UP SD40-2 3265 heads upgrade with an eastbound intermodal train at Blue Cut in Cajon Pass, CA on August 29, 1981.
Santa Fe SD40 5011 (ex-1711) passes the station at Victorville as it heads its manifest eastward on March 6, 1973.
Santa Fe GP35 3335 (ex-1335) leads an eastbound up Cajon Pass at Blue Cut on March 29, 1980. The Chessie GP40 is one of many leased this year by the power short Santa Fe.
Santa Fe SD26 4620 (ex-SD24 4520, nee-920) leads an eastbound toward Summit in Cajon Pass, CA, on October 1, 1979.
UP GP30 829 leads a “Fast Forty” SD40-2 and a pair of “Centennials” (DDA40X diesels) eastbound across the SP Sunset Route at Colton Tower.
Doubling the hill! (Not all of east Texas is flat.)
The local passenger with 10 coaches, sleepers and diner restarts from Yamenmiao and quickly accelerates to the 80 km/h track speed. This must surely be the last steam-hauled main-line passenger s... (more)
Knowing glances are exchanged between hogger and photographer.
A pair of QJ's on an uphill train is cleared by the lower quadrant semaphores to hold the main through Xiakengzi station; the locals get on with their threshing in somewhat unsanitary conditions!
Grain train detouring on the SP
It had been sunny when this train arrived for a meet several hours earlier!
A pair of Western Maryland SD's blast past the former EL RU tower.
CSX GP-40-2's 6105 and 6318- both still in Chessie colors- bracket D&H GP-39-2 7403.
Headend exiting Tunnel 5 as rear with business cars passes East Switch at Bealville
