10,000 Horsepower 3100 Tons! The 2nd run up the 4%+ Shannon Hill is down to its knees as it approaches the big cut near the Morenci Corrals. The lead GP38-2 was built in 3/76 and is wea... (more)

The first of two Hill jobs on this October morning drops down the 4.5%+ slide above the site of the former Shannon Smelter. Earlier in the morning the job switched the Acid tracks at the massive ... (more)

SCREAMER! Shannon Hill is a steep 3-5% grade in Arizona's Copper Country. Each Geep is good for approximately 550-580 tons on what is undoubtably the steepest climb in North America. Heav... (more)

The third Freeport Mcmoran Hill Turn drops down the 3-5% grade above Clifton. This is the largest copper leach facility in the world. The massive white mountain in the background is tailings from... (more)

Dakota Junction This ex-CNW branchline junction in western Nebraska looks much the way it did when the CNW left. It was once on the Chicago & NorthWestern's frontier on its quest to build t... (more)

The Cowboy Line Nebraska NorthWestern moves a cut of grain into a yard track at Whitley Nebraska under a threatening sky. The small yard is used for interchange traffic coming from the Rap... (more)

Fort Igloo The bridge with the flaking bright orange paint from which I took this photo was the main entrance to Fort Igloo. In the early 1940s prior to Pearl Harbor it was almost inevitab... (more)

The big cut at Belmont, Nebraska bypassed a summit tunnel thru the top the the Pine Ridge Escarpment. This was the only railroad tunnel in Nebraska. In the late 1970's Crawford Hill was completel... (more)

Nebraska's Mountain Crawford Hill Part II The CB&Q used the horseshoe shaped canyon carved out by Chalk Creek to gain elevation up the Pine Ridge Escarpment. The grade before it was rebuil... (more)

Nebraska's Mountain Crawford Hill With a ruling grade of 1.72%, when compensated, Crawford Hill is the steepest eastbound grade any coal train will encounter leaving the Powder River coal f... (more)

Story of a Tunnel District Stall This westbound sand train is on its second attempt to make the climb thru the Tunnel District. The first attempt the train stalled at Tunnel 8 and ha... (more)

The lift bridge between Vancouver and North Vancouver is one of the choke points of traffic moving to the ports of the Vancouver Metro Area. The bridge is slow and after exiting to the south the ... (more)

A westbound grain train rounds the 10 degree curves at Austin, MT. A vast amount of the grain exported in the United States moves over this Rocky Mountain Pass every year. These heavy trains re... (more)

COKE A early morning Petroleum Coke train climbs the grade, and battles the curves of Mullan Pass. The train was loaded at the Coke load-out at the large refinery in Billings, Montana. The... (more)

Devils Toenails Two ratty looking SD70Macs lead a small Cowley Local along the banks of the Big Horn River at the edge of the Devil's Toenails (above Left). The geology in this area of Wyom... (more)