Westbound coal empties at Millard Rd.

Heading south on the Orin Line, a Union Pacific coal train crests Logan Hill at Logan, Wyoming, on July 3, 2016.

Trains, Planes, and Automobiles. After getting a new crew at the Intermodual yard. UP 5842, 8256, CSX 951, and UP 5159 or on the move again with a K-line stack train. A Delta Airline flight is com... (more)

A faded UP 5779 (AC4400CW-CTE) has just dropped off a long freight in the North Yard and leads its 5 mates to get more fuel and sand.

Eastbound Union Pacific emerging from the Norden snowsheds.

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTEs Nos. 6044 and 5946 overpower a one-car Potash local along the Colorado River after departing Potash, Utah, on March 4, 2012. The towering sandstone cliffs loom over ... (more)

Exiting the 722-foot long bore of Tunnel 11, UP 5767 leads a southbound autorack train into Chorro on a breathtaking afternoon on Cuesta Pass. One of the more lengthy trains to utilize this pass, ... (more)

UP 5985 west rounds one of the many curves around the mountains in the Sonoran Desert just west of Shawmut Arizona on the former SP.

135 slowly snakes it's way up Old Fort mountain at one of the many crossing of Mill Creek just west of Old Fort, NC.

An Edmonton to Roseville manifest drops through the reverse curves near Bolam on the flank of Mt. Shasta.

A trio of Union Pacific locomotives pull an L417 up the ramp to the Delair Bridge.

This was an MHKCO that had an unusual cut of lumber loads on the head end behind the usual mass of power... I don't know why. The signal here is gone now; it disappeared in 2016 or so, when this s... (more)

Spring has arrived across much of Northern California. With sunny skies and temperatures hovering around 75 degrees, it is the perfect weather to be trackside. Here, California poppies dot the hil... (more)