Under hazy sunshine, a Santa Fe Parker Local makes its way east past the basalt hills of Siberia.
As NS 9964 North creeps up the yard lead, his conductor throws the switch in front of him and waits to board. On the mainline tracks, another grain empty and a 216 out of Jacksonville, FL, wait to... (more)
Two Milwaukee Road time freights meet in front of the yard office in Avery. Train 261 is about to cut off its Little Joe helper after crossing St. Paul Pass, while a 264 waits to depart eastward.
NdeM's El Tapatio, an overnight sleeper train from Mexico City, meets a freight departing Guadalajara south of the Zona Industrial.
Loram DC2 is part of the ballast-cleaning rig; this is the unit that moves the rig along the right of way. Here it's parked at Queensgate Yard, having worked on the CSX.
This is the emblem that stands atop the beautiful El Paso & Southwestern passenger depot in Tucson. Built in 1913, with the leasing of the railroad to the Southern Pacific in 1924, the depot was t... (more)
Having arrived early this morning, UP's United Way locomotive idles in the yard on the point of an STEK (Stockton, CA to Elko, NV manifest).
Not long before sunset, Copper Basin Railway train symbol OT-1 unloads its train of copper ore at the ASARCO dumper in Hayden.
A fairly new CN GEVO leads a southbound NS freight under the CPLs at Winton Place on its way to Gest Street Yard.
NS GP38-2 No. 5134 idles on the switcher spur as a 264 RoadRailer wisks past it on the mainline.
A variety of locomotives, including many Alcos, get needed attention at the Vancouver Shops.
A WP westbound enters the yard at Charter Way.
In a heavy rain, Amtrak No. 5, the San Francisco Zephyr, makes its way through the curves at Yuba Gab. Note that the track the train is on--which runs around the tunnel--is no longer there.
A westbound Milwaukee Road freight negotiates tight curves with a new SD40-2 in the lead. The square speakers atop the cab are an electronic bell.
A Rio Grande 144 train is about to reach the summit of the Soldier Summit grade.
