After cresting at Erie, 8445 west now starts rolling downhill at Jean. The train is stretching across the desert along side Las Vegas Blvd.

A DPU helps shove KG1LA over the crest of the hill at Erie on it's way into Jean and eventually to LA.

KG1LA lugs very slowly uphill, stretching through a curve at Erie. All three motors roaring, keeping the containers filled with important stuff moving toward LA.

Under the watchful eyes of a couple of photographers Nevada Northern RS-3 puts together the days photo freight. A day well spent for all who attended.

Five EMDs pull a long westbound pig train through Sand Pass.

Location of this shot of a loaded westbound coal trainis the upper level of trackage on Silver Zone near MP 777. I was able to get the entire train in the shot showing the 2x2 DPU arrangement. Tra... (more)

The Nevada Northern Box car 1025 was built in October 1912. The rabbit stirred up by the train is of supposedly recent production though.

Nevada Northern 4-6-0 No. 40 pulls 4 boxcars and NN caboose No. 5 westbound at Adverse, Nevada, on the morning of February 4, 2007.

An eastbound Union Pacific stack train threads through stark Palisade Canyon, Nevada, and crosses the Humbolt River on March 7, 2012. The vastness of this barren landscape through Palisade Canyon ... (more)

Nevada Northern’s Currie depot sits forlorn and unused as a local dog inspects the weed covered main line of the NNRY, waiting for a train that will seemingly never come on February 6, 2006.

A Union Pacific unit tank train climbs Silver Zone Pass through Arnold Loop at Clifside, Nevada, on March 6, 2012.

NN #40 with the boxcar train at Hiline Junction in the emptiness of rural northern central Nevada. Well worth the drive from civilization to partake in one of the top photo charters of the year.

NN #40 and the rotary plow share the yard as part of the Nevada Northern's Winter Steam Spectacular weekend.

With paired operations west of Ogden and Salt Lake City between UP and Western Pacific, UP 3563 leads its westbound train around WP's Arnold Loop near the eastern edge of Nevada on April 18, 1980.... (more)

Hell bent to "get out of Dodge" at dusk, four Western Pacific GE's and an EMD unit smoke it up eastbound through downtown Elko, Nevada en route Salt Lake City on April 18, 1980. Fortunately the t... (more)