These were trying times in the 1980s. The railroads were beginning to recover from the 1970s. Train crews were getting smaller, cabooses were gone, Conrail was turning away loose car traffic in fa... (more)
A westbound is just east of Holbrook...this scene is no longer possible account there is now a locked gate blocking access to this area...and I bet the cantilever signal is now gone as well.
A pair of F45s lead two more EMDs on a westbound intermodal train west of Flagstaff, Arizona, on July 8, 1986. The lead F45 is painted in the ill-fated (SPSF) Southern Pacific Santa Fe “Kodachro... (more)