A huge Lockheed aircraft parts car heads west on an SP freight climbing the Palmdale-Colton Cut-off. The car is likely headed for the Lockheed facility located between Palmdale and Lancaster, CA.
A short vehicle train accelerates out of Stockridge under a cloud of exhaust after getting a green from the Tucson Yardmaster.
A Santa Fe pig train makes its way up and around the Loop as it heads east. The cross atop the hill at the Loop's center is a memorial to those railroaders who have given their lives in the servic... (more)
A UP westbound lights up the right of way as it pierces tunnel 9 in the Feather River Canyon.
An eastbound BNSF stack train passes beneath a classic Santa Fe signal bridge on the Arizona Divide.
Amtrak No. 5 winds its way through a reverse curve as it comes down the western slope of Donner Pass.
An eastbound intermodal train roars through the gargantuan cut at West Perrin on the Williams-Crookton Line Relocation.
A pair of C&NW Dash 9s pulls a westbound APL stack train bound for the Port of Oakland.
Waxed and polished GP9 No. 3844 leads the southbound Northwestern Pacific Daylight off Ridge Hill.
Late in the day, an eastbound Amtrak train makes its way along the Carquinez Strait towards its stop in Martinez, CA.
At sunrise, a westbound UP pig train with back-to-back Centennials for power winds its way down No. 3 Track, which has a grade of 3.0 percent.
A westbound BNSF intermodal train negotiates the giant S-curve at Perrin.
Two orange and silver Geeps undergo repairs outside the shops.
Two new SD70Ms head north (railroad "east") under dynamic skies just north of Galt.
