SP #9313 an SD45T-2 as rear end helper

SP 9177 leads Milwaukee Road 156, MILW 174 and MILW 168 up Cajon Pass. Seeing three Milwaukee Road engines on a single train was rather rare in SoCal.

B&LE 903 pulls empty ore jennies up Proctor Hill after dumping Taconite at the Duluth docks, and back to the Mesabi Iron Range for another trainload.

A rare sight has maroon and orange lashed together in the form of B&LE 906 and DM&IR 215 handling switching duties on CN's Proctor Yard E-Lead. Occasionally a tunnel motor will stand in for the us... (more)

An eastbound train of lumber empties crosses the Shasta Valley on the Siskiyou Line. The lead unit is now in Sacramento as part of the CSRM collection.

B&LE 904 lifts limestone loads out of Missabe Jct. as a taconite load awaits dumping at CN Dock 6 in Duluth. The limestone is bound for the Taconite plants of Minnesota's famed Mesabi Iron Range.

An eastbound Siskiyou Line train rolls through the Shasta Valley. The lead unit is now preserved in Sacramento at the California State Railroad Museum.

A relatively short eastbound Siskiyou Line train nears Hornbrook.

An eastbound train on the Siskiyou Line is descending the grade into the Shasta Valley near Weed. Lead unit SP 6819 is now preserved at the California State Railroad Museum.

A Cotton Belt SD45T-2 shoves a westbound Southern Pacific manifest at Alray, California.

Tunnel motors and standard SD’s team up to bring 94 cars of eastbound Southern Pacific freight over the Palmdale Cutoff at Alray.

Under a dramatic sky, a westbound train off the Siskiyou Line arrives at Black Butte. The train will take the west leg of the wye and head for Dunsmuir on the Shasta Route.

GEXR SD45T-2 3054, GEXR SD40-2 3394 and RLHH SD40-2 3403 hustle a short 36 car train away from the Humber on CN's Halton Sub.

An eastbound train on the Modoc Line arrives at Alturas. There will be no pick up today, so the train will continue on to the crew change at Wendel.

July 2000 finds me watching trains on the UP Spineline in central Iowa. A northbound empty grain train races towards Mason City as they blow past Bradford. The sun and clouds were barely working i... (more)