My all-time favorite F unit in its finest form, lights, dynamic brakes, icebreakers and snow plows, reprising its former role, leading the "San Francisco Zephyr".
The hydraulic wings of a spreader work great to push snow far back from the track. With the blades on the nose adjusted to push snow all to one side, Southern Pacific spreader MW 4034 cleans wet s... (more)
The UP has a coal branch that ran south of Grand Junction, CO, out to Hawksnet, CO. The branch is 91 miles long and was built in 1902. The DRGW/SP/UP gained access to a few mines like Bowie and So... (more)
Back in 1999 SP-AC power was still common thing on the coal trains that came off the Moffat route. Here the train is snaking their way towards Denver as they pass the HBD at MP 22 near Blue Mounta... (more)
Southern Pacific GE AC4400CW No. 201 rests on the pass-through track from the turntable as a shop employee walks between the two roundhouse buildings at the locomotive facility of Wisconsin Centra... (more)