Santa Fe’s hot 199 train roars through Houlihan’s Curve west of Chillicothe, Illinois, on June 20, 1992. Trailing the lead GE Dash 8-40BW in the all-Super Fleet consist is an A-B-A set of EMD GP60s (GP60Ms and a GP60B).
An exclamation attributed to TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson, it is this eponymous expression of which certain images convey man and machine versus nature . . .