After chasing most of the day the Union Pacific 3985 steam excursion train from Salt Lake City to Provo and return, I came across a bunch of Western Pacific and Union Pacific diesel locomotives st... (more)
About ten miles out of Alturas, an eastbound train on the Modoc Line rolls at track speed. When the train reaches Likely, the climb to Sage Hen summit will begin.
NS Dash 9 #9909 is unable to lead down the FEC due to the lack of cab signaling. So, when the NS geometry train came on September 19th for it's second of 2 annual runs down the FEC, SD40-2 #720 wa... (more)