A hot eastbound Santa Fe pig train with Fuel Foilers making up nearly its entire length smokes up the Mojave Desert as it roars through the hogbacks at Lavic.
The prairie is green and the sky stretches forever as Santa Fe C30-7 8146 leads an SD40-2 and two SD45s on the Tanscon.
West is east and east is west; west end of siding is direction east, but in ATSF parlance since it's 'away' from Chicago, it's railroad west. Anyway, this was back in the days of Locotrol, so the... (more)
This Santa Fe hot shot piggy back is passing by the Kern Junction Tower heading west up through the San Joaquin Valley.