GP60M 144 was was placed on the back of Santa Fe's promotional train used to film custom-painted GP60M 146 for Maersk. 144 provided additional braking on the steep grade. 144 was destroyed in a... (more)
Southern Pacific and the SD45 were somewhat synonymous in the late 1960s into the 1980s, as exemplified by SP SD45 8818, Cotton Belt SD45 8919 and SP SD45T-2 9189 climbing southern California's Ca... (more)
Late in the evening on the Palmdale Cutoff just West of the West switch at Canyon, four engines struggle up the grade on this Westbound manifest. SP 7312, D&RGW 3116, SSW/Cotton Belt 9294 and D&RG... (more)