At dusk on a clear day in the Queen City, 8835 North passes 8380 as she switches containers. Note the differences in the ostensibly identical EMDs.
Santa Fe 100 East waits in Knightsen siding for a westbound Amtrak San Joaquin.
Fighting the steep eastbound grade of San Timoteo Canyon, SP 8693 charges under a signal bridge making good time with gobs of black smoke billowing from her exhaust. What was beautiful to railfans... (more)
Milwaukee Road 3030 West passes the big substation at East Portal as it heads toward the long bore that tunnels under the Bitterroots. No. 3030 was later renumbered to 160.
Brand-new T-2 No. 9247 idles in Roseville Yard soon after its arrival from EMD.
A set of four Alligators and a GP30 enter Santa Fe's engine terminal for servicing after hauling a manifest from Barstow.
Right behind the caboose of a Milwaukee Road westbound arriving at Avery comes a railroad speeder. The railroad had speeders follow its freights as a way to put out fires started by sparks from th... (more)
Amtrak train 710 makes a station stop in Merced, CA, under beautiful springtime skies. In the lead are two ex-SP FP7s, one already repainted into Amtrak livery. The train is on the station track, ... (more)
Passengers begin boarding the eastbound Texas Eagle, at Temple, TX. In the distance, a southbound hauling military vehicles waits on the mainline behind NS and UP power.
Late in the afternoon, Little Joe E70 holds the main with a dead freight, waiting for an eastbound symbol to emerge from St. Paul tunnel. Meanwhile, five Milwaukee Road MOW employees with a speede... (more)
As an eastbound manifest arrives at Butte, boxcab No. E45 waits in silence to help it over Pipestone Pass.
From one of Barstow's many rocky hills just after sunrise, we can see down into Barstow Yard as a set of power moves towards its next assignment. In the distance, the Santa Fe's Valley Line bridge... (more)
A string of GP9Bs stored at the UP's Portland Shops in August 1972.
Milwaukee Road E70 East rounds a curve at Drexel, Montana.
Two Alligators await repairs.
