Big GEs and EMDs battle the fierce grade of Ash Hill's eastern slope. The top of Ash Hill, which is where today's station sign of the same name is located, was originally called "Squaw Summit." Lo... (more)
Near sunset, an eastbound vehicle train passes dwarf pines at Perrin on the Williams-Crookton Line Relocation. This portion of the Transcon was opened on December 19, 1960, and cost the railroad j... (more)
A journeyman mechanic (at left) shows an apprentice how to change brake shoes on a big GE AC at "Cape Canaveral". The men use a tool they insert into a notch in the truck to remove the shoes. Note... (more)
The helper of a long eastbound Santa Fe pig train crosses Tehachapi Creek as it approaches the Loop from below. This is the 5th crossing of Tehachapi Creek. The tiny creek is running now, but will... (more)
SP 5316 East blasts out of tunnel 9 onto the Loop as it battles the tortuous grade. Although SP had only 26 SD39s, they were a main player on Tehachapi and Cajon in the late 60s and throughout the... (more)
Right at sun-up, an eastbound Santa Fe pig train roars around the Allard Horseshoe as it fights the tough grade on Tehachapi's western slope. As the trailers swing past us in deep morning shadows,... (more)
At dusk, a 199 train accelerates westward out of Stockton after crossing SP's Valley Line. The conductor in the caboose has just picked up his orders at the tower.
A BNSF westbound with a variety of power passes the beautiful red rocks at the New Mexico-Arizona border after a storm deposited on powdering of snow over the area.
What looks to be a train out of Phoenix rolls into Tucson just as the sun is setting on the Sonoran Desert.
As a century plant blooms on a sandy ledge, Amtrak No. 2 hustles past through the broken country near Cienega.
The beautiful Worlds Fair Daylight crosses over Lake Shasta as swimmers below wave to the fireman.
The northbound Northwestern Pacific Daylight rolls off Ridge Hill behind a pair of SD9s and a chop nose GP9.
A Santa Fe 991 train swings off the 5th crossing of Tehachapi Creek and heads into a deep cut below the Loop.
Not long after sunrise, we make our way east in one of the trailing 40s of an eastbound UP APL stack train out of the Port of Oakland. The photographer had boarded the train with the new crew in S... (more)
Workers check sand and fuel on a trio of MLW M420TRs as a venerable Alco FA approaches on the close track.
