Low winter sun glints off of the sides of a massive North Platte to Valley Park manifest as it negotiates the undulating track profile of the former Omaha Road across northwest Iowa.
The local that runs from St James to the small yard at Elk Creek pauses to work at some of the sidings for the Minnesota Soybean Producers processing plant just north of Brewster, MN.
UP 6453, 6722, & 6243 lead a 231 car mixed freight westbound.
UP 5925, 6300, & 5323 power an eastbound grain train.
UP 6835 leads eastbound symbol ZLAAI at El Casco.
?Leaving Las Vegas…? Highballing with a clean stack (why waste all that fuel making smoke for the 6 or so railfans that are trackside in this Nevada wasteland?), Union Pacific ... (more)
Union Pacific local is ready for crew at once busy Jefferson Junction
UP 7077 shoves on a westbound empty coal train with oil cans on the rear.
UP 5560, 6162, & 8826 power an eastbound manifest.
A pair of Union Pacific SD40N light motors wait for the call to action in the North Yard in Denver, Colorado.
Union Pacific's Big Boy locomotive #4014 (4-8-8-4) backs into the North Yard in Denver, Colorado during one of the two trips it took in 2025. Railfans await the cross-country trip which has been ... (more)
A pair of heavy motors get fuel and sand at the servicing island at the North Yard in Denver, Colorado.
A southbound UP intermodal passes Cameron Rd with #9633 bringing up the rear.
UP 9804 leads a southbound manifest running wrong main at Monolith.
A brand new rebuild leads a northbound train of hoppers for the Trona Railway just outside Mojave.
