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.
The morning shuffle has begun at Selkirk. A parade of EMDs scamper around the yard drilling.
UP 1865 and UP 1817 sit at the diesel service area, waiting for their next switching assignment, in the Union Pacific North yard.
BNSF 1674 has completed switching a section of the Belen yard, and is now preparing to move to another section of the yard to continue switching cars. In the distance, another westbound double st... (more)
Trona's Searles' Turn has just begun its run out to Searles Junction as it rounds a curve near West End. Power is a mix of old SP and old UP SD40 variations.
UP, Union Pacific SD40-2's 3647-3787-3227-3534, with a eastbound ore train swing off the AT&SF, and on to the UP at Daggett, California. June 23, 1984. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
A trio of SD40's lead Wheeling & Lake Erie train 218 as it emerges from the Stateline Tunnel, crossing from West Virginia into Jefferson, Pennsylvania. The train would stop in Avella to service a ... (more)
A lone EMD sits at the diesel shops in Chattanooga surrounded by GE's. There is many more wide-cabs not in the frame of the photo.
W&LE, Wheeling and Lake Erie 3068-6349-7375, leads a eastbound loaded ore train on the Speers bridge over the Monongahela River, Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania. June 3, 2011. Jack D Kuiphoff © photo
Remote control switch job at the south end of the yard
