A westbound Southern Pacific lumber drag crosses Salt Creek in the Cascade Range of Oregon. During winter, the trestle marks the spot on Oregon Highway 58 where motorists chain up for the crossing... (more)

UP 6189 leads the MWCOG as it uses the connector between the Mojave Sub to the BNSF Cajon Sub at Silverwood.

Eastbound manifest interrupts morning traffic in Turlock Ca.

Returning to California for the first time since the Rebuild, Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 finds a welcoming throng of fans in the middle Of the Mohave National Preserve.

Eastbound Union Pacific SD70ACe No. 8658 is almost to the top of Cima Hill with a mixed manifest after climbing the west slope from Kelso. Westbound stacks hold for the runby on top of the hill.

Modesto local LRS99 exits the Tuolumne River Bridge near downtown Modesto.

UP 2568 leads a train down Cajon Pass on the former SP Palmdale cut-off as it pass by Mormon Rocks and about to cross over CA 138.

Southern Pacific MP15DC 2690 was rebuilt by National Railway Equipment into a "Truck Engine Switcher" (TES), or GS14B. A pair of Cummins 700hp truck engines are under the hoods of this ... (more)

I spent the morning in Cajon Pass to check out my how my new ride handles the pass. While spending a brief time at Sullivan's Curve, I was able to capture three trains passing through at the same ... (more)

Union Pacific SD70ACe 8875 was built by General Motors Electro-Motive Division June 2014, just two months prior to this photograph. (Compton, California – August 15, 2014)

SD40-2 sets still thrive in SoCal...at least here in Colton Yard...the once-mighty SD70M is now the local choice of power for many jobs. This is one spot you can easily document the migration of ... (more)

Less than ten blocks from the mainline, an extra West Stayton Local heads east through Southeast Salem on the Geer Branch. The track would be leased to the new Willamette Valley Railway at the end... (more)

Former Southern Pacific GP60 #9752 found itself a long, long way from home in this 2004 photograph I made in Catawba, South Carolina. She was being used by CSX at the former Bowater plant in York ... (more)

After leaving Truckee, the rail follows the Truckee River through the many curves of Glenshire and down the Eastern slope through the Truckee River Canyon to Reno Nevada. An eastbound mixed manife... (more)

UP 7629 leads an eastbound rack train at Hinda, on a humid morning in San Timoteo Canyon.