Exiting the Tunnel. A Roger Puta Photograph
A Roger Puta Photograph
A week before Willamette & Pacific took over operations on the Toledo branch, the Toledo Hauler passes the Naval ROTC barracks on the Oregon State University campus.
One of the few areas on the Siskiyou Line where trains could make 40 MPH were the long tangents between Grenada and Gazelle. The caboose of a westman zips through the Shasta Valley.
A Kodachrome SDP45 leads a large Sunday Zephyr west over Donner Pass.
Lots of "stuff" to see in this photo. Three tunnel motors bring a freight through the yard lead by Cotton Belt SD40T-2 8334, followed by SP SD40T-2, 8278 and SP SD45T-2, 9288. Behind 928... (more)
Three new C44-9W and two veteran tunnel motors pull a load westbound coal train down Spanish Fork Canon. The C44-9W's wouldn't last long in these parts. The AC4400CW would soon take over on the Ri... (more)
On Presidents' Day 1993, SP's Toledo Hauler prepares to enter the main line at Albany. In a week, this line would become part of the Willamette & Pacific.
Cotton Belt/SSW 9652 leads a 3 unit SP powered reroute intermodal train on the BN's Staples Sub. Massive flooding of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers during the summer of 1993 resulted in trai... (more)
Amtrak's Sunset Limited rolls into the Arizona sunset on a summer evening in 1988. We were quite pleased to see the SP GE assisting.
A westbound train on the Modoc Line crests the grade up Howard's Gulch at Ambrose. From here to tie-up at Klamath Falls, it is all downhill or level.
