Unfortunately for those familiar with CW McCall's song "The Silverton Train," the Animas River Gorge only finds itself 230-ish feet from rail to river, as opposed to the 400-feet McCall ... (more)

A fiery sunset over Santa Cruz Island and the Santa Barbara Subdivision with the southbound Guadalupe Local silhouetted at Seacliff Siding.

A southbound Union Pacific local approaches the Millennium Bridge at 16th Street and will soon cross over Cherry Creek on Colorado’s Joint Line out of Denver on September 2, 2021. A northbound c... (more)

UP 4014 waits for the sunrise in Sharon Springs, Kansas and will soon depart for Denver, Colorado.

As the sun sets in the west, a brand-new, Tier 4, Union Pacific SD70AH (No. 3022) leads an eastbound manifest under the searchlight signal bridges at Tie Siding, WY.

Union Pacific's Heppner Local passes the elevators at Lexington, Oregon on the Heppner Branch. The now-abandoned line ended service early in summer 1994.

Reflections of UP 4014 at Sharon Springs, Kansas. Photographers, admirers and kids of all ages showed up at Sharon Springs early in the morning to see the Big Boy locomotive and watch it leave fo... (more)

Just minutes after sunset, an eastbound coal train passes Union Station in Kansas City, MO on August 30, 2021.

Thanks to lucky timing a BNSF freight heading south to Denver passes over a Union Pacific westbound train leaving the Cheyenne Yard at dawn.

On the western side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, a westbound manifest with Union Pacific SD70ACe no. 8601 leading rolls out of the tunnel at Yuba Gap and into the sunlight.

Stormy Searchlight Sunset- One of the last installations of searchlight signals on the Union Pacific system stands guard over Hermosa, lit for oncoming traffic.

UP 8455 (SD70ACe) assists a BNSF Grinstein MAC in shoving a BNSF freight through Rocky, Colorado in heavy fog and light snow.

The Flatirons like great Sentinels from the Darkness

Towering out of the darkness of a winter storm raging at the Great Divide the sun momentarily blasts out in a sun po... (more)

An eastbound manifest heading into the sunrise is about to navigate the crossovers just west of Ogden, Iowa.