The daily Union Pacific manifest from Roseville to Salt Lake City is less than 1/2 mile from Arnolds Loop. It is running through the several deep rock cuts on a 1% descending grade on the east slo... (more)

BNSF 4467 is rolling down the 1% grade on the east side of Silver Zone Pass. The location is Cliffside on the Union Pacific’s Shafter Sub. in eastern Nevada. This is the BNSF’s tri weekly Stoc... (more)

Pilot is the second siding west of the Utah/Nevada state line on Union Pacific’s Shafter Sub. It is the location of a large limestone quarry whose waste rock dump is seen looming in the backgrou... (more)

Arnolds Loop in eastern Nevada just never gets old for me. I have been going there for decades. This shot shows an empty, eastbound, iron ore train rounding the Loop. It is headed for Iron Springs... (more)

Union Paific’s 6836 is leading a Pixley, California bound grain train past the rail loadout at Pilot, Nevada. There is a large lime quarry at Pilot operated by Graymont Western, US. They ship li... (more)

Grain trains seem to have become the most common type of train on Union Pacific’s Shafter Sub. in eastern Nevada. Coal still runs here, but seemingly in lesser amounts than only 6 months ago. If... (more)

Trains on Union Pacific’s Shafter Sub. in eastern Nevada are few and far between these days. Two days spent there only yielded a total of 5 trains in daylight. This huge westbound coal train was... (more)

UP5465 is passing Cliffside siding on the lower of the two trackage levels on Nevada’s Silver Zone Pass in the Toano Range. Arnolds Loop is around a mile ahead. Directly above the head end power... (more)

The clouds that had kept this day dark and gloomy started to break up and dissipate just long enough to illuminate the three times a week Provo, Utah to Stockton, CA BNSF manifest on the UP’s Sh... (more)

After unloading its train of coal at Richmond, CA, the UP 7001 is seen here rounding Arnold's Loop while dropping down Silver Zone Pass on the UP Shafter Sub. It is on its way to the West Elk Mine... (more)

Crystal clear sky, Pilot Peak, and great light make for a good shot of this Union Pacific manifest freight climbing Silver Zone Pass in far eastern Nevada.

This train, the Union Pacific MRORV, was the second of three bunched up westbound trains I saw this day on Silver Zone Pass. It was behind the BNSF QPVS8J and ahead of a loaded coal train destined... (more)

I first encountered this westbound BNSF trackage rights train on UP’s Shafter sub while I was driving west on parallel Interstate 80 west of Salt Lake City. Maintenance of Way work near Aragonit... (more)

This train had by far the best head end power of any of the three trains I saw this afternoon on Silver Zone Pass. It's not common to see CSX power on the Shafter Sub. This train was the last in l... (more)

Pilot, Nevada is the second siding in Nevada west of the Utah/Nevada state line on the Union Pacific Shafter sub. It is on the westward climb to Silver Zone Pass and is also the site of a large li... (more)