BLUE CUT CA Sept 7 1983 — Union Pacific SD40-2 3474 rolls through Blue Cut in Cajon Pass. EMD built the unit (b/n 776088-70) in May 1978. My photo.

A trio of SD40Ns lead LTS82A over the Red Cedar River in Menomonie. In another mile or so, they will run around their train at Menomonie Jct. before heading back east to work Cardinal Glass and Br... (more)

ROCK RIVER WY Sept 24 1978 — Union Pacific SD40-2 3473 rolls across the Wyoming country in the lead of a mixed freight. EMD built the unit (b/n 776088-64) in April 1978. Corrections welcome. My ... (more)

CHEYENNE WY Sept 24 1978 — Union Pacific SD40-2 3343 handles a mixed freight near Cheyenne. EMD built the unit (b/n 766056-09) in February 1977. The unit has been renumbered to UP 1610. Accordin... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD40-2 No. 3315 and EMD SD60M No. 2313 sit outside on the west side of UP’s large locomotive shop at Bailey Yard in North Platte, Nebraska, on the afternoon of May 4, 2011.

On the west side of Fort Worth, Texas the Union Pacific operates a hump yard at Davidson Yard. As cars roll down the hump in the background shoved by one job, the next crew pulls west with the nex... (more)

Freshly painted "snoot" and a nicely clean partner wheel and freight thru the north central Lone Star State. Photo by Calvin Christman, from my collection.

An eastbound Southern Pacific fright heads north, splitting the semaphore signals, on the Portland Division. (On the SP, trains heading toward San Francisco are westbound, and those heading away ... (more)

An intermodal train heads south on the Shasta Route in spring 1999.

The old SP Colton Yard etc. was down by the grain mill in the distance. To handle eastbound trains over Beaumont Hill they kept a helper pocket just east of the old yard. Here a helper set await... (more)

A remote control hump job at BNSF's Argentine Yard in Kansas City, Kansas pulls west behind a snoot nose SD39-2 and an SD60M. The crew is pulling this cut of cars from the yard to then shove over ... (more)

BNSF 1899 (SD40-2) gets ready to move a string of stack cars out of the intermodal facility in Denver, Colorado.

Santa Fe 5140 leads a westbound manifest train towards the summit on Cajon Pass.

BNSF 1899 (SD40-2) runs past the UP's North Yard in Denver, Colorado.

The UP-CP transfer departs State Street as they head out to Dunn with their delivery for CP St. Paul Yard. The critter third out is RSSX 103, a Railserve LEAF destined for Canpotex in Saskatchewan... (more)