An eastbound Union Pacific coal train eases down the two-percent grade at Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Clay, Colorado, on a snowy January 5, 2005. the head end is passing mile 22.6, whi... (more)

Two minutes after the run above the tunnel #9 the locs are running below the carriages of the own train out of the tunnel toward Bakersfield (Photo taken with permission). On photo #815977 you see... (more)

The signal behind tunnel #9 shows red, because the train on the Loop runs in two minutes through the tunnel toward Bakersfield (Photo taken with permission). On photo #816050 the locs leave the tu... (more)

Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5914 leads an eastbound UP coal train into a snowy Crescent, Colorado, on the morning of January 5, 2005.

CSX S602 heads north with UP and NS powers and a CSX MAC.

An AC4400CW idles in the Helper, Utah yard.

As two members of a BNSF MOW crew tend to a broken rail on their north-south main at Tower 55, the other two--including the welder--keep a wary eye on UP 5914 South, a coal load that will pass the... (more)

Coal empties race back to North Platte, led by two UP AC4400's.

Departing UP Neff Yard after doing its work, UP Train KG1LAB 08 glides through CP M282 Troost Avenue past one fo the few remaining sets of Mo-Pac Signals around Kansas City.

Southbound coal train ducks under the I-88 overpass near Rock Falls.

An eastbound stack train heads away from the setting sun and towards the crew change point of Clinton, Iowa. It has just past the town of DeWitt, where, in the distance, a tall church steeple pun... (more)

After replacing a broken knuckle on the Echo Canyon grade, UP's Roseville, CA to North Platte, NE Q train is back on the move approaching the Lincoln Highway overpass at Emory, Utah.

After repairing a broken knuckle and bringing two other eastbound trains to a stop, UP 5914 is back on the move headed east through Echo Canyon at Emory. The vintage highway bridge at right is par... (more)

Just about to crest Logan Hill, as seen from the Steckley Road overpass, is another in the parade of coal trains, here in the heart of the Powder River Basin. The grading for a fourth main track i... (more)

A BNSF track gang works on Main One as a loaded UP coal train roars down the adjacent main headed for central Texas.