UP 5857 (AC4400CW-CTE) leads an oil can train around the base of Blue Mountain and will soon run through Coal Creek Canyon.

UP 5857 (AC4400CW-CTE) leads an extra-long oil can train through Coal Creek Canyon and is about to enter Tunnel #1 while cars are still going through the crossing at Blue Mountain Road.

An extra freight train from Des Moines, IA, to Herington, KS, is back on the move at Williamson. Williamson is located at MP 31 on the UP Trenton Sub on the old ex-Rock Island Spineline. The train... (more)

A pair of UP units leads a short eastbound covered hopper train across South Boulder Creek on the main at Cliff. The tracks follow South Boulder Creek for another ten miles or so on the way east t... (more)

There really is a guy that repairs locomotive toilets
Certainly doing a thankless job, a Union Pacific employee at the Diesel Shop in North Platte, Nebraska, repairs a locomotive toilet... (more)

You Break It, You Buy It UP 6052, an AC44CWCTE, arrived at Juniata on a flatcar following a derailment in April. Since it derailed while running on an NS train, this AC44 will be repaired ... (more)

Foreign Boros: UP 8022 brings up the rear of manifest 12Z through Waynesboro, Virginia, as it passes through the industrial center of the city and the target warehouse can be seen on the bottom r... (more)

UP 5889 (AC4400CW-CTE) leads a coal train up to Tunnel #1 at Plainview, Colorado as it heads west on the Moffat Tunnel Sub.

UP 5889 (AC4400CW-CTE) leads a coal train up the grade to Tunnel 1 of the Moffat Tunnel Sub at Coal Creek Canyon.

A UP empty coal train is coming off of the BNSF Fort Scott Sub and on to the KCT High Line where they will head over to Fairfax on the other side of the Kansas River for a crew change and the west... (more)

A Northwest Container stack train bound for the Port of Portland curves through Steilacoom at sunset.

Staying ahead of the storm
An eastbound Union Pacific manifest freight train drops downgrade at milepost 823 on Peru Hill, Wyoming, momentarily staying ahead of a storm approaching from... (more)

UP on NS heading to UP NS 115 hanging the left at North Chicago Junction with a pair of UP GEs as they're making their way to Union Pacific's 18th Street Yard on the other side of the Kan... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific coal empty approaches Azure, Colorado, as it exits Gore Canyon and snakes through Tunnel 38 on June 19, 2023. Powering the train is dirty GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5682 and new... (more)

West Bound Manifest on the sunset route of Union Pacific. It feels good to see a different type of signal masts for a change.