As a westbound Santa Fe piggyback train descends the western slope of Tehachapi, waycar 999279 puts a soon-to-disappear punctuation point on the end of the train. The caboose has just exited Tunne... (more)

CLOVIS NM Jan 23 1984 -- Santa Fe GP38 3508 handles switching duties at the east end in early morning light.

Lots of "stuff" to see in this photo. Three tunnel motors bring a freight through the yard lead by Cotton Belt SD40T-2 8334, followed by SP SD40T-2, 8278 and SP SD45T-2, 9288. Behind 928... (more)

Burlington Northern SD9 No. 6102 switches Northtown yard at Minneapolis, Minnesota, in September 1984. Built in 1954, BN No. 6102 is former Great Northern No. 575, and is set up to operate long ho... (more)

The FL train (Ft.Worth - North Little Rock) with two GP50's and an SD40 passes the former north end shanty while departing from the crew change at Texarkana.

This power consist has just cut off of its train, which came over the hill from LA. In the consist are two EMD SDP40Fs, which Santa Fe recently purchased from Amtrak. ATSF will rebuild them into S... (more)

Santa Fe EMD SD45 5333 leads an eastbound piggyback train through the Tehachapi Mountains at Bealville.

MILW 641 works what's left of The Milwaukee Road's once thriving Beer Line. There is little evidence of this line today.

60 cars of California produce have begun their journey to east coast markets as they descend Cajon Pass at Devore, California.

Eastbound Santa Fe manifest leaving Planada in the San Joaquin Valley

During my 1984 visit to Cajon and Tehachapi, freshly rebuilt GP30's and GP35's seemed to be everywhere on the Santa Fe. Here two GP30/GP35 pairs work the yard at San Bernardino.

A Southern train with a GP30 leading waits for its turn to cross the bridge as a north bound Milwaukee Road train with caboose 992118 bring up the rear, at New Albany, IN. 9-22-1984

Freshly shopped and painted SD9E 4414 idles next to the Medford depot.

I wonder if those kids on bikes could get this close to a wreck today. I don't know any details, but I figured since there were freight car trucks in front of the locomotive that these were mid-tr... (more)