With their work completed at Potash, UT, the local is just entering the massive cut at mile 31 and about to head into Bootlegger Canyon.

The desolate silence is temporarily interupted by the whine of dynamic brakes, as three EMDs bring a cut of empty covered hoppers back from the Union Pacific interchange at Searles. The geologic ... (more)

Windmills dot the rolling brown hills of Altamont Pass, and six times a day a white, purple, and blue passenger train breaks up the Mars-like scene. ACE 08 runs away from the windmills, that provi... (more)

Trailing DPU brings up the rear of this 504 axle manifest, as it winds its way through the area south of Las Vegas known as Bard.

This eastbound manifest is slowly moving around Sloan mountain. Used for many decades for local aggregate construction.

Entering the lower reaches of Rainbow Canyon, an eastbound KLAG1 negotiates the curves above Leith, just east of daylighted tunnel 3.

Westbound stacker rounding the curve at Sloan.

Having just finished the 1% climb out of the Smoke Creek Desert, a westbound stack train winds its way down from Sand Pass towards California.

Although UP had assumed operations of the Rio Grande for more than a few years it was still fairly common to catch the manifest trains with Rio Grande power. Rio Grande SD40T-2 5360 looks good wit... (more)

Late on a very hot summer afternoon, an eastbound loaded coal train is in the charge of a half-dozen big GEs working hard up the 1% grade out of Woodside. The massive Book Cliffs loom in the dist... (more)

UP on Mars! Mars must be working with new windpower technology, and transporting iPods and TV's across the planet! Actually, a lone GEVO rolls East through the dry hillsides of Altamont Pas... (more)

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