Union Pacific Freight Trains at Albany, Oregon, in Early June 2006

I took these pictures of Union Pacific freight trains from my car on Interstate 5 at Albany, Oregon, in early June 2006. First, on June 1, 2006, I photographed this northbound freight train led by Union Pacific #5359, a 4,400-horsepower ES44AC that was built by General Electric in January 2005 and delivered on February 3, 2005. Union Pacific gives its ES44AC locomotives the designation C45ACCTE. The second locomotive is Union Pacific #3929, a 4,000-horsepower SD70M that was built by the General Motors Locomotive Group in London, Ontario, and was delivered on June 28, 2003.

On June 7, 2006, I photographed this southbound freight train. The trailing locomotive is Union Pacific #9859, a 3,500-horsepower SD50 that was built by the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors in September 1984 as Denver & Rio Grande Western #5515. The Rio Grande merged with the Southern Pacific in 1988. After the Southern Pacific merged into the Union Pacific on September 11, 1996, this locomotive became Union Pacific #5109 on October 3, 2001, and was renumbered to Union Pacific #9859 on September 18, 2002, though it still wore its original Denver & Rio Grande paint scheme with just an Armour Yellow patch over the road number. Also noteworthy is the first car in the train, which is a Chicago & North Western boxcar. The Chicago & North Western was merged into the Union Pacific on April 24, 1995.

Later on June 7, 2006, I photographed this southbound freight train, led by Union Pacific #5501, a 4,400-horsepower ES44AC that was built by General Electric in June 2005 and was delivered on June 22, 2005. Union Pacific gives its ES44AC locomotives the designation C45ACCTE. It is followed by Union Pacific #8389, a 4,300-horsepower SD70ACe that was built by Electro-Motive Diesel in May 2005 and was delivered on June 3, 2005.