Metro Ports (the former Metropolitan Stevedore) operates a transloading facility on Pier G in Long Beach, California. To handle the trainloads of coal, petroleum coke, soda ash, potash and other ... (more)

Santa Fe extra Harbor westbound in Harbor City, CA with Santa Fe's first pair of SD45B rebuilt units in consist. This set was running around as a set of four SD45's but one was replaced by this U3... (more)

Clinchfield GE 3602 has southbound tonnage in tow at Pactolus, Tenn. on June 21, 1972. CRR's units were going black, the era of gray with yellow breasts had passed.

a lengthy westbound San Diego to San Bernardino (train will we westbound until reaching the Olive Sub at Orange where it will become an eastbound) SDX was negotiating the hogbacks along the I 5 Fw... (more)

In 1971, when EMD informed the Clinchfield Railroad that they would not be able to fulfill an order for new power for at least a year. As a result, the power short and EMD-loyal Clinchfield went o... (more)

Santa Fe Denver to Barstow train 408 was climbing Yampai Hill westbound near Yampai

A southbound coal train emerges from one of the many tunnels on the Clinchfield's famous Blue Ridge Loops with a U36C leading. These units were purchased to handle unit coal trains to southern pow... (more)

Shunned by their Clinchfield purchasers these were taken into the SCL fold in trade for some SD45s and became SBD. Photo from my collection, photographer unknown.

One of the newest and one of the oldest on the Clinchfield roster rest outside the Clinchfield locomotive shops. The U36C would eventually be traded to SCL for SD45's so that the Clinchfield coul... (more)

After the SCL merger the MBAs at Jacksonville reduced access to the import industrial port city from 5 to 1, that one being at the mercy of at least two moveable bridges. Once one of the only U-b... (more)

The 1979 Pacific Railroad Society "Mountain Outin" passenger special, with Amtrak SDP40F 518 and 517, is racing east downgrade through Cameron after cresting the Tehachapi Summit. Coming around th... (more)

A westbound Union Pacific coal train, with a Santa Fe U36C on the point, pauses in San Bernardino for a crew change, so that a Santa Fe crew can pilot the train the next 11 miles to the Kaiser Ste... (more)

3 GE U36Cs heading east at Summit

Tom Golden photo.