Leaving a stormy Crowsnest Pass behind, an eastbound Canadian Pacific freight curves away from Lundbreck, Alberta, on the morning of September 28, 2010. Pulling the train is Union Pacific EMD SD90... (more)

Big MACs in Bootlegger
Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC Nos. 8024 and 8241 power the Potash local down UP’s incredibly scenic former Rio Grande Cane Creek Subdivision at milepost 30 in Boot... (more)

Canadian Pacific locomotives line the yard tracks at Field, British Columbia, on September 16, 2002. CP GE AC4400CW Nos. 8541 and 9530 flank EMD SD9043MAC No. 9141 across the main line from the st... (more)

NS rebuilds in progress

Under stormy skies, Rocky Mountaineer Railtours passenger train pauses for a crew change and inspection at Field, British Columbia, on September 16, 2002. The train will soon climb through the Spi... (more)

Union Pacific EMD SD9043MAC No. 8264 leads a westbound Canadian Pacific freight west of Wardner, British Columbia, on July 16, 2011. A total of five UP SD9043MACs lead the train, along with a CP S... (more)

Some rebuild progression as denoted by the newly installed cabs.

My first photograph in exactly a month, everything came together on this opportunity. The 7337 was trailing out of Sheffield, but the lead unit was removed at Chattanooga and when I checked on th... (more)

The shadows are quickly enveloping the Colorado River valley floor at Bond, CO as a pair engines shove on the rear of empty hoppers departing the main line onto the Craig Branch.

Eastbound coal loads roll along the Colorado River in the Yarmony, CO area.

Westbound empty hoppers destined for the Craig Branch round the broad curve approaching Parshall, CO.

A San Luis & Rio Grande SD9043MAC sits in the yard after a Colorado snowstorm, and awaits its next assignment.

Locomotives:
SLRG 115 SD9043MAC

Two DPU sets trail a loaded Union Pacific coal train down the 2-percent grade out of Tunnel 1 between Plain and Clay, Colorado, on a snowy December 22, 2006. The mid-train DPU made up of two EMD S... (more)

A Union Pacific coal load storms up Logan Hill at Converse Junction. On the Antelope Mine lead a BNSF coal load prepares to depart, with a classic quartet of EMD DC traction motors....

The Senate Ave - Hiawatha road freight crosses the impressive 2,295ft long Tulip Trestle spanning over the Richland Creek. When it was built in 1906, it was the longest railroad trestle in the Uni... (more)