Time to tie down the snow fighting equipment and get out the water train. After having another dry year in the west and less than 50% of normal snowpack in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, we are now ... (more)
UP 5276, 7779, & 5285 eastbound with an intermodal train.
With plenty of UPS trailers in tow, Union Pacific's Denver, CO to Salt Lake City, UT premium intermodal breezes by highway traffic along I-84 just west of Morgan, Utah.
Wow. A Westbound stack train meets an Eastbound at Kamela, as one drops off the Earth and the other rises from it's depths. Both trains are cresting a 2.2% grade, the summit of the UP line ... (more)
Making up a train
