Looking thru my slides I certainly shot a handful of trains at Mitchell. Here is another coal load climbing the 3% on a Colorado July Morning. Note the new CTRN hoppers.

The first 1/2 of the grade from Minturn to Red Cliff could go head to head with any of the toughest grades in the USA. From Red Cliff west however there is a clear winner, a long twisting high al... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific freight approaches Mojave, California, after traversing Tehachapi pass the morning of March 6, 1995. Lead locomotive No. 8690 is former Burlington Northern SD45 No. ... (more)

A battle worn Tunnel Motor screams up the 3% with a heavy lumber train.

Snow has fallen all the way down to the Dike siding in Devore on Cajon Pass, as SP 8688 sets out the UP 3387 on the main. Later, the train will pull forward and the helper crew will attach the UP... (more)

A SP tunnel motor leads a westbound hotshot upgrade near Granite, CO.

SP396 has cut out its swing help and now heads west downgrade towards Leadville.

eastbound SP hauler near Industry, CA

eastbound SP Costa Mesa Local using Santa Fe trackage rights to access Costa Mesa Branch passing Anaheim Stadium Station

Southern Pacific's ASRVM climbs the 0.48% Cherry Hill grade on UP's Salt Lake Subdivision approaching Kaysville.

A Geneva, UT bound taconite train rolls down the west slope of Tennessee Pass, passing the small town of Red Cliff with a typical pair of former SP AC's in the lead.

Southern Pacific's MOVCC coal empty curves by a brilliant patch of quaking aspen on the Pleasant Valley Sub, bound for the load out at Valley Camp.

Having run out of the EnergyMine with five units on the head end, the trailing three units are cut off into the east of Adams siding to be cut in as "swing" helpers to Toponas Summit. At Phippsbur... (more)

Looking more and more like the Southern Pacific on Tennesee Pass in the fall of 1989 as train #143 descends the 3% west slope of the grade behind three SP locomotives leading 59 cars. A fortuitous... (more)