Union Pacific locomotives rest in the yard at Helper, Utah, on the morning of March 17, 2009. The trio of GE AC4400CW/AC4400CW-CTEs are a helper set used to assist UP trains over Soldier Summit.
Recently rebuilt 6547 leads a massive 3x2x2 eastbound manifest, crawling upgrade at El Casco.
Train time in Green River, WY….A westbound double stack train beginning the pull up Peru Hill, having just received a fresh crew, meets an eastbound potash train at CP G819 just west of town. In... (more)
Westbound empty coal bucket enters the Grand Ave. Interlocking.
A few signs of the fall colors remain as an eastbound coal train snakes its way east. As the leaves disappear the first signs of the coming winter are beginning to appear on the peaks above.
On Feb. 28, 2009, Union Pacific's Denver-Salt Lake manifest had a trio of AC traction units from the mid-1990's (including the SP 192). This power made easy work of pulling the 38 car train up the... (more)
A 38 car Denver to Salt Lake manifest heads west through Utah's Castle Valley, on the outskirts of the city of Price. A brand new crew will soon board this train at Helper for the afternoon & even... (more)
A coal empty is about to pass over the detector at MP 125 west of Yarmony. This empty is about 5 miles from Bond, CO where they will change crews and a Grand Jct crew will board for the trip west ... (more)
