Good Friday indeed! One of Union Pacific's two SD70Ms painted to serve on the Olympic Torch Relay train for the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lake City, Utah, was found sitting all by itself at the north... (more)

Just north of Fort Lupton, the ZLADV one of the engines on the train made for a nice treat! While it unfortunately was not leading, UP 2002, wearing special paint for the 2002 Olympics in Salt Lak... (more)

Under blue skies, the Union Pacific's Salt Lake Olympic unit is looking good, as it slowly rolls down the old, GTW main in Blue Island.

UP 2002, the Salt Lake olympic unit, is in charge of this vehicle train as it passes through Blue Island Junction, on the former GTW main.

UP's Salt Lake City Olympic Torch Relay unit, UP 2002, leads a North Platte bound manifest across the scenic Meramec River. Seeing the blue unit poke out from behind the bushes was definitely a ni... (more)

Last year on this same day I stood in this exact spot in the same glorious autumn weather and waited for a certain train to come by. Back then, it was a steam special pulled by none other than UP ... (more)

Union Pacific Olympic Unit 2002 leads a matched train of yellow locomotives and box cars across the Chippewa River in Eau Claire, WI.

Amtrak 21 Texas Eagle departing Ft Worth for San Antonio.

Detour do to the pier blowing up wrong and messing up the track on BNSF's new span in Burlington, Iowa, UP was nice to put something cool on for the trip across Iowa and Illinois I CNW's ATC cab s... (more)

UP 2002 holds up at Finley Road for an eastbound suburban to pass on track 1 before heading into Proviso.

The catch of the day! UP (Salt Lake 2002) is the third unit of an eastbound train. The sun came out at just the right time after the conductor has uncoupled his train on the west end of Beverly Ya... (more)

ZYCMXB 28 ducks under the TRRA Merchants Bridge approach, which has NS 111 passing overhead

ZYCMXB 28 accelerates south after getting through Valley Junction. With a crew change just a few miles ahead at Dupo, it will be slowing down shortly.