An SD90 acting as DPU brings up the rear of a westbound manifest as it enters Davidson Yard. Overhead is the giant I-30/I-35 "mix-master".

With its red Gyralite warning beacon operating, SP SD45 8828 leads an eastbound out of Newcastle Tunnel on a hot summer morning in the Sierra Nevada Foothills.

The lead CTE on an eastbound UP manifest show signs of engine fire as it passes the rugged environs at Celilo.

A southbound stack train arrives at the intermodal yard as a northbound behind EMD power prepares to depart.

On a rare clear morning in the LA Basin, three SDP40Fs glide downgrade through Devore with train No. 3.

In August 1972, BN E8 No. 9949 rests between assignments on the Seattle-Portland trains. The big E8A is sitting outside the shops at Interbay Yard.

A pair of DPUs help a UP coal empty through Reno Junction under threatening skies.

With the little village of Truckee blanketed in snow and silence, an eastbound SP manifest rumbles through town at dusk.

A quintet of UP U30Cs departs Portola with an eastbound WP manifest headed for Salt Lake.

A short UP westbound intermodal train comes to the top of Steins Hill and approaches the Arizona state line.

EMD and Alco motive power haul a manifest up the steep but short grade between Bena and Sandcut. Once the train reaches the latter point, it'll be all downhill all the way into Bakersfield, where ... (more)

A pair of red and silver FP45s lead a westbound Santa Fe intermodal train past SP helpers stationed at Edison.

As dusk settles over the western edge of the Great Basin, an eastbound UP train lights up the rails and codes lines ahead of it, while the snow on the distant Sierra Nevada still luminesces.

At sunrise, a westbound UP pig train with back-to-back Centennials for power winds its way down No. 3 Track, which has a grade of 3.0 percent.

On a beautiful summer's morning, a westbound BN manifest takes the bridge across Lake Pend Oreille at Sandpoint. On the point are an ex-NP U33C and C&S SD40-2, the former with its distinctive red ... (more)