UP 5983 leads the UP Bond local south past another set of Rio Grande searchlights. One of the overlooked gems on the UP, the Craig Branch is still littered with searchlights all the way up towards... (more)
The Bond local heads south through Yampa past an intermediate set of Rio Grande searchlights. Fall colors will still holding on surprisingly well.
A few miles south of Yampa, Colorado, a unit coal train from the Energy Mine passes by the 300 ft Finger Rock. Energy is currently the last remaining mine still open on the UP Craig Branch, seein... (more)
Scale is everything... Union Pacific ES44AC No. 5468 races along CO-HWY 131 at 50 MPH with Xcel Energy coal empties from the Public Service Company as it scoots west by the towering Fing... (more)
Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8477 brings up the rear of Public Service of Colorado coal empties as the train races by Finger Rock near Yampa, Colorado along UP's Moffat Tunnel Subdivision/Craig Branc... (more)
Amidst light snow flurries, UP 6527 hustles Westbound on the Craig Branch passing Finger Rock.
A pair of Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW DPUs push an CSUX coal empty past Finger Rock east of Yampa, Colorado, on the afternoon of July 30, 1996. The train will soon pause at the crew change point ... (more)
DRGW 5389 leads a trio of SDs and a load of coal eastbound near Yampa on the Craig branch.
UP 7210 is seen leading a loaded coal train up Toponas Summit - 08/09/2008