EMD 645s and smoke belching tunnels. Exhaust erupts from Tunnel 5 as the mid-train helpers provide 12,000 horsepower to assist the daily "Oil Can" train as it struggles upgrade through ... (more)

The crew on this westbound transfer, hauling cars from the Southern Pacific's Colton Yard to the then-still-fairly-new West Colton Yard, look pretty relaxed as they wait for a Santa Fe westbound t... (more)

SP 9738 leads GTW train 170 onto the single track at Emmons Street, on the north side of Wyandotte, MI. The engineer watches the track ahead as the conductor keeps an eye on his train in the mirro... (more)

On January 9, 1998, Rio Grande GP40 No. 3075 and Cotton Belt GP40-2 No. 7291 power a five-car local of zinc concentrate along the Arkansas River through Browns Canyon, Colorado. For a year-and-a-h... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP60 Nos. 3155 and 3154 power a summer edition of the Rio Grande Ski Train downgrade out of Plainview, Colorado, on the afternoon of August 5, 2000. For a short while anyway, these ... (more)

A pair of Southern Pacific GE AC4400CWs lead an eastbound Union Pacific coal train downgrade and across a wood trestle over Boulder Creek out of Tolland, Colorado. You wouldn’t know it from the ... (more)

No stop is required here anymore as a SP stack train heads east by the water tower at Red Rock.

An eastbound Union Pacific coal load led by GE AC4400CW No. 7086 is in the siding at Rocky, Colorado, while above, UP’s West local traverses Rocky Spur on January 27, 1998. Power for the local i... (more)

SSW 8085 leads a solid GE consist with an eastbound intermodal train on the Burlington Northern past the old Depot in Aurora Illinois, entering the famed triple track racetrack into Chicago.

The Rio Grande Ski Train is threading Tunnel 3 and 4 as it climbs the Colorado’s front range just west of Plainview, Colorado, on January 18, 1998. On the rear are business cars “Kansas”, �... (more)

A westbound manifest, lead by two EMDX lease service SD70M's crosses the Tehachapi Creek at Woodford.

A pair of GP60s, one Southern Pacific and the other a very weathered Cotton Belt, lead Conrail TV-556 through the interlocking at CP7 on the River Line. TV-556 was the train to catch at th... (more)

SP 8266, along with an SD-45 and three more tunnel motors, leads an eastbound doublestack through San Timoteo Canyon near the El Casco Lakes. It looks like the conductor has taped some newspaper ... (more)

On the "Sunset Route".

SP MW 325 is one of five Maintenance of Way Flangers on a westbound manifest train pulling into Roseville yard.