Executive Branch Visit Rare and unique chase with some friends to Potash, Utah. This was an extremely rare Union Pacific executive trip down the Cane Creek Branch on September 24, 2... (more)

Possibly for the first time ever, a passenger train runs on the south end of UP's Cane Creek Subdivision. Construction on the line started in August 1961 by the Denver and Rio Grande Western. It w... (more)

UP train heading to Potsh.

We get a real good look at the Santa Fe/BC Rail combo here at Gateway! The train is currently fighting the grade into Gateway as they go over Trout Creek trestle.

A UP manifest train passes through Mormon Rocks as it heads through the Cajon Pass on its way to Los Angeles.

DRGW in the Royal Gorge Deep in the Royal Gorge, Rock N Rail with UP 1989 on the lead. Made for a delightful morning in the canyon.

Here is another catch of an eastbound hopper train navigating the tunnel district on the former LA&SL, now Union Pacific's Caliente Sub. After passing through Rainbow Canyon and the Meadow Valley ... (more)

East bounds out of Las Vegas face a long trip through a lot of nothing. However, there is some amazing scenery along the former LA&SL, now Union Pacific's Caliente Sub. After passing through Rainb... (more)

The California Zephyr runs through Tunnel 29 at Pinecliffe, Colorado as it heads into the Colorado Rocky Mountains on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

An eastbound manifest pops out of a tunnel above the Flathead River at Hungry Horse, Montana.

NNRY 93 leads a wreck train south towards Keystone as viewed from a small rock arch on the opposite side of the canyon.

As the sun sets across Cajon Pass, a BNSF container train glides down grade as it passes a loaded UP coal train at the Mormon Rocks.

Union Pacific's Cane Creek Branch is a stunningly beautiful section of railroad. Today's train ran late morning, making the lighting in Bootlegger Canyon spectacular. Here the train has just exite... (more)

Three hikers rest under the massive Corona Arch as Union Pacific's once weekly Potash local prepares to enter Bootlegger Canyon on the return run to Grand Jct.

A pair of Union Pacific SD70M's lead the once weekly potash local along the banks of the Colorado River and the red rocks near Moab.