The Sunset Route. It’s a name that embodies the history, romance, and beauty of the route and under the UP, is a very busy line. While UP intends to double track the entire route, there are stil... (more)
A peaceful desert sunset is temporarily interrupted by the roar of five EMD's lugging a manifest up the Estrella mountains. After a few minutes of clanging and squealing freight cars, a second cr... (more)
A pair of stack trains pull off a rolling meet at Shawmut siding along UP's sunset route.
Running through the cacti ... The old SP alignment is still visible in the back.
An Eastbound stacktrain crawls up the grade at sunset.
UP 9714 is a 16 year old unit and looks it. It leads one of the longest auto rack train I have seen. It is coming out of the last curve on the West Side of Shawmut with the setting sun. The low li... (more)
Westbound (foreground) and eastbound stacks come incredibly close to pulling off a perfect rolling meet at Shawmut siding on a gorgeous Arizona December day. No snowplow shots here! Thanks to th... (more)
Dynamic brakes begin to whine as a westbound winds its way through the Sonoran Desert National Monument. Many of the Saguaro cacti are taller than the double-stacked containers.
An Eastbound with two GE convertibles and a rare C36-7 at Shawmut summit.
The setting sun lights up an eastbound at Gila Bend.
A UP freight passes Gila bend, AZ on the sunset route.
