Rolling through a snow-covered mountain scene on Union Pacific’s Pocatello Subdivision at Topaz, Idaho, is a westbound grain train on January 20, 2013.
On the Jawbone Branch in the Mojave Desert. I counted 98 cars: 3 tank cars and 95 covered hoppers. The potash hoppers would be empty in this direction. Searles, a few miles ahead, is the end of th... (more)
A westbound Union Pacific grain train bends through a snow-covered “S curve” at Topaz, Idaho, on January 20, 2013.
A westbound Union Pacific grain train rolls through a pair of snow-covered curves at Topaz, Idaho, on January 20, 2013.
It's lonely out there. The picture was taken from over a mile away. I count 98 cars: 3 tank cars and 95 covered hoppers. The potash hoppers would be empty in this direction. Searles, a few mile... (more)
Pushing toward Chicago in the afternoon sun.
Taking the siding at Canyon on the former SP Palmdale Cutoff is UP 5766 leading an Oregon-bound manifest train from West Colton.
