Ears Covered: Conrail's PR19 pulls cars north from Motiva on the Garden State Secondary as two young boys watch and cover their ears. Behind the leader are UP 9008 (SD70AH) and NS 9514 (C44... (more)

Oil loads 582 cross the Mississippi River with a UP GE leading.

UP 7296 in fresh paint leads a coal empty off the Lone Pine Sub at Chaffee. This crew had to endure a lengthy wait to enter the double main track due to heavy BNSF traffic this afternoon.

UP 7296 & 4339 westbound with a manifest.

UP 7296 & 4798 with a westbound ethanol train.

On the morning of September 4, 2000, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train drops downgrade through Crescent, Colorado. The Continental Divide of the Rocky Mountains is in the background.

Passing through the depths of Red Gorge on Union Pacific’s Moffat Tunnel Subdivision is westbound coal empty west of Radium, Colorado, on November 6, 2012.

Exiting Red Gorge along the Colorado River, a westbound Union Pacific coal empty is between Radium and Yarmony, Colorado, on November 6, 2012.

Snaking along the Colorado River through Red Gorge, a westbound Union Pacific coal empty is west of Radium, Colorado, on November 6, 2012.

From a high ridge overlooking Red Gorge, a westbound Union Pacific coal empty travels along the scenic Colorado River west of Radium, Colorado, on November 6, 2012. This scenic, somewhat inaccessi... (more)

A westbound coal train slinks through Red Gorge between Radium and Yarmony, Colorado, on November 6, 2012. This remote stretch of canyon can only be reached by foot or river raft on the Colorado R... (more)

Another loaded coal train heads south to San Antonio.

The INRD "Ameren Train" waits at Deming for the CSX dispatcher to un-plug the railroad so trains can move again.