Late in the day, a Cotton Belt Dash 8 leads a westbound UP intermodal train up the grade out of Benson. The train will reach the summit at Mescal.

A UP local heads west back to Yuma after doing some work.

Tom Golden photo.

Cotton Belt Tunnel Motor #9295 rounds Tehachapi Loop.

You could find an old 6300 just about any time but these de-turbo'ed GP-35s were extremely rare.

One of the few still standing, SSW 9642 takes a rest at the former SP Hearne Yard the day before Thanksgiving 2011.

Due to severe midwest river flooding over the spring and summer of 1993, and unprecedented number of detours througout the region became necessary. One of these was SP's train ESDAT, which normall... (more)

a Cotton Belt local waits in the siding at McNeil, AR after working the Louisiana and NorthWestern interchange

St. Louis Southwestern 4-4-2 601 was one of six Class E-1 4-4-2 Atlantics built by Baldwin in 1909. They were distinctive in that they were built with narrow fireboxes, small drivers, and slide va... (more)