UP 3001 leads a westbound Salt Lake to Long Beach intermodal at Hodge on the Cajon Sub.

UP 3427 East departs Tucson Yard as a track crew replaces ties on Track One. UP spends a lot of capital maintaining the Sunset Route, especially this part which sees heavy traffic. This MOW crew h... (more)

In October 1973, two EMDs idles next to each other modeling two variations of Western Pacific's paint schemes. No. 3010's scheme was an attempt to raise the profile of the railroad by putting its ... (more)

About a month before it was absorbed by UP, power of various kinds idles in front of Western Pacific's shops in Stockton. A good portion of the power you see here will be gone or in a deadline onc... (more)

The last leaves of fall complement the Rio Grande Heritage motor, leading an NS grainer south of Atlanta.

While a storm rolls east over the plains and the city of Denver, a westbound Union Pacific coal empty climbs the grade out of Leyden, Colorado, on the afternoon of October 29, 1999. The train is l... (more)

Here in Maricopa County, Arizona we typically get Monsoon storms in the summer time when cold fronts mix with our extreme heat. Also, we tend to get dust storms (haboobs) which originate from the ... (more)

A fresh layer of snow in the UP's North Yard brings out the colors of the GATX and UP units waiting for assignments.

The Martin Marietta rock train has finished unloading at the aggregate producer's Drennan yard in Colorado Springs and now returns empty to Pueblo as it prepares to enter into track 56 using the &... (more)

Fireworks rain out in the night sky as a line of EMD SD9043MAC locomotives rest on track 57 of the former Rio Grande yard in Pueblo. These units will stay parked here for over a year as they awai... (more)

As the sun closes in on the horizon to bring another day in Southern California to a close, UPY 2715 and a sister 3GS21B rest in Union Pacific's "J" Yard as the iconic Sears building sta... (more)

UP 6492 leads an eastbound manifest through farmland in central Iowa.

Northbound Union Pacific detour train due to the collapse of tunnel 11 on the UP North-South mainline.

Taken with permission.

Having just joined the 'Overland Main' at Speer Junction the annual CFD special drops down grade into Cheyenne with a trainload of passengers eager to attend Frontier Day's opening ceremony. For t... (more)