Coming and Going at Caliente

A Southern Pacific intermodal train is stretched around the horseshoe curve at Caliente, California. A single SD40T-2 is pushing the rear of the train,... (more)

A brace of Southern Pacific EMD’s pass through Tunnel 2 on the Tehachapi grade. The slide labelling indicates that these are helpers, so they are going away from the lens.

An eastbound Rio Grande coal train works through Parshall, Colorado, between the sidings of Flat and Sulphur on the grade toward the Moffat Tunnel on July 8, 1988. A pair of EMD SD40T-2 Tunnel Mot... (more)

Three Southern Pacific tunnel motors lead an eastbound 62-car intermodal train into Caliente, California. Just ahead they will begin the laborious climb to Tehachapi.

Rio Grande EMD SD40T-2 No. 5382 and EMD SD50 No. 5515 wait for a call to duty in front of the small enginehouse at Minturn, Colorado, at the foot of the famed grade over Tennessee Pass.

Six months after Union Pacific took over the Southern Pacific, this southbound train on the Redding Trestle belies any change.

The MNA Cotter All Purpose passing over the Rocky Bayou.

The MNA Cotter All Purpose southbound at Creswell.

The MNA Cotter All Purpose southbound at Sycamore.

The MNA Cotter All Purpose heads south through Norfork with a great variety of power.

A manifest heads south on the Shasta Route, crossing the Salt Creek Arm of Lake Shasta.

The Pinecliffe store was suitably located for crews of eastbounds waiting for a meet, or for passersby on beautiful Colorado Route 72. SD40-2 5362 leads a team of five big tunnel motors in gloriou... (more)

WAMX engines 4275 and 4272 are staged East of Presho. Shortly, they'll be fired up, and will run towards West towards Vivian to pull the last of the storage cars off of the line.

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

In my opinion the coolest locomotive ever built ... or at least Top 5. I'm glad we've saved a couple of them.