UP 5799 is looking a little rough with no American flag or Union Pacific logo. I assume it has been repaired after some fire damage.

Climbing out of Rock River, a lengthy eastbound manifest digs into the grade, part of Union Pacific's Overland Route realignment of 1901 to correct the winding grades of the original Pacific Railr... (more)

Nearing the end of their assault of the western slope of the famed Sherman Hill, two weathered AC4400s brace a clean ES44 past the famous rocks at Dale Junction. The Sherman Hill alignment was un... (more)

After rattling the windows in the sleepy town of Medicine Bow, this eastbound intermodal crosses the Medicine Bow River, bound for Laramie and Cheyenne.

An eastbound coal train enters the Marysville sub at Gibbon Jct.

A SB sand train clearing the town of Momence Illinois on the UP Villa Grove Sub on a very clear and chilly fall afternoon.

UP 5991 & CSX 5299 eastbound.

The scenic climb out of the Green River drainage begins immediately after leaving the yard at Green River, Wyoming. The ruling grade here is .82%, and this means high tonnage trains grind there w... (more)

The UP 5848 begins to move at light speed as it accelerates a coal train over the BNSF mainlines at Santa Fe junction.

Westbound UP trackage rights train drops downgrade between Hart and Ethel. This train is operating from IHB's yard Gibson, IN, to Mira Loma, CA. The train runs over the BNSF Chilly and Marceline S... (more)

On a crisp, clear autumn afternoon, the southbound Powerton loads (UP CNAPW 28) eases past the large Akron Services Inc grain elevator south of Edelstein on the single tracked ex-C&NW Peoria Subdi... (more)

On a clear morning after a much needed rain, a Union Pacific Z train crosses Stampede Meadows Road. The Truckee River, muddy from the rain, meets the clear Little Truckee River which runs from ne... (more)

The typically-nocturnal southbound oil cans make a daylight appearance in Santa Susana Pass on their way to the South Bay for unloading.