One of my favorite spot to catch a train. The challenge is it's a bit of a drive. And getting a train to cooperate. It's a fun place to listen. You can't really see him until he come around the co... (more)
All stretched out at Saint John, on the Lynndyl Sub. It's through this section the trains get up and haul 20 miles.
Union Pacific 7111 rounds the curve with the town of Stansbury Park, Utah below. In the distance is the Great Salt Lake, and Stansbury Island.
UP 7111 pulls an absolute monster through Salt Lake City 4th South. My best guess is this is a Ogden to Roper train. The train had five units, two up front, two mid train, one on the rear. It just... (more)
UP 7111 & 6683 eastbound with a unit grain train.
UP 7111 and 6729 are on a power hop. A pretty good looking pair that got rebuilt and repainted before the paint scheme change. UP 7111 has had some type of incident, as it has a new front door. I ... (more)
Still wearing its as delivered paint from 1998, now rebuilt UP AC4400CW # 7111 leads 82G across a frozen Knox Creek at Woodman, Kentucky with 105 Tidewaters from the extension at Pine Oaks. Theyâ€... (more)
823 passes through the CPL signal governing the Vansant interlocking, where the Prater Creek Branch used to join the Buc Main.
Weller-bound empty coal train NS 823 with a UP AC44CW leading a standard cab NS SD70 heads up the NS Buchanan Branch behind the iconic triple-story Walmart Supercenter in Grundy, VA. The store's u... (more)
The eastbound Z-train passes a Lincoln Highway monument along with a set of wheels from the recent (May, 2013) 30-car coal train derailment here that closed down a track on the mainline, and close... (more)
Union Pacific 7111 leads an Ethanol Train west through Davis, CA. Notice unpatched Southern Pacific 352 second in tow.
A loaded westbound ethanol train travels through Tremont on the Martinez Sub. The second unit is Southern Pacific #352.
Coal train with UP C44AC 7111 and SD-9043 wait signal at Potterville, MI on CN