At dusk, new SD70ACe-T4 No. 3081 leads a northbound UP manifest at Tower 60.

An EMD SD45 leads an SP westbound out of tunnel 5. This is the sight of much damage caused by the 7.3 earthquake of 1952. Tunnel 5 was contorted and tunnel 4 destroyed, the latter being bypassed a... (more)

H53 passes over a coal train that is waiting to enter Enola Yard.

A ground blizzard was blowing this day on the upper reaches of Union Pacific’s ascent of the Soldier Summit grade in Utah. Winds were very light at Helper Yard at the eastern base of the pass wh... (more)

A set of veteran EMDs lead H71 past the Sands casino.

A southbound freight accelerates past the under construction Martin Drake Power Station.

The former B&O line to St. Louis was taken out of service several years ago and crossing signals deactivated. However, over 150 flat cars were still stored on the line in Shattuc and Aviston, so ... (more)

UP 1967 leads the weekday local turn from Altoona to Menomonie, WI east under Jeffers Road bridge at the west end of Eau Claire after a day's work handling chores on the Twin Cities mainline. Heav... (more)

MRL SD40 no. 251 and mate work a freight east having just left Big Timber, MT. The train is occupying Northern Pacific's former mainline along the Yellowstone River with the Crazy Mountains provid... (more)

Arizona Divide Kodachrome(s)
An eastbound Santa Fe piggyback train, with six reefers up front, flies through Bellemont, Arizona, while crossing the Arizona Divide on July 7, 1986. Power... (more)

All green—almost
A quartet of Burlington Northern EMD SD40-2s and a GE B30-7A booster power westbound unit grain train G05 just east of Summit on Montana’s Marias Pass. An almost al... (more)

A stop at Conrail's big Conway Yard during the snowstorm on March 13, 1993 found little that was moving. At the turntable I got this guy working on the horns of 6350 during heavy snowfall.

Leaving storm clouds behind it for sunny skies ahead, NS 29G races westbound in Elliston, Va with a white faced SD70M in charge.

Once on the east side of the Sierra Nevada, this Chicago area bound intermodal cut its DPU's in Union Pacific's Sparks Yard near Reno. Now UP KOAG2 continues eastward on the Nevada Subdivision, ov... (more)

A pair of KCS Aces lead a vehicle train from Clovis, NM on the Santa Fe.