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)

Union Pacific's Rio Grande heritage unit drags a northbound manifest up the eastern side of the Tehachapi Mountains at Warren.

SCREAMER! Shannon Hill is a steep 3-5% grade in Arizona's Copper Country. Each Geep is good for approximately 550-580 tons on what is undoubtably the steepest climb in North America. Heav... (more)

Colorado River Majesty

In its most intense form and repeat visits at various times of the year, the iron in these rocks will play a ballet with the tertiary pallet. Union Pacif... (more)

Red Rocks

Completely disconnected from the thought that there would be a train on this day, I found the Potash Local making its journey to its namesake completely on accident t... (more)

An excursion on the Oregon Trunk performs a photo runby at Madras on a fall morning in 1995. Central Oregon's iconic Three Sisters mountains can be seen in the distance.

Out of the vastness of the Arizona plateau comes the 528 East with a manifest, about to rumble across the great trestle at Canyon Diablo. Remnants of the foundation of the original 1882 single-tra... (more)

Crossing over the Crooked River Bridge BNSF's Bend Local heads north to Madras with six Centerbeams and ten Tank Cars on a hot 85 degree day. 5/28/20 Terrebonne, OR ( Crooked River Bridge )

Southbound manifest passing one of many slide detectors.

UP train MPDNPB-25 rolls along the southern bank of the Columbia River near Celilo Oregon with 112 cars bound for North Platte Nebraska.

UP 4623 (SD70M), 2167 (SD62), 1481 (GP40-2) & 1019 (GP60) head the Potash Local back to Grand Junction.

A BNSF manifest freight rolls west exiting Abo Canyon with a quartet of BN power none of which had been renumbered at this time. The Cascade green contrasts nicely with the New Mexico desert.

With seven empty hoppers for the Potash facility in Moab, LDG51B is seen passing some of the beautiful red rock formations along the Cane Creek Sub with a pair of UP 70M's for power.

On Friday the 13th, LDG51B also known as the Potash Local heads north with a pair of UP 70M's at the Corona Arch Trailhead with 30 loads for Grand Junction.

Santa Fe tried many combinations of locomotives to pull it's York Canyon, NM to Kaiser Steel in Fontana, CA coal trains, often in solid sets. One of the last combos they used was six of their ten ... (more)