Four Western Pacific GP40's and a Burlington Northern GP40 on this southbound (timetable westbound) freight on the Highline near Keddie, California on January 09, 1979. No photographer listed on s... (more)

A colorful international stack train from one of the west coast ports heads for points east through the barren southern California desert.

Emerging from the deep cut where Tunnel Half once stood one of Union Pacific's rail detector cars, EC-4, is led up the Tehachapi grade towards Caliente.

Late in the afternoon, three new SP GE AC4400CWs roar through Rocklin, CA, with an eastbound manifest. They're headed for Donner Pass. The ACs were the last new locomotives SP bought before it was... (more)

Santa Fe SD45 5314 and a GE get a servicing stop at Richmond before heading southeast toward Bakersfield on a cool, sunny Pearl Harbor Day in 1985.

SP Lives On...Kind of. With their day's work complete, UP's LOL30 ties up in Lompoc this afternoon and waits for the crew van to arrive. The following morning the crew will return to their ... (more)

UP 1469 wobbles to and fro as it chases a Ford pickup truck down West Laurel Ave. while heading for the east side of town before doubling back up to the White Hills.

Santa Fe 813 East accelerates out of the yard with a hot BNSF pig train, as another waits to follow it. Of the two railroads in the BNSF merger, ATSF was certainly the one with a knack for intermo... (more)

Lone Pine & Cleghorn Canyon between Kennbrook and Cosy Dell, near Sullivan's Curve in Cajon Pass, BNSF Cajon Subdivision.

On a cold, breezy morning in the Tehachapi's, a few minutes before sunrise, a short UP manifest tackles the grade at Keene and is rounding the horseshoe curve.

With a freshly washed C4 on the point and a relatively new one riding second, a westbound Z train drops downgrade into Caliente as an eastbound manifest waits in town to meet it. Following the Z's... (more)

And it was said, let there be light! UP 2673 breaks through the morning mist at Monolith and into the first light of the day as it leads a Roseville-West Colton manifest downgrade from the... (more)

Echoing GE locomotives, from a very long BNSF stack train, roar through the green hills of Tehachapi climbing the grade in early morning light, above the Tehachapi loop at Marcel. The upper elevat... (more)

Leaning in to the curve just west of the Buena Park Metrolink station, Amtrak F59PHI #450 leads its southbound Pacific Surfliner train towards San Diego.

UP 6706 still in it's original CNW operation lifesaver paint, leads a Pocatello, ID bound grain empty up Cajon Pass near Silverwood.