A gargantuan light locomotive set of 13 units wait to enter the Moffat Tunnel at East Portal, Colorado, on September 29, 2003. After passage of of an eastbound coal load and venting of the tunnel,... (more)

UP 5683 & 7094 with westbound empties.

With SP patched 6271, 5605 shoves its first rake of loaded hoppers back into the Pulliam Power Plant.

UP 5721, 6384, & 7106 westbound lead 196 platforms with two DPUs cut in at 123. This train usually comes through in the morning so I was surprised to see it at 8 p.m.

Hotshot Z-train from Global 1 in Chicago, IL, bound for Lathrop, CA, passing under the classic coal tower at Nelson. Nelson is located at MP 104 on the Geneva Sub, about 30 miles from the next cre... (more)

A UP trackage rights train is about to duck underneath the signal bridge protecting the interlocking between the CP and NS mainlines at Birmingham. Besides the obvious UP leader at the front, thi... (more)

An eastbound Union Pacific coal train passes through the rugged landscape of Rollins Canyon east of Rollinsville, Colorado, on a sunny March 1, 2009.

The N&W Color Position Lights, or CPL's still stand tall at this location, with some not so friendly looking clouds looming behind. NS Train 51V, an empty grain train, is seen heading north with a... (more)

UP 6052 leads 2 patched SP's under the soon to be retired CNW Searchlights at Rochelle, IL.

The 5960 begins to reverse itself out of track 6 at UP’s North Yard on a snowy day in the Mile High City. The 688 yard job must patiently wait for this and one other switching maneuver before i... (more)

Westbound coal empties round a tight curve past one of many rugged rock formations in Glenwood Canyon, one of many incredible sights along the former DRGW.

Two GE AC4400CW-CTEs slumber the night away at Union Pacific’s former Rio Grande North Yard in Denver, Colorado, on December 22, 2012.

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UP 6000 & 6754 are running wrong main with westbound empties.

After getting a dog-catch crew at Plainview, UP's Energy Mine, Colo., to Adams, Tex., loaded coal train (CEYLH 07) can be seen holding back as the train descends the 2.2% grade in Coal Creek Canyo... (more)