Rolling along the ex Rio Grande, engineer and RP contributor Tom Magazin has Amtrak's Phase 1 heritage locomotive up to track spped leading the California Zephyr.
What started off as a 2 car test train in Blue River passes through Harvey enroute to McBride. Due to flooding in Prince George the train needed to lift some important rock and ballast at Peterson... (more)
One of 4 IC SD70s painted in CN colours clears the PSO at Mile 231 of CN's Edson Sub and quickly notches up to throttle 8 getting train Q106 up to 60mph. CN SD70M-2 8955 was leading the train.