I decided to try a new shot. Almost didn't happen, had to really open up the camera with the last light of the day.

UP 8834 (SD70AH) runs through Coal Creek Canyon as two mid-helper engines in the background run down the hill in the from Tunnel #1.

UP 8834 (SD70AH) leads an oil can train through the turn at Crescent, Colorado on a sunny and windy day.

A western visitor leads a tank train down The Big Sandy, through the small community of Wagner on the outskirts of Pikeville.

With a freshly rebuilt DC to AC GE leader, the Fort Worth Manifest pulls hard (but slow) through Cabazon as it fights the grade.

The IOANP is just getting up to speed after just departing the Salt Lake Intermodal yard.

UP 6996, 6162, & 5334 west with a short stack train.

Believed to be in the San Antonio area. Looks like may be the old MKT but nothing on the slide.

Union Pacific 5284, 8030, and 8017 come off the Shafter Subdivision with an empty coal train. It was a nice Saturday morning for a change. So I went out looking for something to shot.

Salt Lake Cities North Yards dead line has shuffled around a bit since I last photographed it. It doesn't extend as far north as it once did. It is at least three deep though in places. The dead ... (more)

A line of heavies are getting serviced at the fuel and sand stations while light power works on sorting cars in the massive North Yard in Denver, Colorado.

Union Pacific YPR60B arrives at the Chicago Tribune Freedom Center to perform its switching duties. While it may not look like it yet, changes are indeed coming to the area. The Freedom Center is ... (more)

I miss that tunnel. There must be a corollary to the theory of entropy which states that all the neat stuff goes away to be replaced by the mundane, ordinary and bland. The Seaboard Air Line app... (more)

I'm back for a visit and I get to see these things called double stacks. Boggles my mind that they've been around that long. Back in the two track days. I haven't gotten to railman in the three... (more)

Looks like a complete MP consist has gotten together almost 3 years after that great road disappeared except in paint jobs.