Western Railroad Discussion > Chasing Trains on UP's Lynndyl Sub

Last Saturday a buddy and I were able to take a trip down to UP's Lynndyl Subdivion which is part of UP's LA&SL route.
We railfanned between Lynndyl, UT & St. John, UT.
Traffic was busy that day and we were happy to see a lot of trains.

Here are some photo highlights (Total of 9 photos). All photos taken February 6, 2016.

Photo 1: An auto train running from Argo, IL to Mira Loma, CA (AGBMLD-4) is just about to highball through Strong, UT. The cold morning air carried the roar of the locomotives well as it pulled 80 loads of automobiles.
Photo 2: Pictured here is the North Platte, NE - West Colton, CA manifest (MNPWC-4) heading westbound through Lofgreen, UT.
Photo 3: MNPWC cont'd

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Great shots! I really like #2 & 3...

James Nelson
Thornton, CO
www.flickr.com/mojaveflyer

Photo 4: MNPWC contd'
Photo 5: UP's 6-day per week Salt Lake - Long Beach intermodal (ISCLB-6) hustles between St. John and Faust. It would soon go into the siding at Faust to meet a hot Z train.
Photo 6: The ISCLB seen a little while later at Tintic, UT.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/12/16 21:27 by mpaul101.

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Photo 7: A Long Beach, CA to Global 3, IL (KLBG3-6) stack train thunders across the desert in the disappearing light. The train is about to reach the east end of Tintic siding.
Photo 8: The West Colton, CA to North Platte, NE (MWCNP-6) rolls through Tintic on the heels of the KLBG3.
Photo 9: Near the end of the train we saw this neat box car art. You never know what you'll see on a junk manifest!

Thanks for looking.
- Matt Paulson

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Awesome photo's Matt! It sure was a blast chasing those trains but as always someone ended up in one of my shots....

Spencer Peterson
Payson, UT

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Geeze guys ... it was nice that ya commented positively but the guy stated he has 9 photos to post and you both go and break the photo sequence before he 's done posting ... big pet peave of mine ... i hate when my photo sequences are broken after stating i'm posting multiple images ...

mojaveflyer Wrote:
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> Great shots! I really like #2 & 3...

​and how did you know you didn't like photos 4 thru 9 better ??? ... i'll tell ya why because ya couldn't wait and be patient enough to wait the 5 more minutes for the guy to post the rest of of his photos

Rathole Wrote:
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> Great series of photos!!!

i afree with both comments above ...

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Well since that bothered you so much I deleted my comment. 


Out_Of_Service Wrote:
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> Geeze guys ... it was nice that ya commented
> positively but the guy stated he has 9 photos to
> post and you both go and break the photo sequence
> before he 's done posting ... big pet peave of
> mine ... i hate when my photo sequences are broken
> after stating i'm posting multiple images ...
>
> mojaveflyer Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
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> > Great shots! I really like #2 & 3...
>
> ​and how did you know you didn't like photos 4
> thru 9 better ??? ... i'll tell ya why because ya
> couldn't wait and be patient enough to wait the 5
> more minutes for the guy to post the rest of of
> his photos
>
> Rathole Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Great series of photos!!!
>
> i afree with both comments above ...
>
> ​

Mpaul101, those are some great photos.  Thanks for posting; that's a line I hope to visit when retirement arrives!  

Great series of shots! I really like that location at Lofgreen.

Great loations you chose and very nice photos.
Brian Stevens

How thoughtless of me to give a compliment! By the way, a source of irritation to me are those who don't know how to use the "Check Spelling" at the bottom of the window when they criticize others. Have a nice day!

Out_Of_Service Wrote:
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> Geeze guys ... it was nice that ya commented
> positively but the guy stated he has 9 photos to
> post and you both go and break the photo sequence
> before he 's done posting ... big pet peave of
> mine ... i hate when my photo sequences are broken
> after stating i'm posting multiple images ...
>
> mojaveflyer Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Great shots! I really like #2 & 3...
>
> ​and how did you know you didn't like photos 4
> thru 9 better ??? ... i'll tell ya why because ya
> couldn't wait and be patient enough to wait the 5
> more minutes for the guy to post the rest of of
> his photos
>
> Rathole Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Great series of photos!!!
>
> i afree with both comments above ...
>
> ​

James Nelson
Thornton, CO
www.flickr.com/mojaveflyer

Some nice sun angles you found! The inversion in the valleys have been killing my photographic spirit. The Lynndyl has certainly seen an uptick in traffic with the Golden State reroutes. Hopefully UP will keep some of it on this underutilized line. The biggest killer is all the short sidings - if they would extend a few more to the 10,000 foot range they could really increase the capacity of the operation. Unfortunatly with the last few financial reports I doubt UP is looking at much capital work over the next couple years.

Thanks for the compliments all! And it doesn't bother me if folks post comments between photo posts. No biggie.

Nice pics!!

Really like No. 2 the best.  All of them were good shots.

Randy Lundgren
Elgin, TX