Union Pacific MRONY freight passes mile 22.6 west of Clay, Colorado, after a nice snowfall on the Front Range on March 10, 2013. The power is about to cross over Blue Mountain Drive, while the rea... (more)

With the throttle notched all the way up, southbound loaded coal drag CNROL9 23 claws its way toward the summit of Logan Hill and out of the Powder River Basin on BNSF's Orin Subdivision with 100+... (more)

The empty Coast Cans work their way up Cuesta Grade between Chorro and Serrano on a breezy February morning. The recent rains have turned the hills green with new grass, a fact that the local cat... (more)

A weather system continues to slowly move in from the west as eastbound coal loads from North Rochelle Mine, WY come into South Morrill, NE after receiving instructions from the yard master.

A loaded coal train crests the grade at Erie. It's hard to imagine this remote looking location is about 10-15 minutes from "The Strip"

Though my wife would rather chase the UP with me, she has to teach, (why we are here). First of our last day for now out here was this UP coal train. We have to come back in March.

The UP was very busy in Vegas this day, here an eastbound empty coal train waits at Wann for a westbound.

Union Pacific freight MDVPV (Denver to Provo manifest) chugs through some fresh snow approaching Tunnel 1 east of Plainview, Colorado, on November 30, 2006.

The rising sun paints the nose of UP AC4400CW-CTE No. 5942 leading a Trona to Skyline coal empty east thorough Spanish Fork Canyon on Feb. 13, 2015.

Westbound freight approaching Speer Track 3

A surprising pair of UP locomotives takes Q220 onto the siding at Loachapoka for a meet with Q612. This 60 car train of auto racks is at minimum full of 600 Kia / Hyundai automobiles built by the... (more)

On a pleasant January afternoon, a hot Z-Train for Laredo, Texas crosses over the Big Muddy River as it races down Union Pacific's Chester Sub.

An eastbound stack train passes by the departure yard at West Colton while a train in the yard pauses to hook up to another string of cars. The train would then shove back into the yard track whe... (more)

Off the siding near the eponymous town of Tie Siding, WY, elephant-style horsepower ducks toward the rathole of Hermosa Tunnels.