The "Snowflake Special" is seen in the early morning light waiting to depart and pick up it's passengers for the ride back to Los Angeles
Trackage rights train with a load of concrete ties.
Even though it had been UP for several months, trains over the SP in Nevada still looked as though nothing had changed. #6317 and 6312 are heading East out Sparks with the Fallon Local and crossin... (more)
By 1994, nothing symbolized the Espee of the time as well as #6807 as it sat at Sparks engine pit awaiting its next assignment.
Old power heads west towards Sparks with a local.
East bound manifest.
The Sword of Damocles had fallen on the SP a month before but few outward changes were visible as Rio Grande Tunnel Motor #5365 races Eastward thru the community of Lockwood, just East of Sparks. ... (more)
With about 27 miles to go to reach Reno, the Zephyr has just about finished its over night crossing of Utah and Nevada as it follows the Truckee River Westward
SP SD7 #2740, still wearing its "ashcan" headlight sitting in front of one of the rotaries at the engine pit in Sparks.
Taken from car window - stuck in slow moving traffic
The shadow of UP 5807 is seen on the side of a building next to Sparks yard. Nikon D200, 18-70mm. www.bayarearailroading.com
A UP yard job is working a string of cars at Sparks yard, as the UP engineer running 5807 keeps a good eye on his crew's hand signals as they push a pair of private cars to the wye just a mile or ... (more)
The conductor's lamp outlines his trail as he inspects his train before heading east out of Sparks.
At dusk the eastbound Amtrak departs Sparks. DO YOU NOTICE THE DEPARTING AIRCRAFT ABOVE THE TRAIN??
A westbound idling at the west end of Sparks as the moon rises