A DPU brings up the rear of a manifest arriving at Arden in Las Vegas. Arden's Cactus Rd Overpass is a great and safe place to stake out the UP in the hit or miss train environment of Vegas.

A set of SD70M's on the Arden local work the yard while a way freight makes a set out and a pick up.

Only several miles before crossing into California, Union Pacific 1995 and a lengthy Global 2 Z Train cross the Truckee River at Verdi, NV. The rushing rapids of the Truckee River will eventually ... (more)

Nevada Northern Engine 40 emerges out of a tunnel along its route in the gorge outside of Ely

KCC 93 pauses for a moment in the vastness that is the outskirts of Ely, Nevada.

KCC 93 pulls back into East Ely Yard, while the mountains in the background dwarf her. During the February 2019 Photography weekend at the railroad.

A lone freight box car sits in the vastness that is the yard at Nevada Northern in Ely, Nevada. While there are many things railroad to take in, Mother Nature makes her presence known constantly i... (more)

Nevada Northern’s beautiful ten wheeler #40 along with it’s 2 car passenger train sits in the East Ely yard next to the freight house. #40 was built by Baldwin in 1912 and has been on the line... (more)

Nevada Consolidated Copper Co. #93 is putting a replica wreck train together in the East Ely yard. The occasion is the winter photo shoot of the NNRy Museum. That 100 ton steam wrecking crane in t... (more)

UP 6937 is the first in a long line of stored DD40Xs in the Las Vegas yard. It hard to believe I took this photo 39 years ago. Photo taken with permission.

Another addition to my shots of eastbounds at Patrick, UP 8254 roars through Patrick on the Nevada subdivision with a lengthy stack train bound for Salt Lake City.

Nevada Northern Railroad hosts its annual photo workshop, here, the night shoot, run by Steve Crise, is in full swing as KCC 93 stages next to their Rotary Snow Plow

Snowcapped mountains surround Boulder City, NV while UP GP30 #844 and Amtrak F40 #231 sit quietly at the train station.

UP 2578 gains speed heading east from Sparks after receiving a crew change about a half hour earlier.

BNSF 108 and 144 speed across the steel bridge at Patrick with the LC505J. I don’t recall them running on Saturdays regularly, so this was a surprise.