While waiting on the last CNW-painted AC44 to show up, this eastbound UP manifest showed up, and between the farmer in his field and the sunset, I figured that it was worth a few pixels. This is ... (more)

UP 3927, CSX 730, & UP 5154 lead a westbound stack train.

Good variety in this dpu set on a southbound loaded KCS coal train, including an oddball SD70M.

An Amtrak detour heads west through Geneva, picking up speed

Catching a brief break in the clouds a pair of eastbounds, an 'I' train on main one and a hot 'Z' on main two, nearly have the 8015' summit of their endeavor up Wyoming's Sherman Hill within sight... (more)

A venerable SD70MAC, UP 4166, brings up the rear of a West Colton-bound manifest at Ilmon as its train slowly approaches the "narrows" where it will stop to wait for the northbound ZLCLT.

Union Pacific #2001, one of two specially painted units to commemorate the 2002 Olympic Torch Relay, leads CSXT G634-08 through Hilldale, Wv just after a fresh crew took over in Hinton, Wv.

The blue hour is setting in at the Jenks Locomotive Shops as freshly painted UP 4668 waits to be released back into service. Photo taken with permission.

A westbound manifest on the Shasta Route has just entered California on a cold winter afternoon.

The Gooding Local heads eastbound out of Nampa.

With a thunderstorm forming to the East, an empty grain train passes an increasingly rare independently owned hardware store.

A Union Pacific stack train on BNSF rails has almost finished its long climb up Cajon Pass. It will remain on BNSF rails until Dagget, then onto home rails over to Las Vegas and Salt Lake City.

On July 4, 2005 UP put on a show at Big Ten above Denver as its westbound manifest took on the Front Range with no less than eight locomotives including one still in SP paint. Here it is in the lo... (more)

A nonflared SD70M spots a grain elevator just outside of Bloomington, IL in a small township called Yuton on the NS Bloomington District.

Braswell Mountain was shut down for ~24 hours by fallen trees from a freak December 8th 2017 snowstorm that dumped 12". The resulting tree clearing a year later has opened up many new angles... (more)