Union Pacific in Nebraska and Texas.

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WITH AN ATTRACTIVE string of double-stack well cars loaded with ‘K’ Line containers in tow, Union Pacific SD70M No. UP 4008 & C41-8W No. UP 9529 power east out of North Platte, Nebraska, the location of the world’s largest hump marshalling yard (Bailey Yard) on, September 30th, 2002. While the lead locomotive wears a set of UP ‘wings’ both locos are mercifully free of lightening stripes, flags, shields, and other paraphernalia that UP has plastered over its fleet in recent years.

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Built in February 1974 for the Missouri Pacific Railroad (as the MP 3142), this particular locomotive is still going strong having been rebuilt for work at Union Pacific’s Centennial Yard, in Fort Worth, Texas. The former SD40-2, which was numbered UP 4142, has been de-turbocharged and fitted with remote control creating a defacto SD38-2. Renumbered UPY 864, it was recorded on October 18th, 2005.