Brand new C44ACM #5951 leads westbound symbol IG2LC upgrade near Fingal on UP's Sunset Route.
Union Pacific GE AC4400CW-CTE No. 5951 leads a short UP stack train up Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming, on October 9, 2015.
A pair of GE units - one old, battered, and owned by Union Pacific, the other much newer and owned by BNSF Railway - lead a loaded coal train southbound across the Illinois River near Watts, OK on... (more)
A short westbound Union Pacific stack train makes quick work of the climb up Peru Hill west of Green River, Wyoming, on October 9, 2015.
In December 2015 I partook in a southwestern US roadtrip. Here a westbound manifest soldiers through the never at Julesburg under the original, 1920's-era hooded searchlights. These may look like ... (more)
UP's southbound NIxon coal train was pulling through the "sag" a few miles north of the top of the Palmer Divide at Palmer Lake
CSXT Q377-28 is at MP 105 on the CSX Mount Victory Subdivision. This the first spot to the west of Marion, where the line becomes single track. *Also, as a note - I have heard that this entire lin... (more)
Empty UP powered coal drag
Two trains wait to depart Emery in the early morning hours.