A non-clearing eastbound holds up the RoadRailer on a cloudless summer morning in the Butte Valley. Lead unit SP 8626 had been built for Chicago Great Western 30 years earlier.

Grimy but still SP
On the morning of April 23, 2002, an eastbound Union Pacific coal train heads downgrade at mile 22.6 at the mouth of Coal Creek Canyon between Plainview and Clay, Col... (more)

SP 290 leads a Wisconsin Central intermodal hotshot train north approaching Marsh siding at the County Highway D crossing located between Slinger and Theresa Station, WI. WC developed this service... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP40-2 Nos. 3126 and 3121 switch the aggregates plant at the end of Rocky Spur leaving the main line at Rocky, Colorado, on February 21, 2002. During this era, two or three Rio Gran... (more)

Rio Grande EMD GP60 No. 3154 leads Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train through Tunnel 29 east of Pinecliffe, Colorado, on June 24, 2000. These summer runs of the ski train often operated to special eve... (more)

Yes, this is Bliss just outside the fence at the Fort. I hope you've been to Bliss somewhere else 'cause this one ain't so much. WB mixed freight.

An eastbound Southern Pacific coal train meets an westbound SP train at Soldier Summit, Utah, on September 7, 1995. During this era, SP AC4400CWs were common on this former Rio Grande main line.

Powered by a pair of Rio Grande EMD GP60s, a summer run of Ansco’s Rio Grande Ski Train works upgrade through Clay, Colorado, on the morning of July 15, 2000.

Three years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, a southbound UP freight train with a solid set of SP power enters California on the Shasta Route.

Over two and a half years after Union Pacific acquired Southern Pacific, you could still see lots of Espee. Having just crossed the Oregon/California state line, a solid set of tunnel motors with ... (more)

SP 9 waits at the Owenyo trainorder office for its last orders. It had been filling in while diesel SP 1 was in the Bakersfield shops, but the diesel is back from the shops and soon will take ove... (more)

Entering the Palestine Sub is an EB piggyback train. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.

As has been mentioned in captions to other images of Conrail TV-556, this sought-after train typically arrived in New Jersey on Thursdays, and holidays were no exception. So, on Thanksgiving Day ... (more)

Conrail TV-556 approaches the Secaucus Road grade crossing in North Bergen while traveling down the Northern Running Track (former Erie Northern Branch) at a brisk 15mph. NYS&W's Resources Termin... (more)

TP&W's intermodal train from Galesburg approaches it's destination of the East Peoria yard behind 2 SD45T-2's.