Sounds Like Heaven

On second thought, I didn’t hear any harps. So maybe it doesn’t sound like heaven. Either way, that’s not the point.

I passed by the east end of Englewood Yard a few weeks ago to photograph a thing or two. I noticed a hump set start dragging a cut of cars over the hump. There wasn’t any decent stills from where I was at so I just watched the move. I was taken with the sound of 3 SD40-2’s working.

Then the metaphorical light came on-capture some video. It seemingly took forever to change lenses and switch the camera over to video, but I’m still happy to have captured the sounds of heaven – on earth.

PS – Note the slug unit, UPY 937. It has a rich history, starting out as an SP U25B. It was rebuilt in to a road slug, a TEBU in SP parlance. The UP needed slugs in the late 90’s, so they re-built this slug again, numbering it S319 in 9/1997. It was re-numbered into its current UPY number in 8/2003.