A westbound ballast train for Grand Island, NE, heads thru California Junction in far western Iowa. This day in 2005, 3 SD40's power this ballast train from Janesville, WI. California Jct is where... (more)

UP has a local based out of Callender Yard on the Tara Sub. They service the Gowrie to Albert City area customers and plants. I have ran into this job couple times on my 570 local adventures latel... (more)

A westbound BNSF Denver to Tacoma stack train rumbles through Cyr, Montana, on the afternoon of September 23, 2006. The train is powered by a pair of EMD SD40-2s painted in Heritage I livery, with... (more)

A yard power set of two SD40N's and an SD70ACe pull a cut of autoracks down the west yard lead at UP's Global 3 Intermodal Terminal as they build an outbound train.

Locomotives:
UP 1923... (more)

Union Pacific 6900 Series Centennials DDA40X 6600hp. (6900-6946) built between 4/69 - 9/71. Equipped with two 16-645E3A Diesel Engines, Fuel tank 8200 Gals, (2) 4-axle "D" truck assembly. Length... (more)

Five southbound Union Pacific SD40-2's at Idaho Falls, Idaho on July 18, 1984

The many SD´s imported to Brazil to supply traction at many RR Companies (metric or large gauge), photographed at Santos Harbour awaiting transfer to Progress Rail and rebuilt to all RR Co.

Eastbound Santa Fe 5124 has stopped in order to cut out its helpers, which can be seen in the distance. Soon this intermodal train will be racing down the hill towards Mojave.

Trio of EMD SD40N locomotives working in UP West Colton Classification Yard, in Colton CA.

Canadian Pacific train 252 at Westport, NY. CP 5035 SD30C-ECO rebuild and UP 5534.

The Union Pacific Wendover Local runs every day except Sunday to service the many mineral extraction, ore loadouts and hazardous waste facilities on the shore of the Great Salt Lake and on the Bon... (more)

UP has a local based out of Callender Yard on the Tara Sub. They service the Gowrie to Albert City area customers and plants. I have ran into this job couple times on my 570 local adventures latel... (more)

Near sunset, as an SP light helper waits just shy of the crossover on Track One, Santa Fe 2764 roars up the stiff grade with a heavy manifest in tow.

The Hinkle to North Platte perishables has a couple SD40s, a DRGW SD50 repaint and hiding around the bend a Rio Grande SD40T-2 as power. The train is climbing the short Archer hill just east of Ch... (more)

Three trains are seen in this view! SP 9179 heads West on the main at Canyon while SP 8561 waits at the East end of the siding. In the background, a Santa Fe train heads Eastbound on the North M... (more)