An eastbound manifest has stalled on the 1% grade of Kirkwood Hill and a pair of switchers from the Ewing Avenue Yard in St. Louis has been called in to help the train up the hill.
5692 hauls Q102 Eastbound At Ruby Creek Under The Pink Mountains.
Late on a summer evening, an eastbound heads for Oregon over the west flank of Mt. Shasta.
A pair of BNSF SD70MAC's still sporting their H2 paint scheme are seen as the DP units on empty westbound NS Coal Train 735 as they pass through Cook Springs, AL.
In 1987-1988, Southern Pacific closed the Modoc Line to through traffic. If the Modoc had been open, this EURGM would have been closing in on Alturas. Instead, the train is crossing Dry Canyon Via... (more)
If you look back thru history, you will find FEC has traditionally gone thru some kind of power shake-up in the Jan-Feb timeframe. In this case, they put all of their SD40-2 on lease to CSXT, pri... (more)
I'll say it again....we didn't know how good we had it. This was so common, it was taken for granted....10 years later, it might as well be a photo charter.
With FEC going thru the changes again, it's really something to look back in very recent history to see how good we had it. Not only is it a trio of EMD SD40-2, it's "all yellow"....and... (more)
BNSF 9650 in the 'Executive' paint scheme holds lead unit in this consist of classic BNSF and novelty EMD power bringing train H-PASEVE into Tacoma, as it meets grain shuttle operations at the Tem... (more)
UP 8995 (SD70AH) muscles an oil can train past a BNSF freight train Tolland, Colorado.
A UP oil can train meets the BNSF Denver to Provo train led by BNSF 9295 (SD70ACe) which occupies the siding at Tolland, Colorado.
The local has finished its work in Greenville, Il and is headed back to its home base at Rose Lake Yard in East St. Louis, IL.
On some Sunday's FEC runs a 900 down to New Smyrna Beach and back, seen departing Bunnell.
A quartet of grimy Southern Pacific SDs roll through the Devil's Garden. This area is a lava flow created by eruptions of nearby Mount Shasta.
CP 5007, CP 6240 and CP 6301 lead CPKC C18 south on the Montana Sub.
