Early on a Saturday morning, a hot 991 train rolls off the summit in Franklin Canyon as it negotiates an S-curve at Glen Frazer, CA.

Santa Fe 5960 West attacks the eastern slope of Ash Hill. In a couple of miles, the train will reach what used to be known as "Squaw Summit." That's what SP called it when they built thi... (more)

Charging South Along the Coast. Beefed up to nine cars to support the increase of holiday travelers for the Thanksgiving rush, Amtrak 774 skirts the coast through the Carpinteria Nature Pre... (more)

Surprise! It's Time For A Test. As Amtrak 768 banks around the corner on its departure from Oxnard in the early morning light, a Union Pacific trainmaster has his eyes peeled to make sure a... (more)

Looking down a tangent with tunnel 3 at our backs, Santa Fe 5963 West roars around the corner with a hot piggyback train in tow. The cowl on the point dawns the red, yellow, and black paint scheme... (more)

A UP SD40-2 hauls a Plasser Welder north up the Mojave Sub while a BNSF intermodal heads west on the Cajon Sub. UP 3566 has since been rebuilt as SD40N 1832.

UP 574 and 589 provide the power for today's spreader operations. After plowing west to Shed 10, the spreader is now working east pushing snow off of the ROW over the Lower Cascade Bridge at Troy,... (more)

UP 602 leads the flanger eastbound blasting through deep snow at Soda Springs, CA on the UP Roseville sub over Donner Pass.

An SD60M leads two other EMDs west after descending Beaumont Hill.

A slow moving intermodal train grinds up the eastern slope of Goffs Hill as the morning sun rises over the eastern Mojave Desert on a warm September morning.

Powered by a pair of Union Pacific EMD SD90MAC-H 6,000 hp locomotives, a long southbound UP freight grinds upgrade out of Walong, California, climbing Tehachapi Pass on March 28, 2001. This area i... (more)

A unit oil train curves between the sidings at Woodford and Walong on the approach to the Tehachapi loop.

Fog and clouds break, illuminating just enough of the train to make an interesting scene. Was nice to get a different perspective of a line I have shot nearly my whole life.

UP 3078 leads this Tucson to West Colton manifest seen from the Centennial overpass in Beaumont.

A four-unit consist that includes an ex-BN "whiteface" GP50 heads up Cajon Pass as the sun sets.