Conforming to the gently meandering bends in the Humboldt River the 'westbound main' of Union Pacific's Elko Subdivision (ex-SP) has just crossed under the eastbound main (ex-WP) in the background... (more)

A pair of 'goat boat' C44s, bracketing a younger sibling, pilot BNSF's westbound trackage rights manifest as it enters the east end of a snow dusted Palisade Canyon.

Westbound grain loads swim 'down stream' along the northern bank of the Humboldt River at the east end of Palisade Canyon. The EMD powered train is running on Southern Pacific rails while those of... (more)

With a head-end manifest block, a result of Union Pacific's newly adopted precision scheduled railroading, the westbound ZNPOA follows the meandering Humboldt through rugged Palisade Canyon.

Threading the Humboldt River in remote Palisade Canyon eastbound grain empties ride former Western Pacific iron en route to a crew change in Elko, Nevada. Coming in second place to lay rail throug... (more)

A westbound mixed freight rolls west through scenic Echo Canyon, just east of the Canyon's namesake.

A pair of Utah Railway geeps hang out over the Weber River, on former Rio Grande iron, while switching the joint Utah Rwy/Utah Central yard in Ogden.

Union Pacific's eastbound 'Wendover Hauler' begins to cut across the salt flats along the southwest corner of Utah's Great Salt Lake west of Timpie on former Western Pacific trackage. Muscle for t... (more)

Dressed in a special paint scheme honoring America's Armed Forces, designed by veterans and now UP employees of each branch represented, UP 1943 hustles west across the old Western Pacific near Lo... (more)

Charging out of the sag which crosses Tecolote Creek in the distance, Amtrak's westbound Chief prepares to take a clear indication displayed by signal 7861, east of Chapelle on the Glorieta Subdiv... (more)

Standing against the light of a full moon semaphores 7061 and 7062 await the daily arrival of Amtrak trains 3 and 4, the Southwest Chief. Although the future looms uncertain for the Raton and Glor... (more)

As the afternoon wears long Amtrak's eastbound Southwest Chief prepares to take down the clear indication displayed by semaphore 7062, the last set of semaphores to be seen by the Chief on its eas... (more)

40 years separating them, two generations of EMD road power drift through the cut at Pine Ridge, WY with westbound tonnage pushing on the drawbar.

With a pair of EMD SD70 variants leading the charge Union Pacific's eastbound 'salad shooter' has nearly achieved the top of Archer Hill, east of Cheyenne, as it hurries towards its east coast con... (more)

The off beat bark from a pair of Baldwin K-36s fill the crisp fall air as they team up to work westbound tonnage up Cumbres Pass. K-36 489 with its swing helper 484 have been dressed up in Rio Gra... (more)