UP 5663 flies westbound under the Nelson coal tower

A trio of heavies wait in the North Yard to be assigned to take an empty coal back over the Rocky Mountains via the Moffat Tunnel.

NS 15E with a UP GE starts its pull out of Bellevue Yard bound for Dupo, IL. UP Power fairly common on this train if any is in the yard that is serviceable at Bellevue. Once this train gets to Dup... (more)

Looks like UP 6057 (AC44CWCTE) has been playing in the Moffat Tunnel.

UP 5877 takes an empty autorack train bound for Mexico around the east leg of the BNSF wye in Alvin, Texas.

Three Union Pacific coal trains cross Logan Hill, north of Bill, Wyoming, on June 23, 2018. Even with the decline of coal, traffic on this four-track segment of the Orin Line in Powder River Basin... (more)

Wyoming’s Orin Line in Powder River Basin can still be busy at times. Here on Logan Hill, north of Bill, four trains are visible late in the afternoon of June 22, 2018. On Track 1, a southbound ... (more)

Having secured their train in the massive Pueblo yard, a rather clean UP AC4400 leads the locomotives from last night’s MNYPU towards the more)

A UP grain drag rolls through Speer, Wyoming behind a trio of armour yellow motors

Four units have this long Houston, TX to North Platte, NE manifest train well under control as they pass over a small creek.

The normal afternoon hotshot bound for Lathrop, CA, has just crossed over at CP 108 in central Iowa. The train is following the passenger special as the dispatcher works trains around each other a... (more)

The normal afternoon hotshot bound for Lathrop, CA, has just crossed over at CP 108 in central Iowa. The train is following the passenger special as the dispatcher works trains around each other a... (more)

The UP Gila Sub is the ex-Southern Pacific Sunset Route that runs 255 miles from Yuma, AZ, to Tuscon, AZ. Eastbound City of Industry, CA, to Bedford Park, IL, Z-train passes thru the West Well... (more)

The UP Gila Sub is the ex-Southern Pacific Sunset Route that runs 255 miles from Yuma, AZ, to Tuscon, AZ. In the Shawmut area, the railroad works thru the Sonoran Desert and around the Maricopa... (more)

The railroad relocated this section of track around Shawmut in 1959 to reduce some of the curves from the original railroad that was constructed in 1879 by the SP of Arizona. The railroad drops do... (more)