Just after 6am, UP 8763 leads a southbound West Colton bound freight at Monolith.

Union Pacific SD40-2 3786 leads another SD40-2 and a U30C – a typical locomotive lash-up in the 1980s – on a westbound freight heading for Los Angeles. (Hesperia, California – December 6, 19... (more)

Still sitting on one of Taylor Yard’s turntable whisker tracks some two years after being retried following a wreck in Willowbrook (Compton CA) in mid-1983, Southern Pacific GP9E 3346 (ex-SP GP9... (more)

UP 6701 heads south with the ILTLB at Ansel.

A northbound UP Z passes Woodford in the late afternoon.

UP 7077 leads a Northbound MWCRV at Woodford.

Early morning shadows have just cleared, as a Southbound UP intermodal makes it's way out of the Tehachapi Mountains at Warren.

The UP barcode engine llll @ Chattanooga Tn

A Southern Pacific train of empty beet racks passes through Modesto's "South Ninth" neighborhood on its way from the Spreckels Sugar refinery in Manteca back to Fresno, where the train's cars will... (more)

Bringing up the rear of an eastbound Southern Pacific freight departing West Colton Yard is SP bay-window caboose 4621. Built by Pacific Car & Foundry in 1978, this was one of fifty C-50-7 class ... (more)

UP's ZBRLC passes through the Tehachapi valley at Monolith.

UP 6722 leads a northbound Roseville manifest near MP 377.

UP 5106, built by the Electro Motive Division for the Union Pacific Railroad in September of 2002, finds itself on the point of a rather rare train for these parts. Running as the IOALBR-30, this ... (more)

Union Pacific's Costa Mesa Local normally operates with two GPs, but on this day the second locomotive (GP60 1083) was missing, perhaps sent to West Colton Yard for some routine maintenance. This... (more)

An eastbound auto train works up Beaumont behind UP 6726.