Denver and Rio Grande Western’s Malta Turn is dropping through Pando, Colorado, on the way down the 3-percent grades of Tennessee Pass on July 9, 1985. The six-car train is led by a pair of EMD ... (more)

CEFX exSP tunnel motor plus four more units including two more exSP tunnel motors a rare GP40X and exSanta Fe 45-2 lead a healthy eighty five car train west toward the UP interchange at Limon, CO.

Rio Grande's Provo Local heads west for Roper Yard through open farm country just outside of Lehi. Ten loads of welded pipe (loaded on bulkhead flats) were retrieved at the Geneva Pipemill in Vine... (more)

Rio Grande's IPSNC coal empty rolls east through Gilluly while a new Volkswagen Corrado G60 awaits departure for Soldier Summit.

Rio Grande's Kansas City auto train No. 179 tops 7440 ft. Soldier Summit on May 20, 1989. Moments earlier, the 179 removed its helper engine (a single SD40T-2 on the point, going backwards) prior ... (more)

The conductor on an eastbound Rock Island freight grabs orders from the operator at Culver Tower in Muscatine where the MILW mainline from Kansas City joined the RI mainline to Davenport.

An eastbound Rock Island freight grabs orders from the operator at Culver Tower in Muscatine where the MILW mainline from Kansas City joined the RI mainline to Davenport.

Before there were centerbeam bulkhead flat cars, lumber was nervously shipped aboard standard 40-ft. flat cars. The loads were always vulnerable to shifting and being set out and delayed to be co... (more)

This sharp looking SW-1 moves a baggage car on a hazy spring day.

On an otherwise cloudy day a sliver of light catches the units on this southbound train about to bang across the Soo Line in South Superior. Milwaukee Road had trackage rights on the BN from Dulut... (more)

A nice orange and black upload on Halloween. I'm sure the scary thing was the mechanical condition these refugees from Lines West were in when they showed up for storage in Minneapolis. This area ... (more)

Climbing the 2.92% grade from the Jordan River trestle, Rio Grande's Midvale Tramp is less than a quarter mile from the mainline connection at the Midvale wye. Today's local has plenty of tonnage ... (more)

Once upon a time, southern California had a massive transit system - the Pacific Electric Railway (along with local trains operated by Santa Fe, Southern Pacific and Union Pacific). But the PE's ... (more)

A westbound manifest at Castle Crag siding

Dirty-faced SD40 3013 leads Clinchfield's southbound train through scenic Nolichucky Gorge hear the Tennessee/North Carolina state line on July 22, 1976. The same stream in N.C. is named the Toe... (more)