A Santa Fe 189 train roars up the 1.0 percent grade in Franklin Canyon. The westbound has just pierced tunnel 1 and 2, and is now headed for tunnel 3, the longest bore on the entire system.

Late in the day, Santa Fe 9551 East roars up the Sacramento Wash at Yucca, AZ. Besides eroded material, this area is laced with volcanic basalt.

Led by a 3,000-hp SF30C, built using a U36C to start with, a Santa Fe 991 train roars through the reverse curves of Cable on Tehachapi Pass. The double track that starts at Cable's west switch con... (more)

Eastbound grain loads out of Pueblo grace the lens today, as the GPUGV slogs it up the last grade before dropping into Temple.....and becoming a westbound for the run to Bellville, where the locot... (more)

Early in the morning, Santa Fe 9519 East climbs the gentle grade at Double A, AZ, on the railroad's Williams-Crookton Line Relocation. Santa Fe built the new line well north of the old line throug... (more)

On a chilly Thanksgiving morning in 1986, Santa Fe 9523 East, a hot 991 train, kicks up dust as it hustles past the Dupont chemical plant in east Antioch, CA. This symbol kept a blistering schedul... (more)

Charging out of Davidson at full track speed of 55mph, one of Cleburne's finest puts on a show, running for a meet at Somerville with an empty Smither's Lake hopper train. As soon as he hits the ... (more)

Oh, how I wanted to play "Let's Make a Deal" with the outbound crew about to get on at the yard office and set out the remotes! That 8753 kodachrome as the second unit was just knawing at me and ... (more)

Big power off the Conroe District. Empty grain trains from Beaumont would tie up here and power sets would get fueled. A wary eye is on the mainline as this photo was taken as there was a loaded... (more)

Ya'll laugh at me for my comments about clouds and cloud gods; this is what a normal summer's morning looks like in southeast Texas. We had to leave Houston to get to Bellville NO LATER than 9AM;... (more)

Wallis was the crossing of the SP Eagle Lake branch. Usually any meets on the Santa Fe were quick and to the point. But when you had a train on the branch throwing a monkey wrench into the mix, ... (more)

The daily grind: 1.) start at Bellville in the morning yelling at the clouds to just move ao you could shoot last night's remote cut-outs at the old roundhouse tracks, then 2.) move on to shooting... (more)

The SF30Cs were common on grain, potash and sulphur trains, and we tried to get as many as we could while they were in kodachrome colors and reasonably clean. Bellville was where southbounds (rai... (more)

4 SF30Cs on a loaded grain train; crunchy!