A heavy Wyoming Soda Train ascends the Pritchard Creek Horseshoe. A 2.2% Grade and Curvature test heavy westbound unit trains. This train 2x5x1, Eight massive AC locomotives make a mechanical symp... (more)
A short eastbound Union Pacific freight descends the big horseshoe curve at Prichard Creek near Durkee, Oregon, on the afternoon of January 22, 2013. Three GEs and a SD40-2 are on the point in the... (more)
A westbound Union Pacific freight train climbs through the big horseshoe curve at Prichard Creek near Durkee, Oregon, on the afternoon of January 22, 2013.
UP7490 pulls Hindman hill with a westbound intermodal in tow. The head-end of the train sits on a 1% grade while about half-way back in the photo grades drop off on a mountainous 2.2%.