As a Santa Fe intermodal train races west on the main line, the helper set, led by Cotton Belt 9355, slowly heads west down the helper spur. On the middle track is SP 9355, which is starting to p... (more)

Cotton Belt 8376 sits in the helper spur track at Dike.

Cotton Belt 9656 leads UP 6302 and a westbound Swift Roadrailer train through Tehachapi.

SSW GP30 754 original numbers 750-759, they were renumbered to 5000-5009.

A westbound Siskiyou Line train splits the semaphores near MP 600. When SP was remanufacturing its SD45T-2s, their final set up occurred in Eugene. They wouild make a trip or two down the Siskiyo... (more)

On a fine fall morning, a drag of lumber empties heads west on the Modoc Line. The train is descending the grade between Sage Hen and Likely.

Welcome back! After spending some time further south in St. Louis, the patched Cotton Belt GP60 that's served the North/South locals out of Bloomington for years has returned to the area. With the... (more)

Passing the sharp curve passing the depot.

The engineer on Cotton Belt 7654 backs his power towards his train as seen from the Pepper Street overpass.

Cotton Belt leads an eastbound manifest through San Timeteo Canyon.

A couple of months after the service started, an eastbound Swift RoadRailer heading for Portland climbs Calimus Hill.

The 1979 Pacific Railroad Society "Mountain Outin" passenger special, with Amtrak SDP40F 518 and Amtrak 517, is rolling westbound towards Bakersfield through Cable, when suddenly Cotton Belt 9295 ... (more)

Cotton Belt local With a faded Cotton Belt unit leading, a GP35 pair cross a wood trestle near Carrollton, Texas. Today, I suspect that this branch line is either operated by a short li... (more)

Cotton Belt 9630 leads an eastbound manifest train slowly up San Timoteo Canyon at the El Casco crossovers.

Late in the afternoon, Cotton Belt 9298 West departs Roseville Yard at Antelope, CA. The train came over Donner Pass earlier in the afternoon with an SD45 helper coupled on behind its UP "poo... (more)