As evening sets in over the Sierra, accompanied by a thick layer of low clouds, a meet between east and west takes places at Norden. As the eastbound MRVNP's rear dupes prepare to ease into what r... (more)

Busy times on the Overland main! As the sun sinks low in the western sky a trio of westbounds have gathered at the Green River depot awaiting the dispatchers discretion. Amid the parade on the mai... (more)

With the Wasatch mountains forming the backdrop an eastbound Union Pacific stack train, with Western Pacific heritage colors leading the way, works through the Henefer Valley on the approach to Ec... (more)

Weaving along the northern bank of the Weber River just east of Devil's Slide an eastbound Union Pacific stack train swims 'up stream' on the Evanston Subdivision. On the point is UP 1983, which w... (more)

Welcome to Rock Springs, WY.

A pair of cascade green SD40-2s bring BNSF's returning Swan Ranch Local back to Cheyenne, crossing the 'C&S' bridge over old US30 and Union Pacific's Laramie Subdivision at Tower A (west Cheyenne)... (more)

Eastbound tonnage descends the 'gangplank' on Sherman Hill, passing the searchlight installation at West Granite.

A westbound Union Pacific stack train threads through the heart of the 'Grand Canyon of the Mojave'.

No that's not a mirage.....With the weight of their soda ash train now fully on the uphill grade leaving the barren Searles Valley, which will persist all the way to Searles, the thunderous roar e... (more)

With a nicely matched set of UP-CSX-UP-CSX-UP motors up front an eastbound Union Pacific manifest sails across the North Platte River at Fort Steele, WY. Fort Steele was once the location of a US ... (more)

Two generations of EMD road power team up to bring westbound tonnage over Sherman Hill, emerging from the west portal of Hermosa Tunnel. Road power includes brand new EMD tier-IV SD70AH #3027 and ... (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)

Onto the next chapter... former Yreka Western 2-8-2 #19, built by Baldwin in 1915, hitches a ride on an eastbound manifest as it is transported from its long time home in Yreka, CA to the Age of S... (more)

Pulling out of Daley's Hole an eastbound shooter is climbing towards the crest of the continental divide at Hadsell, WY.

Led by a pair of clean SD40Ns Union Pacific's Sinclair local returns home after working their namesake refinery. The duo of veteran EMDs are passing under an old school UP signal bridge at the wes... (more)