SP 8266, along with an SD-45 and three more tunnel motors, leads an eastbound doublestack through San Timoteo Canyon near the El Casco Lakes. It looks like the conductor has taped some newspaper ... (more)

During an incredibly windy, frigid and hostile springtime snowstorm in April 1984, a Rio Grande coal train led by EMD SD40T-2 No. 5349, is about to enter the 6.21-mile Moffat Tunnel departing East... (more)

Lancaster & Chester train 14 pulls cars out of Circle S before they continue on to Lancaster

One of the trains detoured on the Modoc Line due to flood damage in the Sacramento River Canyon descends the grade between Sage Hen and Likely, California. In less than six months, this trackage w... (more)

Even in Utah desert country, the Price River brings autumn colors to the short canyon between Mounds and Wash on the afternoon of October 6, 2004. Curving through the scene is a trio of Rio Grande... (more)

An eastbound Rio Grande freight departs Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on July 6, 1987. A pair of EMD SD40T-2s bracket a newer EMD SD50 for power on the train that is paralleling a nearly empty I-70 ... (more)

Union Pacific’s LJP45 dirt train local rolls westward from the rotor at East carbon Development Corporation (ECDC) landfill at East Carbon, Utah, on April 7, 2005. The local is led by Rio Grande... (more)

A trio of Rio Grande SD40T-2s pull the LJP45 dirt train local toward a mainline connection with the Green River Subdivision and a westbound trip home to Helper at Mounds, Utah, on the afternoon of... (more)

Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5401 aims its nose west in the afternoon sun at the Colorado Railroad Museum at Golden on October 20, 2022. The Tunnel Motor still retains its former Rio Grande Aspen go... (more)

NECR 608 sits in Willimantic with 3317 before heading south to New London.

A quartet of Rio Grande Tunnel Motors bask in the lights of the fuel track at Union Pacific’s Helper Yard locomotive facility on the eve of July 26, 2002.

NECR tunnel motor 3317 leads train 608 south through Tolland on their way to Willimantic.

NECR tunnel motor 3317 leads train 608 south through St. Edwards cemetery in Stafford Springs on their way to Willimantic.

IORY 4071 departs Sidney in the early morning.

As exhaust rises into the illumination of a light tower, Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5371 rests next to the venerable sand tower at Helper, Utah, on the night of October 23, 2007. By this autumnal ... (more)