No that's not a mirage.....With the weight of their soda ash train now fully on the uphill grade leaving the barren Searles Valley, which will persist all the way to Searles, the thunderous roar e... (more)
With a nicely matched set of UP-CSX-UP-CSX-UP motors up front an eastbound Union Pacific manifest sails across the North Platte River at Fort Steele, WY. Fort Steele was once the location of a US ... (more)
Two generations of EMD road power team up to bring westbound tonnage over Sherman Hill, emerging from the west portal of Hermosa Tunnel. Road power includes brand new EMD tier-IV SD70AH #3027 and ... (more)
Union Pacific FEF-3 #844 smokes it up as it storms out of Rawlins, WY and towards the crest of the continental divide at Hadsell. 844 is on a special public relations trip which will take the big ... (more)
Onto the next chapter... former Yreka Western 2-8-2 #19, built by Baldwin in 1915, hitches a ride on an eastbound manifest as it is transported from its long time home in Yreka, CA to the Age of S... (more)