Milwaukee Road 5802 handles some switching duties at their Black River yard after descending Snoqualmie Pass into the Puget Sound region. The train will set out cars for Seattle, and pick up any f... (more)

A westbound Santa Fe freight is about to hit the diamonds at Colton, California, on February 19, 1986. This train, led by U36C 8755, is on Santa Fe's Third District, heading to Los Angeles, and i... (more)

Five locomotives, four models, two builders, one railroad ... An eastbound Santa Fe freight is just six miles from the summit of its crossing of the Tehachapi Mountains as it pops out of one of th... (more)

On one of the longer tangents that it will encounter during the climb to Cajon Pass, an eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train rolls through Cajon Junction, California.

U36C 8749 Leads a Solid set of Kodachrome GE Units on a Eastbound by the Crossovers at East Williams Junction in the early morning. On The Santa Fe Seligman Sub

Oddballs on Clinchfield's EMD-dominated roster, the U36Cs were disliked enough that a trade with SCL for a like number of SD45s was arranged. I never thought CRR's gray and yellow looked as good ... (more)

Santa Fe manifests meet at Caliente, CA, with the eastbound closer to us.

As an eastbound Santa Fe manifest drops out of the defile that forms the eastern gateway to the pass, the northwestern sky is filled with the orange light of the setting sun. The manifest is passi... (more)

As shadows start to envelope the deeper reaches of Franklin Canyon, a super-hot 199 train roars uphill toward Glen Frazer. In the distance, Mount Diablo still basks in full summer sunshine. Before... (more)

An eastbound train, with 49 TOFC flats, makes the ascent of Cajon Pass. The train is seen here rounding Sullivan’s curve at 2:20 pm on May 5, 1984.

ex-EL U36C in fresh blue paint leads a pair of ex-PC U33Cs eastbound on the Boston Line in the early days of Conrail

On a hot afternoon in June 1973, Santa Fe 8712 West passes a classic signal bridge that's lost it's target signal. At this time the railroad was cutting down its signal bridges and replacing them ... (more)

In heavy, bone-chilling fog, a Santa Fe eastbound with a U36C on the point makes its way up hill at Cable Crossover, a little west of the town of Tehachapi.

Formerly an Erie Lackawanna unit, a Conrail U36C leads a pair of SD40-2s on an eastbound manifest train on the Indiana Harbor Belt. Tom Golden photo.

A large GE U36C is leading three EMD units as a westbound TOFC and container train nears San Bernardino.