After a late afternoon meet with southbound Pacific Surfliner no.794, northbound Union Pacific ES44AC no. 5446 Highballs the Guadalupe Local out of Gaviota Siding trying to keep ahead of northboun... (more)

A set of GP60s leads the LABRF north in the Sacramento Valley. Following the Rio Grande/SP merger four years earlier, the quartet of four axle units heading for the mountainous terrain of the Oreg... (more)

Late night fog starts to roll in over Tehachapi Pass as the headlights, and ETD, from a northbound BNSF train illuminate hillside of Marcel.

Three SD40s are still accelerating their KC-bound train a couple miles out of Coffeyville yard.

Three of MP's burly GP50s are westbound on a hazy summer afternoon.

Salina was on a looping branch off MP's Pueblo main, and normal service in the early 1980s was a local with a geep or two and a handful of cars. When grain was moving, MP would send as-needed ext... (more)

When UP and MP merged, a decision was made to pull most through traffic off the former MP line to Pueblo. That reduction was offset by Rio Grande (and later SP) trains running on rights between P... (more)

Yard power sits as GP38-2 2256 and three SD40s take 110 cars toward Kansas City.

I think these GP38s and their cab are headed to Illinois, but I cannot remember which bridge this is.

On the former MP Pueblo line, an eastbound is in the hole to meet an opposing empty coal train. It's a beautiful spring day, so everybody seems to be on the ground to give the coal train a good l... (more)

At merger time, it was hard to believe MP would disappear. All these years later, it is sometimes hard to remember what it was like to have so many Class Ones.

Tom Golden photo.

Santa Fe EMD E6(A) cabs all have long, slanted noses. Period produced 11/39-9/42, numbered 15 was retired in June 1968. Photo from my collection, no photographer listed on slide.

Three Santa Fe Alco PA's pose in front of the Barstow Diesel Shop. Photo from my collection, no photographer information listed on slide.

Jim Mirabelli photo.