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.
Seven 4-axle EMDs haul what look to be foreign autos up the steep grade at Blue Cut.
Shop workers at Burnham lower SP GP60 9743 onto steel horses preparatory to her receiving rebuilt trucks.
A westbound coal train traverses the multiple reverse curves at m.p. 4 of BNSF's Orin Line.
The conductor of a UP wbd reboards his charge after giving a roll-by to an opposing train. His engineer has his lights on and is waiting for a green signal to pull out of the siding at Red Rock, A... (more)
SP 9768 West comes down the original Central Pacific alignment at Newcastle and heads for the now double-track tunnel.
Brand-new SP SD40T-2 No. 8300 leads a westbound manifest at Woodford on Tehachapi Pass.
Rebuilt prime mover in SP SD40T-2 8364 at UP's Burnham Shops in Denver.
The Oil Cans head east toward Ilmon with a rebuilt T-2 in the lead. Not long after this photo was taken, the train stopped, with tank cars directly below the photographer's location. On top of one... (more)
Jake Jacobson, President of the Copper Basin Railway and one of the best-known railroaders in North America, poses on one of his railroad's GP39s at Hayden.
The northbound Northwestern Pacific Daylight rolls off Ridge Hill behind a pair of SD9s and a chop nose GP9.
A fast-moving stack train negotiates the multiple hogbacks between Bellevue and Bowie as it makes its way east.
Late in the afternoon, a workman inspects B-unit No. 7198, as well as the SD40-2s on either side of it, before they return to work on the hump.
At dusk, three UP trains are lined up at the west end of Tucson Yard. SP power is still very much in force, with SP 8128 West departing at right ahead of two stack trains.
Milwaukee Road U28B idles in the BN Portland Roundhouse next to BN Alcos and other locomotives in August 1972.
