Hot desert racer
A pair of EMD GP40-2s bracket an older GP40 as power on a hot eastbound Rio Grande piggyback train (probably train No. 100) climbing Thompson Hill, Utah, in July 1984.

Rio Grande train No. 100 races east across the desolate Green River Desert with piggybacks from the SP at Ogden, bound for interchange with the BN at Denver. With 18,000 horsepower, this pig train... (more)