Z trains from competing railroads "race" towards the LA Basin as BNSF's Z-KCKLAC7-29A passes over UP's ZG4CI-29 at Vaughn,NM on 11/30/12. Peak season is on as both Z trains are filled with christm... (more)

Out of a roster of 40, two UP GE U50C;s bring westbound tonnage into Green River for a crew change.

Union Pacific SD24 411 leads a GP20 and three SD40's westward through Meadow Valley wash near Elgin, Nevada on April 11, 1976. Crew change at Las Vegas is still some 100 miles ahead.

Four E units dash Union Pacific's eastbound 18-car Train No. 10 "City of St. Louis" across the big fork in the road at Menoken, Kansas on July 10, 1966. Just ahead is the next stop at Topeka. No... (more)

Union Pacific hotshot FTX lead by Big Jack 6929 and three SD40-2's blasts eastward through North Powder, OR competing direclty with long haul truckers plying the nation's Interstate Highways. Not... (more)

Westbound departs Green River with 4 WP U30Bs led by a UP SD45

UP 7839 moves a double-stack outfit eastward through the Columbia River gorge in a land of contrasts.

A pair of brand new EMD SD70ACes and an older GEVO lead UP Train KG4LB 26 across the Missouri River on the BNSF Marceline Sub. at Sibley. This is the 1st road trip for these engines after being s... (more)

Eastbound, I think. This a great consist typifying operations at the time. Nice low sun angle and light.

This is Arnold's Loop on Silver Zone Pass in eastern Nevada, built by the Western Pacific Ry. to keep their maximum mainline grade to 1%. The crossing of the pass is in two track levels that rever... (more)

The moon is coming up in the east, while another train works its way up toward the highest point on the Overland Route.

Rumbling downhill, eastbound into Cheyenne, Wyoming, a set of four Western Pacific locomotives handles mixed traffic. In the distance, a UP E8/9-led Amtrak train (see picture http://www.railpictur... (more)

With the Red Rock area of Las Vegas framing the background this westbound stacker, at almost 12,000ft in length passes the signals at MP 317. Lead by a pair of UP's Heritage fleet, 1983 and 1996. ... (more)

Three Heritage units pass the water tower at Dry Lake Nevada on their way west in the desert heat with one of the 12,000 foot monster trains Union Pacific is using on this line. Actual temperature... (more)

The MRVSJ rolls through the shoe-fly just East of Livermore on a windy, warm Spring afternoon.