Down With The Old | As the sun rises over Kansas City, MO on the morning of Sunday, June 1, 2025, a hot shot Union Pacific intermodal train rolls beneath the BNSF and the remnants of the ol... (more)

Graveyard Shift Yard Job | Just past 2 o'clock in the morning on a quiet Sunday, June 1, 2025, a yard switcher from Union Pacific's Neff Yard ambles past the General Mills plant in Kansas C... (more)

This was an incredibly busy year but occasionally I got up to the pass for a day. These units were becoming more rare and I was happy to catch just a few.

WB Stacker. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.

Photo by unknown. From my collection.

Empties After Midnight | A single Union Pacific GE unit leads a double-length train of empty coal hoppers through Kansas City, MO just past 1 o'clock in the morning on Sunday, June 1, 2025.

Coal Loads in KCMO | Led by a pair of GE locomotives, coal loads from Wyoming's Powder River Basin cruise through Kansas City, MO on the warm evening of Saturday, May 31, 2025 as they conti... (more)

Southbound train. Photo by H.J. Bowers. From my collection.

Approaching Control Point Maple, where Metrolink's Orange Sub meets their Olive Sub (the two tracks in the foreground), is Union Pacific Railroad local LOA32, the Costa Mesa Local, heading ... (more)

Grain Train Over Santa Fe Junction | Just before 7 in the evening on a sunny Saturday, May 31, 2025, a pair of locomotives lead Union Pacific grain train GSMYCW over Santa Fe Junction and i... (more)

Union Pacific GP40-2 1394, the former Saint Louis-Southwestern (Cotton Belt) 7638, sits in the UP's J Yard south of downtown Los Angeles. As with so many Union Pacific locomotive assigned to urba... (more)

UP 7490 leads an eastbound mixed freight.

Photo by Dave Petke. From my collection.

A former MP unit is paired with a GP38-2 on some local power. There is always hope. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

A former MP unit which has had dynamic brakes "donated" by another unit. After SOU added d/b to F units somewhere in the 60s the practice seemed to stop for years but it's became common... (more)