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One of Union Pacific's flawed SD90MAC's takes a short eastbound freight through Grass Lake, California on the Shasta Route in August of 2002. The big EMD's are all in the scrap pile just a about a decade after their construction.

UP 5486 North is topping the grade at Grass Lake Summit on a hazy July afternoon. I didn't try to get Mt. Shasta into the background due to the heavy smoke from the forest fires.

UP 5382 South blasts through Grass Lake while the 5486 North holds the siding. This was the only "blue sky" shot I could get all day, the smoke from the Northern California fires has Mt. Shasta all but invisible from I-5 & US-97.

Let me down in the tall grass. The 520 is what ultimatley got me out of the house that day. The 107 was right behind him.

CN doesn't like to run molten Sulphur unit trains, preferring to stick a cut of 30-40 tankers on a manifest such as 346. Then again I have seen it once last year. The train was almost always parked @ CN's Fort Route yard (Winnipeg) when I railfanned there in 2003-05. This however is either...

Here is the GE Tier-2 test train near Grass Lake, CA on April 24, 2003. A spring snow storm has covered the area with a layer of unexpected snow.