A pair of EMDs rattle the west switch at Etna, Nevada as they escort a West Elk Mine, Colorado to Long Beach, California coal load through Rainbow Canyon on UP's LA&SL mainline.

This was taken somewhere south of Caliente, likely near Etna on a pleasant spring afternoon.

On a warm summer morning, a colorful eastbound stack train cruises along the Meadow Valley Wash approaching the upper end of Rainbow Canyon between Etna and Caliente on UP's remote Caliente Subdiv... (more)

A nice way to start the morning! After a drive out into the desert south of Elgin to pick up the wheel I ditched the day before when I got two flat tires, I made it back down into Rainbow Canyon j... (more)