Due to problems with the code-line Amtrak's westbound Southwest Chief is running on restrictive signals between Springer and Colmor. As a wild weather system moved across northern New Mexico a bri... (more)

As a rain front pushes in from the east Big Boy 4014, a 1941 product of the American Locomotive Company, continues its charge west through classic 'Big Boy territory' on day one of its trek to Cal... (more)

On a crisp September morning the foothills west of Cheyenne again echo the sounds of a Union Pacific '4000' class Big Boy as it storms up Sherman Hill. In this case it is Union Pacific's recently ... (more)

Southern California's Tehachapi Mountains are home to a truly one of a kind mountain railroad with accompanying weather that is just as unique. From triple digit heat in the Summer to snow and bel... (more)

Finding a break in the clouds the morning sun finds Union Pacific's 'Southern Pacific' heritage unit on the point of eastbound tonnage, working up Sherman Hill through the searchlight installation... (more)

Painted in morning sunlight Tehachapi's 'golden' hillsides provide a great backdrop as an eastbound BNSF 'Q' train works up the mountain at Cliff. With a pair of GEs pushing on the rear the headen... (more)

Emerging from the west portal of Moffat Tunnel a 17 car Union Pacific shippers special rounds the big curve at Winter Park, CO as it makes a round trip run between Denver and Dotsero on the former... (more)

Much has changed since Big Boys last roamed the mainlines of the Union Pacific, one thing that has not is the often severe afternoon thunderstorms that build up over Wyoming and Nebraska. Shortly ... (more)

With 21 covered hoppers, 3 support cars, 2 water bottles, and diesel 8167 on the drawbar Big Boy 4014 begins its great trek across the American Midwest by storming east up Archer Hill just a few m... (more)

Having split a pair of 'I' trains at the east end of Cheyenne Union Pacific's Military 'Spirit' painted 1943 sails through the OS at W508 with a 5 car westbound special.

As the evening wears on and the last of the day's thunderheads kick up overhead Union Pacific's westbound Laramie 'Laser' charges up the Harriman Line (three track) as the old steam era water tank... (more)

With three North Little Rock SD40 rebuilds running point the westbound Laramie 'Laser' continues its westbound pull up Wyoming's Sherman Hill at Speer. In this view the Laser is wrapped around the... (more)

UP SD70ACe 1111, formerly UP 8362, on display at 'Home Plate' in Omaha along with UP 4141.

Union Pacific SD70ACe 4141, painted to honor President George H.W. Bush, stands proudly displayed on Union Pacific's 'Home Plate' trackage in downtown Omaha, Nebraska in advance of the 2019 Colleg... (more)

Famous face at an iconic place...For 18 years between 1941 and 1959 Hermosa Tunnels, near the top of 'the hill', was a popular location for photographers to frame Big Boys as they carried tonnage ... (more)