Under threatening skies (bad news for the next day's Big Boy run), an eastward UP manifest rumbles up the grade to Wasatch. The tail end of this train is still in the flyover tunnels near Curvo... (more)

Only in America! Yes folks, there are not many places in the world where a major freight railroad would suddenly decide to spend millions of dollars to drag the world's largest steam locomo... (more)

Thunderstorms move across the plain as Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 1989 "Rio Grande" leads an eastbound stack train along US-30/287 just east of Medicine Bow, Wyoming, at Como on June 1, 2... (more)

It's a beautiful August afternoon in Oregon's Blue Mountains as the 5256 East comes rolling into the siding at North Powder in order to meet a westbound that's descending Telocaset hill.

Riding into the Oregon sundown, the 7698 is in charge of a westbound that has crossed the Blues and is on the home stretch toward Hinkle.

A westbound Union Pacific train passes under the cantilever signal bridge with searchlight signals at Hermosa. A trace of a rainbow remains on the right.

Low hanging clouds, on yet another rainy afternoon on Tehachapi, continue to rot away the old wooden code line poles that still line the Union Pacific right of way in many places along the railroa... (more)

A Union Pacific westbound passes the surviving gate of Castle Gate. A twin formation on the opposite side of the valley was destroyed when U.S. 6 was widened through the area.

During the final months of operations over the Tennessee Pass line, symbol AHNOA is rolling along the Arkansas River on this comparatively easy ascent of the Continental Divide. The west slope of ... (more)

An eastbound manifest grinds up the grade at Emory, Utah.

UP's Chicago & Northwestern heritage leads a westbound stack train out of Salt Lake as it makes the turn for Las Vegas and eventually Los Angeles.

Ain't she sweet?.....the 4014, I mean. The recent Big Boy debut was a pretty crowded affair, making it very difficult to get "clean" photos of the locomotive. People just kept getting in ... (more)

A Union Pacific freight rolls eastbound along Leroy Road between Evanston and Granger.

Coal trains for the Jeffrey, KS power plant, accessed off UP's Marysville Sub at Aikins, ran with pooled UP and BN power, as they were interchanged to/from BN at Northport, NE. Here westbound &quo... (more)