Perhaps the last major snowstorm of the season blankets UP 5799 (AC4400CW-CTE) and its loaded coal cars as they head south on the Joint Line through Sedalia, Colorado.

A empty UP auto rack bound for storage in Nevada works through Sullivan's as it climbs Cajon.

A fast intermodal heads east through Ogden Dunes at 488 on the Norfolk Southern Chicago Line.

A westbound auto rack train rolls through the town of Mosier, Ore., in the Columbia River Gorge.

A westbound freight curves along the Columbia River and I-84 through the Gorge. This view is from the Rowena overlook on the Historic Columbia River Highway.

Union Pacific AC4400CW-CTE No. 5823 leads the North Yard, Colorado to Roper Yard, Utah manifest extra (MNYROX 09) up the 2-percent grade out of Eisele (formally known as Clay, or still referred to... (more)

The sun comes in and out as loaded oil cans from Wash, Utah descend the 2-percent grade as the train negotiates the horseshoe curve in Coal Creek Canyon just west of Denver along the Moffat Road o... (more)

A GE AC4400CW-CTE brings up the rear of this westbound stack train as it rounds the curve at Archer Hill, Wyoming just east of Cheyenne.

Three Union Pacific coal trains traverse Logan Hill north of Bill in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 13, 2014.

Fresh off meets with 203 and 221 at Yonah, NS 172 continues its trek to Linwood as they pass a flowering field south of Alto.

Climbing Logan Hill at the same time are two southbound Union Pacific coal trains on June 13, 2014. The coal train with UP No. 5725 as DPU has already surmounted the grade and is picking up the pa... (more)

Climbing Logan Hill simultaneously past milepost 69 on the Orin Line are two southbound Union Pacific coal trains headed for Bill, Wyoming, on June 13, 2014.

Two Union Pacific coal trains climb Logan Hill north of Bill, Wyoming, on June 13, 2014. The four track main line here lifts trains past milepost 69 on the Orin Subdivision.

Two trains wait to head south toward Hearne on the former SP.

The Thistle Tunnels are twin bores under Billies Mountain in Utah, constructed by Morrison-Knudsen after a massive mudslide buried the town of Thistle in floodwater and closed the Rio Grande main ... (more)