A smoky exit from Tunnel 5 past the west end of Cliff siding. Trailing units are SD40T-2 8570, SD45T-2 9270 and SD40-2M 8585

Eastbound coal rolls through Glenwood Canyon, Colorado.

A Rio Grande tunnel motor and a pair of SD45’s bring eastbound coal through Glenwood Canyon near Allen, Colorado.

Just after sunrise Yadkin Valley Railroad train #1 arrives into the small community of Siloam, NC preparing to make a quick set off of covered hoppers in the pass track before continuing westward ... (more)

A pair of IORY EMD's leads an autorack train past the CPL signals as it departs CSX's Queensgate yard and heads for home rails.

Locomotives:
IORY 4070 SD40T-2
HLCX 7014 SD40-2

Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5371 leaves the desert in a blur west of Mounds, Utah, as Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” local hurries back home to Helper on February 9, 2006.

In more recent years, Helper could still be a busy place on occasion, such as in this view on October 23, 2007. A BNSF freight marches west on Main 2, while Union Pacific’s MNYPV manifest freigh... (more)

Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” passes through a gap in the rocky cliffs that is also shared with the Price River called Wellington Canyon just east of Wash, Utah, on June 23, 2004. The w... (more)

Storm clouds are gathering as a coal train, led by a quartet of tunnel motors, approaches Palmer Lake, Co.

An RJ Corman Tunnel Motor leads a loaded coal train down the siding at Keating, pushing overgrown tree branches out of the way as it slowly comes down the grade.

Locomotives:
RJC 8336 SD... (more)

Corman's empty aluminum train heads east for home rails as it kicks up a powdery snow.

Rio Grande SD40T-2 No. 5371 is the last D&RGW locomotive left on the Union Pacific roster in original paint and numbers when photograph at Helper, Utah, on November 7, 2007. Machinist Tony Bueno i... (more)

Passing weathered hoodoos standing tall out of the desert floor at Mounds, Utah, is Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” approaching the junction with the Green River Subdivision main line at ... (more)

Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5371 flies over Bridge 607.28 east of Wash, Utah, as it leads the “dirt train” out through the desert to the junction with the Sunnyside Branch at Mounds on October ... (more)