UP 5275 leads NS 110 west with a colorful consist. Behind the 5275 is NS 9944, NS 8103 the N&W heritage unit then in tow three very clean CP units. SD40-2 6043, SD40-2F 9021 and SD60 6303.

All the way from California. UP 5275 is eastbound on CN's Montreal Sub with the second Siemens trainset for VIA Rail in tow early in the morning. The UP unit was with it all the way from th... (more)

A manifest freight races across the high desert toward the setting sun.

A light power move rolls eastbound through the frozen landscape of Boca on the Donner Pass Route.

Union Pacific 5275 winds the MRORV through "the sticks" near Magra, California as this small train descends Donner Pass. Many people call this heavily wooded section of Donner Pass's western slope... (more)

On a clear March afternoon, Union Pacific 5275 leads the MRORV down the Donner Pass Route. Here the train soars high above the Bear River Valley located at Yuba Gap, deep in the Sierra Nevada Moun... (more)

A classic "Donner Pass Dirty Gevo" brings the MRORV down the UP Roseville Subdivision at Clipper Gap, California.

This stack train on the BNSF Chilli Sub featured a UP leader and a pair of CSX units as they roar east away from Galesburg.

Westbound passing Sloan Mountain, used for local aggregate for many years.

Here's something I have never seen on Cajon Pass, mid-train helpers. In the last two weeks I've now seen this three times and all on the Palmdale Cut-off. Not sure of the reasoning behind the chan... (more)

Power move