A Cotton Belt painted GP60 rockets through Gardner. About a half mile north of here, he hit the 62.8 detector doing 60 MPH.

After making a ten car pickup, the North Local heads south for Bloomington Yard.

As a southbound work train sits in the siding, a patched Cotton Belt GP60 highballs down the main, just south of Odell.

A patched SSW (Cotton Belt) leads the way south, on UP's North Local.

a quartet of SSW locomotives lead a train of empty copper concentrate hoppers west toward LA and eventually AZ where they will be loaded with more copper concentrate for export

a solid set of SSW power takes an empty copper concentrate train out of the Kaiser Bulk Facility at the Port of Los Angeles with the fishing fleet in the distance

GP40M-2

Daily run-through train from SP at New Orleans

New GP60 9670 works it way through the El Casco curves.

New Power! You didn't see it often, but there was a short time when there was a lot of shiny paint on the Sunset Route. #9696 is barely a month old. The tall palm trees, orange groves, and East... (more)

Eastbound.

Four brand new SSW GP60s share the fuel rack with three left over Milwaukee switchers patched SOO.

Cotton Belt 9699 leads a short local eastbound toward San Antonio on the ex-SP, now UP, Sunset Route. Finding a Cotton Belt engine in 2010 is always a great find.