Elephant Boats

Five 3000 horsepower GE’s (C30-7’s and a U30C), all elephant-style, bring 111 cars of southbound coal into the “sag” at Palmer Lake, Colorado.

Colorado has some beautiful skies, but they can be a source of angst and frustration. Here a Burlington Northern coal train, headed south on the Joint Line at Spruce, is about to fall under a shad... (more)

A coal train on the ATSF with run-through BN power, headed for Houston, holds while an empty ATSF unit train heads north toward Temple, Ft. Worth, and points north. Red number boards (mentioned b... (more)

Classic power leads this auto rack train past Dayton's Bluff.