UP 5582 and EMDX 1602 (Tier 4 SD70ACe Demo) lead an eastbound empty coal train over the Truckee River at Patrick, Nevada on a beautiful late summer morning.

A westbound intermodal sails through the heart of the Mojave's 'Grand Canyon'. There are few places in Southern California that are so desolate and ruggedly beautiful as Afton Canyon!

An end to a quiet two hours trackside is found in UP 5837 leading an eastbound loaded coal train up the hill at Aikins on the Kansas Subdivision just after sunset.

Southbound mixed freight at track speed.

The hot Z-train bound for Oakland, CA, rolls out of Calamus at high rate of speed. The crew is only about 25 miles into their all evening trek across Iowa from the east side to the west side to th... (more)

An eastbound Long Beach, CA, to Dupo Yard. IL, (East St. Louis) stack train pulls into the west end of the siding at Gila Bend. This train will meet a hot ZAILC coming west. Still some sections of... (more)

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, I made plans to go ... (more)

The UP Gila Sub is the ex-Southern Pacific Sunset Route that runs 255 miles from Yuma, AZ, to Tuscon, AZ. UP is slowly getting ready thru PTC upgrades or double tracking projects to replace any re... (more)

An empty bare table train makes good time as they are only a few miles from Yuma. Here the 10 unit consist passes over the siding switch at Fortuna. Fortuna is the 1st siding eastbound outside of ... (more)

A Houston, TX to Kansas City, MO manifest freight heads north on former Missouri Pacific trackage in southeastern Kansas.

Union Pacific’s Potash local approaches some curvy track near Emkay on March 4, 2012. This location is near the entrance to Arches National Park in Utah’s beautiful red rock country.

UP 5530's (AC45CCTE) motor takes a chill pill as it and sister unit, another AC45, traverse the final 8 miles of the CNO&TP 1st district in Erlanger where the train will soon get a longer break to... (more)

With a rural landscape on one side and a busy city landscape on the other, this location on the western suburb of Geneva, IL is a very interesting one. Here we see Union Pacific train MMTPR 01 wit... (more)

UP 6080 is gliding down the West slope as the engineer exchanges waves with myself and Kevin Dorn. The train is crossing the upper cascade bridge at Troy, CA.

UP 5693 brings a sand train past Siding Kay in Caledonia, WI on July 30, 2017. Frac sand has really been a boon to business in Wisconsin and the CN, CP, and UP.