A southbound UP coal load was climbing toward the Palmer Divide a mile north of the top of the climb at Palmer Lake

In between trips to Alaska in the summer of 2008 I made a few trips to photograph UP operations on Rio Grande's former Craig Branch. An empty coal train has just departed Orestod and is climbing t... (more)

About to take the switch onto the Omaha Main, UP Train CIMNR9 25 ducks under a BNSF coal empty on the Hannibal Bridge at Broadway on the UP KC Metro Sub.

On May 05, 2014, two AC4400CWs lead this Memphis, TN coal empty up the 2% grade in Coal Creek Canyon, CO. The units are about to enter Tunnel #1 as the rest of the train continues to go over Blue ... (more)

A northbound ethanol train glides out of Tunnel 2 under dynamic braking as it heads to Bakersfield.

One of four UP AC4400CWs lead this lite power move from Drake, CO to Ute, CO over East Portal Road between Tolland and East Portal on January 02, 2015.

Leaving the plains behind, a westbound Union Pacific coal train crosses Blue Mountain Drive west of Eisele, Colorado, and is about to encircle the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon on a relentless 2-perc... (more)

At dawn, a westbound Union Pacific coal train climbs out of Leyden on January 23, 2007. Soon enough, the sun will rise above the city of Denver and a scattering of clouds to the east revealing ano... (more)

UP Train CRENA9 28 heads up the Omaha Main of the UP KC Metro Sub. with the skyline providing an impressive backdrop this evening.

Centennial 6936 trails 3rd out on UP Train OWVBT 20 which is all red at CP Charlie on the BNSF Ft. Scott Sub. The Big Jack was picked up in Cheyenne the day before for movement to North Platt... (more)

Five Union Pacific GEs including a patched Chicago and Northwestern AC4400CW lead the Paducah, KY to Energy Mine, CO empty coal train at Rollinsville, CO.

Hot on the heels of a southbound coal train, a pair of ratty Union Pacific GE's, and two CSX GE's lead a southbound grain train across the North Holston River Bridge as a light mist takes covers e... (more)

If you squint really, really hard, and use a lot of imagination, you might think a jolly visitor from the North Pole is running Union Pacific No. 6013. In reality, he is one of the hard-working ra... (more)

The early morning sun rays shone down into the Feather River Canyon while an AC4400CW hustles a junk train down the canyon at Pulga.

UP 5706, 6008, & 7449 lead a westbound manifest. Behind the road power are five new SD70AHs, UP 8973, 8970, 8969, 8967, & 8968.