Built new for the St. Louis Southwestern Railway (Cotton Belt) in April 1976, an 89 foot bilevel auto rack moves slowly into Roper Yard in Salt Lake City on July 9, 2016. The SSW 80638, involved i... (more)
SSW 8080 leads a manifest train Southbound past a semaphore signal North of Vaughn.
SSW 9678 was leading an eastbound down the Cascade grade at Heather.
Zooming in at 300mm the Del Norte Mountains make a nice backdrop as this stack train hustles east toward San Antonio.
Barely a month old, #9696 swings around the broad curve at Cabazon. This was a great place to catch multiple locomotive sets -- in this case the head end and the helpers.
Fresh Blood (y-Nose)Waiting for its next assignment at Southern Pacific's Dolores Yard, in Carson, California, in September 1991, is Cotton Belt GP40R 7276. The locomotive rolled o... (more)
Representing a 'fallen flag', UP patched 1517, still wearing its St. Louis Southwestern "Cotton Belt" markings, sits in the 36th Street Yard in Denver. 1517 was originally built in 1966... (more)
The Engineer that is working the helper set led by the SP 9321 is on the ground to give the SSW 9402 a roll-by as it highballs Eastbound. The 9402 is on a short, light Intermodal train so no help... (more)
Southern Pacific work train with Cotton Belt SD40T-2 8325.
An eastbound UP intermodal train accelerates into Tucson with a Cotton Belt GP60 leading the charge.
Early in the morning, an eastbound SP manifest roars out of tunnel 10 with the ground covered in varying shades of springtime grass.
The 9389, one of three different class of units SP painted up in a BiCentennial paint scheme to celebrate our countrys 200th birthday was leading an eastbound train in the City of Industry making ... (more)
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An SP PTLAF rounds the Tehachapi Loop not long after sun-up.
