After crossing the railroad summit at Norden a westbound Mixed Manifest starts the slide down the Western flank of Donner Pass.

The last of the sunlight glints on the Truckee River in Florinston as a set of cans heads eastbound toward Reno NV.

UP looks its best on its original home turf. Here UP 5846 makes good time heading a manifest freight west from North Platte running straight as an arrow along rows of corn and power poles at signa... (more)

A quartet of Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 “Tunnel Motors” haul Union Pacific MDVRO upgrade out of Clay, Colorado, and are about to cross Blue Mountain Drive grade crossing on the afternoon of Septem... (more)

Power cutoff from a Southbound train(right) at Ellendale is at the site of northbound stalled in snow to pull it back to Ellendale and open the Spine Line. The 8394 is ready to couple to the stu... (more)

UP 9039 rolls downgrade into Tucson, AZ as an extremely rare snow storm hits southern Arizona

An extremely rare opportunity occurred on the morning of February 23rd, snow stuck overnight in Vail, AZ leaving a beautiful snow covered morning. UP 8098 leads a light manifest EB through Pantano

UP 8887, 8983, & 4519 sprint west with a mix of stacks & trailers.

A mixed eastbound about to enter Hermosa tunnel, this loco was wrecked in Oklahoma in Feb. 2009.

As a light snow begins to fall on a grey winter day a monster 190 car manifest drops down Archer Hill and into Cheyenne, seen just east of the OS at Barnett. Southern Pacific Daylight (heritage un... (more)

UP 6596 leads a heavy WB manifest up the grade to Mescal

Back in the day, Salina - which was served by UP, MP, OKKT and ATSF - sometimes seemed like a mini-North Platte. Power from NW, SCL, CS, BN, Milw and other roads was also frequently present at UP... (more)

A westbound drag freight on track 3.

With the mercury sitting just above twenty degrees Fahrenheit and the wind gust feeling like needles poking any exposed skin; all that didn't matter for a few minutes as the sound of dynamic brake... (more)

In 1995 UP was so short of power that they pressed their heritage E8's into regular freight service between Cheyenne and Denver. Usually, a regular loco led, but on this day it was a pure E unit l... (more)