The UP Gila Sub is the ex-Southern Pacific Sunset Route that runs 255 miles from Yuma, AZ, to Tuscon, AZ. When I found out of a possible signal replacements coming this summer, I made plans to go ... (more)

The UP Gila Sub is the ex-Southern Pacific Sunset Route that runs 255 miles from Yuma, AZ, to Tuscon, AZ. When I found out of a possible signal replacements coming this summer, I made plans to go ... (more)

A UP motor helps pull Mercedes-Benz autos across Peachtree Creek.

The UP Gila Sub is the ex-Southern Pacific Sunset Route that runs 255 miles from Yuma, AZ, to Tuscon, AZ. When I found out of a possible signal replacements coming this summer, I made plans to go ... (more)

The UP Gila Sub is the ex-Southern Pacific Sunset Route that runs 255 miles from Yuma, AZ, to Tuscon, AZ. When I found out of a possible signal replacements coming this summer, I made plans to go ... (more)

Kuhn's is the name of the spot where the Provo yard merges with the Sharp Subdivision, named after a meat processing plant that formerly stood near the tracks. This end of the yard is used to stag... (more)

With a trio of west coast visitors, loaded military train W867 rolls north across the James River in Richmond. If you look closely, you'll notice the bridge still says 'Seaboard' near the middle; ... (more)

A UP AC44 leads a manifest WB through Rochelle in the evening light.

As two members of a BNSF MOW crew tend to a broken rail on their north-south main at Tower 55, the other two--including the welder--keep a wary eye on UP 5914 South, a coal load that will pass the... (more)

Just before sunset, an eastbound UP stack train meets a loaded grain train in the hole at Stockham. The stack train will change crews at Tucson Yard and quickly get out of town.

UP 5786, 4134, 7720, & 8668 power a 152 car westbound mixed freight.

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 6030 sits on Track 5 ready for some routine maintenance in UP’s North Platte Diesel Shop on May 5, 2011.

As evening sets in over the Sierra, accompanied by a thick layer of low clouds, a meet between east and west takes places at Norden. As the eastbound MRVNP's rear dupes prepare to ease into what r... (more)

The UP Gila Sub is the ex-Southern Pacific Sunset Route that runs 255 miles from Yuma, AZ, to Tuscon, AZ. UP is slowly getting ready thru PTC upgrades or double tracking projects to replace any re... (more)

Been here over 50 times in my lifetime, but never from the air. Today's drone shot is the Global 2 to Lathrop, CA, westbound large barge Z-train. Here the train rolls past this classic icon elevat... (more)