The conductor on Amtrak 4, the eastbound Southwest Chief, checks the tickets of sleeping car passengers boarding in Victorville, California, on July 10, 2019. This may be the train heading... (more)

At Port Henry, NY the CP crew discusses their plans before the Herzog train starts dumping ballast just north of here.

It does sometimes take an army of people to get a train across the railroad in the wintertime. The conductor pitches in as these 4 guys clean the switch at Ag Processing Inc. east of Algona. The c... (more)

Newly rebuilt AC44's meet at Gap Siding. The eastbound crew is setting up to do a roll by inspection.

The head-end brakeman on the local switch job is dressed in the traditional classic railroader's garb of 1972. The mandatory wearing of bright colored safety vests is still decades away.

The conductor watches as the train is reversing a single covered hopper back onto a side track under highway 80, to the fertilizer plant nearby. On a side note, Happy Fathers Day Weekend to all of... (more)

The brakeman and engineer on a helper locomotive watch the Louisiana World's Fair Daylight pass by in Dunsmuir, California. The T-2 is only four years old. Thanks to the "EL PASO" lettering on t... (more)

DL SC7 drags it's train up the hill and toward Bridge 60. The sun would not last long, inside of 2 hours an EF1 tornado passed 5 miles from here.

Engineer Andrew Durden is looking ahead as he at the control of an SW1200 #606 as the Missionary Ridge Local eastbound back to Grand Junction. TVRM 606 is an ex: Milwaukee Road switcher, the 12 cy... (more)

The famous crew picture in front of Union Pacific "Big Boy" steam locomotive 4-8-8-4 #4014 during the celebration in Ogden, UT. You can see a big smile in Ed Dickens' face!

Two members of the steam team lube the rods of Union Pacific Northern No. 844 at Rawlins, Wyoming, on May 6, 2019.

GP9 1603 is captured switching out a recently arrived 213 at Cochrane May 7, 2014

Two crew members are out inspecting an eastbound train that has just left Mac Yard for points north and west on this cold winters evening.

Ed Dickens and Bruce Kirk posing in front of UP 4014. Thank you Ed and the rest of the team for bringing to life a Big Boy that I has been a dream of mine and others to see run. Also thanks to Un... (more)

Unsung heroes of the Union Pacific Steam Program. There is a small team of dedicated professionals that get the equipment ready and maintained on the road. These two gentlemen are using an air pow... (more)