The NS high-hoods of Albina have moved to the servicing tracks. Apparently they will working for Frontier Rail at the grain silo of T5 in the port "Rivergate" area of north Portland.
Nice when mergers don’t involve immediate repainting or worse yet butchering the original paint job. This unit is idling on a slow day and it’s great to see something “exotic”.
A long line of engines await their fate at NRE in Silvis, IL. Included are NREX 2707 which started out life as UP 3014 in March of 1966 before being sold off to Southern Pacific, only to come back... (more)