Eastbound helper power heads to Garnet to await it's next westbound customer up Beaumont Hill.
A UP motor helps pull Mercedes-Benz autos across Peachtree Creek.
With nothing else to do around the house, I set out and went over to a little farm road crossing on the Geneva Subdivision and spent the day. After seeing UP 1995 and CNW 8701 together running tow... (more)
With four on the head end and two bring up the rear, this heavy loaded coal train, bound for Long Beach, CA, starts to gain speed after stopping at Dagget before getting the green light to merge o... (more)
UP 5761 crests the top of the hill at La Fox, Illinois, and begins it's run down the eastward slope with a train of loaded Commonwealth Edison (CWEX) hoppers bound for the generating station south... (more)
Dynamics screaming, the smell of brake smoke is what makes Donner Pass. This monstrous grain train descends the hill, rolling through historic Old Colfax at a mere 15MPH. Canon Rebel XS.
Dynamics screaming, the smell of brake smoke is what makes Donner Pass. Watching these monstrous grain trains rounding the curves at a snails pace, UP5781 leads a heavy 18,000 ton grain tra... (more)
A Westbound grain train rumbles upgrade after sunrise. The trees are still frosted over from the previous nights' 10 degree 'heat'. Canon Rebel XS.
Another in the endless parade of eastbound traffic.
A crystal clear morning brings Mt. Baldy into view over a westbound UP manifest at Spadra.
UP5761 and UP4632 help a northbound manifest away from Tunnel 3 at Bealville. 10.05Hrs