Classic AT&SF power, led by a snoot SD40-2, leading an oil can unit train in from West Texas, bound no doubt for Gulf Coast refineries.
The Rio Grande Zephyr winds through Byers Canyon on a late afternoon.
Passing at Hot Sulphur Springs. Eastbound FTs with reefers await a westbound merchandise.
This is a westbound (to Pueblo) freight that has just picked up some cars at the grain elevator. Note the new 1956 Ford in the background. Thanksgiving 1956.
A trio of AC4400s haul sugar beets through the Tehachapi Mountains. Notice the classic SP bay window caboose, well weathered, on the spur.
In 1968, before the days of Tier-II compliant locomotives, the 8444 was showing off for a photo runby.
This is probably Southern Pacific's Cascade crossing south over Steel Bridge in Portland.
The Colorado Eagle has departed Denver, and is heading south down the Joint Line toward Pueblo, where it will continue east toward St. Louis.
The Colorado Eagle heads south through Colorado Springs, around Labor Day, 1958 - a swollen end of summer vacation consist - E8A , two E7B's and another E8A. Normally this train would have... (more)
Blasting out of Byers Canyon, an eastbound freight rattles into Hot Sulphur Springs with four F units bracing a GP9.
The San Francisco Chief pulls into Merced, as the baggage handler works his way into place.
A PRR mail train rolls away from downtown Pittsburgh.
Late in the afternoon, D&RGW F units sit in Denver Union Station. #5481 was born as an FT, and rebuilt by EMD as an F7(A) after being wrecked in Gore Canyon in 1950. These might be the power for... (more)
