Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 pulls a freight train at Heber, Utah, on the evening of February 5, 2007. As the fireman watches, UP NW-2 No. D.S. 1101 switches a tank car on the adjoining track. This... (more)

Engineer Mike Manwiller looks back over his train toward the conductor and caboose, while Fireman Gerg Udolph takes a short break with the shovel, on Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 at Deer Creek sidi... (more)

A Nevada Northern freight powered by two smoking Alcos is westbound (southbound) at Adverse, Nevada, on the afternoon of February 2, 2007. NNRY No 105 is a RS2 still in Kennecott yellow, with oran... (more)

With a conductor waving from the steps of the caboose (actually, signaling the engineer), a westbound (southbound) Nevada Northern freight powered by two Alcos glints on Steptoe Creek fill near Ea... (more)

The sun is trying to cut through the morning gloom as Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 charges by the steaming waters of Snake Creek near Charleston, Utah, on February 7, 2007. This is an extra photo f... (more)

Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 approaches Decker’s Bay with a freight amid the snowy splendor of Utah’s Wasatch Mountains in winter on February 7, 2006. The train is running alongside an ice-covered ... (more)

A heavy fog is finally lifting in the Heber Valley of Utah at sunrise on February 7, 2007. Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 storms past with a freight train as the sun tries in vain to cut through the ... (more)

Storming out of Alamosa, Colorado, a San Luis and Rio Grande train heads east at sunrise on September 20, 2007. The photo freight is led by former Southern Pacific 2-6-0 No. 1744.

Climbing out of Alamosa, Colorado, in the expansive San Luis Valley, a San Luis and Rio Grande eastbound pulled by 2-6-0 No. 1744, heads into a golden sunrise on September 20, 2007. The train will... (more)

Union Pacific 2-8-0 No. 618 hauls a freight train past Decker’s Bay siding on Utah’s Heber Valley Railroad on February 8, 2006. Built in 1906 by Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Oregon Shot Line, ... (more)

Union Pacific 618 silhouetted against a bright sunrise, leads a photo freight on February 8, 2006, on Utah's Heber Valley Railroad.

Heading down the 4% grade of Cumbres Pass, a Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad photo freight pulled by Rio Grande-lettered K-37 No. 497, rolls past Coxo, Colorado. An early taste of winter greete... (more)

Heber Valley sunrise: Union Pacific 618 leads a photo freight at sunrise on February 6, 2007, on Utah's Heber Valley Railroad