I finally pulled off the true over over under shot at Santa Fe Jct./BNSF Crossing. Every train in the shot was moving, albeit the move on the bottom, UP Train MLIKS 11, was slow rolling up to a re... (more)

On a beautiful Autumn morning, D&H #931 heads south as it rolls above Lake Champlain's Willsboro Bay N.Y

A properly lit Big Boy.

As I took this image of ths massive oil tranker next to a UP train, I thought to my self, boy a train has never looked so small as it does right now!

10 locomotives are on the lead of a UP freight descending off the Huey P Long Bridge and almost into the joint UP/BNSF Avondale Yard. The locomotives in this monster consist are UP 8203 (SD9043MAC... (more)

Union Pacific's nightly Oakland-Stockton IOAST crosses over Altamont Pass Road as it makes it's way from the Bay Area to the Central Valley.

Union Pacific 4-12-2 9514, Class UP-5, was built by ALCO in 1930, one of eighty-eight locomotives. As built, she was numbered 9077, later re-numbered to 9514. These three-cylinder locomotives had... (more)

The shop switch, 0-6-0 #4466, makes a move with a gas-turbine on the table. 4466 was one of 30 such engines that arrived on UP property in 1920 (source: Utahrails.net)

Union Pacific 6414 with heavy wreck damage in the UP Adams Street yard in Peoria. STEVE SMEDLEY PHOTO

Union Pacific ES44AC 7400 sits in the yard in Council Bluffs, wrapped in a tarp awaiting the official unveiling of the UP's newest specially painted diesel – for the Susan G. Komen for the CureÂ... (more)

UP units in storage stretches as far as the eye can see.

Want to own your very own SD40T-2? Get your VISA card ready! UP is holding a big auction in Denver on July 14, 2010. 85 units are listed for sale including GP38's, SD40T-2's, SW1500's and a yard s... (more)

Aftermath of a Walmart refridgerated truck pulling in front of it at gated crossing, just west of Terrell, Texas on UP mainline. Train was at / near track speed, near 60-70 mph, as I was coming u... (more)

What do you do when it's raining. Shoot out of the car window of course.