A non-clearing eastbound holds up the RoadRailer on a cloudless summer morning in the Butte Valley. Lead unit SP 8626 had been built for Chicago Great Western 30 years earlier.
A two-unit lead helper prepares to couple onto an eastbound freight at Colfax.
A Southern Pacific westbound, behind two U33Cs and two GP9s, meets itself as it rounds the balloon track at West Colton Yard on October 28, 1979. All trains depart eastward, with trains headed we... (more)