Conforming to the gently meandering bends in the Humboldt River the 'westbound main' of Union Pacific's Elko Subdivision (ex-SP) has just crossed under the eastbound main (ex-WP) in the background... (more)

A pair of 'goat boat' C44s, bracketing a younger sibling, pilot BNSF's westbound trackage rights manifest as it enters the east end of a snow dusted Palisade Canyon.

Westbound grain loads swim 'down stream' along the northern bank of the Humboldt River at the east end of Palisade Canyon. The EMD powered train is running on Southern Pacific rails while those of... (more)

With a head-end manifest block, a result of Union Pacific's newly adopted precision scheduled railroading, the westbound ZNPOA follows the meandering Humboldt through rugged Palisade Canyon.

Threading the Humboldt River in remote Palisade Canyon eastbound grain empties ride former Western Pacific iron en route to a crew change in Elko, Nevada. Coming in second place to lay rail throug... (more)

Dressed in a special paint scheme honoring America's Armed Forces, designed by veterans and now UP employees of each branch represented, UP 1943 hustles west across the old Western Pacific near Lo... (more)

Gondolas Through the Desert: Just south of Las Vegas, Nevada, two SD70ACe locomotives bring a train of empty gondola cars across the Mojave Desert.

Mixed westbound in Palisade Canyon

Union Pacific's 'Katy' heritage 1988 unit crosses the Truckee River in December 2017 near Verdi, Nevada. Union Pacific 1988 is an EMD SD70ACe locomotive owned by Union Pacific Railroad. It is one ... (more)

Leaving the open desert east of Yermo the eastbound Trona coal buckets prepare to enter the confines of Afton Canyon, passing the canyon's west entrance on a beautiful December afternoon.

A westbound intermodal sails through the heart of the Mojave's 'Grand Canyon'. There are few places in Southern California that are so desolate and ruggedly beautiful as Afton Canyon!

With its assault of the Sierra Nevada behind it, the first section of Union Pacific's "Salad Shooter" speeds eastbound to Sparks. There, it will pick up another block of refrigerated boxcars and ... (more)

The former UP station of Bard is one of the closest decent photo locations to my residence in Las Vegas, yet that doesn't mean I shoot there as often as I should. I headed out there on a Saturday ... (more)

A westbound coal train heads through Jean, just west of Las Vegas on the Cima Subdivision.

UP SD40-2 3789 leads MoPac SD40-2 3067 and UP SD40-2 3765 out of the canyon.