The Tunnel Motors were designed to keep units from overheating in tunnels and snowsheds like those on Donner Pass. The tunnel motor design was applied to 245 SP-SSW SD45T-2s and 239 SP-SSW and... (more)
Southern Pacific EMD SD40T-2 No. 8355 waits on a train at the SP’s yard in Mojave, California, on March 6, 1995. The optional extended nose houses radio and electronic equipment used for remote-... (more)
Climbing out of California’s San Joaquin Valley is a Southern Pacific freight with SP SD40T-2 8505, SP SD40 7328, Cotton Belt SD45 8973 and an SD45T-2 providing the muscle to defy gravity and ge... (more)
GE ES43BBi #654 positioning wagons at the CHS terminal in Marialva. EMDs awaiting their service schedule.
RISI arrives in DuBois, where they'll have their first work enroute.
Kicking up snow, RISI is early on its northward trip up the BP Main Line Sub at Stump Creek.
An ex-KCS/SP Tunnel Motor leads RISI around the S-curve at Big Run.
RISI departs the snow cover landscape north of Riker Yard with a train of cars for various yards between here and Buffalo.
RISI heads north at trackspeed out of Mount Jewett behind an ex-KCS Tunnel Motor in moderate snowfall.
After loading at Lady Jane Mine, PSDB departs for Homer City with two ex-KCS/SP Tunnel Motors bracketing SD40-2s.
Back in 1994 DRGW 5404 heads a train climbing the Tennessee Pass as it nears Leadville.
Lancaster & Chester train No. 14 basks in the morning sun at Circle S as they pull empties enroute for Lancaster.
The MNAKC headed eastbound through Independence on their way to Pleasant Hill.
An empty eastbound coal train returns to the mine in Illinois to reload for the Labadie Power Plant in Missouri.
