Coal empties race back to North Platte, led by two UP AC4400's.

After getting the light to pull down the main at Tolland, UP 5727 slowly pulls west where they'll pick up the conductor on the manifest parked ahead in the siding next to the DPUs and bring him ba... (more)

Racks across Stenner Creek Trestle

More empty autos split the fields of Edna Valley, following closely behind Amtrak 11.

The sun has risen over the bluffs and the light fog is beginning to lift as a UP coal train pushes north through Crescent,Ia

On a nice November 7, 2012, afternoon, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train follows the Colorado River through Red Gorge between Yarmony and Radium, Colorado. Six General Electric locomotives pow... (more)

Hot shot intermodal from Lathrop, CA, to Global 2 Intermodal Yard, IL, has just pass thru the tiny community of Luzuerne in central Iowa. This train is running 2x2 DP.

Hot shot Z-train from Salt Lake City, UT, to Global 1 Intermodal Yard, IL, has just pass thru the tiny community of Luzuerne in central Iowa. The hotter train for the UP have been running with 5 u... (more)

Alot of the UP's East-West mainline thru Iowa is flat and fairly straight since it runs along river valleys/bottoms. One of the exceptions is the trackage between Belle Plaine and Blairstown in ce... (more)

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Union Pacific MRONY freight passes mile 22.6 west of Clay, Colorado, after a nice snowfall on the Front Range on March 10, 2013. The power is about to cross over Blue Mountain Drive, while the rea... (more)

With the throttle notched all the way up, southbound loaded coal drag CNROL9 23 claws its way toward the summit of Logan Hill and out of the Powder River Basin on BNSF's Orin Subdivision with 100+... (more)

The empty Coast Cans work their way up Cuesta Grade between Chorro and Serrano on a breezy February morning. The recent rains have turned the hills green with new grass, a fact that the local cat... (more)

A weather system continues to slowly move in from the west as eastbound coal loads from North Rochelle Mine, WY come into South Morrill, NE after receiving instructions from the yard master.

A loaded coal train crests the grade at Erie. It's hard to imagine this remote looking location is about 10-15 minutes from "The Strip"