A Roger Puta Photograph

A rare SP GP40P-2 sits awaiting its next assignment in Bloomington, IL

It’s not every day that you see a one car train with three units for power in Utah coal country. It’s even more unusual when the train has a 4 axle GP40P-2 leading. There were only 3 of this m... (more)

Crawling along at 10 MPH, the hauler wends its way up the Yaquina River Valley beside HWY 180, AKA Nashville Road at this point. The former SP route leads up and over the Coast Range Mountains of... (more)

The 3001 is working its hauler through some thickly forested country, up and over the Coast Range Mountains of western Oregon. It is nearly twenty miles into a 7+ hour, 74.7 mile long trek bound ... (more)

The Toledo Hauler is just about finished with it's journey from Toledo to Albany, as it rolls through the campus of the Oregon State University in Corvallis. The regular appearance of this train... (more)

About one half hour after having departed Toledo the Hauler is nearing the Yaquina River Valley community of Elk City. It is about eight miles into a 7+ hour, 74.7 mile long trek over the Coast R... (more)

Chasing the Toledo Hauler... From inside the historic covered bridge at Chitwood, OR. Click Here for a shot of the Tol... (more)

The one and only GP40P-2 (ex Southern Pacific 7600) on the Indiana Harbor Belt leads IHB 115 at CP 487 in Burns Harbor Indiana.

Uncommon power at milepost 488. Only three GP40P-2s were built by EMD and all originally went to SP. IHB 4010 was formerly SP 7600. Southern Pacific used it in commuter service between San Francis... (more)

After spending most of the summer working in local service out of Helper Yard, UP GP40P-2 No. 1373 finds itself assigned to an RCL switch job at North Yard in Salt Lake City. The 1373 is from a cl... (more)

Westbound intermodal.

Southern Pacific GP40P-2 7600 is one of only three GP40P-2s constructed by EMD. Built in November 1974, SP GP40P-2s 3197-3199 served on the railroad's Penninsula Commutes (between San Francisco a... (more)

33.3% of the world's production of EMD GP40P-2's heads up the once-famous Dirt Train as they make an oil pickup at Savage's Price River Terminal - a former coal mine now used to loading Uintah Bas... (more)

This is the flood loader and coal storage silo at Skyline, Utah at the end of the 19 mile long Union Pacific Pleasant Valley Subdivision. Elevation here is over 8000 feet. This slightly overpowere... (more)