Three former Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 units and an SP tunnel motor run light eastbound after having assisted a westbound col drag from Helper, Utah.

DRGW work train near Helper, Utah.

The brakeman and engineer on a helper locomotive watch the Louisiana World's Fair Daylight pass by in Dunsmuir, California. The T-2 is only four years old. Thanks to the "EL PASO" lettering on t... (more)

Westbound at Kyune, Utah, a Rio Grande mixed freight grinds upgrade toward Soldier Summit.

A solid train of Rio Grande hoppers returns to the coal fields, descending the Price River Canyon east of Kyune, Utah.

Southern Pacific's hot PTLAT climbs Sanders Hill near Dorris, California. The grade above the power was part of a shoofly used while adjacent Tunnel 17 was completed. You can see the rear of thi... (more)

A quite overpowered Rio Grande manifest rolls west along the bluffs just east of Palisade, Colorado.

A Burlington Northern C30-7 splits six Rio Grande EMD’s on a westbound Rio Grande manifest west of Akin, Colorado. The train has just exited the tunnel through Beavertail Mountain.

Eastbound Rio Grande tonnage skirts the Colorado River after piercing Beavertail Mountain west of Akin, Colorado.

A westbound Rio Grande manifest follows the path carved by the Colorado River as it makes track speed at Una, Colorado.

Eastbound coal is making time on the Rio Grande as it glides through New Castle, Colorado.

Solid Rio Grande consists were not common, but still possible to see in mid-2001. Power that had been assigned to Denver-Roper (Salt Lake City) trains in 2000 had now started to appear on the Joi... (more)

On a sunny fall afternoon, SP trains meet in the Oregon Cascades.

TXNW SD40T-2 118 looks west at Bryden, Texas with a string of empty coal gons on may 3, 2019.

The Swan Ranch Railroad operates a number of engines in an industrial area south of Cheyenne Wyoming. Their attractive black and yellow paint schemes are certainly not hard to miss.