Union Paific’s 6836 is leading a Pixley, California bound grain train past the rail loadout at Pilot, Nevada. There is a large lime quarry at Pilot operated by Graymont Western, US. They ship li... (more)

A very late running Amtrak #6 scuttles through the new snow at Colton, Utah. #6 has just topped Soldier Summit at a little under 7500’ elevation and will shortly begin the 2.4% downgrade throug... (more)

Amtrak #6 ran 8 hours late through Nevada and Utah this day due to winter storm induced problems in the Sierras.. For me that meant a daylight passage over Soldier Summit in Utah. It was running w... (more)

A weekend get-away in Glenwood Springs, Colorado gave me the chance to do some winter railfanning in western Colorado. First off, I got yet another lesson in just how little rail traffic there is ... (more)

Amtrak #5, the California Zephyr, is just now leaving the siding at Range, Colorado after meeting its eastbound counterpart #6. Its next stop, about 28 rail miles west, is at the popular resort to... (more)

Union Pacific's 7679 east is just about finished with its trip across seemingly endless mud flats and salt pans of the Great Salt Lake Desert as it approaches Lakeside, Utah. The last 58 miles fro... (more)

Pilot, Nevada is the second siding in Nevada west of the Utah/Nevada state line on the Union Pacific Shafter sub. It is on the westward climb to Silver Zone Pass and is also the site of a large li... (more)

The Union Pacific runs its LDP45 local a couple of times a week. This is the well known “dirt train” local out of the yard at Helper, Utah. Normally the train runs east on the Green River Sub ... (more)

The outbound engineer on Amtrak #5 takes advantage of a lull in passenger boarding to wash the windshield on #145.

This 3 car Union Pacific inspection train is swinging through the S curves at the upper end of the 2.4% grade in the Price River Canyon, Utah. The train was expected earlier in the day, but by the... (more)

I heard the UP's Green River Sub dispatcher talking to the Dirt Train a couple of times but I could not figure out where the train was. Finally I heard the crew request permission to enter the mai... (more)

It's an unusual sight to see a solid train of empty coal gondolas westbound on Utah's Soldier Summit grade. But here is such a move. Normally, westbound coal trains are loaded, not empty. The trai... (more)

You are looking at Coyote Basin in far eastern Utah. The Colorado state line is just in front of Raven Ridge, that tree covered ridge in the background. No one lives out here; no ranches, no homes... (more)

The final, westernmost, part of Arnold’s Loop is in a decreasingly deep cut before the end of the loop is reached. Shown here is UP7899 leading the GSVTPX-10 out of that rocky west entrance of A... (more)

Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. #93 is putting a replica wreck train together in the East Ely yard. The occasion is the winter photo shoot of the NNRy Museum. That 100 ton steam wrecking crane in t... (more)