The sun and the clouds work together to paint an amazing picture in the eastern sky as an eastbound coal load heads straight into the sunrise. Heat waves from the dynamic brakes radiate off the tr... (more)

Eastbound UP climbing Cajon Pass near ALRAY

UP 5882 and patched SP 6188 lead SATX coal empties north on the Austin sub past an abandoned barn near Rockdale, Texas. This is the former Missouri Pacific St. Louis to Laredo main line, originall... (more)

The night before the historic move of UP 4014 from Pomona to West Colton, the departure yard at West Colton was quite active with normal operations.

UP 5791 is the DPU on an eastbound loaded coal train.

The power for today’s CCQNA train head back to their train tied down in the yard as the BNSF DENKCK heads out of town with cars from more)

Westbound Stacker heading through the S curve at Jean NV

DPUs for LOP82, the Lone Pine Sub local, shove a coal train bound for the Trona Railway toward Mojave.

The Valmont coal train comes to a stop near the Valmont Power Plant in Boulder before the crew goes to work and puts the train away in the power plant and on the Stazio Siding.

Sunny conditions and blue skies greet the MNPWC rolling west through Weber Canyon at Devils Slide.

After meeting a stack train, the BNSF/UP Valmont loaded coal train proceeds north out of Broomfield towards Boulder. Mount Meeker can be seen high above the train in the background.

On March 4, 2012, Union Pacific’s Potash local heads back to the main line at Brendel, Utah, after setting out most of its cars at Potash, and is now taking back one lowly tank car picked up ear... (more)

A westbound stack train bound for the Port of Long Beach charges west as the lone DPU helps shove the train over the ex-SP bridge at Betram, Ca along the Salton Sea.

Westbound manifest moving slowly through the "S" curve at Jean

A group of UP heavies, including a former Southern Pacific unit, wait for orders in the North Yard.