Crossing the expansive Great Salt Lake basin on Union Pacific’s former Southern Pacific main line, an eastbound UP freight approaches Lakeside, Utah, on March 5, 2012.
Ascending Montana Rail Link’s Mullan Pass west of Helena, Montana, is a westbound BNSF Herzog ballast train climbing out of Austin on the morning of June 26, 2020.
Snowy Peak. In a notable contrast of landscapes, the sparse desert of Phelan, California transitions to the snow capped summits of the San Gabriel Mountains as Union Pacific Railroad 8431 (... (more)