UP 5663 & 6405 eastbound with a grain train.

UP 5663, 6290, & 3081 westbound with a manifest.

A westbound manifest in Echo Canyon.

UP 5663 flies westbound under the Nelson coal tower

Trains on Union Pacific’s Shafter Sub. in eastern Nevada are few and far between these days. Two days spent there only yielded a total of 5 trains in daylight. This huge westbound coal train was... (more)

Springtime in the Colorado Rockies as a late snow storm dumped between 6 inches and a foot of wet snow along the Colorado front range and the foothills.

The DPU's on this empty coal train bring up the rear as the train follows along side South Boulder Creek just east of Tolland, CO on July 18, 2012.

Three trains are visible in this grand view of Reno Junction. Besides the southbound (railroad east) movement on the mainline, the train at left is pulling through the balloon track at the Black ... (more)

Out of the southern bore of Hermosa Tunnels, this young GEVO is picking up the pace as more of its train crests the summit of the Harriman Line at Dale Junction.

A CTE leads coal empties westward through DeWitt.

On the left, merchandise by container from the west coast heads east. Through the southern bore, a potash train is picking up speed as it crests its summit off the Harriman Cutoff.

An eastbound coal train pounds across the BNSF Sioux City Sub in Fremont.

The dispatcher has her hands full running single track from Webster to Dozier, here an eastbound coal drag has cleared Webster (track one to track two) and the westbound manifest can now procede. ... (more)

A trio of UP AC4400's, the third of SP heritage, pull hard up the hill into La Fox. Check out those cheapo number boards on 6562.

UP coal drag CTVSV 23 races into the sunset, with 3 big ACs, in the late evening.