After a poorly dispatched empty coal drag blocked the view for hundreds of onlookers, UP 4014 begins to pull away from its scheduled stop in Moapa, NV.
West bound freight passing thru Palisade, NV where the SP once met the Eureka & Palisade narrow gauge. Rhe depot was about fifty yards in front of where I standing.
An eastbound exits Palisade Canyon just west of Carlin in early morning light. The Humbolt River is near flood stage from the runoff from a wet winter. The train is on the former Western Pacific... (more)