It’s finally springtime and the corn is beginning to grow as an eastbound Union Pacific oil train passes milepost 221 east of Grand Junction, Iowa, late in the day on May 21, 2014.

UP 6665 leads an eastbound oil train through Grand Jct., IA in glint light on the former CNW mainline.

UP 6665 drops down the eastern slope of the Tehachapi mountains & into the city of Mojave. This empty unit ore train will take BNSF rails out to Daggett, CA.

UP 6665, 6346, 4441 & 5542 lead a westbound grain train.

A westbound coal train comes off the UPLA Sub onto the BNSF Needles Sub in Daggett.

A empty Union Pacific coal train slowly makes its way over the mighty mississippi river and into Clinton Il.

UP triple header storms out of CP Forge with a load of empty hoppers.