One of only times I got to shoot a Rio Grande SD45. From the time I started take pictures, to the time the Rio Grande went away. The SD45's were stored or made there way to the scrap yards. Here D... (more)

As a Santa Fe westbound rolls downhill with coiled steel near the head end, an SP work train waits to exit the short siding. Up to the early 1980s, both the north and shorter south siding were con... (more)

Rio Grande SD45s 5340 and 5325 sit near the sanding towers in the railroad's facility in Pueblo, Colorado, on August 28th, 1973.

A quartet of second generation EMDs pull a heavy lumber drag through the lower horseshoe curve at Gilluly. Sept. 1974

A Rio Grande manifest glides west through Mapleton while 11,749 ft. Mt. Timpanogos looms large in Utah's Happy Valley.

A westbound Rio Grande manifest emerges from shadowy Spanish Fork Canyon at Gomex. On the point is the last delivery of D&RGW's 26 SD45s, the series acquired new from EMD between January 1967 and ... (more)

Count them: One, Two, Three, Four, FIVE SD45s!!! Here's the only time I ever saw a Rio Grande train with five big SD45s for power. This hotshot westbound is heading through Provo Yard moments befo... (more)

On a rather dismal summer's day in August 1981, 5340 3068 3064 3125, on westbound #83, follows South Boulder Creek between Rollinsville and Tolland on the climb up to the Moffat Tunnel.

Between Dotsero and Range, on the Dotsero Cut-off, an eastbound freight skirts the Colorado River behind 5430 3066 and 3074 in June 1981. This was the photographers first visit to this line and ju... (more)

A set of four Rio Grande SD45's leads a westbound hauler from West Colton on SP rails at Walnut. I recall seeing many DRGW SD45's in Southern California that year, often working in sets.