Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 4014 and 4-8-4 844 work their way toward Evanston after leaving Ogden earlier in the day.

Union Pacific Big Boy 4014 blasts through Weber Canyon, the same place it was built to work in regular service in the 1940s.

I decided today to just get the shot I really wanted. Rather than taking the risk of trying multiples pictures locations and getting stuck in the massive traffic. Union Pacific 4014, and 844, thun... (more)

Union Pacific "Big Boy" 4014 leads through the spectacular Utah scenery on its way to Ogden.

Thanks to a friendly ranch owner and some cash exchange, this shot of the Union Pacific Railroad Great Race Train, led by UP Big Boy 4-8-8-4 #4014 and UP 4-8-4 #844, with assistance from UP SD70AC... (more)

From the bluff high above the Overland Route, the westbound Big Boy struts across the Wyoming plains for the first time in over half a century.

Freeport McMoran #63 throttles up the start of the steep %.5% grade out of Clifton yard. This train will climb over 1200 feet vertical over the next 6 miles of railroad, the steepest operating fre... (more)

On June 16, 2001, a summertime run of Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train passes through 75-foot Tunnel 29 westbound just east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on Union Pacific’s scenic former Rio Grande Mof... (more)

Taking The Long Way To Promontory. Well, the closest active rails can get to Promontory anymore: Ogden, Utah. UP 8850 leads a small, seven-car train through the iconic rocks of Chatsworth a... (more)

Union Pacific #2167 is on the point of the once-a-week Potash Local as it follows along the Colorado River on the Cane Creek Branch. This engine was originally the UP #6012.

A former BN unit leads a lite engine set out of the Springfield Underground. This facility was opened as a quarry, for mining limestone, in 1946 on Route 66 and was served originally by Frisco. To... (more)

The Potash local heads Eastbound on the Cane Creek Branch at the crossing with the Corona Arch trail.

The DPU on CSX Q542 shoves the train through the mountain at Sinks, Kentucky in beautiful Rockcastle County on the former L&N Atlanta to Cincinnati mainline. That paint scheme is certainly an unu... (more)

BNSF 7037 South threads the needle South of a tunnel at Celilo, OR, as it climbs away from the Columbia River.

Union Pacific SD70M No. 4812 leads the Potash Local, symboled "LDG51B" westbound through the tight cut approaching the Corona Arch Trailhead near Moab, Utah, on March 15, 2019.