The normal evening hotshot across Iowa rolls thru Bertram on the eastside of Cedar Rapids on the UP Clinton Sub. The train is over 70 miles into the evening trip from the eastside of the state to ... (more)

A loaded Herzog ballast train is about to pass thru CPU 074, Bertram. The train is working west on the UP Clinton Sub in central Iowa between Mount Vernon and Cedar Rapids.

Los Angeles, CA, (Savage Pacific Services) to Joliet, IL, intermodal train sweeps around the Bertram curve in the late afternoon. The train is around 70 miles from the next crew change point at Cl... (more)

Haven't been out much lately, summertime is so busy, and it's too hot! A business trip yielded me 1 train at sunset last weekend. Here one of UP's new Tier 4 SD70's is a DP unit on a westbound hop... (more)