UP GP30 829 leads a “Fast Forty” SD40-2 and a pair of “Centennials” (DDA40X diesels) eastbound across the SP Sunset Route at Colton Tower.
Doubling the hill! (Not all of east Texas is flat.)
The local passenger with 10 coaches, sleepers and diner restarts from Yamenmiao and quickly accelerates to the 80 km/h track speed. This must surely be the last steam-hauled main-line passenger s... (more)
Knowing glances are exchanged between hogger and photographer.
A pair of QJ's on an uphill train is cleared by the lower quadrant semaphores to hold the main through Xiakengzi station; the locals get on with their threshing in somewhat unsanitary conditions!
Grain train detouring on the SP
It had been sunny when this train arrived for a meet several hours earlier!
A pair of Western Maryland SD's blast past the former EL RU tower.
CSX GP-40-2's 6105 and 6318- both still in Chessie colors- bracket D&H GP-39-2 7403.
Headend exiting Tunnel 5 as rear with business cars passes East Switch at Bealville
Ready to leave for Rockland
A trio of U-30C's get their air test and prepare to head east from the joint D&RGW-MP yard at Pueblo. Kodachrome 25. Nikon F.
UP 5031 (8/71, 37284) was retired 27 Feb 1978, scrapped 6/78 at Turner, KS before her 7th birthday. UP GP9B 173B (3/54, 19249) was retired by UP 1/77, but rebuilt at Paducah to ICG GP10 8305.
