The shadows are already getting long at just 2:30 on a warm November day.

UP 9503 West races toward the Willcox Playa under a beautiful sky in the fall of 2002.

A Herzog rock train powers through Lodi at a pretty good clip.

UP stack train on the Lockhart Sub heading toward San Antonio on ex-MKT trackage. Shot on DINA 2007.

A UP stack train traverses the Lockhart Sub, ex-MKT trackage. Shot on DINA 2007.

A UP stack train traverses the Lockhart Sub, ex-MKT trackage. Shot on DINA 2007.

On New Years Day, a long string of power leads an eastbound manifest out of Centennial Yard past the ex-T&P headquarters building.

UP 9501 leads NS train 345 west over CSX trackage at Nickajack Lake.

The ruling grade on the Reedsburg sub is Dane Hill, and it has this UP rock train down on it's knees passing this year's corn harvest.

A UP rock train on the WSOR has just crossed Lake Wisconsin, seen in the background, over recently ballasted track.

UP rock loads roll along Lake Wisconsin on the WSOR as evening shadows encroach.

Southbound autoracks swing around the curve at MP 306.

An eastbound Union Pacific freight heads along the former Western Pacific through the Feather River Canyon.

An odd couple indeed! A tired Warbonnet and an NS unit pulls a SB BNSF freight passed the forlorn Steilacoom Depot on a beautiful Pacific Northwest evening.

Total mix - UP bridge transfer train from Avondale to New Orleans on NOPB tracks, using BNSF Dash-9 still in ATSF livery and two leased Amtrak F40PH's (377,402).