On a summer day, UP 7732 East (GE C45ACCTE, with 4,400 hp, built in 2007) charges up the #2 track on the Roseville Subdivision, with UP 2492 (EMD SD59MX, 3,000 hp) and UP 9445 (GE C41-8W with 4,135 hp, built in 1991) behind, pulling a mixed manifest train. On the rear in DPU status is UP 5646 (GE C44ACCTE with 4,390 hp, built in 2004).
I'd like to say I knew this train meet was coming, but at precisely 5:00 into the video I had panned left and caught -- just in time -- UP 3798 West (downhill), followed by UP 4079 and UP 4340 (SD70M units) approaching rapidly at track speed of 25 mph. Another train meet archived on video, albeit inadvertently. Equally rare is the all-EMD SD70 consist at the front.
Videoed at the eastern Casa Loma crossing, past Towle, at roughly the 4,000-foot elevation, this is in the heart of the Tahoe National Forest. South of these tracks flows the eastern fork of the American River, a good 900+ feet straight down.
Note to self: with a Flip Slide HD, do NOT engage the "tele" mode as it only expands the pixels and diminishes optical clarity.
Негізгі бет MP154 - UP 7732 East, Past American
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