I was watching the Galesburgh web cam and saw a Westbound UP stacker going through town. Is this becoming more practice anymore? Allan.
UPRR has trackage rights over the BNSF transcon for intermodals & rackers from Chicago to Hutchinson KS. If you watch the FT Madison cam a UPRR WB usually passes between 8 & 9AM every day.
Yep, I see UP trains all the time on the BNSF transcon. I think some of their SD70ACes go through there, too.
We see what seem to be regularly scheduled U.P. trains through Aurora every day…seemingly mostly eastbound…virtually all with pure U.P. power sets.
Well, for what its worth, down south of me on the UP’s Sunset Route, while its rare, you will see a BNSF train run through east or west. Dont know if it is just luck that it happned to be a BNSF consisit under power shareing or if its a BNSF train cutting through.
There are 2-3 UP trains that move up the ex-BN line every day towards Chicago. More often than not I see them mid-morning to mid-afternoon, between the Amtraks. I wanna say its a hold over from the SP days, as SP had trackage rights over BN from KC-Chicago via Quincy. Judging by the way they move, I’m gonna say they just throw a brick on the gas pedal and let it all hang out…the only time I see a UP train move at track speed.
Yup. The other night at Eola, two all-UP powered trains came through Eola going west off the EJ&E running track with autocarriers loaded with new vehicles.
Sometimes, the eastbounds stop at the yard office to pick up a pilot.
Down on the Sunset between Houston and New Orleans, BNSF and UP set up a deal where westbounds generally use the old SP line and eastbounds use the old MP line. Cajon (UP trackage rights) is another.
The UP is a holdover from SP rights in to Chicago.