WP 2001 leads the FRE along side Pulga siding, the entire train can be seen s side the Feather River here.

The quiet still of a beautiful August morning is broken by the equally beautiful sound of a turbo-charged 567 EMD prime mover. WP GP20 #2001 is again on the point of the Feather River express as i... (more)

UMAX on the move! UP 4813 drops the IPDCIR 28 down the eastern slope of the Tehachapi's and into the Mojave desert. The solid train of brand new UMAX containers is near MP 375.7 on the Mojave Sub.

Not museum pieces yet! Having finished their work at Rice the Mojave Desert again echoes the chant of 6 second generation EMDs as they bring westbound tonnage on ARZC train 708 across the desert t... (more)

A few miles out of Cheyenne the Ogden bound steam double header charges up Sherman Hill on the approach to Speer.

Situated between Fort Steele and Walcott Union Pacific's busy Laramie Subdivision cuts through a remote canyon, affectionately known by locals as Rattlesnake Canyon. Beneath the sandstone rocks at... (more)

A trio of EMDs, led by brand new UP 8680 are in full dynamics as they ease their train down into Caliente. The train is still emerging from tunnel 1, which is located at the upper end of the Calie... (more)

With a trio of Union Pacific motors up front the Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey 'blue unit' circus train drifts through the many curves approaching the end of double mains at Cable on Calif... (more)

Leaving Utah's Weber Canyon a pair of EMDs drift through Devil's Slide with an eastbound Z train tied to the drawbar.

Ghosts of the 'Wobbly'….Deep within the Feather River Canyon a pair of Union Switch & Signal intermediate searchlights stand guard at MP273, today this is Union Pacific's Canyon Subdivision, how... (more)

Looking back to 4014's return to the mainline, under steam, an event nearly 60 years in the making. As the shadows grew long and the sun minutes away from slipping below the horizon there was work... (more)

The Feather River express is nearing the end of its run through the Feather river canyon as it snakes along side the famed river at the west end of Pulga siding. This famous location is where US70... (more)

After emerging from Tunnel 35, UP 5314 swings the KG2LT through an S curve as it drops down the Western Slope of Donner pass.

'Just a common sense plan' was how William Hood, civil engineer for the Southern Pacific Railroad, described the engineering landmark that we all know today as the Tehachapi Loop. It was under the... (more)

Union Pacific FEF-3 #844 smokes it up as it storms out of Rawlins, WY and towards the crest of the continental divide at Hadsell. 844 is on a special public relations trip which will take the big ... (more)