Chasing Union Pacific's Engineers Special

On October 25th, 2009 UP sent their Engineers/Inspection Special. which has been touring all over the Pacific Northwest, down the Mountains to Dunsmuir, CA. After spending the night in Dunsmuir, the special promptly left at 6:30AM in the morning. Since this passenger special was a limited stop, high priority one, it was hard to catch up with it at some locations. It met 5 northbounds at and Amtrak #14 at Castle Crags, Conant, Lamoine, Lakehead, and Gerber. With our first catch at Sims, CA (10 miles south of dunsmuir) we followed it all the way down to Tehama where we said our final farewells.

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Chasing
• Union Pacific
• Engineers
• Special
• trains
• railroad
• tracks
• sd70m
• california
• passenger cars
• freight

[C60AC]

Total awesomeness!

[ValleySubRails]

Thank You!

[ValleySubRails]

Great catch yourself :)

[Amtrakdavis22]

Awesome chase. Those were some really awesome locations. I like how it's a high priority train but it then stops for a baretable train. haha But those were some great shots of a cool train!

[ValleySubRails]

Thank You!

[GSMR1702]

love to see that SD70M leading!

nice shots! 5*

[GregInCalifornia]

Great locations & shots!