Union Pacific tested EMD’s SD90MAC-Hs in 1998 on a rare movement of coal loads going up the 2-percent grade from Denver toward the Moffat Tunnel. About a half a train of loaded coal hoppers, pro... (more)

A Santa Fe freight climbs the Arizona Divide west of Flagstaff, Arizona, on July 8, 1986. Leading the westbound train is a former Amtrak SDP40F, now labeled as a SDF40-2 by the Santa Fe after bein... (more)

a Santa Fe yard crew comes around the connecting track passed Santa Fe Junction tower after making interchange with the MKT near downtown Dallas

The previous train - a D&RGW freight headed for Pueblo on trackage rights - clipped a car at the crossing. This MP train had to wait while police reports were filled-out and the car was removed f... (more)

a westbound UP only lashup of four different unit models heads around the sharp thirty mph curve off the UP onto the Santa Fe at Daggett, CA

After hearing these were not long for the world, I took a day off work and made the pilgrimage. After waiting for what seemed like forever the daily train approached at a leisurely pace and pause... (more)

It is March 20, 1976 and we are at West End, west of Tunnelton, WV at the top of Newburg Grade. It guess the best way to handle this is left to right. On the left is WS Tower, which controlled a... (more)

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority RDC-1 No. 6143 leads a northbound train out of North Station in Boston, Massachusetts, on July 25, 1986. MBTA’s de-engined RDCs were used as coaches an... (more)

A pair of factory fresh GE ES44AHs, working UP's North Platte to West Colton manifest, make a switch move off main 2 at North Yard in Salt Lake City.

Four B&O SD35s begin the descent down Newburg Grade as they pass through West End, over the ridge (or through the tunnel) from Tunnelton, WV, on March 20, 1976. They are enroute to Hardman, where... (more)

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Four 6,000 horsepower Electro-Motive Division SD90MAC-H locomotives, along with EMD’s test car, head up to East Portal, Colorado, for some high-altitude testing on January 30, 1... (more)

Three CNW motors lead 82 cars of dirty dirt through Lake Point at a steady 15 mph on July 26, 1996.

With a UP pilot locomotive on the point, a detouring Santa Fe fruit block heads east on the ex-WP at dusk. The reason for the detour: Tehachapi Pass is closed due to flood damage, and won't reopen... (more)

We are in Rowlesburg, WV on Aug. 17, 1975 and an eastbound coal drag has reached the bottom of Cheat River Grade and is getting a roll on things for the climb up Cranberry. Back in the days of fr... (more)