Canadian Pacific grain train GB6PVK-17 has just crossed the Missouri River on the Harry S Truman Bridge (a vertical lift rail drawbridge) as it makes its way from El Paso TX to Charles City IA. T... (more)

Hiked 2 miles in the snow.... Only one way was uphill. Snowshoeing uphill is challenge with train photography. When you get to the spot you are hot and sweaty. Then you have to sit out in... (more)

Early in the morning of what started out as a beautiful day for the Carolinas, high priority intermodal train 212 shoots northbound with a clean UP ACe in the lead.

Union Pacific 8508 leads a Salina, KS to Denver, CO manifest across a short wooden trestle on the Kansas Pacific line, just west of Yocemento, KS.

Working its way along the Truckee River, a UP auto train passes through the curves at Glenshire on a beautiful late summer afternoon.

Westbound autos decend the grade off Donner Summit near Norden in the late afternoon.

UP 8508 leads a westbound rack train through Glenshire as it works along the Truckee River.

Union Pacific 8508 grinds up the grade as it brings a long intermodal train through Echo, UT passing the huge red rocks. These towering cliffs fallow the UP Evanston Subdivision for a relatively s... (more)

After meeting Amtrak's California Zephyr at Smelter Junction, Union Pacific's Roper, UT to Roseville, CA manifest heads west on former Western Pacific rails along Utah's Great Salt Lake.

After waiting an hour to catch the clean ACe on Q351-18 in a decent setting, I was finally rewarded. The delay was caused by the Marcy defect detector falsesly hitting the train for a "hot box" o... (more)

Salt Lake City's Grant Tower has changed fundamentally in recent years. Gone are the slow, twisting track alignments that kept train moves down to 10 mph. Here the daily Salt Lake to Green River, ... (more)

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