Low morning light filters over the horizon at Timpas before the test train sets out for the day. An original ATSF station sign outlives the depot, water tank, and other railroad structures at Timp... (more)

The sunlight has eroded, but the lettering on the EMDX 1212 picks up the remaining light quite well. EMDX 1212 will be back at it tomorrow on Raton Pass.

Blue signal protection is in place to allow the test crew to perform daily maintenance on the test consist.

EMDX units head for La Junta to be turned, while two GE's are left tied down with the BNSF test cars.

The crew of the D TRITRI orchestrates turning the EMDX 1211 and 1212 on the wye at French, NM. Here, the York Canyon Subdivision joins the rest of the BNSF network. In better times the high qualit... (more)

Four leased Oakway SD60s lead a southbound BN coal train out of Pueblo, Colo. at Pueblo Jct. where main lines go four directions. SD60 9057 is entering the southward main track to Trinidad; the... (more)

EMD test set on Santa Fe Trinidad

Traction Testing on the Moffat. EMDX1206 leads west towards the Flatirons rising majestically above the Plains....

Traction Testing on the Moffat. EMDX1206 crawls west up one of the toughest mountain grades on the Continent. Traction tests on these SD70ACE locomotives was well underway...

Electro Motive Divisions F9 462 was on one end of a set of test equipment in Santa Fe's Barstow diesel facility.

During September and October of last year, the Alabama and Tennessee River Railroad was testing 4 EMDX SD70ACe demonstrators. On one luck Saturday trip to Gadsden, I got to see all 4 in decent sun... (more)

Union Pacific is testing Electro-Motive Diesel’s SD70ACes on the Moffat Tunnel Subdivision west of Denver, Colorado. UP’s mobile laboratory car No. UPP 210 is bracketed by EMD demonstrators No... (more)

CSX coal train N290 with EMDX SD70ACe demo units 1209 and 1210 make the last few miles of their southbound trip on the Stilesboro Branch as the sun gets ready to dip beneath the treeline.