Oh what a consist. DD40X 6935 leads a Western Pacific GP35 3001, and UP SD40-2. With a funereal train of the Union Pacific Sulzer's, with UP 64 up front. Sulzer's was a failed experiment, to put a... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific train changes crews in front of the depot at Cheyenne, Wyoming, in April 1984. The train is led by an imposing UP DDA40X No. 6935. Delivered by EMD in 1969-71, UP Nos. 69... (more)

Six engines, DPU'd in a 2x3x1 arrangement, work up the 0.8% grade along the Colorado River with coal loads off the North Fork Branch. In the foreground, the trailing unit is shoving the last hand... (more)

Congestion at the tunnel! Dispatcher had a westbound hotshot coming off the Harriman line on track 3, the HF went ahead of the LAX off of track 2 to the north track to clear for an empty grain to... (more)

He was slowing down, and I was soooo hoping he would stop, and he did: gotcha! And then I realized that while I got one of my best rosters of a Jack, I sacrificed getting him on the "other side" ... (more)

A DDA40X highballs through The Dalles