A symphony of howling EMD 645’s rings out through rural Buffalo Gap, VA, announcing the mountain local’s arrival as WM 7471 leads the train’s assault on North Mountain Grade.
A four unit consist of F-units headed by Santa Fe F3A 262 and three F7Bs moves No.31 on the grade at Larkspur, Colorado. Only 8.6 miles remain to the Palmer Lake summit, as the diesels are in... (more)
With plenty of cars on this day, the grade profile of this section of track is exemplified well as the tri-weekly Mankato to Aurora train crawls its way west on the Huron Sub.
A Flåmsbana tourist train number 1857 from Myrdal to Flåm decending the steep grade and rounding the horseshoe curve located between Vatnahalsen and Reinunga stations.
The line from Myrdal to... (more)