Southern Pacific SD40T-2 No. 8387 profiles its “snoot” nose on the night of February 28, 1988 at Mojave, California. The SP’s 8300 series featured extended noses for radio control equipment.

A Utah Railway coal empty overtakes an SP ribbon rail train working in Price Canyon at Castle Gate.

An eastbound Rio Grande freight has finished climbing Tennessee Pass on July 9, 1985 and is crossing the open park just south of the former siding location of Keeldar, Colorado. A Southern Pacific... (more)

Southbound B&LE ore train at Keepville, PA, just south of Albion.

A fish-eye view out the cab window of SD40T-2 Tunnel Motor No. 5371 near Mounds, Utah, while westbound with the dirt train over the Sunnyside Branch on October 25, 2007. This was last “real” Rio G... (more)

The southbound "Red Rocket" heads for Memphis Junction with a train of aluminum ingots.

Two RJ Corman tunnel motors spend the night parked by the yard office on the Loup Creek line.

An eastbound coal train led by three Rio Grande Tunnel Motors curves through the stark, lunar-like landscape approaching Floy, Utah, on August 4, 1996. This is a view from a peak in the Bookcliffs... (more)

The shuttle train from Bigler, PA, back to Cherry Tree, PA, heads south out of Clearfield to stage at Cherry Tree tonight for a 8am loading tomorrow. Here the train makes it way down thru the hear... (more)

The shuttle train out of Bigler, PA, heads west in the setting sun, as the train is heading back to Cherry Tree, PA, for staging tonight for a 8am loading time tomorrow. This train has 2 Corman un... (more)

RJ Corman power cuts off a loaded coal train (NS 578) on main 5 in Cresson. The train would be picked up by NS later in the day. Canon EOS 60D

A trio of Rio Grande engines lead an SP SD40R with most of its hood doors open Westbound between the sidings of Princeton and Kobe as it heads toward Tennessee Pass.

A trio of Rio Grande Tunnel Motors lead an assortment of BN engines on an empty coal train approaching Tunnel #1 on the Moffat Tunnel line West of Denver. This train originated near San Antonio, T... (more)

It had to happen sooner or later. The last run of the last "pure" unpatched and un renumbered D&RGW unit on the Union Pacific. Fittingly it was on the Dirt Train local out of Helper, Utah. My frie... (more)