P.C.C.M 50C -- Union Pacific Extra 53 East

This post will cover traffic heading to Selkirk from the West Coast on Union Pacific Extra 53 East. UP 53 is a U50. Behind it is UP 2883, a U30C, and CB&Q 143, a U28B. The Burlington unit is in run-through service and heading back to home rails.

At the head of the train are several stock cars headed to Chicago.

Also in the train is a block of express cars headed east. They may be empties, as they're in a priority freight rather than a mail-express train. The REX reefers are either empty or in dry service.

The rest of the train is filled out with reefers.

Here are glimpses of the train passing through rock formations, somewhere in Nevada or Utah.

But here it's detoured onto the D&RGW. Must have been a derailment somewhere in Wyoming.

Here's the caboose, also in Burlington run-through service, leaving the East Portal of Moffat Tunnel.

And descending the east slope in full dynamic:

We know we're leaving the west when we pass a Rock City barn:

And passing through Woollett. The New Haven caboose makes me think we're getting awful close to Selkirk, wherever we are:

UP 53 leaves Tunnel 1 and passes Rattlesnake Rocks

And a final glimpse as it crosses over Zenith Yard as it enters West Zenith.

I assume the stock cars and reefers will go east on NY-4 or LS-2.