Sporting a rare cupola caboose, SP's Colfax Local motors upgrade at Newcastle bound for Colfax.
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.
A combination of SD45s and SD45T-2s help lift 8912 East, a giant fruit block, up the steep grade at Newcastle on No. 1 track.
Three SD45s pound the air with their throb of their 20-cylinder prime movers as they blast out of Newcastle Tunnel and roar up No. 1 track.
Three ex-C&NW Dash 9s power a hot ZOACH through Newcastle on their way to Chicago.
SP 9768 West comes down the original Central Pacific alignment at Newcastle and heads for the now double-track tunnel.
The WP806A leading the Trains Unlinited CA Zephyr Special passes a UP work train occupying the Newcastle high track (right). The train is headed eastward up towards Donner.
Amtrak's westbound San Francisco Zephyr rolls downhill on No. 2 track on the giant fill that leads to Newcastle tunnel.
Ex-SP FP7A 6455 leads Amtrak No. 6, the eastbound San Francisco Zephyr, at Newcastle.
