Union Pacific Long Beach to Denver intermodal ZLBDV-05 is seen rolling through Echo Canyon during a perfectly timed sun hole.
Climbing the grade toward the Altamont Tunnel at Ragan between Leroy and Spring Valley, Wyoming, is Union Pacific Big Boy No. 4014 and Northern No. 844 (along with EMD SD70ACe No. 8937) leading a ... (more)
In the early 1960s, The Rio Grande hired Morrison-Knudsen to build a branchline from Brendel, Utah to a potash mine South of Moab. The 35.77-mile line was completed in 1963. The scenery on the lin... (more)
A westbound Union Pacific manifest freight climbs Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming, on the afternoon of June 25, 2021.
UP 3535 rolls into C&NW's Wood St. Yard off the Rockwell Line that connects the yard to the mainline west of the CNW Chicago Station. This power which will be led West by CNW 6831 will be attached... (more)
The local get out on the main on the Shafter sub, with the standard two SD70M's.
During an era when a seemingly (and sometimes literally) endless parade of coal trains prevailed across the Nebraska plains, UP 9258 with an SD90/43 MAC and an SP AC4400 lead an empty coal set out... (more)
Union Pacific's local from East Los Angeles to Anaheim shoves a box car onto an industrial spur as it nears the end of the line on the Anaheim Branch. UP GP20 476, built as UP 706 in July 1960, i... (more)
UP 6834 leads an early morning eastbound at Fingal on the Yuma Sub.
UP's Northbound Los Angeles to Lathrop intermodal heads downgrade just north of Bealville in the late afternoon.
The Rocky Mountain Railroad Club excursion train is seen with 10 cars near Harriman Wyoming on June 3rd 1967. Otto Perry photo, from my collection.
NS 264 cruising thru Dalton
Starting in 2009 the United States Department of Energy began a project to move the nation's largest pile of uranium tailings located just outside Moab. The tailings are a byproduct of the former ... (more)
