Eastbound Coal Loads, under a hint of sun in a foggy valley. (Thank you to Chip S. for acting as tour guide this day.)

Eastbound Coal Loads exiting Moffat Tunnel. (Thank you to Chip S. for acting as tour guide this day.)

Another Union Pacific train rumbles through North Platte, Nebraska, on August 17, 2012. Countless trains have passed these stately grain elevators in downtown North Platte over the years.

UP 6678 is the DPU on a loaded OGEX coal train that is heading down BNSF's Ft. Scott Sub, while a patched ex-SP AC44 is bringing up the rear of an empty AEPX coal train headed for the Hiawatha Sub... (more)

UP 6678 leads this westbound coal empty through Nevada on a pleasant late-June evening.

UP 6678 and a black-nosed UP 8141 (SD9043AC) power north toward St. Louis. This entire mixed freight backed south out of the yard before reversing direction and switching tracks.