River Freight. A GP60 leads the local back toward Columbia and across the Congaree River. This local, P85, only recently started working this part of Columbia and returns late morning to t... (more)

LPJ05 busts through 2 feet deep snow drifts on the UP Troy Grove Sub.

A pair of GP60's bringing the daily LJA50 local towards Proviso.

The Pasadena Local heads towards Pomona with a couple Santa Fe GP60s at the helm.

It's a 30 year throwback at Kaiser Yard as the Pasadena Local builds their train while passing power off the 6th Kaiser Road Switcher. Not only are all 5 GP60s pictured in their as delivered paint... (more)

Engineer Mr. Neimeyer switches his train into the Earlville grain facility, with a single 3 bay hopper to pick up, before heading further south to Troy Grove.

Rolling south through the Orange Metrolink station, Union Pacific train LOA32 hauls three cars to Santa Ana. Power for this train are UP GP60s 1105 (ex-UP 1950; née-SSW 9648) and 1083 (the forme... (more)

After picks up cars at the UP - NS/CSX diamond in Mt. Vernon, Illinois. Union Pacific 1169 is ready to head south to their next switching assignment. To the left is the NRE Facility.

I See the Bad Moon a-Rising…

A full moon rises in the eastern sky over a pair of Union Pacific GP60s. These four-axle locomotives were built in 1989 as hot power for intermoda... (more)

A lone UP 1142 leads the Oskaloosa job SB across the Des Moines River at Eddyville, IA. The cut of cars are for Cargill, just SW of Eddyville.

It's a quiet Friday in San Diego as yard and road power lay over just south of downtown.

The power for Union Pacific local LOA32 has run around its eleven-car train, and is now shoving the cars into the industrial complex near the end of the UP’s Santa Ana Industrial Lead. Former C... (more)

Two pair do light power sit in waiting at the Union Pacific's North Yard in Denver, Colorado. UP 1144 was built in 1991 for the Southern Pacific. UP 1817 was built in 1972 as an SD40-2 and was r... (more)

A lonely locomotive sits at Guadalupe Yard in the last light of day.

Southern California is, once again, seeing drought conditions thanks to a La Niña condition in the Pacific Ocean. A quick trip to the Post Office became a longer trip home when the signals at th... (more)