The local freight led by CP 5011 and CP 5010 backs off the main to service the sawmill at Radium with a threatening sky in the background.

UP 8053 and two other "fast forty" mates plus a trio of run-thru SP units head an OVE (Overland East manifest) through Hermosa, WY. The 8000 series SD40s were geared for 80mph and usuall... (more)

A rebuilt SD40, now an ECO unit, leads a funeral train of a pair of DME SD40s bound for their demise at the scrap yard shown here past Grand Ave and Miller Valley

A venerable SP tunnel motor leads an eastbound UP stack train up the 1.0 percent grade at Shawmut.

A matching pair of freightbonnet SD40-2s reverse towards the former ATSF shops to pick up a brakeman and conductor having just been lined out onto a main track in preparation to head Northeast out... (more)

Not long after being delivered from EMD, SD40T-2 No 8356 leads an eastbound manifest uphill at Woodford.

A pair of SD40Ns lead a westbound manifest. This is a daily train from Grand Island to North Platte.

SP EMD SD40T-2 8321. An original Kodachrome slide from my collection.

SP work train with SSW Cotton Belt SD40T-2 8323 going up Tehachapi Loop October 09, 1994.

With 33 cars of TOFC in tow, three Union Pacific SD40-2’s are working eastbound up Cajon Pass at Blue Cut, California.

Eastbound EDPO with old snoot 606 leading at Gardner, Massachusetts.

The units were: SD40-2s 3176, 3486, and 3537 plus DDAX40 6931. A Roger Puta Photograph

Looking sharp in the early morning sunlight near the east end of BNSF's Riverbank yard, an ex-ATSF SD40-2 now equipped for RCL operation awaits its next assignment.

Three years after the UP-SP merger it was possible (although uncommon) to catch an all SP power consist. SP 8365 and SP 8626 drag a Roper to Provo turn through the Salt Lake Valley with 70 cars fo... (more)

CT Southern (CSOR) RR train CSO-1 heads south over the Farmington River in Windsor CT on 08-17-26