As the sun begins to set on a winter day in northern Arizona, a Los Angeles to Chicago UPS train works hard up the grade out Kingman as it goes through the eastbound control signals of Walapai.

For the next few months, Union Pacific trains will be detouring over the BNSF Transcon as track work is being performed along the Sunset Route. Here, one of the first trains to be detour rounds th... (more)

UP's hotshot Z train from Global 2 to Oakland makes easy work of the one-percent uphill grade through Hirschdale on the East slope of Donner Pass.

The Southwest Chief races east across northern New Mexico behind Phase III commemorative locomotive 145 and a brand new "Phase IIIb" baggage car.

Where Sand Meets Water - Water and sand are contrasted as the Comorants look on under a clear blue Sonoran sky as a eastbound stack drag crosses the unlined channel of the All American Can... (more)

A westbound auto train is at UP's newly expanded Montclair "staging" yard. Seems that Mira Loma is using this more than anything, as most times 2-5 auto trains can be found here.

Passing North Montclair on the original SP mainline, UP 2583 heads east for West Colton.

The Wave Part II - [Winter Solstice Study 2015] - Hanging out at Ibis California on the shortest day of the year. A Dash 9 and a new GE Tier IV emission standard unit with two C4's at Ib... (more)

UP 8154 leads the ZBRLC down the Mojave Sub at Canyon as it descends Cajon Pass.

Just after sunrise near Beaumont finds brand new UP 2613 leading train KLBNS as it nears the top of the climb up San Timoteo Canyon.

An overpowered Willow Springs bound Z train knocks down one of the last remaining searchlights along the Phoenix Sub before merging onto the Seligman Sub.

Snaking through the siding of Bealville, a heavy Fresno, CA to West Colton, CA manifest battles up the heavy grade of Tehachapi Pass as the sound of AC traction motors can be heard roaring off th... (more)

Slowly battling the the western grade of Yampai Hill, BNSF 7326 and three other General Electric units pull a heavy Los Angeles, CA to Atlanta, GA intermodal train (Q LACATG6 06L) through the fres... (more)

KCSM 4711 departs Yuma with train IMNLB.

The northern Arizona region has been feeling the wrath of the El Niño storm the last few days as it has dropped a foot of snow within the last 24 hours. Here at Maine, a solids foot of freshly fa... (more)