Westbound Brooklyn Yard, OR, Z-train pulls into Clinton for a crew change 2 miles ahead. The train is crossing the Mississippi River from Illinois into Iowa. New crew will travel clear across the ... (more)

Westbound Brooklyn Yard, OR, Z-train pulls into Clinton for a crew change 2 miles ahead. The train is crossing the Mississippi River from Illinois into Iowa. New crew will travel clear across the ... (more)

UP 8093 (AC45CCTE) leads a freight over fresh snow on the Moffat Tunnel Sub as it heads towards Denver, Colorado.

UP 8093 (AC45CCTE) leads a freight through Tunnel #2 and down the hill towards Plainview on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

UP 8093 (AC45CCTE) leads a freight past an industrial park on its way to Denver, Colorado.

Blue Mountain Snowy Aerial

A fresh 10” of snow left a picture perfect morning scene only capable on a UAV along the Flatirons just right for a Union Pacific manifest ... (more)

Morning Light & Mountain Pastures

Grand Junction to Denver manifest made a timely appearance for a shot I’ve been attempting in that special light in a fresh 10” of mount... (more)

UP 8093 (AC45CCTE) leads a freight towards Leyden, Colorado, the day after 10 inches of fresh snow coated the foothills.

The 10 inches of fresh snow that fell during the night has coated the trees and rails as UP 8093 (AC45CCTE) leads a freight between tunnels 1 and 2 at Plainview, Colorado.

It's a busy morning (for Union Pacific's Ayer Subdivision that is) in the remote Palouse River Canyon of southeast Washington. While we wait at our clifftop vantage point, we can hear the sound of... (more)

Leaning into the sweeping curve at Camarillo, UP 8093 leads a string of southbound baretables into town as it passes a tall palm tree - almost a welcoming symbol to Southern California.

Slowly passing the derailment site (left of the overpass in the background) this 3rd eastbound within a half an hour crosses Mosier Creek. Besides the June 3rd derailment, Mosier also has a set of... (more)

Three UP units and a CSX SD70ACe lead the Los Angeles, California to Global I (Chicago), Illinois Z-Train around the sweeping s-curve on Archer Hill east of Cheyenne, Wyoming on November 28, 20

It turned out to be a classic 'Friday the 13th' for maintenance of way assigned to a Loram Rail Grinder. Crew members were required to wait at Castilla in Spanish Fork Canyon for five trains to pa... (more)

Union Pacific 8095 heads downhill on main 3 soon to be followed by a BNSF stack on main 2 in Triple track territory on Cajon Pass