Union Pacific has delivered a monstrous train to the Eastern Idaho Railroad in Rupert. To give you an idea, UP brought the cars in with six locomotives from the main line at Minidoka, Idaho down t... (more)

I drove over to Burley, Idaho. with the hope of seeing a Eastern Idaho Railway train. I lucked out and stumbled upon a train. They were using a Helm leasor HLCX 3835. They are a Watco (WAMX) owned... (more)

UP 5485, 6347, and 7266 roll across the American Falls Bridge. The American Falls dam is behind the bridge.

This picture says so much about the Southern Pacific in the end. SP 8286 still wearing it's failed merger paint, now a decade old. Just covered in grime, along with the whole set of power. Also it... (more)

Another addition of Amtrak 6, the Zephyr climbs Spanish Fork Canyon, early in the morning. Amtrak 335 and 322 are today's power.

We would sneak over form railfanning the Santa Fe, to try and catch the brand new 8000 series B39-8/B40-8 on Beaumont Hill. In the process we ended up with trains like these with five B30-7. I'm s... (more)

Back when the GP60M were first bursting onto the scene. Exciting times! ATSF 109 leads ATSF 5150 and 5502 with a nice K Line stack train.

Five GE's lead a hot Q-LANY on the eastend of Flagstaff. ATSF 510, 526, 513, and one other B40-8W with a B40-8 on the rear. Pictured underneath the San Francisco peaks of Flagstaff, Arizona.

Three nice looking B40-8W's 511, 501, 554 roll past what looks like a majestic lake with a hot JB Hunt train. In reality it's a deposit of spring run off at Challender, Arizona. That will dry up a... (more)

The sun has just came up, and it's going to be a good day. The sky is clear, and the Santa Fe is running beautiful trains.

She's alive. Nevada Northern 81 is all steamed up for the send off of number 40. When I visited the Nevada Northern for the first time in the summer of 2006, I never dreamed. That this little engi... (more)

In what has to be about the shortest coal train I've seen Union Pacific run. Two units 7657 and 2626 lead at most, I would guess, 50 coal hoppers on the Provo Subdivision.

The crew of this train, had to be feeling a bit snake bit. First they reported PTC issue at Smelter. Then the reason I got this shot, a detector reported an integrity failure, forcing them to slow... (more)

UP 5539, 6653 and two more DPU's, are hauling the Valmy coal train, across the Shafter subdivision. They are heading across the Western Pacific causeway, on the Great Salt Lake. Not alot of lake t... (more)

I saw Valmy coal train rolling through Grant Tower, on the way home from work, and the chase was on. First up LM Bryan. The coal dust is a flying.