With a spectacular backdrop of book cliffs, train #187, SP power fronted by a single Rio Grand GP40, speeds down the grade from Vista to the bottom of the hill at Woodside, where it will again cli... (more)

Autoracks from Cincinnati cross the Great Miami before stopping at Valley Junction to pick up a helper for the climb up Guilford Hill.

The crew of the WC 3018 is working on putting their train together, they even have a sign to prove it. This GP40 has been around the block a few times. It started life as Seaboard Coast Line R... (more)

A mixed bag of GE/EMD power leads a 105 car ROGJM through Price Canyon at Lynn. Note the long cut of coil steel from Geneva Works on the head end.

Three unique EMD war birds rumble across the frozen Hoosac at Fisherman's Lane on a cold afternoon with a large(and late) 78 car freight. The crew met a NS/PAS #206 autoracker at Eagle Bridge a... (more)

Back in the 1980s, the Utah County community of Lehi had a small town charm. Rio Grande's Railblazer train #103 is pictured crossing a quiet Main Street on the morning of July 15, 1988. The histor... (more)

Stretch em

Rio Grande's Potash Local, train #644, heads east along Utah's scenic ruby red slickrock cliffs with loads for East Yard in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Rio Grande caboose 01514 follows train #248 through Riverton, Utah on its eastward journey to Pueblo, Colorado.

Downhill running can have its attractions. As the heat bears down and cicadas buzz in the trees, the sound of dynamic brakes echos off the hills, and as the units go past the "electric" sounds ar... (more)

It's September, the leaves are just beginning to show signs of fall, the temperature is moderating, the units are all dead and the place seems like everyone went home for the day, not even a press... (more)

A pair of brightly painted HOG GP40's lead a 16 car stack train over the hogback profile of the former SAL Montgomery line on the way to the inland port in Cordele. As a longtime SAL fan it was gr... (more)

WC 3018 and GTW 6225 hustle back south to the yard, light power.

We're stopped on Chicago/Tacoma train 205 on the westward track while Chicago/St.Paul Sprint train 209 passes on the eastward track. Both trains are between Red Star Yeast and the old gas works cu... (more)