A pair of GE motors pull a Denver, CO to Tacoma, WA stack train through the sag at Louisville as they make their way north along the former Colorado & Southern.

A slowly moving, under powered, BELPHX manifest train slowly grinds up the 1.5 percent grade through Angell as the crew heads into the setting sun.

With the upper reaches of Tehachapi's western slope blanketed in a yet undisturbed dusting of snow the labored roar of eastbound tonnage, battling up the mountain, reverberates through the quiet w... (more)