UP business train heading down Cajon Pass.

Two Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTEs pass through Converse Junction, Wyoming, with a “local” from Bill on June 18, 2015. In reality, these locomotives have picked up what is most likely a bad o... (more)

Export Coal on the UP

Coming through the Victorville Narrows, a Union Pacific westbound heads toward the "natural crossover" at Frost as it speeds its way to the Port of Lo... (more)

YLZ01, one of UP's LA Basin Hostler crews, enters the Pacific Harbor Line's Wilmington Lead to spin power off an inbound intermodal.

UP 6060 & 7925 lead a westbound manifest.

With a clean G&W repaint on the point, Utah Railway's Provo-Ogden turn heads east through UP North Yard in Salt Lake City.

With two GEs on the point and two on the rear sandwiching 80 aluminum hoppers, UP's Skyline Mine to Barstow coal train snakes through the red narrows on the former Rio Grande mainline. A spectacu... (more)

On a spectacular President's Day afternoon, two big GEs lead Union Pacific's Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load out of the 3009 ft. Thistle Tunnel through Billy's Mountain in Spanish Fork Canyon... (more)

Having just departed the confines of Spanish Fork Canyon, Union Pacific's Skyline UT to Barstow CA coal load descends the relatively flat pastureland of the rural community of Mapleton, Utah. 10,9... (more)

On a spectacular President's Day afternoon, Union Pacific's Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load emerges from 3009 ft. Thistle Tunnel through Billy's Mountain in Spanish Fork Canyon.

A Union Pacific coal train zigs and zags through the 1983 realignment of the former D&RGW mainline just west of Rio, Utah. This Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal train had a nicely matched set of 80... (more)

Union Pacific's CSKBS-16 looked great curving west through the confines of the Red Narrows of Spanish Fork Canyon. This time of year, lighting is limited through here as the former D&RGW tracks fo... (more)

An 80 car train of aluminum hoppers function as a conveyor of bituminous coal between Utah's Skyline Mine and northern California. UP's CSKBS-16 is approaching control point RG 662, West Gilluly, ... (more)

A pair of General Electric AC's lead a Skyline, UT to Barstow, CA coal load west down Soldier Summit at Detour station. It was at this point that the former 4% grade alignment east toward Soldier ... (more)

Having been to Soldier Summit numerous times I had never photographed a train from this location. So after cathing this train at Gilluly it was decided this might be the time to make up for that s... (more)