UP 5923, 8654,5220, & 7094 westbound with a manifest.

The engineer of an eastbound D.O.D. train strikes a pose for the camera.

The last bit of snow for the Columbia River Gorge. The UP ran a bunch of trains both ways this day including this westbound grain train rounding Mitchell Point.

Westbound intermodal train approaching UP's East Yard

Having secured their train in the massive Pueblo yard, a rather clean UP AC4400 leads the locomotives from last night’s MNYPU towards the more)

Westbound Denver - Salt Lake City manifest rolls west towards Grand Junction in the late afternoon.

Westbound Denver - Salt Lake City manifest rolls west towards Grand Junction in the late afternoon.

Looking down from the Glenwood Springs Adventure Park, MNYRO is seen exiting out of the last tunnel in Glenwood Canyon.

A loaded coal train crests the grade at Erie. It's hard to imagine this remote looking location is about 10-15 minutes from "The Strip"

Though my wife would rather chase the UP with me, she has to teach, (why we are here). First of our last day for now out here was this UP coal train. We have to come back in March.

The UP was very busy in Vegas this day, here an eastbound empty coal train waits at Wann for a westbound.

Union Pacific’s MRONY freight drops off of the mesa at on Big 10 Curve west of Rocky, Colorado, on June 28, 2014. Today’s train is fairly short, with the lone DPU locomotive visible on the opp... (more)

As an eastbound Union Pacific freight drops downgrade through Little 10 Curve, a westbound BNSF freight waits patiently in Rocky siding. On this clear Saturday afternoon of June 28, 2014, the city... (more)

The "salad shooter" rolls over a very calm Mohawk River on a fine spring evening. This photograph was taken from private property with permission.

Coal empties just off the Kate Shelley bridge head west in the late afternoon.