Is This Where You Wanted the Grain Delivered?

While on a trip to see C&O 614 pull a trip from Pittsburgh to Cumberland, we had some time to look around the Steel City. At McKees Ro... (more)

Viewed from the abandoned Western Maryland bridge over the Baltimore & Ohio main line at Rockwood, Pennsylvania, a Western Maryland SD40 gives an eastbound B&O train a shove toward Sand Patch.

Switching the yard along Front Street in Steelton Pennsylvania, Steelton & Highspire Alco S2 64 goes in search of more materials for Bethlehem Steel’s mill. Catenary poles from Amtrak’s Harris... (more)

Steelton & Highspire Alco S2 68 crosses an entrance to the Bethlehem Steel mill at Steelton, Pennsylvania.

An 86-car eastbound Santa Fe manifest approaches the city limits of Las Vegas, New Mexico, on the Glorietta Subdivision. Looking at Google Earth, this once wide-open shot is now treed in.

Built in the Spanish Mission style, the 1899 AT&SF station in Las Vegas, New Mexico greeted many of the Santa Fe’s long-distance passenger trains. Now, it exists to serve the Southwest Chief<... (more)

Mid train helpers assist a westbound Santa Fe train on the Raton Pass line at Watrous, New Mexico.

Passing a watering hole for the local cattle, three relatively rare SD39’s pull a westbound train at Watrous, New Mexico.

The Castañeda

Anyone familiar with Santa Fe history has undoubtedly heard the term “Harvey House”. Before the introduction of the dining car, passenger trains would stop at �... (more)

When getting into the section of Cajon between Cajon Junction and Summit, we found the area to be quite frustrating. If we set up for a shot on one of the three trackage alignments, trains would o... (more)

During our 1984 trip to Southern California, Santa Fe’s recently-rebuilt GP30’s and GP35’s were a constant presence. Here two GP30’s are assisting a pig train at Cajon Junction.

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.

A half-dozen GP35’s, with a GP30 thrown in for good measure, lead an eastbound Santa Fe auto train up the grade at Cajon, California.

Four Santa Fe six-axles, two EMD’s and two GE’s, ease a westbound manifest down the Grade at Cajon, California.

The Arkansas and Missouri’s Fort Smith Turn eases toward the crossing with the Missouri Pacific in Van Buren Arkansas. MOPAC’s Wagoner Subdivision is in the foreground.