One of the more interesting Rio Grande freights of the 1980s were the bulk forest products trains interchanged with the Southern Pacific at Ogden. Here a well stocked sample of train 146 departs t... (more)

Crossing Tehachapi Creek below the Loop.

I do love Tunnel Motor broadsides.

Tunnel Motor #8506 leads a mixed-freight consist up Beaumont Hill.

Accelerating for the climb to Tehachapi

Tunnel motors still alive and well on the KYLE RR, with a Central Oregon & Pacific SD40T-2 adding a splash of color to the head end of this train that's slowly going down the track, heading west t... (more)

RJC 5409 leads the empty aluminum train south through downtown Frankfort.

A trio of tunnel motors shove a westbound grain train through tunnels 2, 3 and 4 west of Plainview. The rock formations are known as the "flatirons" and are also visible from the community Eldorad... (more)

The sun has yet to shine on this pair of former D&RGW Tunnel motors as they along with a SD40-3 cousin smoke it up eastbound with a string of loaded hoppers full of coke on a early summer morning.

Empties from CSX have just arrived at the sight of the RJ Corman Headquarters for the West Virginia Operations, south of Thurmond. Two CSX GE's have just uncoupled from the consist and are current... (more)

One of my absolute, most-favorite pieces of railroad on earth: the old Salt Lake division of the Espee west of Ogden, across the Great Salt Lake, the western desert, and up and over the Toano rang... (more)

A trio of D&RGW SD40T-2's (5371, 5349, 5390) drift downgrade along the Sunnyside Sub, approaching the mainline connection at Mounds.

Due to maintenance on track 1, SP 8355 West is running on track 2 which usually carries only eastbounds. The head end has just exited Tunnel 23. At this spot, trains normally run on the "left-han... (more)

Rio Grande SD40T-2 5383 fronts a Westbound coal empty as it descends Tennessee Pass into the crew change point of Minturn.

It's lunchtime for the locals at the Spring Glen cafe, on the old highway between Price and Helper, Utah, and judging by the preponderance of pick-up trucks, you won't be eatin' no quiche here! Ad... (more)