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Western Railroad Discussion > UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, UtahDate: 05/16/22 15:58 UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, Utah Author: cricket Date: May 15, 2022
Image 1: State Capitol overlooking the yard, Salt Lake Sub, MP 783.6 Images 2-3: Stored power. Does anyone know the makeup and number of units here? Thank you for any information. More to follow ...    Date: 05/16/22 16:01 Re: UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, Utah Author: cozephyr Locomotive units stored SWAG 100-200 units. Appears to be three tracks - correct-?
Date: 05/16/22 16:03 Re: UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, Utah Author: cricket Image 4: Fairly clean SD70M awaiting its fate
Image 5: GenSet Switchers - "Engines Of Change" Image 6: UP 2661 South rolls by More to follow ...    Date: 05/16/22 16:08 Re: UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, Utah Author: cricket Images 7-9: Up, up and away ...
   Date: 05/16/22 17:12 Re: UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, Utah Author: stevelv Nice. I really like the Capitol shot with the nice graffiti free covered hoppers.
Date: 05/16/22 17:41 Re: UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, Utah Author: BlaineM Me too about our State Capital, nice photo. In the photos 8 & 9 there appears to be five tracks with stored locos.
Blaine In American Fork Date: 05/16/22 20:50 Re: UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, Utah Author: photobob How do the shareholders react to seeing all this waste?
Robert Morris Dunsmuir, CA Robert Morris Photography Date: 05/16/22 21:24 Re: UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, Utah Author: atsf121 photobob Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > How do the shareholders react to seeing all this > waste? I saw this last week and wondered how much capital is just sitting there doing absolutely nothing. And UP has been storing power there for about 3 years. Like the drone photos cricket, gives a better sense of how much power is stored than what I saw driving by on the freeway. Nathan Posted from iPhone Date: 05/17/22 08:58 Re: UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, Utah Author: texchief1 Nice shots!
RC Lundgren Elgin, TX Date: 05/17/22 10:10 Re: UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, Utah Author: ns1000 photobob Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > How do the shareholders react to seeing all this > waste? Its helping to "keep the numbers looking good" (eyeroll)??!! Using more locos costs $$$.... Thanks for the pics... Date: 05/17/22 14:05 Re: UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, Utah Author: WAF photobob Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > How do the shareholders react to seeing all this > waste? As long as they get a quarterly check, they don't give a shit Date: 05/17/22 20:42 Re: UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, Utah Author: tomstp No wonder they are slow moving freight.
Date: 05/18/22 14:54 Re: UP North Yard at Salt Lake City, Utah Author: wyeth I remember when that yard was a really busy place, actually moving rail cars, freight, and making money for the UP.
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