Four Rio Grande GPs and their train arrive at the Pueblo, Colorado, yard on August 28, 1973. GP40-2 3097 was delivered from EMD in 1972.

Rio Grande owned two-dozen EMD GP9 locomotives (numbered in sets of four, rather than an unbroken block, with each ending in a 1, 2, 3 or 4), and 5954 - seen here switching the Pueblo, Colorado, y... (more)

Outside Portola's engine house sits Western Pacific U23B 2264, one of 15 of these GE diesels on the roster. Behind it sits a pair of WP GP7s.

Western Pacific GP7 702 sports a large snowplow in order to navigate the high Sierra in the winter, although it hardly needs the plow on this bright September day. WP purchased 13 GP7s from EMD, ... (more)

Western Pacific power sits in Keddie, California, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains on September 2, 1973. WP 2001 was the first of ten GP20s purchased by the WP, and is now a part of the Feather Riv... (more)

A Western Pacific GP9, wood chip car and bay-window caboose (452) rest in the yard at Portola, California, on the WP's Feather River Route on September 2, 1973. Engine 728 was built by EMD in Sep... (more)

Tucked away in the shops at Southern Pacific's Taylor Yard is RS-11 2923, freshly repainted but still resting on shop trucks. This engine rolled out of Alco's Schenectedy plant in May 1959 as SP ... (more)

A pair of Colorado & Southern SD9s, one still in the colors of former owner Chicago Burlington & Quincy and the other in new owner Burlington Northern's colors, lay over at the Denver engine facil... (more)

In the Burlington Northern Santa Fe's first few years, a wide variety of motive power could be found on just about any section of the far-flung railroad. For example, at West Mojave in California... (more)

A lot of power is on the point of a Burlington Northern Santa Fe freight, and the first five units are still in their BN colors, at North Edwards, California, at the northern edge of the Air Force... (more)

Light power found at Tehachapi, California, includes both Burlington Northern and Santa Fe power, as well as a Canadian National unit.

A typical consist from the first few years of the stil-new Burlington Northern Santa Fe includes some nice variety - a BN SD40-2, a Santa Fe GP60B, a former Santa Fe F45, and a pair of Santa Fe un... (more)

Burlington Northern U33C 5719, still wearing the colors of original owner Northern Pacific (the former NP 3304), leads a set of BN power on a Western Pacific train passing through Oroville, Califo... (more)

The 1970 merger that created Burlington Northern Railroad wiped out the identities of the Chicago Burlington & Quincy, Great Northern, Northern Pacific and Spokane Portland & Seattle railroads, bu... (more)

Burlington Northern SD45 6463, caught on August 29, 1973 in Denver, Colorado, is the former Chicago Burlington & Quincy 522. The Q's SD45s were delivered in their green scheme that presaged the B... (more)