ZSALCX slams the east siding switch at Gila Bend running all of track speed into the sunset.

After getting held at Estrella for three eastbounds, ZSALCX is back on the move passing the SP searchlights at Shawmut, AZ just before sunset.

UP 5129, 3880, 5696, & 4641 with an eastbound intermodal train.

There are few dull moments on Union Pacific's historic 'Overland Route' across southern Wyoming. Case in point finds a westbound Union Pacific manifest approaching the Union Switch & Signal search... (more)

Trailers and stacks head west through Afton Canyon right before we got quite a flat tire. Taking two cars was definitely the right decision.

My (the engineers view) sitting behind another train on the continent's longest (4.5 mile) Huey P Long railroad bridge just a few days before Hurricane Katrina. The bridge opened in Dec 1935. The ... (more)