Highball the Roll-by... Dusk has settled in and the temperature drops at the summit of Goffs Hill; located in the eastern Mojave Desert. Here, a Chicago, IL to Los Angeles, CA intermodal tr... (more)

Always Expect a Train.. Highway 30 follows Union Pacific's Transcon mainline across the state of Nebraska and along this line, there a lot of railroading crossings. In Lexington, there is r... (more)

Record snowfall was seen across the state of Arizona last week providing for unique scenes. In Kingman, reports were up to 13 inches of snowfall. Here, three GE motors ease their way into Kingman ... (more)

A load grain train (operating with a 4x3x2 power configuration) rolls into the sag at Pica before making a run up Yampai Hill. Before this, the grain train came to a stop at East Pica to let the Z... (more)

Traffic is all backed up along the eastern end of Seligman Subdivision as a hot Z7 runs around a 12,000 foot long stack train and another Z train at the top of the sag at Darling.

A hot shot intermodal train races down Goffs Hill, through Arrowhead Jct, as it prepares to overtake a stack train at Ibis before reaching the crew's final destination of Needles, Calif.

Twilight begins to set along the eastern slope of the Arizona Divide as the former Santa Fe 199, now BNSF's Z WSPNBY9, races up the grade with ease as the winter air temperatures drop to below fre... (more)

What a slow day. Only 4 trains all afternoon and nothing between 2PM and 5 (which is sunset). So seeing this Long Beach to Clovis stack train climbs over the crest was like the light at the end of... (more)

A Wing Man... The sound of the quietness of downtown Truckee at sunrise is broken by the sounds of two of UP's finest. An ES44AC and a SD70M tackle the monstrous grade of Donner Pass. The ... (more)

Traffic is starting to get busy on a late spring afternoon at the top Palmer Lake on Colorado's Joint Line. On BNSF Main 1, a loaded coal train slowly grinds towards "The Sag"; the stop ... (more)

The daily Alliance, TX to Portland, OR Q-train makes its way down the northern slope of the Palmer Divide as it traverses the UP's section of track of Colorado's Joint Line at Spruce. Note the Boe... (more)

CP 6644 made a rare appearance to the American Southwest. This locomotive is painted in Royal Canadian Air Force "Spitfire" fighter planes paint scheme, which pays tribute to the Allied ... (more)

Welcome to the Jungle! Go back in time 15 plus years ago, this would be a common sight with ATSF stack trains and manifest would pass through all day and all night. Now, with the Alameda Co... (more)

UP's Big Boy steam locomotive #4014 heads east of Cheyenne, Wy for Gering, NE on the first leg of it's "Home Run Express Tour" to Omaha for NCAA College Baseball World Series. Here, 4014... (more)

While waiting in the siding of Valentine, an eastbound Barstow, CA - Teague, TX manifest over takes a Barstow, CA - Belen, NM manifest on a clear night in the northern Arizona region.