The UP Gila Sub is the ex-Southern Pacific Sunset Route that runs 255 miles from Yuma, AZ, to Tuscon, AZ. When I found out of a possible signal replacements coming this summer 2017, I made plans t... (more)

Little over a year ago I was out in Arizona cooking to death trying to get some shots of the old ex-SP signal system that was still untouched along the Sunset Route. A westbound Global 4 stacker m... (more)

A crew change is in progress for NS 298 tonight as the nose is nicely illuminated by an outbound NS 185 mixed freight. The engineer on this evening's train is one talented individual as he brough... (more)

NS 18A pulls through Bellevue on "The South Bypass" headed for Route 99 with a NS Dash 9 Bracketed by two UP Motors. Once 18A gets to Route 99 they will shove their train into the A yard... (more)

Eastbound Mixed on Soldier Pass with UP 5341 (AC45CCTE), UP 1616 (SD40N), UP 6106 (SD60M) and UP 1623 (SD40N).

UP #5685 pulls up the "Payne Sag" Between Hotchkiss and Delta.

What should be a run of the mill empty coal train has a block of carload traffic on the head end bound for Bailey Yard in North Platte.

The OSTBA-22, coke empties from the Port of Stockton, CA to Bromela, CA on the Coast Sub, entering the cut through Communications Hill just south of Downtown San Jose. UP 6379, a patched SP AC4400... (more)

CN 529 has two UP units and one NS unit (UP 5888, UP 7265 & NS 1149) as it approaches its terminus of Taschereau Yard in Montreal. At left a long string of baretables are stored on the transfer tr... (more)

Mixed westbound in Palisade Canyon

UP 5727 leads a oil can train into the Big Ten curve leading to the Rocky Mountains. The steep grade will have the train doubling back on the track cut that can be seen in the background.

It is daybreak at Aikins as UP 6045 East climbs the hill.