Westbound in the morning.

The Blue Streak westbound in the late afternoon.

The engineer widens out the throttle after getting a high green as an eastbound gets into the clear.

Over two years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a northbound intermodal train passes Mount Shasta with a solid set of Espee power.

Entering the Palestine Sub is an EB piggyback train. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

UP 1158, one of the last GP60s still wearing the Cotton Belt paint scheme, rolls through Des Plaines, IL during a light snow shower headed for Proviso with the LJA50 turn.

No stop is required here anymore as a SP stack train heads east by the water tower at Red Rock.

Cotton Belt 9656 and Union Pacific 6302 lead a Swift Roadrailer west through the town of Tehachapi at sunset.

An intermodal train bound for Los Angeles rolls through Northern California on the Shasta Route. Today, you can see lots of trailers here anytime - a massive Wal-Mart distribution center was built... (more)

My great, great uncle Robert F. McKee, Sr., was a design engineer at Baldwin and he would give my father different Baldwin Locomotive Works builder's cards when my father would visit him in Collin... (more)

Cotton Belt 5006 on display at the Arkansas Railroad Museum in Pine Bluff.

A Cotton Belt GP60 leads three tunnel motors as it heads east up Beaumont Hill.

Cotton Belt GP40-2 No. 7254 and Southern Pacific GP40M-2 No. 7124 power a short three-car Malta local that has just departed Malta, Colorado, under a towering 14,421-foot tall Mount Massive, still... (more)

After Union Pacific closed Colorado’s Tennessee Pass as a through route on August 23, 1997, it still operated a one-a-week local from Pueblo to Malta, near Leadville for about eighteen months. O... (more)

Cotton Belt 9630 leads an eastbound manifest through the San Timoteo road crossing as it heads uphill towards Banning.