Not many tunnels in Chicago, but plenty of bridges. A four-pack of Rio Grande Tunnel Motors brings a coal train across the Cal-Sag Channel on the IHB. Tom Golden photo.

An eastbound rolls through the tangent between tunnels 11 and 12 along the Sacramento River. This is the northern (timetable east) end of the line change built for the Shasta Dam. The train is nea... (more)

On the second day of its journey to New Orleans, the Louisiana World's Fair Daylight crosses the Sacramento River Arm of Lake Shasta.

An intermodal train bound for Los Angeles rolls through Northern California on the Shasta Route. Today, you can see lots of trailers here anytime - a massive Wal-Mart distribution center was built... (more)

A decade or so out of passenger service, a quartet of Southern Pacific SDP45s, with SP 3206 facing the camera, have brought the Anaheim Hauler to town from West Colton. (Anaheim, California – M... (more)

Coming and Going at Caliente

A Southern Pacific intermodal train is stretched around the horseshoe curve at Caliente, California. A single SD40T-2 is pushing the rear of the train,... (more)

A brace of Southern Pacific EMD’s pass through Tunnel 2 on the Tehachapi grade. The slide labelling indicates that these are helpers, so they are going away from the lens.

After a major pre-winter snowstorm hit Colorado’s front range, it dawned clear on October 26, 1997. At the east switch of Rocky siding, an eastbound Union Pacific coal trainis led by Southern Pa... (more)

As SP 4449 simmers in the cold, December air, a light rail vehicle passes by overhead. I wonder if anyone aboard noticed the 80-year-old steam locomotive below them.

The beautiful, rear-end observation car DLMX 2955 is seen on the point of the shove of this edition of the Holiday Express as SP 4449 shoves the train along the Willamette River and a string of st... (more)

SP 4449, a 1941-built product of the Lima Locomotive Works, is still able to bring Portland to a stand still as the 80-year locomotive puts on a show of steam power as it departs the Oregon Rail H... (more)

As Southern Pacific C415s 2409 and 2405 are bringing a freight out of Anaheim, they meet SP SW8 1123 and its C-40-3 class cupola caboose some five miles into their trip to City of Industry*. (Bue... (more)

A contractor fuels locomotives on a special Amtrak train at Redding, California. The "Shasta Daylight 1990" had run from Portland, Oregon to Redding the previous day. Once the train is r... (more)

A manifest heads south on the Shasta Route, crossing the Salt Creek Arm of Lake Shasta.