A UP empty hopper train rolls down Soldier pass with the towering Castle Gate rock guarding the mouth of Price Canyon in the background.

Union Pacific #5787 has just arrived at the Skyline loadout and is now pulling its empty train through the flood loader. It will cut off and run back to the former rear end on an adjacent run-arou... (more)

This Union Pacific empty coal train is just about to enter tiny (population 22) Scofield, Utah. It’s destination is the Skyline loadout about 4 miles or so past Scofield at an elevation of 8000â... (more)

An empty UP hopper train ducks beneath the defunct coaling tower in Nelson, Illinois as it makes it's way west into the low evening sunlight.

In a view between the gas pumps in front of a long-abandoned gas station along the old Lincoln Highway (later, U.S. Highway 30) at James Town, west of Green River, Wyoming, a Union Pacific stack t... (more)

U.S. 30 is quiet, but not the UP: Beyond the gas pumps in front of a long-abandoned gas station along the old Lincoln Highway (later, U.S. Highway 30) at James Town, west of Green River, Wyoming, ... (more)

Heritage hoppers work south into Colorado Springs. These are among my favorite trains on the Joint Line because they're nothing but old, steel Union Pacific, Missouri Pacific, Burlington Northern... (more)

Coming off the loop and about to duck into Tunnel 10

Snow has fallen in the Tehachapi mountains as a southbound QRVWC passes through downtown Tehachapi.

The last rays of sunshine hits a westbound between Monolith and Tehachapi.