Rolling downhill, UP 2681 holds back an eastbound.

Westbound, just over the summit of Marias Pass, a familiar leaser leads a train along the south edge of Glacier National Park.

With the curious town of Marfa TX visible on the near horizon, and just past the Marfa Lights observation spot, UP 5831 dig in to the climb over Paisano Pass, a few miles ahead. Paisano Pass is th... (more)

Visibly dipping below the Burlington Northern, CN SD60F #5540 leads a sister and two UP diesels on a transfer from Proviso Yard to Belt Railway of Chicago's Clearing Yard, where the cars will be r... (more)

Originally C&NW 8695, UP 9799 looks in great shape as the 31-year-old leader of a well-powered container train rolling downslope toward Cheyenne at Sunrise. The Borie Cutoff line connecting Denver... (more)

BNSF 989 will cut around the next bend to find itself of the summit of Marias Pass. A heavy spring snowstorm hit the pass the night before, and it would only be a couple hours before that snowy US... (more)

Loading at Granite. If one imagines hard enough, the train in the foreground is the eastbound City of San Francisco with an 800 class FEF-3 ripping downslope toward Cheyenne, while a 9000 c... (more)

Ripping west through a desolate area of San Bernardino County, California, this train will soon bounce south to Daggett to join the UP (SP) en route into Barstow before heading either to the LA Ba... (more)

Coming down into the sunrise, one of UP's older engines (actually built in 1994 at C&NW 8695) still pilots hotshots such as this eastbound passing through Borie. The Borie Cutoff line is visible b... (more)

Built in 1968 as a Canadian National SD40, this locomotive is now 57 years old, with a life that saw it upgraded to an SD40-2 for BN/BNSF. Now it moves various traffic for WAMCO road Swan Ranch Ra... (more)

A pair of locos manages the reload of Herzog ballast hoppers at Granite, WY. The plant in Granite has been the primary source of ballast for the Union Pacific in Nebraska and Wyoming since 1944, a... (more)

No, the Overland Route is not quadruple-tracking. With the length of trains they run these days, the train count has shrunk. That fourth line is the lead to the ballast plant at Granite. I actuall... (more)

Climbing up the first couple hundred of feet out of Cheyenne, the tracks bend north briefly to duck under I-80 before bending west into the setting sun.

BNSF 743 is only about 2 months old, with two more apparently from the same vintage. They sit over Cicero Ave awaiting their entrance into Corwith Yard.

Rolling down the east side of Sherman Hill, on approach to the tiny(est) town of Buford. After, I'll drop into the Buford store for coffee and (packaged) donuts. It's a good morning.