About as far Southeast as these Western locomotives will ever travel, NS train 287 pulls from FEC Bowden Yard. The power will wye at NS Simpson Yard & blockswap before departing on the long trip ... (more)
Eastbound Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8658 is almost to the top of Cima Hill with a mixed manifest after climbing the west slope from Kelso. Westbound stacks hold for the runby on top of the hill.
A cloudy day ends with a beautiful sunset, an eastbound UP stack train makes its journey to Chicago passing through eastern Iowa.
Due to excessive wear on curvature through Grant Tower, the Union Pacific has dropped the maximum track speed from 40 to 30 mph. Here the KG1LA stacker lopes along at 30 mph through Salt Lake City... (more)
ISO Cab SD70ACe 8658 leads an eastbound UP manifest off of the BNSF's Fallbridge Sub crossing of the Willamette river, just north of Portland.
An interesting geological feature in Weber Canyon called 'Devil's Slide' is composed of twin hard, weather-resistant limestone layers about 40 feet high, 25 feet apart, and several hundred feet in... (more)