With crew aboard and air tests complete, UP 1995 departs West Colton eastbound leading the MWCNP-12 to North Platte, Nebraska on a warm Spring morning.

Heading east by the former Santa Fe "A-Yard" in San Bernardino, UP 1995 is well underway with the MWCNP-12 as it approaches the historic Mt. Vernon Ave overpass.

Just starting its trip out of southern California, an eastbound UP intermodal train approaches Pepper Ave in West Colton.

Early morning at Pepper Ave in West Colton finds the CNW heritage locomotive and consist being hostled as the power for the West Colton to North Platte manifest train.

Climbing the grade up through the lower reaches of Cajon Pass, an eastbound MWCNP-15 passes through Swarthout Canyon east of Blue Cut on the BNSF's Cajon Sub.

Exercising trackage rights, UP 1995 on the point of the MWCNP-15 has just switched over from the UP to BNSF at the Colton diamond as the train heads toward San Bernardino and Cajon Pass.

An unseasonably hot Spring day in southern California's Inland Empire finds a westbound Union Pacific manifest entering the West Colton yard at Pepper Ave. The heat has kept all but a few hearty r... (more)

Pulling out of the siding at Amboy on the BNSF Needles Sub, a westbound doublestack freight throttles up as it approaches the National Trails Highway grade crossing.

With the Norfolk Southern's Wabash heritage locomotive fourth out in the head end power consist, a westbound BNSF grain train rolls across the desert landscape between Ludlow and Barstow on the Ne... (more)

Between Klondike and Amboy, a westbound BNSF general merchandise freight winds through the curvature near Siberia on the Needles Sub.

Nearing the summit of Ash Hill on the ex-ATSF Needles District, a westbound BNSF intermodal train passes through the cut located near the top of the grade.

Where is an Officer On Train when you need one? A group of Darwin Award candidates play chicken with an eastbound UP freight running nearly full track speed as it starts across the Santa Ana River... (more)

Climbing the stiff grade on Ash Hill, a long westbound BNSF mixed intermodal train hauling both containers and trailers is nearing the summit, and soon will be descending west into Ludlow.

Rolling through East Barstow on the BNSF's Needles Sub, a westbound grain train featuring Norfolk Southern's Wabash heritage locomotive in the headend consist will soon be arriving in the yard for... (more)

Late morning in the high desert near Apple Valley finds a westbound BNSF container train crossing over the eastbound mainline of the Cajon Sub at the Frost flyover.