Man life was good back in early 2000's. Someone from UP thought it was cool to get most of the DRGW tunnel motors and placed them in Helper, Utah. It was a railfan's delight. Here a trio of helper... (more)

The Missabe heritage lives on. DM&IR 403 leads taconite loads southbound through Culver toward Proctor Yard. They will eventually make the run down to Dock 6 in Duluth to dump their load of pe... (more)

Crossing over itself! A Roger Puta Photograph

A meet in Caliente Creek Narrows. A Roger Puta Photograph

The 1987 Siskiyou Line helper consist of the year heads west through the Shasta Valley near Gazelle. This train had an ex-BN Helm Leasing SD45, and four SP T-2s - two grey and two Kodachrome. The ... (more)

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Southern Pacific EMD SD40T-2 No. 8492 and GP35E No. 6322 power a short westbound train over Cienega Creek Bridge near Vail, Arizona, on April 22, 1990. That John Deere combine ... (more)

Southern Pacific 8556 leads a pair of Santa Fe and a pair of Union Pacific engines Eastbound down Cajon Pass on the Palmdale Cutoff approaching Canyon Siding.

A KYLE Railways train idles out in the country side between Clayton & Jennings Kansas. Power is an SD40T-2 & an SD45T-2.

A pair of Savage units lead by SVGX 8631 (SD40T-2) hold station in the UP's North Yard.

The Chicago to LA intermodal train is about to pass the Amtrak depot in Galesburg on the BN side. The SP had trackage rights over the BN back in 1994 from KC to Chicago. After the BNSF the SP star... (more)

Susquehanna train SU-99 shatters the quiet as it passes through Baird's Farm on former Lehigh & Hudson River trackage just south of Warwick, N.Y. This was the site where O. Winston Link made his f... (more)

SU-99 is about an hour into its westbound run on its way from Bogota, N.J., to Binghampton, N.Y., as it passes the station at Newfoundland, N.J. This station was featured in the movie "The St... (more)

Rolling along in the shadow of Mt. Shasta, an eastbound Siskiyou Line train crosses the Shasta Valley, heading for Medford.

With two Rio Grande SD40T-2s added as a point helper, a westbound freight climbs along the Price River at Castle Gate, Utah, on the afternoon of September 7, 1995. The helpers will be removed at K... (more)