On Thanksgiving weekend, a UP trackage rights Intermodal Z from City of Industry, CA to Global IV Joliet storms past Galesburg's Peck Park.

Union Pacific's KG1LA (Global 1, IL - Los Angeles, CA) glides west by the natural gas fired Gadsby Power Plant just west of downtown Salt Lake City. The track at far left is the Salt Lake Garfield... (more)

There is a 30 year age difference between UP 7709 (ES44AC built in 2005) and UPY 1329 (MP15DC built in 1975).

A very colorful NS 226 passes another KCS hand-off train in that of freight train NS 339. From this perspective on the 24th Street bridge, one can capture the entire Birmingham skyline.

East, Sleep, Trains. Life on the farm at Echo. I'm envious . . .

Here's a manifest that proves the refer and the box car continue to serve in contemporary railroading. Union Pacific's Fresno, CA to North Platte, NE perishables Q train doesn't seem to garner muc... (more)

UP 7709 emerges from the west portal of Tunnel 9 with the MWCFR 25, as its train passes over top of the power on the world famous Tehachapi Loop.

A Los Angeles bound stack train enters the yard off the Alhambra Subdivion while a second manifest train heads out-of-town using the Palmdale Cutoff north towards Bakersfield.

Westbound doublestacks off the Yumb Sub enter West Coltom on the relatively new bypass track at Pepper Ave. while the head end of a northbound manifest can be seen in the distance on the Palmdale ... (more)

Normally a consist like this would be a cause of excitement but it was a letdown to see that it was UP power not the TFM power on 220 that we had been waiting for, which never showed up.

This is the "Brooklyn Yard (Portland) to Los Angeles (LATC Yard)" hotshot with mostly piggyback and COFC (containers on flat cars). "The Brooklyn" (as it's known) waits at Main Street in downtown ... (more)

The Brooklyn waits at Main Street in downtown Los Angeles for clearance into the Los Angeles Transportation Center. It's lead unit is a very clean ES44AC. Union Pacific calls these units C45AC-CT... (more)