Nearly 4 months after the fatal derailment near Granite, crews are still working to clear up the remnants of 3 locomotives. 2 crew members lost their lives, a reminder of the dangers involved in r... (more)

UP 5859 & 8431 with a westbound grain train.

UP 5849 rolls down the mountain into Mohave after a tough fight up and down Tehachapi Pass

Westbound potash train climbing up grade out of Huntington, OR on a cold day.

Stalling! This westbound grain shuttle has already begun the grade up toward Mescal, AZ. But as it continues, the train begins to hit the 2% part of the grade as it begins to slow and struggle upg... (more)

Eastbound manifest train west of Huntington, Oregon.

The last of its kind. UP 6706, former CNW 8804, brings train IPDG2 under the CNW coal tower located in Dekalb, IL. This engine has spent a majority of its lifetime under UP ownership, only being u... (more)

Although it looks like it might have come out of the GE plant in Erie last week, this AC4400 was actually built in May of 1997 for the UP. The fresh coat of armour yellow and Harbormist gray stan... (more)

UP 5565 & 6602 lead westbound empties.

Snow is coming down at a pretty good clip on April 15, 2013, as dusk and the “blue hour” settles in on the fuel track at Union Pacific’s North Yard in Denver, Colorado. During this spring we... (more)

UP 5626 & 4326 power a westbound stack train.

Lite power in the form of Union Pacific units, with a very weather beaten one up front, head south after dropping off their train of empty auto racks at the Kia plant in West Point.

Meet at Saulsbury. UP 5617 leads an eastbound intermodal past a westbound manifest at Saulsbury in the rolling hills of western Tennessee.

The weather the past week has had mornings filled with fog making the Iowa landscape fairly frosty. I don't normally do great with hoarfrost. This morning I was out and heard an eastbound CN ethan... (more)