Down from Tunnel #1 on the Moffat Tunnel Sub is the crossing called Blue Mountain Road. This spot one could stack the mid-train power over top the head end power on most coal trains. This was a ne... (more)

An extra West Stayton Local passes a Christmas tree farm in Oregon's Willamette Valley. A mechanical refrigerator car is being taken a packing plant in Stayton to spot on speculation of getting a ... (more)

A westbound Modoc Line train passes the distant signal protecting the diamond with BN. These were the only signals on the Modoc between Klamath Falls and Wendel.

With a smoking SD45T-2 in the lead, an SP stack train bursts out of tunnel #5 in the Tehachapi mountains.

The UP had a coal branch that ran south of Grand Junction, CO, out to Hawksnet, CO. The branch was 91 miles long and was built in 1902. The DRGW/SP/UP used it as a coal branch out to a few mines l... (more)

This era didn't last long enough. Once the UP got the SP and CNW, things got mixed up. Here a northbound Spineline train passes thru Bradford. The train is working between Nevada, IA, and Mason Ci... (more)

Once upon a time, trains on the Modoc Line added helpers at Ravendale. By 1988, the water tank standing along the tracks was the only remaining structure from those days.

Rolling along in the shadow of Mt. Shasta, an eastbound Siskiyou Line train crosses the Shasta Valley, heading for Medford.

A Union Pacific coal empty climbs through a snowy Clay, Colorado, on February 10, 2001. Powering the westbound train is a Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW and two UP EMD SD9043MACs.

A westbound Southern Pacific freight works up Tennessee Pass at scenic Keeldar, Colorado, on the afternoon of September 5, 1995. Two brand-new SP GE AC4400CWs—Nos. 340 and 345—power the train ... (more)

A westbound train begins its ascent up Cajon Pass on the Palmdale Cutoff with a pair of SD70Ms leading a tunnel motor.

An eastbound train on the Modoc Line crosses Burlington Northern's former Great Northern trackage.

A trackage rights UP train races along the BNSF Transcon Main outside of Ethel in northern Missouri. The train is about to pass thru West Ethel, and is about 100 miles from the next crew change at... (more)

The westbound Proviso, IL, to Itasca, WI, manifest train passes under the coaling tower at Clyman Junction. The train is working west on the Adams Sub between Milwaukee and Adams. Clyman is the lo... (more)

The UP had a coal branch that ran south of Grand Junction, CO, out to Hawksnet, CO. The branch was 91 miles long and was built in 1902. The DRGW/SP/UP used it as a coal branch out to a few mines l... (more)