When the Glenwood Springs wildfire in Colorado blocked the Moffat Line through the Colorado Rockies, BNSF trains had to divert north through Wyoming. When they ran through UP territory the BNSF c... (more)

UP 8897 (SD70AH) leads a freight through the green foothills of Palmer Lake on the Joint Line.

The large open spaces in Wyoming provide a great setting for the mega trains that run from Cheyenne to Laramie. Here UP 9093 (SD70AH) leads 4 mates and a long freight through Hermosa, Wyoming.

ZCIG2 makes a short trip on BNSF rails as they take the San Bernardino Sub to the Yuma Sub with a massive train of Chicago traffic.

Heavy muscle is needed to move a long freight from Cheyenne to Laramie, Wyoming.

Empty auto racks are handled by UP 3039 (SD70AH) as it runs through Hermosa, Wyoming.

The view is off of the Highway 30 overpass as an eastbound descends Arlington Hill and approaches the beginning of double track at what used to be the west end of Kennard siding.

A heavyweight SD70AH leads a massive manifest with mid-train DPU southbound on the UP Chester Sub near Maeystown, Illinois. The heavy version of the SD70ACe is ballasted to 428,000 lbs (vs. 420,0... (more)

A UP train of petroleum coke from the Flint Hills Pine Bend refinery near St. Paul unloads at the Midwest Energy Resources Company dock in Superior. The longest vessel on the Great Lakes, the M/V ... (more)

The beauty of Monsoon season. An extremely slow day on the Lordsburg ended with a massive severe thunderstorm developing over the Benson area. This cell continued to grow and grow until it was ove... (more)

1943 serves as the rear DPU on a coal train as it waits to unload at Oak Creek in the wee morning hours. 1943 now being in regular freight service after being replaced by UP 1111 for passenger tra... (more)

The Spirit of Union Pacific Veterans locomotive leads a special through the dramatic valleys before the Great Divide on the Moffat Road alongside South Boulder Creek. An otherwise drab cloudy day ... (more)

Spirit In the Sky

The Spirit of Union Pacific Veterans locomotive number #1943 leads a retirement special through the frost and freezing fog just idealistically in harmony ... (more)

UP 8897 (SD70AH) leads two other mates and a freight over the Santa Fe Bridge in Larkspur, Colorado.

An overnight snowfall covers Tehachapi pass summit. With the sun just beginning to rise, a Union Pacific manifest breaks the silence of the new day.