Union Pacific 2-10-2 5514 and 4-8-2 7024 lead train 818, the Los Angeles Challenger, at Caliente Nevada in 1940. Otto Conrad Perry photo, from my collection.

From this vantage, Tunnel 14 appears almost to be a horseshoe curve as an eastbound stack train negotiates the serpentine canyon.

The grade and curvature are quickly increasing and the train speed is dropping as this empty coal train enters the depths of Clover Creek Canyon.

Union Pacific Big Boy #4014 has stopped for the night in the former division point of Caliente, Nevada on its journey to southern California to head excursions for the Rail Giants Train Museum.

UP locos 6164, 2293 and 6069 head a southbound train through Caliente in October 2000.

UP 4129 heads south from Caliente, NV, in 2000.

Union Pacific eastbound double stacks ride alongside the mountains in the Meadow valley wash region, west of Caliente, NV.

with UP 7672/UP 7677/3951

UP 3053, leading a work train, is parked at Caliente with the station visible in the background.

A rare Amtrak locomotive passes Caliente's historic UP station leading the Grand Luxe Rail (formerly AOE) train towards Utah.

Union Pacific westbound stacks are about to enter into another tunnel on the LA&SL mainline. The train will change crews at Las Vegas, NV.

UP eastbound double stacks roar through the mountains west of Caliente, NV at Etna siding on UP'S LA&SL route. The train is enroute to Salt Lake City and points east.

Rail grinder train parked near the town depot.