Late on a very hot summer afternoon, an eastbound loaded coal train is in the charge of a half-dozen big GEs working hard up the 1% grade out of Woodside. The massive Book Cliffs loom in the dist... (more)
Utah Railway's IPP, UT to Wildcat, UT coal empty emerges from the Thistle Tunnels eastbound toward the Red Narrows area of Spanish Fork Canyon. It's hard to believe that in 1983, most of the valle... (more)
It's beginning to look like autumn in the Wasatch! A Utah Railway IPP coal empty charges east through Castilla amid a nice smattering of brilliant red oak brush in Spanish Fork Canyon.
A ballast train has been tied down on the former Modoc mainline at Flanigan, as lingering debris clouds from the day's thunderstorms roll east toward the Smoke Creek desert.
The only word I can find to describe this scene is "surreal." Indeed, a bright three-quarter moon lighting up the Cascade Range forest during a blizzard could only be something imagined in one's ... (more)
Having been to Soldier Summit numerous times I had never photographed a train from this location. So after cathing this train at Gilluly it was decided this might be the time to make up for that s... (more)
The ZBRLC is seen in the Soledad Canyon from a vantage point on the "Pacific crest trail".
359-875 is meeting 356-107 at Massive
UP westbound on former SP Cascade Summit slowly works its way toward the top. Minutes ago this scene was a torrential downpour, but as the end of the day drew closer the sun popped beneath the clo... (more)
Yet another 671 tops the Great Divide, partly in BC but mostly in Alberta
Whilst on holiday in Canada, I couldn't resist this magnificent landscape.
A 144 train negotiates the first of the Gilluly Loops as you head east up the western slope of the Wasatch Range.
The rear DPU set of a loaded coal train eases down into Bond, Colorado near Copper Spur.
In another 50 meters, CP 8748 will begin descending on the "South Main" toward Lake Louise, on to Calgary and points east.
The last day of April 2006 finds a colorful westbound doublestack train cruising through the heart of Afton Canyon on UP's Cima Subdivision.
