Union Pacific Challenger 3985 runs fast into morning sunlight with a short ferry train at Rock Springs.

Union Pacific Challenger 3985 and baggage car are set to pick up a short ferry train in the morning for Cheyenne. The locomotive was coal-fired at this time.

The engineer snags orders as his Cotton Belt SD45 heads an early morning eastbound freight at Mojave.

An SP Tunnel Motor leads a UP unit and others as an eastbound freight exits tunnel 9 and begins climbing the Tehachapi Loop.

The face of ex-C&O 2-8-4 2716 catches the last sunlight as the locomotives pulls fast with an excursion returning from Toccoa to Atlanta.

A southbound intermodal train behind EMD GP50 7019 passes former C&O 2716 which will return to Chattanooga with an excursion.

Former Chesapeake and Ohio K-4 2-8-4 2716 shows off its Southern identity at Emory Gap, TN. The engine has been turned and serviced while awaiting the special's return from Crossville behind FP7s.... (more)

An L&N GE U30C leads two other units on eastbound coal in the morning at Tucker.

An L&N GP38AC is leading four other units as an eastbound freight pulls over the summit of the grade at Tucker.

Shamrock Coal's Oneida and Western unit train comes out of the woods in Tucker on an eastbound run. The four SD40-2 units are hauling coal to South Carolina on the western of two routes through Kn... (more)

The SILVER METEOR is following a southbound SCL freight at Deleon Springs, FL.

SCL B30-7 is just a year old and leads another GE and an EMD unit on a southbound freight. former C&O 4-8-4 had already passed by with a northbound excursion.

Former C&O J-3 4-8-4 puts on a spectacular display of smoke and steam prior to pulling into Orlando for a northbound excursion. The locomotive ran weeknd trips from Orlando with the Family Lines S... (more)

Former C&O J-3 4-8-4 sits at Ybor City just before returning to Orlando with the Family Lines Safety Express. The big Lima ran trips out of Florida cities that month.

Shamrock Coal's Oneida and Western unit train is westbound with empties from South Carolina at Tucker. It was a real treat to find this train waiting for a meet at the west end of the double track... (more)