With the Herzog ballast cars set up and ready to dump. UP 5707 heads out on the mainline past East Riga. The train will head to Ellis and dump ballast on the mainline and part of the siding before... (more)

With the Carr, Colorado bound oil train tucked away in the siding at Riga, the UP 3852 leads an eastbound MOW flat train into the darkening Kansas sky.

With a Colby, Kansas bound grain train in tow, UP 9667 leans into a curve as it begins its climb up out of the river valley.

UP 1205, an old high cab Kennecott Copper unit is the leading unit on the west end of the Hays local. The crew is switching their train around, so they can head back east to Hays to tie up for the... (more)

UP 7941 leads a 9,000 ton Manifest from Salina, Kansas to Denver, Colorado upgrade past the Riga, Kansas elevator. Riga is one of the cathedrals on the plains, featuring the UP, the elevator, and ... (more)

With 35 cars on the drawbar, UP 2078 flies through Ellsworth, Kansas. The train will work an ethanol plant at Russell before tying up for the night in Hays, the next morning the train will work ba... (more)

Union Pacific 8508 leads a Salina, KS to Denver, CO manifest across a short wooden trestle on the Kansas Pacific line, just west of Yocemento, KS.

Awaiting departure, an eastbound K&O trains sits just west of the Great Bend depot. Meanwhile, the train is strung out under the old AT&SF coaling tower.

With the conductor on the shove, the UP 1205 and 2335 begin to shove back to the rest of their train. After putting their train together the crew will take the train to Hays and tie up for the eve... (more)

That's a wrap folks! After 40 years of service for the Union Pacific Railroad, engineer R.E. Helling stands by his last locomotive, just after climbing off the unit for the last time. Mr. Helling ... (more)

With a grain train off the last remaining section of the Union Pacific Plainville Branch, at Colby, Kansas. UP 6327 leads the loaded train east into the rising sun just east of the old siding loca... (more)

WAMX 1213, sits attached to a string of private cars, as the crew and car owners discuss their final move of the day. The private cars came in just a few hours earlier on the High Iron Travels, So... (more)

Passing a Norfolk Southern double stack train, Amtrak 201 blasts through the tiny town of Camden, Missouri. Camden marks the beginning of paired running with the BNSF and NS. The paired running, r... (more)

Pushing hard on the rear of a westbound manifest, UP 7955 rolls past the unit grain train elevator at Ogallah, Kansas. The train is bound from Salina, Kansas to Denver, Colorado.

UP 6011 snakes downhill off Riga Hill, as it faces 20+ miles of river grade running, before getting back to the hogback terrain of the Sharon Springs Subdivision.