I followed this westbound train for about 100 miles as I traveled west on I80 across the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah and into Nevada. I got a shot of it at Pilot siding and then got ahead of it ... (more)

Westbound BNSF passes the Nevada Northern's small yard at Shafter, NV.

The long out-of-service Nevada Northern looking south towards Ely. Two abandoned side-dump cars are in the background in this desolate view, 15 miles from any other sign of civilization.

A grain train exits a rock cut and enters Arnold Loop on the former WP across Northern Nevada.

An eastbound grain train descends Arnold Loop in the eastern Nevada Desert on the former WP.