We're stopped on the westward main at Harwood Ave.just outside of Milwaukee right around dawn in Wauwatos,WI.. The DS had crossed us over at Duplainville to run wrong main to Grand Avenue. The rea... (more)

Santa Fe GE U36C No. 8753 wears a new coat of SPSF Merger paint, also known as “Kodachrome” colors, at the railroad’s locomotive facility at Corwith Yard in Chicago, Illinois, on August 10, 1986.

Santa Fe 8754 West, a hot pig train out of Chicago, passes the east switch of Glen Frazer. A siding that was used infrequently by ATSF in the 1980s and 90s--but used at critical times nonetheless-... (more)

MILW U36C no. 5802 handles a set out and pick up at Milwaukees's yard at Black River Jct. Here the train is using Pacific Coast trackage as a yard lead as it passes by the BN owned tower that prto... (more)

Coming into San Bernardino on Santa Fe's Pasadena line, 8709 roars past the yard on its way to Cajon Pass.

Santa Fe 8703 West waits in the siding at the Loop for a meet with SP's Tehachapi Mountain Local.

Milwaukee Road 5802 handles some switching duties at their Black River yard after descending Snoqualmie Pass into the Puget Sound region. The train will set out cars for Seattle, and pick up any f... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe freight is about to hit the diamonds at Colton, California, on February 19, 1986. This train, led by U36C 8755, is on Santa Fe's Third District, heading to Los Angeles, and i... (more)

Five locomotives, four models, two builders, one railroad ... An eastbound Santa Fe freight is just six miles from the summit of its crossing of the Tehachapi Mountains as it pops out of one of th... (more)

On one of the longer tangents that it will encounter during the climb to Cajon Pass, an eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train rolls through Cajon Junction, California.

Oddballs on Clinchfield's EMD-dominated roster, the U36Cs were disliked enough that a trade with SCL for a like number of SD45s was arranged. I never thought CRR's gray and yellow looked as good ... (more)

Santa Fe manifests meet at Caliente, CA, with the eastbound closer to us.