Climbing toward Tennessee Pass
Westbound Southern Pacific KCOAF passes Crystal Lakes between Kobe and Malta, Colorado, on the morning of August 2, 1996. Led by EMD SD40M-2 No. 8650 and ... (more)

Playing with a cut of racks under a cloudless sky.

Mt. Mckay shadows CP 5499 and STL&H 5615 as they work with grain hoppers on a very mild Spring afternoon.

An eastbound Southern Pacific freight approaches Mojave, California, after traversing Tehachapi pass the morning of March 6, 1995. Lead locomotive No. 8690 is former Burlington Northern SD45 No. ... (more)

NYSW CL-1 brings the NYS&W road freight south to Binghamton.

HESR Train 702 is heading south past Defoe Park in Bay City shortly after departing from Wenona Yard.

Heavy snowfalls obscure visibility during daily yard work.

These eight lease units spent most of the summer of 2012 in storage on a nearly hidden spur track near Cottage Grove, Minnesota. Heading up the consist is CEFX 3121, which in a former life was So... (more)

A big ol' lashup heads the Wisconsin & Southern's Horicon to Janesville train west on the Waukesha Sub in the small town of Eagle.

One of Huron & Eastern's new toys! SD40M-2 #2661 iddles in front of HESR's Bay City shops.

612, 347, 370

Undefiled SP SD40M-2 8681 leads UP train MBNAS south at Sand Hill Road. This locomotive was rebuilt from N&W SD45 1753 by MK in November 1994.

The new and the old. One of HESR's 2 new SD40M-2's #2661 (rebuilt from an SD45) sits by the shops in Wenona Yard with one of HESR's old C30-7's #5086 (still in Burlington Northern Paint) in the ba... (more)

It’s midday at Arnold, Kansas on the hot summer day of July 25, 1996. The only action is a westbound Southern Pacific freight blowing for the main grade crossing in town. The cinderblock (what w... (more)

CP 276 knocks down the B17 home signal, preparing to enter the "new arrival." A CITX SD45 (technically rebuilt to SD40M-2 standards) leads the way, followed by a CP "Pacman" SD40-2 and a DM&E SD40... (more)