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4/28/2024
 
 
 
 
 
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From the Fremont Bridge
Title:  From the Fremont Bridge
Description:  One Sunday morning a year, the Fremont Bridge opens up to thousands of bicyclists. The bridge passes over BNSF trackage to the west, and Union Pacifics vast Albina Yard on the east.
Photo Date:  8/13/2017  Upload Date: 8/13/2017 4:19:43 PM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 6173(AC44CW) UP 6021(AC44CWCTE) UP 523(GP38-2) UP 1891(SD40N)
Views:  217   Comments: 1
Mainline switcher
Title:  Mainline switcher
Description:  UP keeps a lot of older mainline power around its Albina yard to handle switcher chores. This could easily have been one of the many SD40-2s I saw as a kid in Lousiana.
Photo Date:  9/26/2018  Upload Date: 9/30/2018 2:54:00 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1891(SD40N) UP 548(GP38-2)
Views:  170   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Albina yard
Title:  Union Pacific Albina yard
Description:  From the spectacular Fremont Bridge, taken on the day of the Bridge Pedal event. Hundreds of bicyclists got to hang out and eat breakfast on top of a 300 foot high bridge right over the yard.
Photo Date:  8/14/2016  Upload Date: 9/24/2016 2:45:23 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Scenic,Yard
Locomotives:  UP 5118(SD70M) UP 2657(SD40M-2) UP 4671(SD70M) UP 2853(SD40-2T) UP 1200(GP39-2) UP 1124(GP60) UP 2560(ES44AC-H) UP 606(GP38-2) UP 8230(SD9043MAC) UP 2641(ES44AC) UP 7938(AC45CCTE) UP 8067(SD9043MAC) UP 6780(AC44CW) UP 8952(SD70AH)
Views:  1156   Comments: 3
Union Pacific Geeps
Title:  Union Pacific Geeps
Description:  GP39-2s! It's so rare to see an old narrow-nose unit these days that I'll photograph them anywhere, any time. These were parked by Union Station after 6 of their cars came off the rails.
Photo Date:  3/18/2018  Upload Date: 3/21/2018 12:58:45 AM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 1204(GP39-2) UP 715(GP38-2)
Views:  331   Comments: 0
Patched Espee unit
Title:  Patched Espee unit
Description:  Second time I've caught UP 1124 sitting in the Albina yard.
Photo Date:  2/18/2017  Upload Date: 2/18/2017 10:46:27 PM
Location:  Portland, OR
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Yard
Locomotives:  UP 1124(GP60) HLCX 1851(GP38-2)
Views:  587   Comments: 0
UP 160 and co.
Title:  UP 160 and co.
Description:  A mix of UP and MP paint rolls under the Bert Kouns highway bridge at Shreveports Greenwood Yard.
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 10:00:11 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 160(B23-7) MP 4528(U23B) MP 2065(GP38-2) UP 542(U23B)
Views:  609   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:56:48 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 4528(U23B) MP 2065(GP38-2)
Views:  259   Comments: 0
Union Pacific, Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific, Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:56:30 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2065(GP38-2) UP 542(U23B)
Views:  403   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:52:20 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2092(GP38-2)
Views:  258   Comments: 1
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description:  In the final days of the MoPac
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:50:00 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2159(GP38-2) MP 2094(GP38-2)
Views:  223   Comments: 0
MoPac colors at Reisor Yard
Title:  MoPac colors at Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:54:57 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2110(GP38-2) MP 2123(GP38-2)
Views:  294   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:58:26 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2129(GP38-2)
Views:  160   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:57:57 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2326(GP38-2) UP 2129(GP38-2)
Views:  217   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:51:33 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 662(GP40) MP 2157(GP38-2)
Views:  288   Comments: 0
Pair of MoPac blues
Title:  Pair of MoPac blues
Description:  Hollywood Yard
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:50:18 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2157(GP38-2) MP 2188(GP38-2)
Views:  279   Comments: 0
New MoPac, Old MoPac
Title:  New MoPac, Old MoPac
Description:  Hollywood Yard
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:50:35 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 662(GP40) MP 2157(GP38-2)
Views:  309   Comments: 0
Reisor Yard
Title:  Reisor Yard
Description:  Idling engines at the railyard serving the General Motors plant on the west side of Shreveport.
Photo Date:  9/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/26/2017 1:02:40 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Yard,Action
Locomotives:  MP 2201(GP38-2) MP 2160(GP38-2)
Views:  289   Comments: 0
MP 2234
Title:  MP 2234
Description:  A trio of MoPac GP38-2s are headed long hood first towards the Greenwood Yard on the west edge of Shreveport. I caught up with them there later that day.
Photo Date:  9/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2015 11:28:47 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories: 
Locomotives:  MP 2234(GP38-2) MP 2161(GP38-2) MP 2170(GP38-2)
Views:  343   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description:  Largely in place to serve the Shreveport General Motors assembly plant.
Photo Date:  9/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 10:38:16 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2161(GP38-2) MP 2170(GP38-2)
Views:  324   Comments: 1
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:57:39 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2212(GP38-2) UP 2168(GP38-2)
Views:  201   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:55:57 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2273(GP38-2) UP 2189(GP38-2)
Views:  275   Comments: 2
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:55:39 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2189(GP38-2)
Views:  157   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:57:06 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2212(GP38-2)
Views:  145   Comments: 1
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:57:23 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2212(GP38-2)
Views:  270   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description:  Even when things were quiet, there was usually an engine idling on the ready track by the control tower.
Photo Date:  6/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 10:08:12 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2214(GP38-2)
Views:  207   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Hollywood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:51:20 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2243(GP38-2)
Views:  139   Comments: 0
MoPac 2259
Title:  MoPac 2259
Description:  On the ready line at Hollywood Yard
Photo Date:  5/1/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:52:35 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2259(GP38-2)
Views:  175   Comments: 0
UP 2377 at Greenwood Yard
Title:  UP 2377 at Greenwood Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  1/30/1988  Upload Date: 11/18/2015 9:31:00 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  UP 2377(GP39-2) UP 2261(GP38-2)
Views:  318   Comments: 0
Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Title:  Union Pacific Reisor Yard
Description: 
Photo Date:  3/1/1988  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 11:56:13 PM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  MP 2333(GP38-2)
Views:  333   Comments: 0
Seaboard System in Shreveport
Title:  Seaboard System in Shreveport
Description:  HLCX 2586, a former Seaboard System unit, is switching cars at the south city limit, Williamson Way. Also in evidence: the new action logo, and the sad disappearance of the classic Espee lighting clusters, replaced by a boring revoling rooftop light.
Photo Date:  8/1/1994  Upload Date: 8/6/2017 1:57:49 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SP 7804(B30-7) HLLX 2586(GP38-2)
Views:  422   Comments: 2
KCS EMD
Title:  KCS EMD
Description:  Heading toward downtown through the Linwood junction
Photo Date:  7/1/1988  Upload Date: 4/30/2017 12:49:07 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  KCS 779(GP40) KCS 4010(GP38-2) KCS 764(GP40)
Views:  438   Comments: 0
Small Train, Small Town
Title:  Small Train, Small Town
Description:  Norfolk Southern #5100 is running long hood first through Nashville, Georgia, with a single Family Lines hopper car in tow. From here she will run east and north toward Willacoochee.
Photo Date:  7/31/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:34:50 PM
Location:  Nashville, GA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 5100(GP38-2)
Views:  255   Comments: 0
NS 5100 in Nashville GA
Title:  NS 5100 in Nashville GA
Description:  North/east bound with a single hopper car on a foggy July morning
Photo Date:  7/31/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:35:18 PM
Location:  Nashville, GA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 5100(GP38-2)
Views:  232   Comments: 0
NS 5100
Title:  NS 5100
Description: 
Photo Date:  7/31/1987  Upload Date: 10/30/2016 9:35:40 PM
Location:  Nashville, GA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories: 
Locomotives:  NS 5100(GP38-2)
Views:  302   Comments: 0
NS on the SP
Title:  NS on the SP
Description: 
Photo Date:  9/1/1987  Upload Date: 8/6/2017 2:57:50 AM
Location:  Shreveport, LA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 5124(GP38-2)
Views:  312   Comments: 0
Small town train
Title:  Small town train
Description:  Norfolk Southern 5161 is headed southbound through Nashville, GA, towards Ray City, past the towns one shopping center..
Photo Date:  2/14/1987  Upload Date: 12/19/2015 10:35:01 PM
Location:  Nashville, GA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 5161(GP38-2)
Views:  169   Comments: 0
Norfolk Southern 5161
Title:  Norfolk Southern 5161
Description:  Southbound out of Nashville with a load of hoppers
Photo Date:  2/14/1987  Upload Date: 12/19/2015 10:37:31 PM
Location:  Nashville, GA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 5161(GP38-2)
Views:  198   Comments: 0
Norfolk Southern 5161
Title:  Norfolk Southern 5161
Description:  An overexposed scan of an underexposed shot with a crappy camera on a lousy day, but Ive always loved that spot of headlight shining on the first hopper. Heading south through Nashville GA.
Photo Date:  2/15/1987  Upload Date: 12/19/2015 10:40:09 PM
Location:  Nashville, GA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  NS 5161(GP38-2)
Views:  181   Comments: 0
Southern 5182
Title:  Southern 5182
Description:  The money shot!....which I ruined by snapping a second or two early. Truck, why are you there?! Southern RR #5182 is heading east through Nashville, toward Willacoochee GA.
Photo Date:  12/20/1987  Upload Date: 12/19/2015 10:56:19 PM
Location:  Nashville, GA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5182(GP38-2)
Views:  123   Comments: 1
Nasty day in Nashville
Title:  Nasty day in Nashville
Description:  When youre 14 years old, you dont always get to choose when and where you photograph trains. If a cruddy, misty day is whats on offer, then thats what you take.
Photo Date:  12/21/1987  Upload Date: 12/19/2015 11:01:27 PM
Location:  Nashville, GA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5182(GP38-2)
Views:  151   Comments: 1
Southern 5182
Title:  Southern 5182
Description:  Profile shot of Southern Railway #5182 as it rolls northbound into Nashville, GA.
Photo Date:  12/21/1987  Upload Date: 12/19/2015 11:03:29 PM
Location:  Nashville, GA
Author:  Robert Powers
Categories:  Action
Locomotives:  SOU 5182(GP38-2)
Views:  190   Comments: 1


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