The westbound Rio Grande Zephyr is stretching its legs as it is making track speed west of Glenwood Springs at Newcastle, Colorado.

Northbound on the Kanawha River Railroad, UP ES44AC No. 8105 leads a coal train toward Hobson, Ohio, from the coalfields of southern West Virginia. While operated by Watco crews, this coal train i... (more)

Union Pacific's LRA49, historically known as the Reno Local, passes over Interstate 80 northbound to the industrial areas of North Reno on June 28th, 2017. In the background looms the downtown Re... (more)

Rio Grande EMD F7(A) 5711 and F7(B) 5712 on turntable at Denver's Burnham shops on May 2, 1963.

There's plenty of steam leaking and visible because of the cold as this Big Boy charges up Sherman Hill.

Rail Detector car sits in North Platte yard. Photo by Joseph R. Quinn

A Rio Grande coal train climbs the Palmer Divide approaching Palmer Lake, Colorado, on a sunny and warm February 24, 1986. The train is led by three EMD SD50s, and is helped by a SD40T-2/SD50 help... (more)

Through empty windows of an abandoned Sinclair gas station along old U.S. 30 through James Town near Green River, Wyoming, is a most apropos sight of a westbound Union Pacific oil train climbing P... (more)

An 70ACe pushes on the back of this empty coal train as they work thru central Iowa on the UP's North Platte to Chicago corridor. The train is 109 miles west of Clinton as they pass thru the small... (more)

The El Segundo Local passes the Catalina Pacific cement plant on its way to drop a long cut of cars at Chevron. The power today was an unusually long six gensets. Maybe the extra paint requires mo... (more)

I am really glad I was turned onto this era that the UP went thru in early 2000's. Helper Utah seemed to be the holding ground for the last life of the Rio Grande tunnel motors. The main attracti... (more)

A dream come true for a Santa Fe fan. Due to a derailment on the Santa Fe trancon route. A Santa Fe train is on rare trackage on the Union Pacific LASL. The second unit in the consist 5960 later i... (more)

The East Industries job passes the searchlights at the LAJ diamond south of Hobart. A couple of the infamous LA-assigned gensets power the crew today.

And they're off! Union Pacific's Yermo, California to North Platte, Nebraska manifest freight waits patiently in North Yard while an Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois (American President Li... (more)