As the sun starts to sink behind the Bitteroot Mountains, a Little Joe leads an eastbound upgrade over the St. Joe River at Steel Bridge.

As a hostler moves power around in the engine facility, rebuilt Alco Centuries are busy with switching duties in the yard.

A crew member of E70 West, a Dead Freight, locks one of the cabins at East Portal and prepares to depart for Avery.

Milwaukee Road Little Joe No. E70 leads a 262 train at Drexel eastbound along the St. Regis River.

Mechanical personnel at BN's Interbay Yard take ex-BN E-unit 9947 for a ride on the turntable to prepare for her next Amtrak assignment.

A UP westbound passes old Barstow Yard, where Santa Fe has created deadlines for some U36Cs and SD26s in the distance.

On its maiden eastbound voyage, Santa Fe GP60M No. 100 is on the point of the 2-891 as it meets a westbound manifest at Daggett, CA.

Recently repainted F7A/B 682 and 853 shine in the sun in front of BN's shops in August 1973.

Three westbounds wait for a signal at CP 35 at the east end of Argentine Yard as an eastbound BNSF stack train crosses over to Main Two.

SP helper engineer and conductor make their way off their trailing unit. The BKDOU they're helping has suffered some sort of failure near the head end, and the conductor (closest to us) will walk ... (more)

A westbound BNSF intermodal train heads up the flyover as an eastbound UP coal load comes off the High Line and onto the BNSF transcon.

On a sunny afternoon in March 1975, SP's Valley-Mountain Dispatcher is busy trying to unravel a traffic jam at Bealville on Tehachapi as 8305 West drops downgrade around another manifest in the ho... (more)

BN 5700 East meets a westbound in the hole at Merritt. Note the SDP45 in the westbound's consist.

Ancient boxcab electric E29 waits quietly in front of the Avery depot for her assignment tonight: to help an eastbound freight over St. Paul Pass as swing helper.

WP 703 idles in the late afternoon sun at the WP engine facility.