The sun just peeked out in time for this UP Pacer stack train to be sun lit at Boca, CA. This is one of my first photos of an UP stack train battling Donner Pass, and it‘s my favorite one of th... (more)

High above the Columbia river floor, this BNSF mixed freight is working west bound through the bright fall colors of the Pacific North West.

Just after sun-down, with rain falling an UP mixed freight is working westbound deep in the Blues. The headlights of this GE C44ACTE are lighting up the forest. making for an unique low light i... (more)

Three Dash-9s lead a eastbound mixed frieght through Stevenson, WA on a cool fall evening. This is one of many scenic spots to photograph trains right along state HWY 14.

With fall colors abound, a BNSF coal train heads west with a new SD70ace on the point. The new orange paint goes well with the autumn yellows of the Columbia River Gorge. The Gorge is a breathtak... (more)

Just after sunset, a short UP nine-car stack train is captured working through the s-cures north bound along the water at Steilacoom, WA. What a shot to end my very first day of rail fanning in t... (more)

The sun brakes out just in time for the 9:45 am arrival of northbound Cascade train into Bellingham, WA on a cool fall morning.

This UP stacker is working eastbound at Pulga in the Feather River Canyon. No, the trees on the hillside behind the train aren't turning fall colors, there was a wild land fire a year or so befor... (more)

On a warm spring morning an Amtrak Capital train is heading westbound on the ageing bridge that spans the bay. Not long after this train passed, famed UP steamer 844 crossed the bridge headed for... (more)

A late westbound Amtrak Zephyr is crossing the massive bridge that spans the bay in Benicia. The clouds from a spring storm have just parted to let the setting sun out, to create a fant rainbow o... (more)

On a beautiful summer morning, the “A Christmas Carol” train is on display at Sacramento. The train is on a countrywide tour for the Disney movie A Christmas Carol. This train drew a large c... (more)

After working in the BNSF yard in Bakersfield, CA for some time, this leaser has been tagged by vandals. As Graffiti becomes more of a common sight around US railroads, it is costing railroads hu... (more)

Just after dark, an UP SD70ACe lights up the rocks along the Feather River deep in the canyon. This stack train is working eastbound headed for the windy city from Lathrop, CA.

In eerie darkness, an eastbound UP stacker lights up the night between tunnels # 31, 32. After the train rounds the curve through tunnel 32 it will be at the famous Keddie Wye.

An UP hot stack train heads north out of the UP yard in Roseville, CA under the town land mark arch bridge. The lone unit in the lead is a new, and very clean GE. They is one more GE on the rear... (more)