Today, Colorado’s Minturn yard sits empty, rusty and forlorn. No longer do crews cut in helpers for the arduous climb up the steep 3 percent grades of Tennessee Pass. The sand tower is now gone ... (more)
The collapse of Tunnel 11 on Union Pacific’s Cascade line in Oregon has resulted in some detours through Utah. I set out to find and shoot some of these detours far from their usual haunts. My f... (more)
No trains have passed this way recently! In early March 2014, a 30-foot boulder came crashing down the mountainside above Minturn, Colorado, just west of milepost 301 on this famous Rio... (more)
A nice UP-WP-MP merger lashup is seen on train HCZ at the north end of Texarkana Yard in 1984. The leader, UP603, was built for the Rock Island as CRIP 343 in 1966.
An empty coal train destined the SPRB heads west on the Union Pacific between Valley and Fremont, NE, and there's some C&NW equipment along for the ride, headed to the Wyoming for an inspection tr... (more)