The low winter sun has risen enough to illuminate the rails for the passage of westbound Rio Grande train #187. Tunnel Motor #5404 leads the 5 unit set.
When an SP AC4400CW fails on a heavy coal train, what do you do? You recruit a Rio Grande tunnel motor from the Helper locomotive pool. SP's Valley Camp, Utah to Moapa, Nevada coal load awaits dep... (more)
What a light package! Rio Grande Tunnel Motor No. 5404 leads Union Pacific’s expedited Denver to Salt Lake City ZDVRO up the hill at Thompson, Utah, on the afternoon of February 8, 20... (more)
Something to be rarely seen again, four Rio Grande tunnelmotors drop downgrade from Tunnel #1 on the Moffat sub on their way to Denver. This sight became more and more rare as the UP took more con... (more)
The hum of dynamic brakes interrupts the morning quiet after a snowstorm the previous night on Tennessee Pass. DRGW 5404 leads a westbound doublestack downhill at 9 a.m. at the overpass just east ... (more)
Another quintet of Tunnel Motors, 5404, 5376, 5344, 5377 and 5387, unusually find themselves on westbound #287 freight in Glenwood Canyon in March 1982.