch Mountains, a pair of 'baby tunnel motors' work UP's flat switching yard at Provo, Utah.
