Railroad Action in Sparks, Nevada

I was hoping to catch the Union Pacific Heritage units #1989 and #1988 during daylight, but they were running very late, so that was not to be.

First clip is of a trio of AC4400's pulling an eastbound hopper train. The signal was red over green, which meant it was pulling into a siding, which gave me hope to catch the Heritage units. You can see the lower light change as the train passes by, if you look closely.

Second clip is of a westbound manifest train pulled by C45AC, SD70M, SD40-2, and SD70M. The train was going fast, so I was hoping the Heritage units were behind it...

Third clip is of westbound Amtrak California Zephyr (Train #5) running 6 hours late! That dashed my hopes that the Heritage units would show up soon. However, I was happy to catch this train here, as the location is pretty good for shooting videos.

Fourth clip is of two Heritage units + an Olympic unit (SD70M #2002) at night, at the yard in Sparks, FOUR HOURS LATER.

Note how different the engineers honk --.- (long, long, short, long) in the video.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Sparks
• Amtrak
• California
• Zephyr
• P42DC
• Union
• Pacific
• C45AC
• SD70M
• AC4400

[DJ4000VOLT]

all those train cars have been buffed out like every train car in reno and sparks has graffiti on it

[BudmanPackfan]

nice video! thanks for posting.

UP locos starting to look like old SPs with all the soot build up from running all those miles in tunnels and snowsheds over Donner!!!

[meccaturbo]

UPRR = great rr. This must be on the original Central Pacific RR route, later SP.

[BudmanPackfan]

a dirty UP AC4400!! rare indeed!

[trainiac3]

to bad u din't catch the other train

[blacksultan85]

them trains is ol' and dirty damn.

[FlyBikes089]

Alot deserts!

Great video and 5 rate!

[JeskoTN]

great video!! 5*

[SF3751]

Great shots.

[CoastStarlight11]

What day was this vid shot? I may know the crew who was working the westbound Zephyr on that day.