After waiting 2 hours in 110 degree heat, the KG1LA stacker led by three Heritage locomotives finally arrive shown here in the Meadow Valley Wash at Rox.
Trailers and stacks head west through Afton Canyon right before we got quite a flat tire. Taking two cars was definitely the right decision.
Four EMD SD70Ms wheel a KG1LT around the sweeping curve at Jungo and up the grade of Antelope Hill. In the background, an eastbound coal train waits patiently in the siding.
I had no idea what I was getting myself into when I started the hike for this shot... I bagged this at the east end of Afton Cyn, along UP's Cima Subdivision. This is BNSF's coal drag enroute to... (more)
Passing over the old Los Angeles Highway, is this fast moving 65mph+ westbound intermodal, bound for California.
This westbound stacker is passing the former right of way and tunnel on the LA&SL.
This eastbound "Q" train, has just left the Vegas valley...with Apex and Arrolime in the background.
Westbound stacker originating in Chicago, Illinois...ending its journey in Southern California
This Vegas area local is returning to its yard at Arden, just south of Las Vegas
East bound manifest.
East bound empty grain at Verdi, west of Reno.
A short manifest works its way west from Caliente, NV passing through the Rainbow Canyon on its way toward Las Vegas along UP's Caliente Subdivision.
UP 1983 on Silver Zone Pass with the train on Arnold's loop in the background
P32BWH's 511 and 507 are assisted by a GP40 as they speed west with train #3, the Southwest Chief, at MP 66.5 at Laguna, NM on ATSF Gallup Subdivision on August 8, 1992.