The yard tracks at Castle Gate, Utah once served the Castle Gate Coal Company. The town and mine that once bustled with activity here are now gone. The silent rail yard deep in the Price River Can... (more)

A westbound Soda ash train digs into the 2.21% grade near Hilgard, OR. The train has a long climb thru the tall Pine and Spruce trees on its way to the top of the Blue Mountains.

An eastbound manifest freight train snakes along the Humboldt River.

A 112 car manifest cruises along the Great Salt Lake Causeway. From my mountain top perch the smell of this great salty inland sea smells almost the same as being ocean side in California. The v... (more)

Encina Hill in eastern Oregon is one of this railfans favorite locations. Resembling Tehachapi in many ways the twisting 2.2% climb out of the Snake River Valley is spectacular. In this view a hea... (more)

Kyune.... The "S" curves at Kyune are the site of a center siding and the former site of a "Y" used to turn back helpers in the Steam Era. When trains were lighter and before D... (more)

The rear two DPU shove this westbound coal load over the top of Thompson Hill. The gorgeous and carbon rich Book Cliffs rise over the moon like landscape of the Utah desert. Abandoned Highway 6 p... (more)

After over a day of rain in a low lying area, this CSX lead track from Oak Island Yard to a local scrap industry is flooded. All that is seen is a switch stand and the rail head.

Scenic Line of World. This Union Pacific coal load is struggling thru the Gooseneck deep inside the Price River Canyon. The train is full of Emery and Carbon County coal, some of the best and cle... (more)

"Meet me in Las Vegas" An eastbound manifest meets a westbound container train in downtown Las Vegas on a 100 degree plus day in June.

In Union Pacific's passenger car shop in Council Bluffs, Iowa, is a Trackmobile 95TM mobile railcar mover.

A Union Pacific drag climbs upgrade between Caliente and Bealville in the Tehachapi Mountains as the morning sun begins to cast light on the rolling green hills.

The Great Salt Lake... one of the most beautiful photo places I have visited in my life. At dusk, you can sometimes see two trains following one that's already on the dam. When I first saw the lig... (more)

One of the last places to see sun in the Price River Canyon is here between Lynn and Nolan. The high canyon walls can make photography challenging, there is only about 3 1/2 hours of good light t... (more)

This westbound coal load is passing under Billies Mountain. In 1982-83, record moisture soaked the mountains causing the Great Thistle Slide. The Slide buried the helper town of Thistle, the rail... (more)