Late last week I spotted a rare sighting of just eight Union Pacific locomotives engines heading west towards Donner Pass, no rail cars, just engines. The reason we see excess horsepower sent west like in this video, is to refit the power fleet for the next east bound “traffic cycle’ out of Los Angeles. It’s estimated that as much as 70% of what’s imported into Los Angeles, ends up east of the Mississippi to give you a sense of how much carload general merchandise freight Union Pacific moves eas