The weather the past week has had mornings filled with fog making the Iowa landscape fairly frosty. I don't normally do great with hoarfrost. This morning I was out and heard an eastbound CN ethan... (more)

The UP assembled an eclectic mix of power to pull a long line of heavy gondolas carrying scrap metal from Denver towards Colorado Springs. Included were UP 6048 (AC4400CW-CTE), UP 8386 (SD70ACe),... (more)

Tracks over Logan Hill in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin are busy on the afternoon of June 23, 2018, as three Union Pacific coal trains cross this hill on the Orin Line north of Bill.

204 with a UP leader splits the old southern signals at Bessemer city. These signals sure do look good for their age.

212 rolls along past the snow covered Lowell, NC. The snow is still hanging around form the winter storm that blew through the area only a couple days before.

The classic shot at Lime, OR with the old cement plant is no more. Baker County demolished the remains of the plant this year.

Eastbound train between Lime and Huntington.

NS 393 heads towards New Orleans. Here they are passing the old fish hatchery and the airport in the background.

Seven UP engines, lead by 6048 (AC44CWCTE), muscle a long load of scrap iron gondolas up Monument Hill to Palmer Lake, Colorado.

A northbound Union Pacific coal empty heads for reloading in Powder River Basin just south of Bill, Wyoming, on July 3, 2016.

A westbound Union Pacific coal empty follows South Boulder Creek as it approaches Tolland, Colorado, on the late summer day of September 15, 2018.

Two Union Pacific helper units help shove a BNSF coal train up Logan Hill as they pass through Converse Junction, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 22, 2018. Two other coal trains wait to load at ... (more)

UP 5942 is the DPU on a westbound empty coal train rolling through Odessa not long before sunset. An easttbound freight waits its turn to use the crossovers.

Minutes after departing Rossville Intermodal Facility, UP 5855 charges eastbound through the small town of Rossville, TN on the Norfolk Southern Memphis Subdivision.

Threading the Humboldt River in remote Palisade Canyon eastbound grain empties ride former Western Pacific iron en route to a crew change in Elko, Nevada. Coming in second place to lay rail throug... (more)