A light trail of Howrah bound express train from Bombay VT passes over a viaduct on Thull Ghats near Igatpuri town in Maharashtra state of India.

Construction of the Cane Creek Subdivision through Utah's Bootlegger Canyon is truly a marvel of engineering. Here the Friday afternoon 'Potash Turn' creeps across 'the shelf' approaching the mass... (more)

A stack train glints as it snakes east through the desert at Ludlow, CA on the BNSF Needles Sub as the sun sets on a very windy and dusty day in April 2009.

Arriving after the sun had set, the very last rays of light are just captured on the front of UP 9184 (C40-8) as it slogs up the grade at Garnet in front of the now dark imposing cliffs in the bac... (more)

With the towering red cliffs of the Colorado River offering a dramatic backdrop, Union Pacific's 'Potash Turn' enters the small yard at Potash, Utah. A long train of loads (at right) awaits transp... (more)

The barren moonscape of the Utah desert is momentarily disturbed while a slag train from Helper slows for the siding at Brendal, behind 5413 3101 and 3118, in March 1982.

A pair of SD60M's drag Union Pacific's 'Potash Turn' up a 1.2 percent grade and through a pair of five degree curves at the southern entrance to Bootlegger Canyon. Today's outbound train has 20 lo... (more)

Union Pacific's 'Potash Turn' rolls down a long fill at milepost 31.2, just south of Bootlegger Canyon and four miles north of the Intrepid Potash, Inc. yard and loading facility.

Union Pacific's Potash Turn climbs northward along the Colorado River with 24 loads. The rumble and roar of the EMD prime movers echos off the nearby sandstone cliffs of the Colorado. This is a wo... (more)

Union Pacific's Friday morning 'Potash Turn' curves west along the Book Cliffs at Vista curve, a couple of miles east of the siding at Thompson, Utah. The 12 car local was called out of East Yard ... (more)

Union Pacific's Cane Creek Subdivision is a modern day engineering marvel. The lower 10 miles of the 35 mile route are by far the most dramatic. This is where Morrison Knudsen Corp. brought the D&... (more)

A duo of Union Pacific SD60M's lead the Friday only 'Potash Turn' along sandstone cliffs near Utah's Bootlegger Canyon. The lower 10 miles of the Cane Creek Sub skirt Arches National Park to the e... (more)

It's not very often that a branchline from nowhere to nowhere receives a complete rebuilding, but 30 miles of UP's Cane Creek Subdivision have become the exception. The Fridays only 'Potash Turn' ... (more)

This is a westbound stacktrain, heading for the port of Los Angeles, California. My vantage point is about 500 feet above the railhead.

U.S. economical woes are represented on this BNSF Z train in early 2009, but nonetheless it makes for a pretty sight at Essex sprinting across the high desert toward Barstow on the Needles Sub.