After waiting for an Eastbound Coal Train to Clear the Dispatcher crosses this Westbound Coal Train from Main 1 to Main 2 in Maplewood Missouri.

An empty coal train rounds the curve underneath the Main Street bridge and passes alongside the levee walls as this hopper train heads for a parking spot in the UP yard to tie down and call it a n... (more)

A westbound empty coal train from Paducah, KY is seen just west of Crescent, CO as they are about to enter Tunnel #19 in the tunnel district. Gross Reservoir is just to the left out of the frame.

UP 5772 leads another Union Pacific GE unit uphill with an Energy, Colorado bound coal empty.

The late afternoon sun lights up this westbound empty coal train from Chiles, KY that is going through the canyon between Rollinsville and Tolland along South Boulder Creek.

With UP CCQNA having finally placed its units at the rear and head end of their empty hopper train, the BNSF 102 local comes back into the yard and passes a young railfan with his parents as they ... (more)

Westbound UP stack train rolls across the Missouri River Bridge at Sibley. UP has trackage rights over the BNSF's Transcon Mainline from Chicago, IL, to Kansas City, MO.

The lead units of this wind blade train finally make an appearance as their shove through Pueblo Junction is nearly complete, while today’s more)

While there are two UP tracks out of Pueblo, this unique wind blade train cannot exit Pueblo on the normal main due to a rule preventing special high and wide movements to be routed next to anothe... (more)

A westbound Gibson Yard, IL, to Mira Loma, CA, auto rack begins to slow up for the bottle neck at Sibley over Missouri River bridge. The crew has a flashing yellow signal here at MP 420, as an eas... (more)

In a view between the gas pumps in front of a long-abandoned gas station along the old Lincoln Highway (later, U.S. Highway 30) at James Town, west of Green River, Wyoming, a Union Pacific stack t... (more)

UP’s Potash local curves toward Thompson, Utah on March 4, 2012. Two GE AC4400CW-CTEs lead the short train up Thompson Hill; Nos. 5946 and 6044.

An eastbound Union Pacific coal load passes the detector at mile 22.6 west of Clay, Colorado, on October 22, 2012. The train is circling the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon on a 2% ruling grade with GE... (more)

Slowing for the approach and stop signal at Eisele Siding, the DPU brings up the rear of this loaded coal train as the train negotiates the s-curve in Coal Creek Canyon.

Late afternoon along the Cima Subdivision of the former Los Angeles and Salt Lake...sees this westbound manifest glide downgrade.