Transcontinental Railroad. On Tuesday, July 29, 2025, Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern announced their intention to combine to create a transcontinental railroad with over 50,000 route mi... (more)

UP 3074 & 7517 lead an eastbound coal train.

A raggedy looking former SSW 9699 hangs out at the former SP Hearne Yard on a beautiful Texas morning.

6015 heading back to the inspection bay

The "Clinchfield 676" (UP 3985) deadheading to Kingsport, TN for the 50th anniversary of the Clinchfield Santa Train in 1992. Kodachrome 200.

Geeps in the Evening | With the sun setting over Union Pacific's yard in Topeka, KS, a GP60E and a GP40N sort cars for their turn based there on the evening of Saturday, July 26, 2025. Para... (more)

Midwest Manifests | On its way from Hearne, TX to North Platte, NE, a westbound manifest train cruises through Topeka, KS late in the day on the mostly sunny afternoon of Saturday, July 26,... (more)

Plenty of standard cabs sit at the ready at Nampa.

Coke loads from Roseport heading to Thunder Bay are racing through the Zim/Sax bog in NE Minnesota.

Running on a slow order due to signal work, a new ACe leads 3 GE’s on an eastbound intermodal from the ports.

LPJ05 from West Chicago doing its drift busting down the Troy Grove branch near Rollo.

UP 1417 leading the Troy Grove Sub South on the branch after a couple days of heavy snow and drifting.

LPJ05 heading down the Troy Grove Sub after a few days of blowing snow created many drifts along the line.

A raggedy looking former SSW 9699 hangs out with two other UP units at the former SP Hearne Yard.

A former SP AC4400CW locomotive brings up the rear of a loaded grain train on its way to Houston.