A work train hauls empty flatcars and tank cars that were at Cajon past Silverwood. Eu-Jeep watches from below.
UP's Clinton to Peoria manifest descends the 1% grade of Radnor Hill behind a C40-8 with the "moustashe" version of the wings.
I went to try out my new movie camera and wow...what a surprise! I was greeted by Santa Fe Bluebonnet B40-8 8625, one of only two B40-8's in the Bluebonnet scheme.
With the craggy rocks of Big Creek Gap in the background, G762 coasts silently out of the Cumberland Mountains. A few miles back at north Kilsyth the helper crew unhooked on the fly, sending them ... (more)
About the only move other than coal requiring a shove over the hill is a grain train, as G762 and two other engines smoke away on the grind up the grade. C212 out of Chaska is hard on the rear.
UP 9091 leads a mixed freight into Sterling. Second in the lashup was a patched ex-CNW C41-8, numbered 9087. Also, the first car behind the engines appears to be an Amtrak baggage car.
CSX B40-8 renumbered but still in NYS&W paint.
CSX 7537 is the sole unit on a loaded vehicle train at Tower 55 headed down the Midlothian Sub.
It's a packed house at the Calera yard, today's visitors include (from L to R) M713(Loco 7584), Q577(Loco 7602), Q520(Woodchip hopper), M721(Loco 7903), K988(Loco 5236) and K767(Loco 9003)
SP locomotives congregate late at night at Cape Canaveral, the engine facility at Roseville Yard.
An eastbound APL stack train skirts a slide fence as it hugs the cliff through treacherous Serpentine Canyon.
Close up of the fuel gauge and she is about half full.