A trio of SD40-2s, plus an SD45, grind upgrade to get a Union Pacific freight out of San Bernardino and over Cajon Pass. One-month-old UP SD40-2 3730 leads this train as it passes through Verdemo... (more)
A former Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe Railway baggage car, demoted to Maintenance of Way service and renumbered ATSF 205998, sits in Devore, and the base of Cajon Pass. (Devore, California – Marc... (more)
Eastbound merchandise.
New Santa Fe GE C44-9W 604 at Erie, Pennsylvania on March 26, 1994.
After my previous posting the locomotive stayed in our area for a while and here is a photo of it idling the day away.
Between East Drive and North Church the former N&W followed the narrow confines of the Middle Fork of the Holston River, at this point just a large creek, more or less. Sharp curves before and af... (more)
I posted the helpers first. Here is the front of that train I uploaded earlier. Back in the coal days. Back when there were locomotive on the roster not numbered in the 4000s, LOL.
A GP38-2 is on the point and there are helpers in the middle with these guys kicked back and rattling along in Run 8 all the way to Big Cut and the top of the grade. Back in the coal days.
844 and 3985 head a Cheyenne to Roseville CA steam special.
Westbound on the Harriman Cutoff, near Dale Junction. Trailing units are SP SD40T-2 8246 and UP SD40-2 3677.
A roster view of U28CG 357 on one of its early trips on September 9, 1966 soon after the ten new units were delivered by GE. In 1966 Santa Fe purchased ten General Electric U28C locomotives modi... (more)
Westbound local has finished its work and is racing home to Bristol in one of many small towns along the line. Nowadays it's six axle power.
Still seems odd that it was forty years ago this WB had an early repaint from NW in the lead. Photo by Mike Dolenski. From my collection.
Nearly at the summit.
Local has come down from Raleigh on its weekday journey. Photo by Jim Satterwhite. From my collection.