A pair of B23-7's lead the daily Denver (Big Lift) to La Junta Intermodal train Southbound toward Palmer Lake on a chilly morning. This service did not last long and now the Intermodal facility is... (more)
Westbound empty coal train passing through Kinsley, Kansas, on the Santa Fe's La Junta Subdivision in late fall 1992. The train's two warbonnet C40-8W locomotives are leading empty hoppers back to... (more)
These were some of the first units which really established GE in the market. For the first time they weren't bad. Not great, but not bad.
Pig train easing down the grade westbound. There was once a yard here and all sorts of infrastructure. I miss all that wonderful infrastructure railroads once had.
Detouring due to a large derailment that blocked the ATSF Transcon Line, ATSF hot intermodal train Q-NYLA heads through Raton, NM behind a quintet of Warbonnets. Scanned from my Kodachrome 25 slid... (more)
Westbound ATSF freight on the 3 % track with two rebuilt SD24, so called SD26
ATSF SD-24 #4529 leads two sister SD-24's westbound with a mixed freight through the ghostly remains of Waldo in mid-October. The weeds have died, and the colors of a New Mexico fall are beginning... (more)
York Canyon to Kaiser Steel unit coal train
La Junta to Barstow train 448 passes the blades protecting the east switch of Model siding. In less than an hour this train will be tackling the grades of the famed Raton Pass.
A train passes on the main line around the yard as a pair of hump units pause.
These rebuilt SD24s were called SD26s by Santa Fe and were being replaced on the hump by rebuilt SD39s. Many of them later went to Guilford.
The airconditioning unit was getting a good workout on this day -- the temperature was well over 100 (F). Is the soil really that red ... or is it the earth glowing?
A quintet of SD24s brings a westbound manifest across Caliente Creek, which is now flowing with springtime run-off.
A heavy York Canyon coal train, with a remote-controlled helper cut in, blasts upgrade at Lugo on Cajon Pass.
