A westbound curves along the Sacramento River.

Crossing Tehachapi Creek between Woodford and Walong, the engineer of an eastbound Southern Pacific freight gives a friendly wave as the train climbs over the Tehachapi Mountains, with a typically... (more)

Southern Pacific's first two SD70Ms tote the PTPCX down the Sacramento River Canyon on their first westbound trip over the Shasta Route.

A northbound Union Pacific Z train in the Sacramento River Canyon is led by a former Southern Pacific GE Dash 9.

Led by a brand new GE Dash 9, a westbound lumber drag rolls through the Sacramento River Canyon on a hot summer afternoon.

A westbound manifest rolls through the Willamette Valley in late summer 1996. Union Pacific was four days away.

Coal and corn. Apparently still a 20-cylinder, this leaser has picked up a train of empties from INRD at Beehunter and is running SB on trackage rights. They will soon gain home rails at the jun... (more)

A look down Parkway Avenue past the PAS·TYME Bar in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, sees a southbound taconite ore train on Wisconsin Central’s Neenah to North Fond du Lac main line noisily crossing the st... (more)

On November 25, 1994, an empty Wisconsin Central unit coal/taconite ore train, operated in conjunction with Southern Pacific, curves over a trestle between Amherst Junction and Custer, and will so... (more)

On this day in 1976, after a stay in Southern California that included Christmas in Pomona the American Freedom train with 4449 leading and with an assist from SD45T-2s 9389 and 9371 hits the diam... (more)

An eastbound Southern Pacific train on the Modoc Line awaits a signal to enter Union Pacific's ex-Western Pacific mainline.

Nearly three years after the pair were delivered by builder Alco, wearing the Daylight paint, the St. Louis Southwestern's PA's 300 and 301 were well established at work in the Lone Star state... (more)

PALMER LAKE CO — Rio Grande SD50 5506 and SD40T-2 5357 drift north on the Joint Line. I failed to label the slide and took no notes. I am only sure of the location. It is a Kodolux mount and has... (more)

Two brand new SD70Ms roll a lumber drag through the west end of Dunsmuir Yard on a perfect summer morning.

Aside from the loaded ballast cars on the head end, this westbound train on the Modoc Line is virtually all empty boxcars and flatcars returning to Oregon for another load of forest products. This... (more)