Freshly painted "snoot" and a nicely clean partner wheel and freight thru the north central Lone Star State. Photo by Calvin Christman, from my collection.
A westbound UP stack train rolls off the Dragoon Mountains into Benson, AZ. In a few minutes, the train will be climbing the stiff grade toward the summit at Mescal.
One of the last trains over Tennessee Pass is heading north towards Leadville.
One of the last trains to run over Tennessee Pass. A storm is brewing in the mountains. The cloud cover almost reaches the train.
One of the last trains to run over Tennessee Pass.
This was one of the last trains over Tennessee Pass.
Two SD40-2's and a SD45T-2 pull a train westbound up the 1.5% grade to Tennessee Pass. Then it will be all downhill to Minturn, and eventually to Dotsero where it will join the Moffat Line and hea... (more)
In the 1970s, Union Pacific put together some amazing locomotive consists, as evidenced by this eastbound freight photographed near Cajon Pass' Summit: UP SD40-2 3428, UP SD40-2 3166, UP GP30B 71... (more)
