Representing a 'fallen flag', UP patched 1517, still wearing its St. Louis Southwestern "Cotton Belt" markings, sits in the 36th Street Yard in Denver. 1517 was originally built in 1966... (more)

UP's LRQ53S local heads out of Tunnel 5 1/2 north of King City on the Coast Sub. Leading the way is a former St. Louis Southwestern GP60. The LRQ53S crew normally hauls stone from Watsonville Jct.... (more)

Near the old SP siding location of Fingal, now part of UP's double tracked Yuma Sub east to Thermal finds a patched SP unit along with 2 NS as they power train KLBNS.

Taken from the Hwy 111 overpass near Palm Springs, UP 6376 leads this eastbound stack train along the former SP Sunset Route.

A patched SP GE along with 2 NS units power Union Pacific train KLBNS along the Sunset Route east of Cabazon on a stormy morning along the Yuma Sub.

With a bad winter and record setting crude oil traffic, 2014 was an unexpected, but much appreciated year of crazy motive power consists.

With the original SP number 7336 bleeding through, a rebuilt SD40 leads a 14,000 hp consist after a quick crew change at Tilford yard.

UP's Tracy Hauler rumbles over the San Joaquin River on a beautiful Spring afternoon with a former SP coal motor leading the 63-car train.

A Decatur, IL to Pelzer, SC/GRLW ethanol train flies south with a killer leader. I had taken off work for a completely different train that was extremely late... I was pissed until I received a s... (more)

Q299 rushes westbound through Easton, Ohio at milepost BG150 on the CSX New Castle Subdivision with HLCX 6341 at the helm in near perfect Southern Pacific dress. Many crews refer to this signal as... (more)

Q299 rolls westbound through downtown Akron, Ohio behind the power of HLCX 6341, an SD40-2 wearing nearly untouched Southern Pacific speed-lettering paint. It is seen crossing the Voris and South ... (more)

CSX train ID Q299 heads west with a former Southern Pacific on the lead on a warm sunny day in September

KYLE 9347 Leads a ISRR train on the S Curve on the NS main south of Boonville Indiana to take its train to Yankeetown.

A stencil surviving un-patched SP engine lead a cement train to Mingo siding in Denton TX.

A southbound UP mixed freight for KCSM at the Mexican border at Laredo pulls from the siding at Gessner, just south of San Antonio, with a patched ex-SP AC44 leading the way.