A Southern Pacific manifest passes Universal Feeds as it heads east out of Colton, California, on a crisp January 1978 day. A quartet of six-motor diesels leads the train this day: SP SD45s 9073... (more)

Improvised helpers on the Hill... As a Southern Pacific eastbound was climbing the Tehachapis on January 20th, 1978, it stalled out at Bealville. So, a westbound descending the hill was s... (more)

On October 23rd, 2000, a Chicago South Shore & South Bend train, comprised of Nippon Sharyo Electric Multiple-Unit cars 44 and 37, makes a stop at the Dune Park station, in Porter, Indiana, on its... (more)

With an SD40-2 / DDA40X / DDA40X / DDA40X / DDA40X / SD40-2 lash-up on the headend, and a cupola caboose on the rear, this piggyback train epitomizes the short, fast, high-priority trains for whic... (more)

Nebraska Kansas Colorado RailNet GP10 #1 (ex-BN GP10 1426, ex-BN GP7 1625, nee-NP 551) & GP30 5003 (ex-NS 558, nee-NW 558) hauls a trainload of grain cars east between Danbury and Lebanon, Nebrask... (more)

Three GP35s and a smokin' GP30 round the curve as they bring a manifest freight to the summit of Cajon Pass on December 27th, 1985. Lead engine 2853 is the former Santa Fe 3353, originally Santa ... (more)

Departing Union Pacific's Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, is an eastbound with a typically ecclectic mix of power: UP C30-7 2440, Milwaukee Road SD40-2s 182 and 165, UP U30Cs 2811 and 2951... (more)

An impressive display of power (an SD40-2, four DDA40Xs and another SD40-2) leads an eastbound Union Pacific train upgrade toward Cajon Pass on December 27th, 1978. This intermodal train has just... (more)

A Union Pacific intermodal train heads east through Palm Springs, California - technically, this is Garnet on the railroad. It is also the location of the Amtrak station, which is the low adobe s... (more)

Power short in the late '70s, the Santa Fe leased some GPs from the Chessie System, as can be seen by the two GP40s trailing ATSF SD40 5004. To avoid numbering confusion, a 9 was placed over the 3... (more)

A trainload of sugar beets holds the siding at Walong, more popularly known at the Tehachapi Loop, on October 22nd, 1972. This unit train is lead by U33C 8689, a pair of SD39s and a U30C.

A quartet of Santa Fe GPs (GP30 3240 with GP35s 3347, 3427 and 3336) and an unidentified F7B (with capped stacks, indicating it is being deadheaded) roll a manifest freight through Gallup, New Mex... (more)

At Tucumcari, New Mexico, midwestern grainger railroad Rock Island interchanged with the Southern Pacific Railroad. Having just swapped power in Tucumcari, this freight is now a Rock Island train... (more)

On April 30th, 2015, BNSF Railway train R-CAL0063-30A is unusual, as it consists of just BNSF ES44C4 8357 - running long-hood forward! - and Santa Fe 4-8-4 3751 being hauled backward from 3751's h... (more)

A set of South Shore bilevel cars head east, arriving at the Hammond station.