Long before Rio Grande SD40T-2 #5390 became famous working Union Pacific's 'dirt train' local out of Helper, it was just one of 73 tunnel motors working on the D&RGW. Here it leads Chicago - Oakland train #101 through Provo on a cold but sunny Dec. 26, 1987 afternoon.
An exclamation attributed to TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson, it is this eponymous expression of which certain images convey man and machine versus nature . . .