A hot OACHT roars upgrade through Secret Town on Donner's double track.

At sunset, tunnel motor No. 8242 idles in Cape Canaveral.

A Rio Grande tunnel motor leads an eastbound through Newcastle on No. 2 Track.

The EMD helper of a heavy SP eastbound exits tunnel 9 just as its head around comes around the top of the Loop.

As a line of storms moves through off to the south, engineer and fellow RP contributor Aaron Border pulls an empty grain train out of the west siding in Hamler while his conductor rides the rear o... (more)

Afternoon clouds give way to evening sunshine as engineer and fellow RP contributor Aaron Border pilots the 4072 and 65 empty grain cars north on the former DT&I.

D&RGW DVROM is ready to depart North yard for Roper shortly after sunset, in actuality WE 213 is built up and ready to depart Rook for Brewster with the WE's 2 ex-DRGW tunnel motors. The crew went... (more)

213 is tied down at rook yard with the Rio Grande twins up front.

NO need to explain this one.... but Rio Grande all the way!

On a hot afternoon in the southern San Joaquin Valley, SP 8327 East smokes it up as it attacks the Tehachapi grade. You can see the headlight of a Santa Fe eastbound following in the distance.

Rio Grande Tunnel Motor No. 5401 leads Union Pacific freight MDVRO at Rollins, Colorado, on October 15, 2001. The power included 7 AC4400CWs in both UP and SP varieties and maybe the reason 5401 w... (more)

Sunrise through a Tunnel Motor: A brilliant sunrise filters through the lower intake grills of two Rio Grande SD40T-2s at Mounds, Utah, on the morning of October 8, 2004.

High country blizzard: During a windy and frigid springtime snowstorm, a Rio Grande coal train approaches the Moffat Tunnel at East Portal, Colorado.