UP 5908 works it’s manifest past Blue Mountain and through the Coal Creek tangents on a delightful bright morning. Fresh heavy snow fell over the previous 2 days and with such little traffic on ... (more)

The IOANP is only a few miles from the summit of Donner Pass as it negotiates the reverse curves carved on a shelf above the South Yuba River west of Soda Springs, CA, on May 23, 2020. This train ... (more)

Three Union Pacific coal trains cross the top of Logan Hill on Wyoming’s Powder River Basin Orin Line north of Bill during the morning hours of June 23, 2018.

It is almost nostalgic to see a coal train these days but just a few years ago they ran in profusion. Here another set of empties heads back to Wyoming.

UP 5744 & 5327 westbound with a manifest.

Another lucky one. Driving just south of Doyle, I found this monster WB grain drag just as the sun came over the Nevada mountains. She was 206 cars long with 3 mid-train helpers 102 cars back and ... (more)

Another lucky one. Driving just south of Doyle, I found this monster WB grain drag just as the sun came over the Nevada mountains. She was 206 cars long with 3 mid-train helpers 102 cars back and ... (more)

UP 5645 & 7814 lead westbound empties.

UP 5559 leads an intermodal train off of the Palmdale cut-off as it approaches West Colton.

A Union Pacific coal load led by No. 6490 is meeting an empty headed west with rear DPU trailed by UP AC4400CW-CTE No. 5850 at Cliff siding at Pinecliffe, Colorado, on February 7, 2003.

Westbound UP train meeting eastbound BNSF Pueblo Junction Pueblo, CO

UP 5921 & 7218 power a westbound empty coal train with a few two bay hoppers behind the power.

A westbound Union Pacific coal empty climbs out of the great plains working upgrade leaving Leyden, Colorado, as the sun rises on January 23, 2005. This location is at mile 14.5 miles west of Denv... (more)

A rock train crosses Buffalo Bayou in downtown Houston. The bridge on the left is the former Katy line that crossed the current UP route at what is formerly known as Tower 108.

Late in the afternoon of July 4, 2019, Mother Nature decided to provide some of her own fireworks over Wyoming’s Powder River Basin. Torrential rain, lots of lightning and some wind sent us into... (more)