A trio of Rio Grande tunnel motors are on the Sunnyside branch with the dirt train. It's 7 years after the merge but the Rio Grande is being kept alive in Helper, Utah.
BNSF 573 (B40-8W) engages the turbo afterburner to muscle a heavy load out of the bowl in the Denver Yard. Is it me......or does that turbo fire look....'happy'?
L CHI102 makes its shove move into Joliet Yard with a trio of Santa Fe Warbonnets. Along the old Santa Fe main, these old veterans have no doubt made quite a few trips through Joliet in the past!
An empty bare table train makes good time as they are only a few miles from Yuma. Here the 10 unit consist passes over the siding switch at Fortuna. Fortuna is the 1st siding eastbound outside of ... (more)