Crossing the expansive Great Salt Lake basin on Union Pacific’s former Southern Pacific main line, an eastbound UP freight approaches Lakeside, Utah, on March 5, 2012.

It is 4:40 pm (16:40) and, as happens so often in the Midwest, a thunderstorm is blowing into town. The first band of rain has let up as a trio of Union Pacific AC4400CWs (5921, 6807 and 6789) pu... (more)

UP 2705, 6896, 9017, and 5662 lead a westbound on the Lynndyl Subdivision.

Union Pacific's Reno Local is nearing the intermodal terminal on the Reno Branch.

UP 4199 (SD70M) leads the Rocky Moutaineer passenger train into Tunnel 2 at Plainview Colorado.

UPY 691 (GP15-1) works the Union Pacific's North Yard in Denver, Colorado.

Upgrade through Echo Canyon.

Entering the mouth of Echo Canyon for the climb up to Evanston, WY.

A remote-control engineer catches a ride back to the head end of the Union Pacific's North Yard in Denver, Colorado.

And eastbound military vehicle train races through downtown Modesto in the early morning.

Let's take a pole..... In a case of who's railroad is it, UP 5284 leads a NS unit through Mt. Pleasant, WI on CP's C&M Subdivision on 5/9/22. Pole lines have become increasingly rare these days, b... (more)

On the way to Winterail, we spotted UP's Woodland Local parked near I-5 about halfway between West Sacramento and Woodland. The crew was having dinner at the Elkhorn Saloon as a crop duster worked... (more)

Snowy Peak. In a notable contrast of landscapes, the sparse desert of Phelan, California transitions to the snow capped summits of the San Gabriel Mountains as Union Pacific Railroad 8431 (... (more)