During an incredibly windy, frigid and hostile springtime snowstorm in April 1984, a Rio Grande coal train led by EMD SD40T-2 No. 5349, is about to enter the 6.21-mile Moffat Tunnel departing East... (more)
All still wearing their orange paint, BLE SD40T-3s 909, 904 and 906 charge south with train U718 passing L568's local at Virginia.
DMIR SD40T-3 407 is starting to get pretty rough around the edges since its departure from its home shop at Proctor, MN. Here it is sitting idling between assignments at CN's Symington Yard in Win... (more)
A pair of youngsters watch SP 8314 lead a westbound manifest over Cajon Summit, while westbound UP 3091 waits patiently for the westbound Amtrak Desert Wind to run around it. Don't worry, the chi... (more)
Following a crew change, an eastbound lumber drag on the Modoc Line departs Wendel. Southern Pacific had less than four weeks of independence remaining.
Lancaster & Chester train 14 pulls cars out of Circle S before they continue on to Lancaster
It's always nice to be able to pull over and just listen as these old veterans approach at track speed doing what they are supposed to do and that's earn revenue for the CN mothership.
BLE909 904 and 906 haul 46 empties thru Iron
As the thick cloud cover clears away, DMIR 400, DMIR 406 and DMIR 409 call to depart Minntac for Two Harbors with favorable signals for the start of the journey they drop down the hill at m.p. 5 o... (more)
The clouds cleared just in time as three DMIR SD40-3's and 145 Missabe ore cars loaded with taconite pellets roar by at track speed.
After switching the Minntac commercial yard, it's back to Keenan yard for the R901 crew and these empty bentonite hoppers.
With the Warner Mountains for a backdrop, an eastbound manifest on the Modoc Line exits Indian Camp Loop. Earlier in the month, Modoc trackage between Alturas and Wendel had been reactivated follo... (more)
BLE 903 leads ore empties North through virginia.
BLE 903 leads ore empties North through Iron Junction.
BLE 903 leads ore empties North through Biwabik.
