Union Pacific heritage unit UP 1996 dressed in Southern Pacific colors streaks through the Wisconsin woods as they go east towards Altoona.
Heavy falling snow covers Altoona, Wisconsin as a deer skull looks at me through the snow.
A Union Pacific logo adorns the stack of a piece of MOW equipment that planes the top of a railroad tie for the tie plate to sit. Photo taken in Altoona, WI.
A Union Pacific MOW work hammers in an alignment pin to align the rail joint for the new bolt in Altoona, Wisconsin.
A traveling Union Pacific track gang spent a couple of months in Western Wisconsin installing new welded rail on the Altoona Subdivision and Wyeville Subdivision. Photo taken in Altoona, WI.
The bartender reaches into the cooler for a cold one at the "400" Club in Altoona, Wisconsin which was named after the famous Chicago and Northwestern passenger train that used to pass right by th... (more)
A close lightning strike flashes above the Union Pacific depot in Altoona, Wisconsin as yard power hunkers down in the yard waiting out the thunderstorm's heavy rains and wind bursts.
The lights of the Altoona yard eerily light a set of locomotives from the very dark night that covers the rest of the yard. The EOT can be seen at the other end of the yard from a departing train.
A Union Pacific MOW worker cuts a piece of stick rail just outside the Altoona yard so that the new welded rail can be spliced in for the night before work resumes again the next day.
An almost abstract view of the number boards glowing in the night from an Union Pacific SD70M.
The Altoona local has just made it back to the yard as a severe thunderstorm comes in from the west.
TRAINS Magazine 2011 Grand Prize Photo Contest Winner. The view of a falling snowflake. A heavy January snow fall blankets the area in snow while Union Pacific MSSPR makes a set out in Altoona,... (more)
Union Pacific 5108 highballs east out of Altoona yard with a high-wide train of flat cars carrying wind turbin parts headed to Global 3 in Illinois.
Union Pacific MPRSS has just pulled up to the Altoona depot under an amazing sky.
A whitetail deer watches my every move while the Union Pacific local sneeks up from behind returning to Altoona, WI.
