In January of 1988 Edgar Dayries found himself trackside in Port Allen, Louisiana. He captured this view of the Union Pacific’s River Job as it was heading south across the Port Allen Canal bridge adjacent to the Port Allen Lock (to the Mississippi River). The train is headed up by former Missouri Pacific GP38-2 locomotive #2190 decked out in new Union Pacific paint with the “interim” Missouri Pacific lettering. She is followed by three other GP38-2 locos still in their “Jenks Blue” paint.

The Missouri Pacific lettering applied over Union Pacific paint began soon after a May 1984 corporate order and ceased being applied by January of 1986, with all units thereafter receiving Union Pacific lettering.