Western Railroad Discussion > Bound for Kamela

Caught a Union Pacific freight grinding up the Blue Mountains on Tuesday afternoon, bound for points west. Three on the point and two more locomotives mid-train. It was a busy day on the mainline, probably caught over a dozen trains between Baker City and Portland.

Enjoy, Taylor

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Looks to be a string of cement hoppers from the plant on the other side of Durkee
that replaced the old one at Lime.

Larry Dodgion
Wilsonville, OR

The front end was mostly hoppers, but there were also boxcars, tanks, auto carriers, and center beams in the consist.

Taylor

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I saw that train just east of Nampa, Idaho a couple of days ago (maybe Sunday?) when the Nampa yard was clogged up with a lot of trains.
It appeared to be parked on Track 2, between Nampa and Kuna.
That means those hoppers didn't come from Durkee or Lime, as I saw it farther east.

Well hell, , , , poor guess on my part. But since I haven't been in Eastern Oregon in some months
all I can say is that it appeared to be something that it wasn't, , , , but could have been............8>)

Larry Dodgion
Wilsonville, OR

Nampa Yard and the surrounding area was plugged up with trains Sunday.
Most congested I've ever seen it.
That train was sitting on Track 2 a few miles east of Nampa and the dispatcher told him to hold tight until he could "find a hole" to get him through the yard.
There was an EB parked on the main at the west end of the yard too, plus every track in the yard seemed to have a train sitting on it.
One of them was another heavy WB grainer with 8 or 9 engines on it.
Was out there today and there were two more heavy grainers - one with 7 motors and another with 9.
Wonder what that 8504 train was and where it originated?

Sounds like UP is looking more and more like the BNSF in the Pacific Northwest now...