MRL4312 lifts the Laurel-Missoula Manifest up out of Helena. Grade is not yet 2.2% but soon will be!

UP742 heads up the 2.2% plank on Tehachapi's east slope.

A UP SD9043Mac passes a freshly loaded BN coal train with an SD60M on the point. The grade here is 1% and has been climbing for about a mile a half from Nacco Jct.

A BN Coal train screams up the bottom of Logan Hill. The momentum of this train is dropping quickly and as the last car passes the train will be at a crawl!

BNSF9903 heads south with another load of Wyoming Black Diamonds...

A brand new UP8224 SD9043MAC screams up Walker Hill in Wyoming's Powder River Basin. This was likely the MAC's first trip east from the mines...

Five 'classics' pull Crawford Hill.

UP8509 descends toward tunnel 10.

UP8521 lifts a afternoon manifest into Tunnel 2.

UP8514 lifts an afternoon drag onto Tehachapi Loop.

B&O 6050 leads a westbound out of Sand Patch tunnel. I made this tip in 1992 with my grandpa. Great Memories! I cannot be certain that I or my 'PaPa' took this photo. I was 16 years old and som... (more)

A 6000 HP duo of SD90Macs lifts a lumber laden Manifest up Tehachapi Pass.

It was just another day on Raton Pass. Helpers were cut in at Trinidad and then it was up the 3+% grade to the top.

New Southern Pacific AC4000s scream up Eagle River Canyon with a unit coal train. Some of my favorite rail-fan memories were made on Tennessee Pass.

The building boom of the first few years of the new Millennium is very evident in the consist of this train as it climbs out of Caliente, CA. Classic locations like this are soon to be changed ... (more)