After pitch hitting for an ailing GE P40DC on Amtrak's California Zephyr, a Cotton Belt GP60 awaits the Roper Yard hostlers, parked at the Rio Grande passenger station in Salt Lake City the mornin... (more)

From this vantage point, you can see how the Type F (top, as indicated by the 'F70DE' lettering cast into it, Type H couplers have an 'H' cast into them) and Type E (bottom) couplers differ extens... (more)

Westbound PC SSW runthough train passing Brinkley depot with Memphis bound SSW intermodal train in distance

The restoration work continues on Cotton Belt 819 inside the Arkansas RR Museum in Pine Bluff. I do not know when the restoration work on this beautiful looking locomotive is scheduled to be comp... (more)

The restoration work continues on Cotton Belt 819 inside the Arkansas RR Museum in Pine Bluff.

As the pair of Cotton Belts hold the siding at the south end of Pontiac, the Texas Eagle flies by on the main.

Passing the big grain elevator in Chenoa, the pair of Cotton Belts have clear sailing for the remaining 25 miles of their trip back to Bloomington.

The pair of GP60's head south out of Pontiac, preparing to take the siding up ahead to allow the southbound Texas Eagle to pass.

Heading south, the classic pair of GP60's highball through Gardner at track speed. The UP patch is starting to wear off, once again revealing 1943's original SSW lettering.

The Union Pacific's North Local rolls across the Kankakee River in Wilmington. A pair of Cotton Belt (SSW) painted GP60's provide the power, creating a very cool scene for 2014!

Cotton Belt 9630 leads a heavy eastbound manifest through the reverse curves in Banning Pass.

A yard transfer from Centennial yard to NEY yard with a seasoned Cotton Belt engine leading.

Union Pacific's LUF51 local enters the Provo Subdivision main while Rio Grande's hot DVROT glides by at Lakota Junction. The track at upper left and upper right once crossed the D&RGW at grade unt... (more)

A pair of Sacramento rebuilt SD45T-2Rs lead the OAMFT east approaching Sutro on July 11, 1990. The SSW 6890 was built the SSW 9277 by EMD in Feb. 1973.

Big time railroading! SP B39-8 #8034 pounds through the super-elevated curves at Hinda while lower-priority Cotton Belt GP60 #9668 waits on the westbound main. 9668 will move back to the eastbound... (more)