The Trona Railway brings a coal train north in the desolate Searles Valley. Every railfan has likely experienced waiting for the train, which is taking longer than you expected, and watching your ... (more)

6017 brings the loaded ballast train back to Portage. 2 other sd40-2s in tow and 63 loaded ballast hoppers.

Former BN, ex BNSF unit, local power, has been spotted at an odd location because 4501 is in town.

Early morning sunrise greets a trio of BNSF SD40-2s (BNSF 1918, 1967 and 1643) as they idle in the small yard in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Former BN, ex BNSF unit now has a number which used to be on one of my NS favorites, a B32-8. Power for locals V19 and V40.

Running under an odd symbol for a work train, a "Lucky Loader" is moving EB on the high fill behind a former Southern unit at one of the few places on this line that affords a wide view ... (more)

A coal train to Trona begins its very slow creep out of Searles with nary a puff of smoke as they come out of the interchange with the UP on a downward grade.

In a rare move Bristol based local turn V19 has run east to deliver something somewhere in the morning. This must have been a hot load which couldn't wait for the V40s night run. Spring is burst... (more)

Conrail ALSE-6 heads for the receiving yard shortly after arriving at Selkirk Yard. It is the Saturday after Thanksgiving and those of us standing on "Ben's Bridge" were thankful for th... (more)

All was still in the early afternoon at Rotterdam Junction Yard featuring two PanAm Railways SD40-2's on the last leg of their careers, 3403 assigned RJ-1 & 3402 which was the regular leader on RJ... (more)

Missouri Pacific, MP SD40-2's 3179 6067 6014 3175, northbound at Arkadelphia, Arkansas. June 8. 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo

Crossing Searles Station Road in Searles, CA, two of Trona Railway's fleet of approximately 50-year-old UP and SP castoffs smoke it up for the last bit of grade they will face.

The Trona Railway arrives at the lonely junction in Searles, where they will shove their train for the UP up the remaining stub of the SP Jawbone Branch and then grab the second half of a coal tra... (more)

Trona's Searles' Turn passes by the "alien-looking" Pinnacles. The Pinnacles are tufa spires, some as high as 140 feet, that rise from the bed of the Searles Dry Lake basin, and are a ra... (more)

A team of leased PRLX SD40-2's move a stack train in the Hudson Terminal Yard in Hudson, Colorado.