Waiting for duty, a trio of Rio Grande SD40T-2 Tunnel Motors bask in the summer sun in the engine facility at Helper, Utah, on August 7, 1996.

It’s a mostly cloudy early afternoon in the desert country of Utah on February 4, 2003. A a fortuitous sliver of sun illuminates a quartet of Rio Grande Tunnel Motors on Union Pacific’s LJP45 ... (more)

An MNA freight rolls into Carthage with an ex DRGW SD40T-2 leader

Shot from the lower portion of Swarthout Canyon Rd. Cajon Pass, SP 9218 leads a coal train east, on the Palmdale/Colton Cutoff, Fall 1991

By February 2006, Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5371 was the last Denver & Rio Grande Western locomotive on the Union Pacific system in its original unpatched paint and road number. Slumbering next t... (more)

Byron Helpers return north to Fond Du Lac after shoving a train up the hill.

After delivering limestone loads up to the Minorca mine near Virginia, MN, a trio of BLE leads the cars back down to Proctor, MN passing through Iron Jct. on the way.

If a railroad knew something about operating a railroad through the mountains, not around them, it was certainly the Rio Grande. On a railroad riddled with grades and tunnels, it took a page from ... (more)

Two Bessemer tunnel motors bring a loaded T-bird through Iron Junction in the snow.

A Norfolk Southern crew delivers the first six axle power for the Lancaster and Chester in May of 2016.

Originally Southern Pacific 8257 (built 5/1980) future LC 6002 then became Union ... (more)

A trio of BLE orange hustle 48 loads of limestone north along the CN Missabe sub heading for the Minorca mine near Virginia, MN.

Management said they want to send the EMD's on the Iron Range out with a bang and I'd say they're doing a great job. It had been over five years since the last time a trio of orange T's were toget... (more)

SP 8552 leads a hot intermodal west through the town of Tehachapi a few days after Thanksgiving.

The clouds and fog briefly open up for the Proctor arrival of U713 pellet loads from Minntac.

An empty T-Bird shuttle train waits outside the Fairlane Taconite Plant in Forbes, Minnesota with a Bessemer tunnel motor on the point. Once the recrew arrives, the train will depart for the T-Bir... (more)