With about 15 minutes before the sun crests the horizon UP 5797 (AC4400CW-CTE) exits Tunnel #1 at Plainview and drops down into Coal Creek Canyon.

A new crew has boarded and received clearance to proceed south in dense, sub freezing fog conditions that have begun icing on locomotives and cars.

A Union Pacific rail train has been holding at Seacliff siding for the last 3 days. Stopped because of a fire near a bridge over the Ventura River the crew ran out of time. Today a new crew is on... (more)

A Proviso to Bensenville transfer of a Grain Train to Canadian Pacific passes through Franklin Park.

On December 21, 2020 a fire near the Bridge over the Ventura River overnight stopped all rail traffic. A Railtrain and the Guadalupe Hauler both were shutdown in Seacliff Siding. A new crew for th... (more)

Since I can’t get out and chase trains much in my new home of Rochester, MN right now (Covid-19 you know!), I have been spending a lot of time combing my files of past railfan trips. And guess w... (more)

Been to the Des Moines River Bridge a few times on the Marceline Sub. I was surprised how low the water was this trip! We were able to wonder out into the middle of the river, which meant the boys... (more)

Union Pacific no. 5294 and SD60 no. 2210 lead a rail train to Oxnard. They will run the engines around to the northbound end and couple up the Hezog Rail Unloading Machine to the south end. Lots o... (more)

Union Pacific no. 5294 and SD60 no. 2210 lead a rail train to Oxnard. They will run the engines around to the northbound end and couple up the Hezog Rail Unloading Machine to the south end. Lots o... (more)

Union Pacific no. 5294 and SD60 no. 2210 see the morning sunrise as it holds the siding at Seacliff. A fire in the Ventura River Mouth near the UP trestle stopped all rail traffic last night. The ... (more)

An afternoon stock train rumbles through the Tooele Valley.

A westbound Union Pacific freight departs the yard at Green River, Wyoming, beginning its climb over Peru Hill on the Railroad’s Evanston Subdivision on the morning of September 27, 2020.

UP 5485, 6347, and 7266 roll across the American Falls Bridge. The American Falls dam is behind the bridge.