A perfectly matched quartet of potent EMD SD40-2s pull a 67-car Hinkle, Oregon to Yermo, California manifest freight through Tooele Valley approaching Warner, Utah on a foggy Feb. 14, 1993.
By the early to mid-1990s, UP had shopped and repainted most of its fleet of SD40-2s. They were looking mighty fine, and were losing prime mainline assignments to the newer comfort cab equipped locomotives. Ditch lights were a new thing on the SD40-2s.
Born into the UP family in June of 1972, 3182 is still riding the rails of the mighty UP. Rebuilt an SD40N 1965 at North Little Rock, the unit was assigned to work locals out of Elko, Nevada by Feb. 2025.
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Near sunset, an eastbound BNSF coal train is in Marshall Canyon at Lakeside, Washington, on a sunny May 15, 2010. Marshall Canyon is just southwest of Spokane.
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Santa Fe GP60s (in two flavors) head a westbound freight through Abo Canyon, New Mexico, on September 16, 1992. I remember many times I’d be disappointed because I didn’t get an all-Super Fleet consist . . . how times change.
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After a rainy crossing of Bozeman Pass, Montana Rail Link’s Laurel to Bozeman local hits a pocket of late evening sunshine as it descends the west side on the approach to Bozeman under a rainbow.
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A beautiful spring day in Montana finds a westbound BNSF intermodal train at Marias Pass led by three GE Dash-9s, two of them in clean warbonnet dress, on June 4, 2002.
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