A southbound sits in the siding at Sheffield after bucking drifts out of Mason City. Sheffield is the 1st siding out of Mason City on the UP Spineline. This is the ex-Rock Island route from St. Pa... (more)

Down from Tunnel #1 on the Moffat Tunnel Sub is the crossing called Blue Mountain Road. This spot one could stack the mid-train power over top the head end power on most coal trains. This was a ne... (more)

The UP had a coal branch that ran south of Grand Junction, CO, out to Hawksnet, CO. The branch was 91 miles long and was built in 1902. The DRGW/SP/UP used it as a coal branch out to a few mines l... (more)

Along the banks of the Des Moines River, this westbound UP train crosses the 190 feet high and 2,700 feet long Kate Shelly High Bridge after sunset. The train is just out of Boone for the trip to ... (more)

Eastbound coal train just left the Boone Yard. I don't think alot of the CNW SD60's got repainted into this "traditional CNW yellow" paint from the "zito yellow" they were deli... (more)

This era didn't last long enough. Once the UP got the SP and CNW, things got mixed up. Here a northbound Spineline train passes thru Bradford. The train is working between Nevada, IA, and Mason Ci... (more)

A trackage rights UP train races along the BNSF Transcon Main outside of Ethel in northern Missouri. The train is about to pass thru West Ethel, and is about 100 miles from the next crew change at... (more)

The UP had a coal branch that ran south of Grand Junction, CO, out to Hawksnet, CO. The branch was 91 miles long and was built in 1902. The DRGW/SP/UP used it as a coal branch out to a few mines l... (more)

An eastbound coal train comes out of tunnel # 29 near Pinecliff. The Moffat Tunnel Sub thru here was constructed by Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway back in 1904. The train is working down... (more)

A westbound empty coal train has just meet a load train at Cliff Siding on the Moffat Tunnel Sub. Heavy snow is falling in the higher elevations, making for some interesting conditions. Cliff sidi... (more)

A westbound UP empty coal train makes its way west thru central Iowa. The train is passing thru the small community of Chelsea located between Cedar Rapids and Marshalltown on the Clinton Sub. The... (more)

An eastbound UP train out of North Platte is heading east across eastern Nebraska to be interchange with the CNW near Council Bluffs. Silver Creek is located between Columbus and Grand Island.

In 1996 the UP began work to add a second track to this bridge over the Cedar River on the southeast side of Cedar Rapids. This bridge was once a gauntlet bridge, changed to single track CTC in th... (more)

An eastbound bird climbs out of Iowa River Valley east of Belle Plaine. Couple North Western Z-tops power these train still in 1997. UP took over late 1995, so change is on the way to the CNW. The... (more)

Eastbound stack train passes under the classic coaling tower at Nelson on a cloudy-fog filled day.