Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC No. 8046 is in for repair at the east side building at the large Diesel Shop at the railroad’s Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on May 4, 2011.

It’s 8:47 p.m. as the sun sets in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin on June 21, 2020. A southbound Union Pacific coal train grinds to the crest of Logan Hill on Track 1, while a BNSF coal load pick... (more)

UP 8046, 2302, & 7318 with a westbound stack train.

A worker in Union Pacific’s locomotive shop at North Platte, Nebraska, pressure washes EMD SD9043MAC No. 8046 on Track 2 before moving the locomotive into the main shop for work on May 5, 2011.

This westbound stack train was one of many on a busy MLK weekend.

Not much to show for spring time in the Tehachapi Mountains this year. Looks like the dead of summer already, thanks to another dry winter, UP 8046 north passes the end of double track at Caliente... (more)

UP's Northbound ZLCLT intermodal makes a late afternoon run over Tehachapi Pass as it passes Bealville on its journey to Lathrop.

UP 8046 leads a empty well car train down Beaumont Hill.

A trio of UP SD9043MAC's crawls across the almost 100 year old Robert Street lift bridge in downtown St. Paul. It was another 65 degree day in the Twin Cities.

Mason City Jordan Spreader is working their way south on the Mason City sub as they past thru Garden City at MP 125. This job is plowing at 30 mph with 2 units that aren't running very well due to... (more)

A Jordan Spreader out of Mason City is nose plowing the sidings and mainline on the Spine Line. The crew is plowing the siding here at Buckeye and have a warrant to Nevada now and will blast out t... (more)

Well with the 1st winter storm in the book comes my 1st snow plow action for the winter. Here the UP is nose plowing the Spine Line on their way south towards Des Moines. The black smoke is from t... (more)

A little over five miles into it's long journey eastward, UP 8046 shoves on the rear of the MRONP-17 (Roper, UT to North Platte, NE) at CP C785, 18th North in Salt Lake City, Utah.