Drifting downgrade with a minimum set of train line air and the curvature of the track doing the rest, MRL's Missoula to Laurel freight descends Mullen Pass in the wonderful Rocky Mountains on a f... (more)

Southbound SP coal train climbing into Castle Rock

A northbound B&P freight waits for a crew near their depot at Salamanca, NY.

Westbound A&C train 708 near Rice

An SP freight rolls eastbound through Davis, CA at milepost 78 on Pearl Harbor Day 1985. The consist led by SD45R no. 7502 included an SW1500, GP9, SD40 and two more SD45s. This train was headed t... (more)

SD45R 7492 leads the loaded "oil cans" just south of Mojave at Fleta.

The deep rumble and roar of 20 cylinder EMD prime movers echo off the canyon walls as the OANSF climbs a 3% grade from Pando to Tennessee Pass on Sept. 27, 1996.

Sixteen days before the Union Pacific-Southern Pacific merger, a rare 'Kodachrome' painted SD45R from the failed Southern Pacific-Santa Fe merger leads SP's KCBAT through Murray, Utah on Aug. 25, ... (more)

Looking a little worse for wear in faded 'Kodachrome' paint, SP SD45R No. 7558 leads a Chicago to Roper manifest through Riverton on August 12, 1996.

A battered SD45R has just led a manifest freight over Soldier Summit and into Helper, Utah. Trailing the Kodachrome-painted SP diesel is a unit from the recently merged Rio Grande and another SP u... (more)

With classic SP six axle power in the lead, a Roseville to Alton & Southern (St. Louis) manifest glides down Cherry Hill on UP's Salt Lake Subdivision on May 29, 1994.

The Day Gas rolls east out alongside the Flathead River just east of Paradise.

A&C westbound train 708 was approaching Cadiz, CA, where it will cut away from the train, head around the wye to turn it's power, during which BNSF's Cadiz turn out of Barstow, which has cut away ... (more)