Western Railroad Discussion > ID---Short UP - Z Over Donner

Saturday, UP ran a short W/B- Z around noon out of Sparks. The leader of the two units was 5623. What was the symbol for this train? I suspect it may have consisted of Oakland's inadvertently cut out at Sparks.

Was this the train with all domestic containers mounted on spine cars? If it was, the consist was actually 5463/5298. I caught it near Shed 10 around 2PM. I thought it must have been the Lathrop-bound section of an Oakland train or the Oakland-bound section of a Lathrop train.

Yes on the consist and you are right on the locos.

UP 5463, 5298 on the ZSPOAX-13 (Premium Intermodal-Sparks-Oakland-Extra) with 3 loads.

SP8595 Wrote:
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> UP 5463, 5298 on the ZSPOAX-13 (Premium
> Intermodal-Sparks-Oakland-Extra) with 3 loads.

Hmmm...didn't hear about that one, but not surprising, being as we are now in the Xmas rush season; must have been a hot UPS move. UP did run a very short ZOAG2X out of Sparks a couple of weeks back with one unit, so I assume that was probably some priority LTL biz as well. Probably be a few more of those run before Christmas is upon us.

Not a suprising move; UP will do anything to hold onto (and expand)the UPS business into and out of Northern California, where they have an equal or maybe superior route to BNSF. Such a move is not without president, years past I've heard that the Santa Fe would run as little as a single missed trailer all across their system for UPS.