Grinding it out on the hill. UP 7519 and company work up hill in Erda, Utah.
UP 7519 splits the sun flowers at Lakepoint, Utah. The sun flowers are really out these days.
UP 7519 rounds the curve at Smelter, Utah. Norfolk and Southern 7708 is in the consist.
Using both leading lines and the rule of thirds, extra Atlanta to Memphis I3N crosses over the CSX.
Leaving Las Vegas! A hot Z train snakes through the curve at Apex. This was one of my lucky wins railfanning Vegas. This train seemed to show regularly in the A.M.
Lady Luck! I was heading up 215 after dropping my wife off to her teaching, heard of an eastbound Z leaving Vegas...just as I was crossing the UP on a bridge, the train showed.
Union Pacific's MNPWC (North Platte, NE - West Colton, CA) approaches Droubay Road just west of Erda. Evidence of a recent fire can be seen along the nearby Oquirrh Mountains. The long westbound m... (more)
Union Pacific's MNPWC (North Platte, NE - West Colton, CA) freight grinds slowly through Utah's Tooele Valley approaching Erda. The MNPWC will head into the siding at Warner (Tooele) to meet two e... (more)
Union Pacific's MNPWC climbs the Lynndyl Subdivision grade approaching the passing track at CP C757 East Erda. Meanwhile, an Intermountain Healthcare Life Flight helicopter has just landed in resp... (more)
A brand new GEVO catches the sweet morning light in downtown Villa Rica.