43 Local with leased power comes out from under I-15 on it's way back to the UP main

With the heat of the exhaust rising above it. This westbound freight speeds out of Vegas, with the TI and the new Mirage Marque behind it.

UP 5830 a westbound with a train of oil cans and six additional engines sits on the south end of Trop Station waiting to depart. With the Palms and Rio Hotels in the background.

This westbound baretable sits crewless in front of the Rio Hotel in Las Vegas

A UP rail train prepares to back off the Wye and into Arden to be tied down for the night

These westbound freights wait for their engineers with the Union Plaza Hotel lit in the background.

This JB Hunt Stack crosses in to California over the Topock bridge

This pair of dirty sisters get a quick crew change before departing westward to Yermo and Long Beach

UP 4669 dropping off some cars at Valley mini-yard in the Northeast Las Vegas. The Sheep mountains can be seen in the background.

Side view of the damage caused by this driver crossing on a curve

This W/B autorack waits at Moapa for the main to clear from a truck/train accident a little over a mile ahead.

45 Local pulls the wreckage away from UP 5098. Minutes later a skip loader will remove the truck from the tracks and place it on a flat bed. UP 45 will hightail it south to clear one of two siding... (more)

The aftermath of crossing the tracks where there no crossing and almost on a curve. No injuries just a totalled truck and six plus hours of the main line between Yermo Ca. and Salt Lake tied up. ... (more)

UP 5098 a westbound stack collides with a Ford truck at 55 mph at MP 380. This photo was taken minutes after the accident the truck crew is walking up to the scene out of camera view

UP 4168 a westbound mixed freight of some forty plus cars sits crewless at the begining of Wyoming siding with the Stratosphere in the background