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Union Pacific SD24 411 leads a GP20 and three SD40's westward through Meadow Valley wash near Elgin, Nevada on April 11, 1976. Crew change at Las Vegas is still some 100 miles ahead.

A pair of IC SD70's southbound thru Gilman on this Toronto to Memphis freight train. Mornings on the CN north of Champaign can be busy if trains are running late southbound. Usually couple south a... (more)

With less than a month to go before the March 1980 embargo, Milwaukee's Sumas Turn crosses the BN mainline along the Bellingham waterfront. After adding a few cars, the train will head for Tacoma ... (more)

Extra 21 East has just emerged from Snoqualmie Tunnel at Hyak, summit of the Cascades (2562'). Note poor condition of the siding, still in daily use. That's the Hyak substation in the background, ... (more)

Westbound Train 201 ascends Boylston Hill at the east switch of Doris. The 16-mile, 2.2%, 2000-foot climb from the Columbia River is longest and steepest on the Milwaukee.

Westbound Milwaukee Road freight train climbing the grade up from the Columbia River at Doris, Washington, on July 14, 1979. Photograph by John F. Bjorklund and courtesy of the more)

Many tons of raw taconite rock roll along the NSM mainline almost effortlessly as they traverse the curves and grades between the mine at Babbitt and the plant at Silver Bay.

Southwest Portland Cement H20-44 408 (ex-SWPC 66, ex-Union Pacific 1366, nee-FM demonstrator 2000), is seen at the company's Victorville facility on October 16, 1981. (Timothy Dickinson photo, Cr... (more)

Perhaps headed for Mobile and the coal terminal at McDuffie Island, SD40-2s pass Union Station with coal loads.

CIM 81 running long-hood forward leads TZPR 701, 1520 and a few cars thru downtown Peoria.

Southwestern Portland cement 415 leads a morning train towards the plant at Bell Mountain.

Early morning in the Mojave Desert along the Mojave Northern line running from Victorville to the facility at Bell Mountain finds SWPC 415 working hard up the steep grade.

UPs short lived Cima ore train is coming off the UP San Pedro branch empty headed into UP's East LA yard before leaving for Cima Hill and another load of ore.

SWPC 411 is one of only 35 SDP35s ever produced and the only one still operating in its original carbody. 411 started life as SAL 1111, where it was designed to be effective in both passenger and ... (more)