Rio Grande's Provo based 664 local rambles south down the Tintic Branch with mine empties for loading at Geneva Steel's dolomite quarry at Keigley. Fields of fresh cut alfalfa characterize the agr... (more)

A trio of C&O geeps depart the Elkhorn City yard after dropping a cut of cars for the Clinchfield out of Shelby, KY. The C&O would routinely drop cars for the Clinchfield in this yard and sometime... (more)

Sunset at Chehueque ... goodbye sun

Fresh off a coffee break, the two man crew uses this old DM&IR switcher for moving cars around at the bulk materials facility, Hallett Dock Co.. This switcher, retired by CN in 2006 and acquired ... (more)

Even prior to the excursion era that president Tom Moore initiated and was made famous by the Clinchfield 1, the Clinchfield still conducted special passenger trains and utilized their beautiful f... (more)

Santa Fe Second #18, the EL CAPITAN, behind FP45s 107-106 slows for a station stop at Williams Junction on December 22, 1968. Note the infrared switch heaters above the train. These were used at s... (more)

On Friday, April 24, 1964, F7s 330L-329A-327A idle at the point of a passenger special touring the line promoting hi-level passenger equipment, bumped down from the EL CAPITAN, that soon would be ... (more)

Motor train #25 (Clovis to Carlsbad, New Mexico) has just left the Clovis wye and is headed south on the Carlsbad District. Motor cars M.160 and M.190 alternated on this run until the trains were ... (more)

A Western Pacific GP35, wearing 'new image' livery, awaits an assignment on the WP main from Rio Grande's Roper Yard in South Salt Lake. The little EMD was built new for the WP in Nov. 1964.

Santa Fe's westbound SAN FRANCISCO CHIEF negotiates a "shoo-fly" around a freight train derailment at Dunmoor, New Mexico, on November 28, 1969. A SD24 and three GP35s were involved in the mishap,... (more)

Clovis' 250-ton locomotive crane 199798 makes short work of rerailing an errant covered hopper in Clovis Yard, December 22, 1988. The 199798 was built by Industrial Brownhoist in 1946 and was Sant... (more)

The York Canyon to Fontana, Calif., unit coal train inches around the back side of the loading loop at York Canyon on August 28, 1968. The train hauled coal to the Kaiser Steel mill in Fontana unt... (more)

A southbound Duval sulphur train kicks up New Mexico real estate as train 785 speeds through Cameo, ten miles northeast of Portales, New Mexico, on the Carlsbad Subdivision. On the head end are 56... (more)

The Engineer and the biest, yes they handled this monster of the UP fleet

The last seconds of sun on a September evening in 1968 fall on Santa Fe local #161, Kansas City to Emporia, via Topeka. On the head end are H16-44s 3013-3005-3019 and GP7 2804. At the time, these ... (more)