The LA&SL is known as a very barren line with little online traffic. For the most part this is true, but there are a several spurs around the Las Vegas area that feed the mainline. The longest of ... (more)

Empty well cars split the vineyards of Edna Valley. This train is following a late southbound coast starlight as the winter sun sets.

One of several double tunnels along the LA&SL in the Meadow Valley Wash. Various improvement projects designed to raise the line out of the floodplain has left the line looking more like a model r... (more)

I had to wait a couple of hours for this train to show up at Pequop, Nevada. Pequop is between Wells and Montello in eastern Nevada. The Lakeside Sub was very slow this day. Normally this train, t... (more)

UP 7704, an ES44AC, has todays MRORV manifest train well in hand as it traverses the upper level of the Silver Zone Pass trackage in eastern Nevada. Arnolds Loop is a mile or so behind it and ahea... (more)

UP5499 is leading the daily Union Pacific manifest train MRVRO at the site of the former Hogan, Nevada. Never a real town, Hogan was just a construction camp for the nearby Hogan Tunnel, also know... (more)

Union Pacific #844 storms through Palisade Canyon on its way east towards its ultimate destination of Cheyenne, WY. This train is running on the former Western Pacific mainline, while the autorack... (more)

DPU pushing on eastbound manifest and making good time through here.

Westbound at the site of Palisade, Nevada on the way to Winnemucca

A BNSF westbound freight climbs through Arnold Loop, near Clifside, Nevada, on the morning of March 6, 2012. Helping out on the rear of the train below is a lone SD70MAC DPU.

BNSF Dash 9 4420 is seen leading a westbound Denver to Stockton manifest in Palisade Canyon - 26/09/2011

Overhauled Union Pacific SD40-2s 1551 and 1603 are seen leading a westbound train in Palisade Canyon, Nevada - 26/09/2011

This would be the last photograph I would get of the KG1LA stacker led by three Heritage locomotives. Traffic was moving at a rapid 10 mph heading into California as Californians headed home after... (more)

The KG1LA stacker led by three Heritage locomotives rounding the Apex curve on its way to Las Vegas.