On Nov. 1, 2013, a Union Pacific work train from Pueblo, Colorado departs Salt Lake City for a trip on the former Western Pacific mainline to Elko, Nevada.

SP baywindow caboose 1881 tags on the rear of an extra east climbing Tehachapi grade at Cliff March 29, 1975 when California state's Poppy flower was in bloom.

On California's famous Tehachapi Loop with trackage rights over the SP, eastbound Santa Fe 3350 completes the circle with its locos above its caboose at Walong. July 4, 1976 on our nation's 200th... (more)

Climbing the 2.92% grade from the Jordan River trestle, Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp is less than a quarter mile from the mainline connection at the Midvale wye. Today's local has plenty of tonnage ... (more)

MQT 3391 leads MQT 3390, GR 3839 and MQT 3389 through Comstock Park, MI., en route to Grand Rapids on a moody fall afternoon. This is Z151's first trip into Grand Rapids with all three G&W repaint... (more)

A Western Pacific bay window caboose trails Union Pacific's SCPV into Provo Yard on Aug. 21, 1983. WP 452 was built by International Car for the WP in 1956 and was retired from service on the UP i... (more)

Bringing up the rear on a Southern Pacific eastbound freight at West Colton Yard in Bloomington, California, on January 20th, 1984, are a pair of bay-window cabooses: SP C-40-4 (rebuilt) caboose ... (more)

The side of the caboose that doesn't have the graffiti all over it. CP caboose 434497 sits on the MOW storage track. Like all the other CP cabooses, this one is one you won't see on the end of the... (more)

A sharp looking Milwaukee Road bay window caboose is part of the railroad park in Deer Lodge.

The Aiken Railway's new caboose awaits a paint job in the GRLW yard in Belton, SC.

The Rio Grande launched a big rail replacement campaign between Provo and Lehi in 1989. The 663 local leads a train of work train cars through Riverton on the return to Roper Yard to tie up for th... (more)

Rio Grande work train No. 952 waits patiently in the American Fork siding for a meet with the hot 187 train from Denver. The original 39 ft. section rail had just been replaced with new ribbon rai... (more)

Two new AC units bring loads off the P-D and onto the Pokey Division on a foggy fall morning.

Close call at Toltec Siding. RP viewers who have met me know how much I dislike derailment photos. While I actually have a few of them, I typically don't post them, because they show the u... (more)

With three F unit pushers on its rear, southbound coal Train 26 is clearing the north siding switch at Barrett Yard or Johnson City, Tenn. to allow Extra 817 North to proceed.