A pair of IC deathstar SD40-3s roll north into Fondy on restricting signals behind a northbound S751.

A Roger Puta Photograph

A Roger Puta Photograph

It's a GP35u. I have submitted corrections. A Roger Puta Photograph

Milwaukee Road SD40-2s 157 and 136 were on helper duty out of Kittitas, WA in August 1978. On this date the crew is just returning to the depot after dropping off Extra 24 West which it helped up ... (more)

A Montana Rail Link 4-unit helper set descends Mullan Pass at Greenhorn trestle after helping with a lift of a westbound manifest train. Milepost 17 indicates the distance from Helena on the 3rd S... (more)

While back home, i had to get a grab shot of the SLO based helper set. With lack of traffic, UP has gone back to using SD70M's while storing the SD60M's that have been used for helper service and ... (more)

The Helpers sit with some extra power, most likely from a repo train that was dropped off in Grover Beach.

Two locomotives "helpers" of the "Iron Train", rest a sunset in Chehueque, after is tour of the desert Vallenar.

The oilcans have stalled and await the helpers for nearly three hours. Here they come after a crew was found to take them north, coupling to rear under the supervision of some goats

The oilcans have stalled and await the helpers for nearly three hours. Here they come after a crew was found to take them north, coupling to rear under the supervision of some goats

Helper power runs north to rescue a stalled train on the Cuesta grade.

Some extra power sits on the helper spur in slo.

... very alone in Atacama desert. NF-210 locomotives built by GMD former CNR Newfoundland, actually working in Chile, that day working as helper locomotives between Pampa and Cumbre, in the Cumbre... (more)

UTAH helpers head back down the hill at Kyune after assisting a loaded coal train to the summit.