UP 7826 leading the Englewood/Houston, TX to Long Beach, CA stack train past MP1024.37 on the UP Lordsburg Subdivision

UP 7471 leading the Fort Worth, TX to West Colton, CA manifest up the 1.65% grade to Mescal, AZ

UP 6042 leading the Gibson Yard/Proviso, IL to Mira Loma, CA autorack past MP 1025 on the UP Lordsburg Subdivision

UP 8656 leading a Westbound autorack passing MP1025. Second out was CN 5442 a old SD60

A quartet of brand-new SD70Ms crawls up the grade at Mescal with a Z train. This is the locomotives' maiden voyage to the West. The conductor is on the front to watch for trains ahead.

UP 8481 leading Westbound autos up to Mescal (S1023). MP 1024 on the UP Lordsburg Sub

Silent Sentinel from the Past

Many remember the Southern Pacific's steam engines as oil-fired, but as the railroad worked its way east, coal was the fuel of choice. One of the SP's ... (more)

UP 5833 starting to use the "Fast Track" benefits

UP 6346 was a pretty cool suprise from last night

UP 4182 climbing up to the Mescal OS

UP 8454 leading a intermodal train out of the sag in Benson, AZ.

UP 6917 climbing up to Mescal, AZ.

A heavy UP manifest has just crested the grade at Mescal Road, about 30 miles east of Tucson

A nearly new, still clean 8114 at Mescal on UP's Lordsburg Sub, eastbound.

Southern Pacific 8526 heads West past a relic left over from the Steam engine era, the concrete coaling tower at Mescal, AZ.