Splitting the signals at West Truckee and gearing up for a long climb over Donner Pass, a westbound intermodal train chases the setting sun on National Train Day 2017. It's somewhat appropria... (more)

Popping out of the Norden snowshed into the late afternoon sun, a westbound intermodal train has crested Donner Pass and will soon battle gravity for the 40-odd mile descent to the California lowl... (more)

Racing into the rising sun, an eastbound manifest crosses the Truckee River and leaves the full moon behind it.

The long Houston/Englewood, TX to Long Beach, CA stack train starts up the grade to the summit in Dragoon, AZ

UP 1422 (ex Southern Pacific GP40-2) leads a local over the South Platte River and will run on the Joint Line to Littleton.

Another well-maintained MP15AC that used to work the 36th Street Yard was UPY 1484. It was built in 1975 for the Southern Pacific and earlier this year it was moved with other MP units to East St... (more)

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

a couple years ago it was not uncommon to see three to five MP units in the North Yard.

Florida Rock train K978 came up from Miami before Thanksgiving....and a week later is STILL in Taft! Local A779 is taking the empties up into Taft Yard. In 2017, the movement of unit rock trains... (more)

Skirting the swollen Truckee River, a westbound intermodal train is about to tackle Donner Pass on its way to the Pacific on National Train Day 2017. It's somewhat appropriate shooting such a trai... (more)

Skirting the swollen Truckee River, a westbound intermodal train is about to tackle Donner Pass on its way to the Pacific on National Train Day 2017. It's somewhat appropriate shooting such a... (more)

Passing beneath the last Southern Pacific searchlight signal bridge on the Sacremento Division, a westbound intermodal train has crested Donner Pass and will soon battle gravity for the 40-odd mil... (more)

Digging into the start of Donner Pass and its assault of the Sierra Nevada, a westbound intermodal train chases the setting sun on National Train Day 2017. It's somewhat appropriate shooting ... (more)

UP 1589 & 1645 lead the daily train from Grand Island to North Platte.

It has been well over a year since the UP moved out their fleet of their well maintained MP15AC's and MP15DC's from the North Yard. Personally I'd rather see these than the many Geeps that now wo... (more)