BNSF # 7680 along with two additional units rounded Arnolds Loop a few minutes ago and is now on the last lap to the summit of Silver Zone Pass. This is one of the “trackage rights” trains tha... (more)

There’s an interesting back story to this shot of UP 8490 with a westbound grain train about to enter Arnolds Loop in eastern Nevada. Earlier in this misty, sometimes rainy day the train ahead o... (more)

19 loads in; 6 empties out. That is today's work for the Dirt Train Local at the East Carbon Development Corp.’s (ECDC) big contaminated waste disposal facility. It is located at the end of Unio... (more)

Seen here is a southbound IC&E train rolling along the Mississippi River at Dakota, MN. Second unit is DM&E #6359, the Mount Rushmore unit, followed by the IC&E #6421.

This is a morning (more like noon actually), loaded coal train westbound for the Bonanza Power Plant in Utah. The location is Midway siding, the only siding on this 35 mile railroad. The siding is... (more)

A few miles west of downtown Salt Lake City is the suburb of Magna. Magna is home to Kennecott Copper Company's. huge complex of smelter, copper refinery and acid works. All of the ore concentra... (more)

San Joaquin Valley RR #2038, a GP20E, is eastbound west of Bakersfield at Rio Blanco on the Buttonwillow Branch. #2038 was built in 1962 as SP 7219, a GP20 and then later upgraded by Southern Paci... (more)

UP 7853 east in Cliffside siding is waiting for UP 6803 west to lug it’s manifest train, the MRORV-07, up the 1% grade of Silver Zone Pass in eastern Nevada. The conductor is on the ground givin... (more)

UP7952 is seen here shortly after it rounded Arnold’s Loop with the GBPILV-09 (Grain-Peoria, IL-SJVR Rwy at Biola Jct. CA). The scene is in eastern Nevada on the Shafter sub. The grade here is 1... (more)

Canadian Pacific's manifest train #170, from Saint Paul to Kansas City, is seen here rolling south along the frozen Mississippi river at Dakota, Minnesota. Check out those mismatched number boards... (more)

Deseret Ry’s E60 electric #DPR-1 is eastbound about 1 mile out of the Bonanza Power Plant. I worked out here on these barren, but to me beautiful, uplands and saw this unique railroad every week... (more)

Three pristine SD40N’s are in charge of Union Pacific’s “Dirt Train” out of Helper Yard this day. The train is seen here rolling downgrade and crossing Grassy Trail Creek. It has finished ... (more)

Today's MRVRO has finished its long trip eastbound up the valley of the Humboldt River to Wells, Nevada and is now southeast of Wells on the Union Pacific's Shafter Sub. It is just about to leave ... (more)

For my job in oil and gas drilling, I needed to go visit a drilling rig which was drilling a gas well off of Consumers Road near Helper, Utah. Consumers Rd. goes right past the Wildcat coal loadou... (more)

Back in 1996, the Rio Grande was fulfilling its role as a bridge route across the Rockies. The railroad was alive with SP traffic like that shown here at Narrows, Utah. Scanned from a color print.