Rare indeed. Only about 18 Cotton Belt GP40-2s left.
An unpatched Cotton Belt GP60 leads Q614 north to Hamlet.
Cotton Belt SD45 8965 ducks under No. 1 track with a heavy westbound boxcar train on its way to Roseville.
SSW 7282 resting with DRGW 3126
Unpatched Cotton Belt 7293 awaits assignment.
A westbound intermodal train, with Cotton Belt GP60 9655 on the point, blasts up the 2.2 percent grade out of Mojave while a furious wind blows its exhaust out onto the Mojave Desert.
Cotton Belt 9628 West, a hot pig train out of Portland headed for Los Angeles, clangs through the Santa Fe diamonds at Stockton Tower.
Cotton Belt 9703 East roars past Cable Crossover as it approaches the town of Tehachapi.
On a beautiful spring day in the Tehachapis in 1991, Cotton Belt 9703 East rounds a curve at Caliente and begins the hard climb to tunnel 2 and Bealville.
Yet-to-be-patched SSW 7293 bathes in the eerie light of Newhall yard.
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