An ex SP tunnel motor leads a string of empty covered hoppers back to Trona from the UP interchange at Searles.

On a sunny cold morning, a Chicago, Fort Wayne & Eastern freight job sits tied down in the yard next to the last remnant in Fort Wayne of the PRR system.

Rio Grande SD40T-2s No. 5405 and 5401 are point helpers, assigned to help the MRODV on the ascent to Soldier Summit on Aug. 13, 1998.

What was supposed to be a chase only for a pair of trains that had CSX YN2 Dash 8-40C standard cabs south through Carleton, MI. turned into a trip back to Flat Rock and back to Carleton for a pair... (more)

Six Rio Grande tunnel motors help a Co-Op to Intermountain Power coal train through Price Canyon on Aug. 29, 1998.

D&RGW 5371 recently got a facelift at the Ogden Railroad Museum.

With the emerald colors of spring sprouting in the Wasatch Mountains of Utah, three Rio Grande Tunnel Motors head eastbound through Castilla with a “dirt train” picked up at Sutro on the west ... (more)

With the Green River Subdivision main line in the foreground, Union Pacific’s LJP45 “dirt train” curves through Mounds, Utah, on the Sunnyside Branch on November 21, 2003. Three Rio Grande E... (more)

Well, I might take a plane I might take a train; But if I have to walk I'm going just the same; I'm going to Kansas City; Kansas City, here I come

A Rio Grande eastbound, heading to ... (more)

Rocky Mountain High

The Denver & Rio Grande Western's very first SD40T-2, number 5341, leads a westbound manifest down Tennessee Pass near Leadville, Colorado, on a September 1991 af... (more)

Minutes after helping the MRODV-11 manifest freight to Soldier Summit, Rio Grande 5355, 5400, and 5406 drift down the hill to Castilla to shove yet another eastbound train to the top. July 11, 199... (more)

Passing through the massive Sunrise Coop complex, WE 223 heads west with the pair of former Rio Grande tunnel motors on the point.

A Southern Pacific Tunnel Motor pulls a 12 car train of side dump gons through Mesa on July 25, 1998. Just for fun, click on the Satellite Map to see how much this location has changed.

On July 24, 1998, a trio of Rio Grande SD40T-2s (DRGW 5345, 5360, 5382) were called out of Helper Yard to drag a stalled out Roper to Denver manifest freight from Castilla to Soldier Summit. The M... (more)

A well powered Roseville to Kansas City manifest freight speeds through Gilluly with 66 cars on Sept. 29, 1996. The yard goats were likely en route to Grand Junction or to Pueblo to work.