As Amtrak's Missouri River Runner train 313 makes its station stop in Kirkwood, an eastbound freight passes by with a freshly repainted GE as DPU shoving hard on the rear.
A VALMY coal train makes it way along the Ex Western Pacific main. Rolling through the salt evaporation ponds on the west end of the Great Salt Lake. The sun is about to set on another day.
It's the day after Thanksgiving and rather than shopping I'm out on Friday morning chasing trains. It 11 degrees as this eastbound manifest nears the town of Bancroft, Idaho.
The fifth train of the morning (a record too probably) ducks under the signal at North De Soto and passes a beautiful memorial for all railroad workers around the country.
Empties from the Jeffery Energy Center head back to the Powder River Basin for another load of coal. The Jeffery trains are very common over Crawford Hill
A UP coal drag comes off the MacArthur Bridge and down the approach before entering the Chester Sub. Canon 350D, 75-300mm.
UP 6794 cruising along with its empty coal train, passes by the Wheaton Metra Station.