An Eastbound Union Pacific intermodal is seen pulling up the steep grade Donner Pass through the snowsheds at Norden. This is a legendary location on the former Southern Pacific. The searchlight s... (more)

An Eastbound Union Pacific Z train is seen rounding the curves in Casa Loma above the American River Canyon. The smoke is thick in the air from the ongoing wildfires in the area, including the Dix... (more)

An Eastbound intermodal train is seen passing Gold Run on the way up to Donner Pass. The smoke from the Dixie Fire was thick causing the air to be hazy.

Colfax, California is a railroad town to the core, a legendary town first serviced by the Central Pacific Railroad and later the Southern Pacific. The railroad was also the southern terminus of th... (more)

UP 7694 (AC45CCTE) is lined to take the Moffat Tunnel Sub to the Colorado Rocky Mountains as soon as the signal tower shows green.

The 5,000th Evolution Series locomotive built by GE leads a southbound bound mixed freight past the Meridian Amtrak station on a pleasant Sunday morning. The train has a just been refueled and wi... (more)

The UP 5492 rounds the top bend of the massive Shawmut "S" curve as they effortlessly glide down the grade toward California.

Crawling down the street in Elizabeth, CSX train E808 has a variety of foreign power. A UP, NS and CP lash up lead this 130 car empty coal train on to be loaded at Bailey Mine and then return to W... (more)

A Union Pacific GE unit leads eastbound NS 23G through Shawsville, Va on a beautiful spring evening.

UP 7486 leads a WB ethanol over the grade out of Fairfax, Iowa. The crew will stop the rear of the train at the Linn/Benton grade crossing and make a back up movement to pick up the conductor (cur... (more)

UP 7943 leads a WB manifest, just west of Norway, IA.

UP 8093 (AC45CCTE) leads a freight towards Leyden, Colorado, the day after 10 inches of fresh snow coated the foothills.

UP 7993 leads an afternoon stacker around the curves west of Watkins, IA.

Foreign power is somewhat of a rarity anymore here on the Christiansburg district, so when a faded UP unit comes, you still get some shots. Here one of those UP units and a CSX GEVO lead four othe... (more)

With Little Gore Canyon in the background, a westbound manifest freight train cruises alongside the Colorado River shortly before passing through Bond, CO on February 13, 2016.