UP meet with a mid-train DPU above Squaw Creek in Ames, Iowa

UP meet with a mid-train DPU above Squaw Creek in Ames, Iowa

Wednesday, October 19, 2016, 9:17 AM. Rick was out for a morning bicycle ride, and of course took his camera along. This is the first of two videos he took, this one with a bonus two trains. The westbound doublestack had been in progress for nearly a minute when the eastbound mixed freight snuck up behind it.

UP meet with a mid-train DPU above Squaw Creek in Ames, Iowa

UP grain train & manifest meet over Squaw Creek in Ames, Iowa

Eastbound Union Pacific stacker at Squaw Creek, Ames, Iowa

2 UP stackers meet, each with 2 mid-train DPUs incl. EsPee unit

CSX mid-train DPU on UP doublestack at Jordan, Iowa

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CSX DPU on Union Pacific doublestack in downtown Ames, Iowa

Union Pacific Manifest Crosses Creek in the Snow at Ames, Iowa

Union Pacific local train in downtown Ames, Iowa

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Norfolk Southern unit on UP manifest above Squaw Creek

Two eastbound UP trains at once behind Main Street in Ames, Iowa

Second look at twin mid-DPU stacker at Devil's Hollow

Head-on look at UP mixed freight on Jewell Sub in Ames, Iowa

Loaded Down Coal Train With Mid-Train DPU

Union Pacific meet at Kellogg Avenue, Ames, Iowa

Alternate view of the train over Grand Avenue in Ames, Iowa

UP coal train passes hi-railer at Hazel Avenue in Ames

Union Pacific Salad Shooter in the dark at North Dakota Avenue, Ames, Iowa