SP264 exits Tennessee Pass tunnel into glorious Colorado Sunshine! The Pass was closed late summer of 1997.

The days of this Oakway 9024 being front line coal power are dwindling by this date in 1998. However on this day she is still doing what she was built to do..... wheel slip screaming as she assau... (more)

UP 8224 Pulling Walker hill on a cold frozen February morning. Fresh from La Grange the UP8224 will never look better....

UP8016 screams upgrade at Mitchell. This was a rare consist for a Tennessee Pass coal load. It is unlikely many pure UP lash-ups made it over Tennessee Pass on coal loads before the pass closed.... (more)

UP6875 leads a coal load up Albin Hill's 1.25%. This exit for Powder River coal is what I like to think of as UP's Crawford Hill. I am standing a few hundred feet RR North of Albin Tunnel.

SP362 had not been out the paint shop long when she lifted this coal load towards the top of the Rockies. The reverse curves here at Mitchell were one of the toughest portions of the pull to Tenn... (more)

New UP5767 lifts a long Southbound Manifest up the grade at Beallville. The massive train makes a spectacular sight winding around the mountain....

BNSF7766 lifts the "Wine Train" out of the Narrows towards Caliente.....

A very smokey sky barely let thru enough light to shine on the Nose of BNSF8240 as it screams towards the divide with a trainload of coal for Boardman, OR.

I kept kind of poor records on this slide but I believe it is the UP8236 in June of 2002. This coal load is 2x1x2 and is in full run 8 climbing the 1% Grade along the Colorado River. This canyon... (more)

The day draws to a close. MRL 252 gives a helping hand to a westbound Intermodal flood re-route. The location is Austin "Loops", a series of horseshoe curves designed to lift the tracks out from ... (more)

SLRG #18 on a Photo Special pulls the 3% westbound dwarfed by the Sangre de Cristos . A spectacular and remote line!

It is July of 2010 and the Mullan Tunnel project is in full swing. The drainage from the tunnel work is giving the locomotives some "highlighting".... MRL4303 is lifting 1/2 of a manifest out o... (more)

Running parallel along Austin Road, 2 Grinstien SD70Macs make a fine sight. At this point the entire train is not quite all on the 2.2%, but it has still slowed to a grinding screaming crawl.

BNSF6257 mimics the sound of thunder as it spans Greenhorn Viaduct. Greenhorn Creek was the sight of a rich placer gold strike in the late 19th century. Relics of the golden past still linger if... (more)