The Gas local prepares to pickup its empty gas cars at Thompson Falls, MT. MRL 4312 is one of the locomotives to wear the new company paint scheme.
A westbound manifest assaults the 2.2% grade of Hindman Hill. The railroad uses this shallow box canyon to gain elevation for its climb out of the Snake River watershed near Huntington......
SP274 climbs the 3% at Mitchell in a driving rain storm.
A UP coal load assults the 1% grade up Gore Canyon. The Moffat Road ran a survey around this chasm up and over the Gore Range on a long and twisting 2%, the route thru the canyon was more expensiv... (more)
BNSF4717 makes good time with a hot intermodal detour up the 2.2% at Austin, MT...
The last hold out for DRGW Tunnel Motors was Helper, UT. With Tennessee Pass closed, there was perhaps no better setting for these monsters last breath, than the steep 2.4% climb over Solider Summ... (more)
It has been almost 16 years since this photo was taken. Times change fast....
SP296 passes thru Pando, Colorado. Winters are long at these elevations....
CNW8801 drops down the Moffat Road thru Tunnel 29.
Shiny BN9517 screams into the 1% climb of Logan Hill. Note: NO DPU....
BNSF 4881 muscles a grain load up the steep east slope of the Tehachapi Mountains.
A Union Pacific coal drags climbs the 1% ramp into the mouth of Gore Canyon. Arguably one of the most beautiful and inaccessible canyons in Colorado.
SP125 battles Tennessee Pass on a stormy August afternoon 1996.
SP274 approaches the 3% at it roars up the Eagle River Canyon .
SP141 sucks in as much oxygen as it can find at this high altitude near Tennessee Pass. RUN 8 and flanges squealing this train will make the climb.
