The southbound Saluki roars down the CN/IC through Riverdale, right on time.
A remote control yard unit sits quietly on a holiday morning. Note the carrot on a stick contraption allowing the ground-based yardman to operate it from hundreds of yards away. This loc... (more)
UP 5511 with UP 1995 are inbound toward Global I, while the Green Line train is outbound to Harlem, two stops away.
Temperature at sunrise in Chicago, -13 Fahrenheit. That's "minus thirteen." Windchill was about -35. That's not gonna melt the snow off that NPCU.
Heading up the grade toward the Palmer Divide.
Rumbling uphill through Castle Rock. Snow in Denver makes the background look ominous.
Rolling past the red rocks of Colores.
Coasting down into Denver, and into a snowstorm, at sunrise in Kellytown.
Temperature -3F, wind chill approx -20. Not "Minnesota cold," but the worst it's been in Chicago in years. Amtrak 51 is wye-ing to re-orient the train south/east. Unit 48 was in tow from DC for... (more)
Still toting fuel around over two decades on from its original role. Now it appears to be used for delivering diesel to fuel depots such as Clyde Diesel Shop.
Southbound on the Joint Line, bound for Texas.
Empty coal with a matching ACe set heads into Denver en route to the Powder River Basin.
Pushing uphill toward Sherman summit.
UP 695, ex-MP 2195/UP 2195. GMTX 2135: ex-RI 4326/MP 2264/UP 2264/UP 764
