Busy Day at AY Plenty of action at the east end of Argentine as NS 112 threads a pair of BNSF Stack trains while an empty eastbound sand train gets a run at the flyover over Santa Fe Jct an... (more)

Centennial 6936 trails 3rd out on UP Train OWVBT 20 which is all red at CP Charlie on the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. The Big Jack was picked up in Cheyenne the day before for movement to North Platt... (more)

"Change Is Coming:" A little before 8 AM, the Frederick local (D786) runs wrong main through the Point of Rocks tunnel, preparing to make his run up the Old Main Line. Although work... (more)

What I did on my Summer vacation, redux: SD60E stands off to the side as Norfolk Southern gets queued up for the day's assignments.

The PSLBU2, which is a passenger special from St. Louis to Wisconsin, gains speed after it crew changed at Villa Grove. This train was supposed to have the 6936 Centennial leading, but UP decided ... (more)

What I did on my Summer vacation, redux: And something a little different on the River Sub-- an SD60E leading a K train south.

UP 5765 leads a SD70ACe and DDA40X UP 6936 on a eastbound ash train. UP 6936 was online and pulling the train east toward Armourdale yard in KCK for a crew change. UP 6936 would later breakdown ... (more)

One of the two remaining gas turbine locomotives sit on display with UP 6936.

UP 844 and UP 6936 lead the annual Denver Post-sponsored Cheyenne Frontier Days train out of Nunn, CO, on July 23, 2011. At Nunn, the hill to Speer steepens, so the locomotives were working pretty... (more)

UP 6936 heads west through Oroville.

A Memphis to Long Beach intermodal sails through the desert at Cadiz heading westbound behind a trio of GEs.

UP 6936 still looks in good shape, but sister UP 6932 has seen better days as they both soak in the sun in Yermo, California. The rest of the stored DD40s can be seen in the distance to the left ... (more)

The Jacks Were Back when the grips of the early 1980's recession finally lifted and western railroads found themselves short on power. The issue was magnified when steamship lines started shippin... (more)

This was the only time that UP's big Centennial ever visited the Twin Ports. It was powering an engineering inspection train and came up from St. Paul over BNSF and went south into Wisconsin over ... (more)