With the low evening sun dropping into the San Joaquin Valley haze, the Rio Grande heritage SD70ACe rolls downhill through Cliff with a westbound manifest. Following this train over the pass on th... (more)

A ballast train has been tied down on the former Modoc mainline at Flanigan, as lingering debris clouds from the day's thunderstorms roll east toward the Smoke Creek desert.

Easter Sunday brings business as usual on BNSF's thronged Barstow to Needles mainline. A pair of BNSF "land barges" meet a few miles east of Siberia. Amboy Crater can be seen in the background.

Diverted onto the WP route due to track work on Donner Pass, an eastbound with loads of Toyotas from the Bay Area throttles up as it leaves the siding at Floka.

A grimy GE leads the westbound Roper to Roseville manifest up Silver Zone Pass out of Wendover. Pilot Peak presides over Arnold Loop and the Pilot Creek Valley.

Moments after sunrise, an on-the-advertised number 5 with six UP passenger cars races west along the Humboldt River near Preble.

Having just finished the 1% climb out of the Smoke Creek Desert, a westbound stack train winds its way down from Sand Pass towards California.

As the morning fog begins to lift, the westbound Z train climbs the grade out of Coldstream Canyon at Andover.

With a dozen or so railfans on hand this gorgeous April afternoon, two CNW dash nines are nearing the end of their climb out of the Smoke Creek Desert as they approach Sand Pass siding.

An eastbound manifest exits Palisade Canyon as it rolls east on former WP rails. A crew change at Elko is less than an hour away.

Four EMD SD70Ms wheel a KG1LT around the sweeping curve at Jungo and up the grade of Antelope Hill. In the background, an eastbound coal train waits patiently in the siding.

CN sulphur empties overtake an eastbound CP intermodal train in Black Canyon, west of Ashcroft. Directional running takes effect just west of this location at Coho (CN) and Nepa (CP) respectively.

Racing east through the frozen sagebrush, a KOAMN enters the short canyon east of Golconda. On the left, one can barely make out Amtrak #5 charging west into Golconda on the former SP main. Below ... (more)

The temperature on this clear, sunny morning is somewhere in the single digits as a westbound grain train marches uphill out of Montello, toward the summit at Valley Pass. The grade doesn't exceed... (more)

The last rays of sunlight illuminate the peaks of the Wasatch Mountains as two GEs lead a westbound KMNOA across the Bagley Fill west of Ogden.