Cotton Belt GP60 9679 leads an eastbound past the cement plant at Monolith, California, just east of the town of Tehachapi, on November 6, 1996.

SP locomotives congregate late at night at Cape Canaveral, the engine facility at Roseville Yard.

A Southern Pacific eastbound, with a Cotton Belt GP60, Rio Grande GP35 and SP SD45T-2, eases down Cajon Pass as a Santa Fe westbound, with "Superfleet" FP45 97 in the consist, also heads down the ... (more)

A Maxi-Trax equipped GP40 leads a North Line Local out of Tucson Yard as another train arrives from El Paso on the adjacent main track.

A westbund UP stack train flies over Track Two at Cienega on the bridge originally built by the El Paso & Southwestern.

The ear-splitting sound of a 10,000-ton eastbound coal train passing through Cliff is enough to bring any photographer to his knees. This coal load, headed for Trona from its loadout in Utah, has ... (more)

A very long stack train makes its way up the one percent grade to Shawmut through the heart of the Sonoran Desert.

Miller yard job starts switching in Cadiz yard

One of the last remaining unpatched Cotton Belt units operates out of Gemco Yard. It received its White Top during recent Tucson Yard service.

A westbound SP trackage rights train climbs Edelstein hill.

These beasts lead a SP coal drag for a nearby customer on the SOO Line as it passes the Dri-Line yard office at Bettendorf. This train's route took it over Tennessee Pass and across Kansas on the... (more)

Cotton Belt 4139 West meets a freight holding on the eastbound main for a green signal at Stockton Tower.

A short intermodal train makes its way uphill through Woodford on a misty afternoon in the spring of 1993.

A quartet of U36Cs brings a westbound past the signal bridge at Bena, as an SP helper set awaits its next assignment. Within six months, the signal bridge will be completely destroyed by a flood t... (more)