The UP Rose Bowl Special is departing Union Station and is passing Mission tower on the west bank of the Los Angeles river. Four of the six GP40X engines that Union Pacific had are seen in this sh... (more)

BNSF 3035 & 2304 idle in the yard at Aurora with a ballast train.

Can you smell the paint on them? Three one-month old GP40X units (can you tell how exited the 16-year-old me was to see them) lead train 168 through Colton Crossing and past Colton Tower on a day ... (more)

one of only four GP40X's on SP's roster leads an Oregon bound train at Mott siding north of Dunsmuir, CA

SP's eastbound "Dolores Hauler" ambles along at ten mph on SP's Wilmington Branch that runs adjacent to Alameda Street through industrial Vernon, CA led by SP's only four GP40X's

GP-40X #7001, one of three purchased by the Southern, heads out of town.

An eastbound BNSF intermodal train was passing by a grain elevator in Galesburg, IL on Sept. 13, 1996 with a healthy locomotive consist, led by GP40X No. 3807.

Three EMDs, including an ex-ATSF GP40X, greet one another on the roundhouse lead in Willmar.

Unlike the truely wierd trucks SP had on their GP-40Xs ATSF opted for the regular -2 trucks. I love those flared radiators.

These hit town about the same time as SP's did and of course there was the railfan campaign to get as many shots as soon as possible. Experimentals are always interesting.

one of SP's many "Haulers" led by all four of their GP40X's making a set out at SP's exPE J Yard near downtown Los Angeles, CA

The Chicago Fort Wayne and Eastern power sits idling away along with IHB and BNSF power at the IHB Riverdale Yard in Riverdale.

It's afternoon and the experimentals are becoming more commonplace but are still somewhat unusual. In the morning I would take shots from the porch on the tower if my buddy Jay was working.

The engineer of a transfer run from Alliance Yard to Saginaw led by a GP40X has just checked his power and will soon proceed south.

A Chicago, IL, to Los Angelus, CA, preimum train accelerates out of Galesburg westbound towards Ft. Madison, IA. Hard to believe these 4 unit blue and yellow consist were so common in the mid 90's... (more)