Five motors (and a DPU out of sight) lug about 40 cars or so of this eastbound through Sloan and then into Las Vegas Valley.

A stack train claws towards the top of the hill at Erie on a warm and relatively windy day in the deserts south of Las Vegas.

UP 8444 rests at the diesel service facility in the old Las Vegas yard as Amtrak 292 looks on.

UP 1899, 1618, and 1566, all SD40N rebuilds out of Jenks Shops, switching the gypsum plant at Apex, north of Las Vegas, Nevada.

In a spring morning at sunrise I was surprised by this wonderful and very long military train going to Salt Lake City but it was the own eastbound train in the morning

It is well after midnight as UP 8444 rests quietly in Las Vegas. The crewman on duty to monitor the locomotive through the night let me sit in the cab with him until 3 am, telling me how all the ... (more)

"Meet me in Las Vegas" An eastbound manifest meets a westbound container train in downtown Las Vegas on a 100 degree plus day in June.

A beautiful afternoon in Sin City finds a westbound Union Pacific hopper train passing the hotels on the north end of the Las Vegas Strip.

Westbound stack train, heading for the port of Los Angeles

A great crowd was on hand for the entire day to see the UP "Big Boy" on display during a stopover in Sin City. The locomotive is headed home to Cheyenne, Wyoming where the years long pro... (more)

An old and tired looking train for sure...as it slowly makes the journey to the port of Long Beach, CA

Union Pacific #5528 leads this westbound manifest past the buildings on the north end of the Las Vegas Strip on this beautiful June afternoon.

The street in the foreground is actually Las Vegas Blvd, the same road lined by the famous casinos seen in the background. I've probably spent a cumulative 10 hours over three pervious visits to t... (more)

The Engineer and the biest, yes they handled this monster of the UP fleet