On November 25, 1994, an empty Wisconsin Central unit coal/taconite ore train, operated in conjunction with Southern Pacific, curves over a trestle between Amherst Junction and Custer, and will so... (more)

Where do you think this is?… Colorado or Utah? Nope.… Kansas? Nope.… But if you guessed Wisconsin, you’d be right on target. This is one of those infamous Wisconsin Central ore/coal moves ... (more)

Rio Grande 5355 leads a eastbound into the big curve at Thompson Utah near sunset on a summer day

With two Rio Grande SD40T-2s added as a point helper, a westbound freight climbs along the Price River at Castle Gate, Utah, on the afternoon of September 7, 1995. The helpers will be removed at K... (more)

Minutes after helping the MRODV-11 manifest freight to Soldier Summit, Rio Grande 5355, 5400, and 5406 drift down the hill to Castilla to shove yet another eastbound train to the top. July 11, 199... (more)

A quartet of Rio Grande tunnel motors including my favorite, 5355, because of a cab ride I received on the Craig Branch, have a coal train in tow near the site of Mill Fork on Rio Grande's Soldier... (more)

In the years after the Rio Grande/Southern Pacific merger, Rio Grande locomotives often accumulated great quantities of filth, as can be seen in the pair of EMD SD40T-2 point helpers on this westb... (more)

Two SD40T-2 rear helpers provide dynamic braking for an eastbound loaded coal train at tunnel #1 on the Moffat Route.